Stop posting about Twitter. This isn’t technology. I feel sorry for you if you think it is technology. You’re a total loser of you just wanna post and talk about this garbage.
Ah, the best series I had no idea what I was doing in…
That was kind of the point though I guess. Don’t know how many hours I spent in X² just flying around doing nothing until I’d make a mistake and die.
Also, your comment lead me to check out when X-Com first came out and I found out that the original creator had a totally different series with the same kind of tactical play style for the ZX Spectrum, Rebelstar. There was a release for the GBA that plays very much like original X-Com. Liking it so far.
Seriously, if I hear “X, formerly known as Twitter”, one more time… It’s been over a year. If people don’t know the name has changed by now, I don’t know what will help them.
Twitter was great and I think anyone who thinks otherwise either curated it to be awful or didn’t really use it at all. Your Twitter experience was defined by who you followed. There was sports Twitter, political Twitter, science Twitter, weird Twitter…there were thousands of different spheres to put yourself in.
If you followed political accounts…yeah you set yourself up for a toxic experience. But I followed funny people so my experience was great. A seemingly endless series of one liners, comics, and weird observations.
I think anyone who thinks otherwise either curated it to be awful or didn’t really use it at all.
. . . or was targeted by harassment campaigns that the company did a poor job of protecting against. Plenty of celebrities and political actors realized they could weaponize their fanbases to go after critics, and Twitter never did much to stop it. For public officials or organizations, twitter too often was a cesspool of abuse that they couldn’t afford to leave, and that was messed up. (I think the balance has shifted now, that they can afford to leave and have a moral obligation to do so, but many haven’t.)
I always enjoyed my twitter experiences, because like you, I curated a nice feed to follow (and used a browser to keep on chronological timeline). But I was just a follower, mostly, and was never targeted by the really nasty stuff. But I’m not so myopic as to declare that what worked for me wasn’t awful for many other folks.
It got worse but it didn’t become a truly toxic cesspool until Elmo bought it.
It’s not like the majority of the site was toxic, either. It was THE site for science, comedy, music, and a bunch of other interests until recently. It’s like picking a couple shitty instances/communities we have here and declaring the entirety of the fediverse a toxic cesspool.
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