What is up with people and Twitter/X?
2 years ago
General

I've got more art about to be uploaded. Sorry for the spam :), but a small message.What exactly are you doing?I don't know what is going on with folks but I keep seeing the hate and grievances folks got with twitter. Yeah sure Block is getting nixxed, I get it but my feed is made up about 95% art and 5% games with very little in the way of drama or rage content. Want to know why? Because I only engage with art and game content and do not engage in debate or clickbait on the platform. Thus I only ever get fed artistic content I am interested in from Twitter.
There was a time where I kept being inundated with AI related trash and get rich quick schemes but I kept flagging them as not-interested as while I am intrigued by the use of AI as a tool, these scams are obvious and annoying so I discard them.
Social Media feeds on emotion, especially your negative emotions. Anger, frustration, bias and tribalism is what feeds clicks, engagement, and addiction most on these platforms and because of that it also feeds advertisers. They are actively encouraged to provide you content that potentially ticks that button in your brain unless you actively only engage with that which you specifically want out of the platform, which as I said for me is art and games.
What I am getting at is that when anyone complains about getting constant hate or rage content on their twitter feed or other sort of drama, then honestly I feel that you have only yourself to blame for actually engaging in it at one time to cause the algorithm to start actively feeding you more hate and rage. Leaving for another platform is not going to solve anything. It may be a temporary reprieve but social media and algorithms are generally all the same. If you engage in the same behavior that lead you down that path, it will happen again over there and you will complain again and again and again demanding for another platform in an endless cycle.
You need to harden up
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"I've got more art about to be uploaded. Sorry for the spam :), but a small message." - Excellent, hopefully more of your feral 'sunes?
"What exactly are you doing?" - I have absolutely no idea.
"You need to harden up" - In what sense? :/
A bit ironically, most of the new accounts that have followed me since the takeover have appeared to be bot/scam accounts.
Plus, y'know, backing up your LGBT and minority friends or pushing weird rightoids out of your hobby does result in hate ending up in your lap.
Vix