I am sincerely astonished by how toxic Twitter is now. I spent over six years researching misinformation and targeted harassment on Twitter, and it doesn't come close to what is happening now.
03:30 PM - Jan 11, 2024
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In response to Christopher Bouzy.
That's what the right wing wants, discomfort, uncertainty, and disbelief in facts and in turn abusive behavior towards people who are telling the truth.
06:25 PM - Jan 17, 2024
In response to Christopher Bouzy.
Yea I had to get off that thing. Wayyyy too toxic.
11:37 AM - Jan 16, 2024
In response to Christopher Bouzy.
Spoutable just keeps growing and getting better.
04:46 PM - Jan 15, 2024
In response to Christopher Bouzy.
I wish Europe and America would investigate and prosecute Twitter for taking money from users and then using their platform for slander, malicious propaganda, character assassination, conspiracy to advance false info to the public, and fomenting threats to national security.
09:16 AM - Jan 15, 2024
In response to Dianne Davis.
The USA needs him to get their spy satellites into orbit. Which is also why they will never do anything about him. His tech is too useful.
06:32 PM - Jan 17, 2024
In response to Christopher Bouzy.
Any that doesn’t HAVE to be on Twitter should be deleting it with all deliberate speed. We can’t have it both ways ie be appalled by it AND support it at the same time.
12:08 PM - Jan 13, 2024
In response to Christopher Bouzy.
This is why Musk bought it - his intention was to destroy the role Twitter previously played in allowing communication from disaster or war areas as well as the role it played in allowing progressive activists to organize, and replace it with a psy-op by Mike Flynn and other chaos agents.
06:51 AM - Jan 12, 2024
In response to Christopher Bouzy.
I deleted my acct there at the end of Feb, after thoroughly enjoying Spoutible.com!
Although in it's infancy I knew THIS is where I belonged.
Do I miss a handful of folks from there? Yes, but not enough to put myself into mental/emotional/toxic danger.
How I love what Spoutible is: safety.
Although in it's infancy I knew THIS is where I belonged.
Do I miss a handful of folks from there? Yes, but not enough to put myself into mental/emotional/toxic danger.
How I love what Spoutible is: safety.
06:13 AM - Jan 12, 2024
In response to Christopher Bouzy.
It was hard to close my account a couple months ago. I felt I had so much invested in building followers and there were so many accounts I enjoyed. But once I pulled the plug, I found I haven’t missed it at all.
02:17 AM - Jan 12, 2024
In response to Christopher Bouzy.
It’s horrible! Full of porn! I wonder abt human trafficking there.
I keep my account for only one reason - Missouri State legislature Dem community. I wish we could convince the Party to move elsewhere. I’m in a “private” group - a group that helps track & submit testimony on bills.
I keep my account for only one reason - Missouri State legislature Dem community. I wish we could convince the Party to move elsewhere. I’m in a “private” group - a group that helps track & submit testimony on bills.
01:42 AM - Jan 12, 2024
In response to Christopher Bouzy.
Makes a cesspool look pristine, doesn't it? With a junk ad between every tweet.
12:51 AM - Jan 12, 2024
In response to Jacsmoore @.
The funniest part is I see the ads get the community notes the most for being scams warning you not to buy 🤣
01:52 AM - Jan 12, 2024
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In response to Christopher Bouzy.
I actually reach my limit tonight and deleted my account. I wanted to keep it just to keep informed but I couldn’t do it anymore.
09:27 PM - Jan 11, 2024
In response to Christopher Bouzy.
I still look at it. There’s garbage, but I avoid it. I’m surprised I don’t get attacked more since most of my comments are critical to tfg. I spend some time muting & blocking. I never engage w/ hate or maga, so that helps. It’s gone far downhill from what it once was. Many good voices gone.
07:13 PM - Jan 11, 2024
In response to Christopher Bouzy.
I usually go on to see what's trending, and usually answer the football & wrestling stuff. I'm trying to stay away from the political stuff. Even the anti-Trump ones. Twitter has become a Qtard dumpster fire.
06:59 PM - Jan 11, 2024
In response to Christopher Bouzy.
Right? I drop in now and then.
