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[-] [email protected] 124 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Actually, in my opinion, Xitter is the worst social media app for society, not just LGBTQ+ people.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago

"This thing that is terrible for everyone is also terrible for this specific subset of everyone ..."

also rating social media apps is like rating your favourite STDs

[-] Murdoc 12 points 1 month ago

Umm, does that include Lemmy?

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

I hope you used protection!

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

depends if you think anonymous interactions are as impactful as people you actually know.

oh god, is this actually worse?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I haven't seen that. If you piss off the group mind here you pretty much move on. On real social media you have to worry that someone will just show up at your home.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Message boards aren't social media.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

That's good, that means my use is healthy

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I always get confused in this thought. So if govt bans twitter(hypothesis) and these people spread to other better places, will they improve or is it better to leave these vile beings among themselves to rot in their twitter or whatever.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

A lot of these hateful beliefs are reinforced by these people’s filter bubbles. Forcing them to other places can improve the overall situation.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

What if the whole country is an echo chamber of hate. What to do then?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I am okay with the group mind. YouTube kept suggesting Pragur and Epoch times to me.

It finally stopped when I told them in the report video that if I saw another suggestion for Epoch times I will physically go there and scream at them about their YouTube ads until I am dragged out of the building.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There's a theory that part of the problem is that social media aggregates too many different people in one place. Our brains naturally create in groups and out groups, making conflict and toxicity inevitable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuFlMtZmvY0

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://www.piped.video/watch?v=fuFlMtZmvY0

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://www.piped.video/watch?v=fuFlMtZmvY0

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The problem is they took a healthy user base and injected hate speech into it. People thinking they need to preserve the space didn't get the message that they need to get out, so now elon is free to subjugate them. Now you have multiple entrenched sides that will erode at each other's goodwill until it blossoms into contempt and the cycle of human suffering continues.

At the same time other platforms can't thrive because they are overshadowed by the suffering machine.

Free twitter.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

The US government isn't going to ban X, it is based in the US. They only go after tik Tok and other foreign owned ones.

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