It’s a bit annoying how for so long people agreed that Twitter was basically a hellhole
This was the sentiment on Reddit because it’s an anti-“every other social media” echo chamber, but it definitely wasn’t the overall sentiment of Twitter before Musk took over.
If you build it people will complain, and engineers have always complained about the product they own/built. We also tend to lump communities by the worst subset of it’s members. Facebook: racist boomers, Instagram: Fake influencers, Reddit: Angry nerds, 4Chan: Really angry racist nerds. It’s just human nature to focus on the bad in general. Twitter actually used to be widely well received overall (especially when they added in those fact checks that Musk removed). Calling it a “hellhole” is subjective and was not the opinion of the overall population until it actually went to shit, otherwise it wouldn’t have been the preferred platform for many politician and news outlets world-wide.
Woah I never said it was great lol, there is no hidden utopia corner of the internet, I just think calling it widely considered a hellhole is incorrect.
On Twitter, yes. There were tons of people for whom that was their only social media and they thought it was great. Not so much love for the admin as the community of course, and generally people were fine with the software.
This was the sentiment on Reddit because it’s an anti-“every other social media” echo chamber, but it definitely wasn’t the overall sentiment of Twitter before Musk took over.
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If you build it people will complain, and engineers have always complained about the product they own/built. We also tend to lump communities by the worst subset of it’s members. Facebook: racist boomers, Instagram: Fake influencers, Reddit: Angry nerds, 4Chan: Really angry racist nerds. It’s just human nature to focus on the bad in general. Twitter actually used to be widely well received overall (especially when they added in those fact checks that Musk removed). Calling it a “hellhole” is subjective and was not the opinion of the overall population until it actually went to shit, otherwise it wouldn’t have been the preferred platform for many politician and news outlets world-wide.
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Woah I never said it was great lol, there is no hidden utopia corner of the internet, I just think calling it widely considered a hellhole is incorrect.
You’re right, it was also a 4chan and far right sentiment.
What you’re missing here is just how significant the right wing narratives are on reddit.
Yeah your a mean fascist if you don’t like Instagram. Lmao.
You ever heard something positive of twitter? Afaik not even the users like it
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On Twitter, yes. There were tons of people for whom that was their only social media and they thought it was great. Not so much love for the admin as the community of course, and generally people were fine with the software.
I heard a lot of this sentiment on YouTube too, before Musk took over. I don’t think this was exclusive to Reddit.