The claim is a major departure for the service, which has long been known as a destination for posting short snippets of text.

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    10 months ago

    It’s fucked up how threads immediately devolved into a bigoted Antisemitic shit hole like twitter in a fraction of the time.

    Is it impossible to develop a social media platform that doesn’t get overrun with conspiracy whack jobs and assholes?

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        10 months ago

        It’s just not a useful platform at present. Maybe one day it’ll be relevant enough but not today.

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          10 months ago

          Classic catch-22. No one wants to be on the small platform, but once it gets big they swarm to it like flies to a carcass. Yes, the platform being dead at that point is a purposeful metaphor.

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      Social media in modern times is an instrument of war. It will always be used as such whenever possible. So no, I think the answer is no

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        Social media in modern times is an instrument of war

        It is fascinating watching what Iran, Qatar and Russia have pulled off this past few years.

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      10 months ago

      I think we just underestimate the amount of people who think like that

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        10 months ago

        Sadly I’ve just come to assume most people are Antisemitic bigots these days. I’d rather be pleasantly surprised than disappointed.

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      10 months ago

      Is it impossible to develop a social media platform that doesn’t get overrun with conspiracy whack jobs and assholes?

      Without investing a lot of time and/or money into proper moderation? Yeah.