{"id":15781,"date":"2024-09-05T04:37:59","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T02:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/05\/racism-misogyny-lies-how-did-x-become-so-full-of-hatred-and-is-it-ethical-to-keep-using-it\/"},"modified":"2024-09-05T04:37:59","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T02:37:59","slug":"racism-misogyny-lies-how-did-x-become-so-full-of-hatred-and-is-it-ethical-to-keep-using-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/05\/racism-misogyny-lies-how-did-x-become-so-full-of-hatred-and-is-it-ethical-to-keep-using-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Racism, misogyny, lies: how did X become so full of hatred? And is it ethical to keep using it?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever since Elon Musk took over Twitter, I and many others have been looking for alternatives. Who wants to share a platform with the likes of Andrew Tate and Tommy Robinson? <\/p>\n

I considered leaving Twitter as soon as Elon Musk acquired it in 2022, just not wanting to be part of a community that could be bought, least of all by a man like him \u2013 the obnoxious \u201clong hours at a high intensity\u201d bullying of his staff began immediately. But I\u2019ve had some of the most interesting conversations of my life on there, both randomly, ambling about, and solicited, for stories: \u201cAnyone got catastrophically lonely during Covid?\u201d; \u201cAnyone hooked up with their secondary school boy\/girlfriend?\u201d We used to call it the place where you told the truth to strangers (Facebook was where you lied to your friends), and that wide-openness was reciprocal and gorgeous.<\/p>\n

It got more unpleasant after the blue-tick fiasco: identity verification became something you could buy, which destroyed the trust quotient. So I joined the rival platform Mastodon<\/a>, but fast realised that I would never get 70,000 followers on there like I had on Twitter. It wasn\u2019t that I wanted the attention per se, <\/em>just that my gang wasn\u2019t varied or noisy enough. There\u2019s something eerie and a bit depressing about a social media feed that doesn\u2019t refresh often enough, like walking into a shopping mall where half the shops have closed down and the rest are all selling the same thing.<\/p>\n

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\nEver since Elon Musk took over Twitter, I and many others have been looking for alternatives. Who wants to share a platform with the likes of Andrew Tate and Tommy Robinson?
\nI considered leaving Twitter as soon as Elon Musk acquired it in 2022, just not wanting to be part of a community that could be bought, least of all by a man like him \u2013 the obnoxious \u201clong hours at a high intensity\u201d bullying of his staff began immediately. But I\u2019ve had some of the most interesting conversations of my life on there, both randomly, ambling about, and solicited, for stories: \u201cAnyone got catastrophically lonely during Covid?\u201d; \u201cAnyone hooked up with their secondary school boy\/girlfriend?\u201d We used to call it the place where you told the truth to strangers (Facebook was where you lied to your friends), and that wide-openness was reciprocal and gorgeous.
\nIt got more unpleasant after the blue-tick fiasco: identity verification became something you could buy, which destroyed the trust quotient. So I joined the rival platform Mastodon, but fast realised that I would never get 70,000 followers on there like I had on Twitter. It wasn\u2019t that I wanted the attention per se, just that my gang wasn\u2019t varied or noisy enough. There\u2019s something eerie and a bit depressing about a social media feed that doesn\u2019t refresh often enough, like walking into a shopping mall where half the shops have closed down and the rest are all selling the same thing. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever since Elon Musk took over Twitter, I and many others have been looking for alternatives. Who wants to share a platform with the likes of Andrew Tate and Tommy Robinson? I considered leaving Twitter as soon as Elon Musk acquired it in 2022, just not wanting to be part of a community that could …<\/p>\n

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