Last time, a couple accounts I follow, who rescue dogs, coincidentally had posts of their dogs attacking each other. I read it as an analogy of the hellscape xitter has become. 🙀
Last time, a couple accounts I follow, who rescue dogs, coincidentally had posts of their dogs attacking each other. I read it as an analogy of the hellscape xitter has become. 🙀
06:50 PM - Jan 11, 2024
In response to Christopher Bouzy.
So true. I usually check in once or twice per day and now spend less than 5 minutes before it becomes unbearable.
06:38 PM - Jan 11, 2024
In response to Jules.
I check it 1 or 2 times a day when I get notice that people I know IRL have tweeted. After reading notifications, I hit home, scroll once or twice, shake my head & close it.
12:55 AM - Jan 12, 2024
In response to Christopher Bouzy.
Twitter/X is a case study in what happens when sites let ultra-right wingers control discourse—specifically the types who want people to be able to freely use bigoted slurs.
That site is a cesspool where bigots' politics, lies, and delusions rise to the top; visiting that site is miserable now.
That site is a cesspool where bigots' politics, lies, and delusions rise to the top; visiting that site is miserable now.
06:15 PM - Jan 11, 2024
In response to Christopher Bouzy.
I left the bird site when it turned into X. I miss a few I followed there but I don't regret my jump to Spoutible, a much better run site with decent people engaging.
06:12 PM - Jan 11, 2024
In response to Christopher Bouzy.
I continue to check in as a reminder ill will is also part of humanity. And for every keyboard Knights of the Awful, there are those that would leave their homes violently mad and physically dangerous to a civil society – and themselves.
Agree vehemently. It is 'All the Rage.'
Agree vehemently. It is 'All the Rage.'
05:57 PM - Jan 11, 2024
In response to Christopher Bouzy.
I sometimes pop into that toxic wasteland to remind myself how grateful I am to be on Spoutible.
"That" place is not good for your mental health. It's so easy to spiral & think humankind is doomed. I don't want to think that way.
Spoutible is a positive reminder there's plenty of good folk around.
"That" place is not good for your mental health. It's so easy to spiral & think humankind is doomed. I don't want to think that way.
Spoutible is a positive reminder there's plenty of good folk around.
05:40 PM - Jan 11, 2024
In response to Christopher Bouzy.
XItter is a bastion of hate and my account got suspended for some weird reason. Maybe I upset a nazi. There's no sense. That's OK, I have no desire to go back.
05:31 PM - Jan 11, 2024
In response to Mia Girl.
Not surprising. I reported a literal Nazi when he used the N-word - legit, somebody who had H*tler's name and a number-based Nazi dogwhistle in his @ - and they did NOTHING ABOUT IT. That site is a hopeless, dark, and regressive place that is now overrun by bigots and their enablers.
06:10 PM - Jan 11, 2024
In response to Christopher Bouzy.
It's horrible there. I pop in from time to time to check in on a few folks who aren't here, and whose insights I miss.
04:49 PM - Jan 11, 2024
In response to Christopher Bouzy.
It’s a mess over there! From the ridiculous algorithm, to the format, to the tweets. It’s UGLY. It’s like a nightmare.
04:31 PM - Jan 11, 2024
In response to Christopher Bouzy.
No redeeming qualities left, actually they’ve been gone a long time.
04:06 PM - Jan 11, 2024
In response to Christopher Bouzy.
Too true. I still keep my account because a few people post there whom I respect. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, Lindy Li, VP Harris, and others. They have accounts here, a lot of them, but don’t post so much here.
So I’m on Spoutible and TwiXter. Biding my thyme, as it were.
So I’m on Spoutible and TwiXter. Biding my thyme, as it were.
03:51 PM - Jan 11, 2024
In response to Christopher Bouzy.
And it will only get worse as the election year goes on..
03:44 PM - Jan 11, 2024
In response to Christopher Bouzy.
Just awful isn’t it? ISuch a shame. I wish more epidemiologists would leave and come here so I don’t have to go back to Twitter on a daily basis. So far, the other social media sites just don’t cut it. Spoutible is really the best.
03:44 PM - Jan 11, 2024
In response to Christopher Bouzy.
stop attending hate group meetings and complaining about it.
Get off twitter !
Get off twitter !
03:44 PM - Jan 11, 2024
