Re: OT: Twitter/X

On 2/4/2025 7:12 AM, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Sun, 2 Feb 2025 13:41:06 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
 

On 2/2/2025 1:02 PM, Cursitor Doom wrote:

Gentlemen,
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I've just noticed the vast majority (no exaggeration) of my Twitter
(X) following consists of young women with huge backsides keen to
flaunt the goods in their profile photos. I have nothing in common
with them and I can't believe they have any interest in the subjects I
post about. WTF is going on here? Has anyone else encountered this
situation? If I was in some group on X dedicated to discussing young
women with large bums I could understand it, but I'm not.
>
CD

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Facebook and Twitter are right-wing dive bars full of lonely older men,
they know their audience, bro.
>
My personal responsibility-oriented suggestion is if you don't like what
the sewer pipe feeds you then stop drinking from it..

 And this would be in your view a "sewer pipe" because..... Musk when
he took it over removed all the censorship?

The whole Instagram/Twitter/X/TikTok format was never really designed for any kind of complex discussion or long-form text posts the way a message board, Slashdot, Reddit, or even Usenet was.
Originally as I recall it was text and image only with a 280 character length the thought process being it would be good for organizations sending brief status updates to the pretty primitive cell phones most people were still rockin' circa 2008, I can't remember what I was using then, my girlfriend was in grad school (didn't know her at the time) she had this thing by LG called a "Rumor Touch" it likely seemed like Star Trek back then with a flip-out keyboard:
<https://myrealmobile.com/images/thumbs/0000308_lg-rumor-touch-ln-510-free-with-activation_600.png>
Now sadly just e-waste as 3G CDMA has been sunsetted everywhere in the US AFAIK, but I digress.
Anyway then at some point they added video, so the whole format is much better suited to women shaking their asses and outrage/troll posts than any kind of nuanced discussion of anything, that's also what I mean by "sewer pipe" like at this point those apps are very much just like TV with extra steps. Might as well just watch TV and shout into the void about what you see there.