Twitter scraps feature letting users report misleading information.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/27/xtwitter-scraps-function-letting-users-report-misleading-information
@th3j35t3r do people go to twitter for facts in the first place? I go there because it is fun watching a train wreck happen.
@Idrake @th3j35t3r I used to go there for facts from specific sources, but it's not worth dealing with Elmo's bullshit anymore.
@dietotaku @Idrake @th3j35t3r
I remember in early 2020, a Milanese ER doctor contacted a journalist on Twitter who publicized what was going on there with COVID, when the Italian government was tried to downplay it. It was critical advance information that probably saved a lot of lives. That couldn't happen now.
@dietotaku @Idrake @th3j35t3r
And of course, as a very infrequent Twitter user, there's no way I would have any idea that was being posted if Cosonauts weren't providing a reliable digest of news around the web.
@EileenKCarpenter @dietotaku @th3j35t3r I think it is human nature to enjoy trolling and wrecking and tearing things down. Twitter at one time was a decent platform, but it became too big, too popular, and it attraced shitbirds.
It reminds me of being at the beach and building a huge sand castle. Putting lots of effort and care into it. What do you at the end? You stomp it to bits! That is Twitter now, a wreck of its former self.
@EileenKCarpenter @dietotaku @th3j35t3r yeah man. When youre vested in a place like coso and contribute with a monthly membership, and the desire to have a place free of bullshit state actor influences, hate groups, incell trolls, and keyboard warriors, makes coso something that I take pride in saying "I am a member of CoSo."
This is my home, I want to see it grow and am protective of it. I am sure others felt the same about Twitter. Our difference, we have great leadership @th3j35t3r < legend
@Idrake @dietotaku @th3j35t3r
Yeah, the urge to tear things apart is so ingrained in us. I suspect it is part of a primal instinct to preserve territory and resources by tearing down structures made by outsiders moving into ones own group's space.