The Twitter Hate Machine

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/04/28/twitter-hate-machine

by dijit • 5 years ago

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EricE• 5 years ago

And yet people, especially in tech, still play their stupid games.

Isn't there some famous quip about insanity and repeating dumb behaviors?

kokanator2• 5 years ago

My grandfather would say, "if you step into a cesspool, don't be surprised if you come out stinking."

noir_lord2• 5 years ago

Today it appears to be @dhh's turn.

The responses to his post run the gamut but seem to be mostly a dog pile of ridiculousness - including Godwin's law.

https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1387343362013995009

"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play"

octopoc• 5 years ago

There isn't a good way to not play though. Even if you don't have a Twitter account, something you do can still be posted on Twitter and then the outrage machine can latch onto it.

yellowapple• 5 years ago

Right, but seeing as how I lack a Twitter account, chances are I won't know about that outrage machine, and therefore probably won't care, unless (and only unless) I'm made aware of it through some other channel (like HN, or reddit, or someone texting me about it, or what have you).

anaerobicover• 5 years ago

It sounds like the plot of a 1973 dystopian scifi movie. We have work to do to be better than our own worst imaginings.

theandrewbailey• 5 years ago

If Twitter shut down tomorrow, the world would be a better place, and nothing of great value would be lost. I'm not sure if I can be convinced otherwise.

Zababa• 5 years ago

I mainly use twitter to talk/catch up with a few friends, and follow a few things I care about. I honestly don't know how many people use twitter this way but for me it's really enjoyable, especially since the "desactivate retweets" feature for this friend that can't stop retweeting shitstorms. It's not perfect, and sometimes outside events that I don't want to hear about leak into my timeline, but it's a bit like small talk, sometimes people will talk about things that you don't care about. I wouldn't call this "great value" but I've never used facebook or others social networks so it's nice to see how some friends are doing.

I encourage everyone to be very aggressive with muting/desactivating retweets/having a private account/not quote-retweeting/not react to everything that happens in the world in general, this way it's possible to not expose yourself too much hate.

paulodeon• 5 years ago

You're following the wrong people my friend.

refenestrator• 5 years ago

Even if I stay clear of it (and I do), the daily episodes of frothing seep into our culture and cause problems.

kokanator2• 5 years ago

I wish there were a way to measure the net result of Jack and friends on our culture and world. A deep inclination ( just anecdotal ) leads me to believe it would be a far negative balance.

The human, cultural and monetary cost of polarizing national and world events which find their origins, planning, fomenting on twitter have to be staggering.

The Twitter Hate Machine

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