Nathan Grayson ✅when I first joined twitter, I felt sprightly and optimistic, like a small bird. I now feel slow and sad, like a gigantic extinct mammal. so hooray mastodon
Laura Hudson@nathangrayson I was thinking today about how much I miss how the internet used to feel and how Twitter has become one of those relationships that very very slowly gets worse until one day you wake up and realize you're miserable and have been for a long time
@laurahudson yeah, I probably spend an hour or two on twitter every day, and none of that time makes me feel good. it's still my go-to think to check while idle, but it almost always makes idle moments worse, not better. it's kind of amazing to check a social service that theoretically connects you to millions of humans, and the only thing it makes you think is I'M PROBABLY GONNA DIE ALONE SOON
@nathangrayson I feel like it is a magnifying glass that amplifies the worst impulses of human nature and also that someday it will focus on me and sear me into a state of fiery oblivion. I guess in that way Twitter is less like a fun internet party with my pals and more like contemplating my inevitable death
@laurahudson yeah I feel like that's pretty much exactly where I'm at too :(
MOVED; formerly TwrystWell, I'm glad you both are here!
I believe that toxicity of twitter is not an unavoidable consequence of a big social media platform. As a dev, I find birdsite's pretend "helplessness" about harassment to be absolutely absurd, given the ease of even just basic natural language processing these days.
Imagine if they even just auto-hid tweets containing slurs/hate speech terms. That's absurdly easy to implement, not even machine learning; they just choose not to.