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Hope so.... Twitter as it is , is a dirty echo chamber narrative control censorship crazy virtue signalling shit hole, absolute dirt.

The dirty secret is that it can't not be. That's why I'm not interested in any of its competitors.

Yo... what makes you say that , no disagreement from me just curious

I assume he means that every social media platform eventually devolves into liberal tribalism and corp/govt censorship, because the parent company starts selling user data, and taking investment money from the same entities that fund the corptocracy, MSM and the WEF agendas. Essentially being subsidized by these entities for selfish interests. Shill bots eventually take over and run rampant across the entire platform, spewing propaganda and agenda bait.

It's the only business model that these social media platforms can make any money at and still survive. There is really no changing them for the better.

Hmm. Missed that original reply somehow. For me, it's more that the immediacy of the platform and the terseness of the messaging combined with the relative anonymity and safety that it provides is just going to bring out the worse in everyone that touches it (I've felt it in myself on the few occasions I've interacted). It's basically the same mechanism as behind road rage. We've all (I'm sure) sent regrettable emails in the past. Twitter is that on steroids.

That's only the start of it though. There's a whole Skinner box/dopamine aspect to it that goes on. It's poison to the soul.

Well there are quite a few dark agendas everywhere on the web.

Even sites like macrumors turned into apple fan boys and apologist’s. most likely hired by apple to defend apple.

same is true for evga forum at twenty percent of the posters shill for evga.

but twitter and facebook are worse by far.

I can remember a time before shill/agenda bots and sock puppet accounts were even a thing.

At that time, discussion forums and boards were fairly civil and tame. Discourse was lively, informative, even fun.

It's the shill accounts and bots that have absolutely ruined everything.

And the kicker? TPTB have set up a financial system that encourages their creation and use.