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Elon Musk admits X 'may fail, as so many have predicted' (www.businessinsider.com)
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[–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

You're being extremely disingenuous. Those things exist on that platform and every other social media platform. If that's literally all you're seeing, you are not using it right... in fact you have to be going pretty far out of your way to make that the entirety of the content shown to you. It wasn't hard at all to find quality posters and filter out the bullshit.

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  • [–] -5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Right now, I opened twitter, and out of 16 trending topics, 7 are crypto spam, 3 are political spam, 2 are just spam, 2 are generic words, and the remaining two I have zero interested in. Today I also got a "trending tweet" notification that was in some foreign language I don't know. Went on a homepage and every third post is some kind of spam, so I had to block like a couple dozen accounts just so they never pop up again. I have no idea how you are supposed to find good creators when spammers are gaming the system so easily. And it's been like that for a few years already. No other social network has this problem, I would've quit internet if that was the case.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Right now? Probably. Musk has super-fucked it and I won't have anything to do with the guy or his projects. You argued it's always been this way, though. It was not if you took a moment to use it correctly and follow people you like and ignore those you don't. I give my friends shit (jokingly) for using "X" and the answer is the same "It's the best way to keep tabs on my favorite creators."

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