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He can say what he fecking likes, but he's not going to get it. Although if you listen to the fear mongering, shit scared, right wing, racist loonies our Muslim PM (He's Hindu) is letting them all in to take over and covert us all to Islam.

Yes we have issues with immigration same as anywhere else. Yes there is a cultural divide between the devout or extremists on both sides, but it's no way near as bad as being made out.

Elon has just moved from Jews to Muslims now as it's easier (more acceptable, although it's really not) to hate and discriminate against them. Tosser.
 

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He can say what he fecking likes, but he's not going to get it. Although if you listen to the fear mongering, shit scared, right wing, racist loonies our Muslim PM (He's Hindu) is letting them all in to take over and covert us all to Islam.

Yes we have issues with immigration same as anywhere else. Yes there is a cultural divide between the devout or extremists on both sides, but it's no way near as bad as being made out.

Elon has just moved from Jews to Muslims now as it's easier (more acceptable, although it's really not) to hate and discriminate against them. Tosser.
This sort of thing will resonate pretty widely in the US outside the MAGA bubble, especially among the RFK Jr./Rogan/Sam Harris crowd.
 

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The platform is ruined. I don’t even check comments anymore.
 

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The platform is ruined. I don’t even check comments anymore.
Me neither. I definitely use it less than I used to. I've blocked over 6000 accounts and I still see hundreds of spam bots in the replies.

Makes this even funnier though, he's such a smoothbrain.

 

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Safe to say the platform is noticeably less usable now than before Musk bought it. It also seems to have lost its ethos of being a public square and has slowly drifted towards being Musk's personal playground to promote things he likes. Still, its the place to go for news, so unless a platform like Bluesky catches on, Twitter will still be the place to go.
 

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Safe to say the platform is noticeably less usable now than before Musk bought it. It also seems to have lost its ethos of being a public square and has slowly drifted towards being Musk's personal playground to promote things he likes. Still, its the place to go for news, so unless a platform like Bluesky catches on, Twitter will still be the place to go.
I use it for news and to follow a very specific group of people. If they were somewhere else, I'd go there immediately instead. I also don't read tweet replies, because they are inevitably filled with people who paid to have their moronic, racist, misogynist, transphobic, anti-vax, climate change denier, MAGA takes boosted to the top.

And sometimes Musk replies "!!" to them, boosting them even further with his hundreds of millions of followers (or whatever, I can't check because I have him blocked).
 

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I use it for news and to follow a very specific group of people. If they were somewhere else, I'd go there immediately instead. I also don't read tweet replies, because they are inevitably filled with people who paid to have their moronic, racist, misogynist, transphobic, anti-vax, climate change denier, MAGA takes boosted to the top.

And sometimes Musk replies "!!" to them, boosting them even further with his hundreds of millions of followers (or whatever, I can't check because I have him blocked).
Yes, I have him blocked as well which has helped. I simply use it to read tweets these days.
 

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Also, I've said this a thousand times, but my youtube recommendations are a thousand times worse than twitter feed, especially because it never makes any sense from any algorithm point of view.

 

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Also, I've said this a thousand times, but my youtube recommendations are a thousand times worse than twitter feed, especially because it never makes any sense from any algorithm point of view.

Youtube is annoying. You click on one video that looks wild because you can't believe it exists or someone would say it and then your whole feed is full of that nonsense.
 

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The Youtube algo is great for me. If it recommends something that turns out to be dodgy (very rare), I click on the three dots and click "do not recommend this channel" to teach the system that I'm not looking for that sort of content. Not sure about Twitter as I only use it for specific tweets posted elsewhere and then leave, but the first thing that came up in my feed was some nonsense video made in reverse.
 

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The Youtube algo is great for me. If it recommends something that turns out to be dodgy (very rare), I click on the three dots and click "do not recommend this channel" to teach the system that I'm not looking for that sort of content. Not sure about Twitter as I only use it for specific tweets posted elsewhere and then leave, but the first thing that came up in my feed was some nonsense video made in reverse.
Yeah mine is fine tuned. If someone else uses it on the TV I delete the history afterwards to keep it as I want it.

I also hide every Short and it's bliss.
 

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Yeah mine is fine tuned. If someone else uses it on the TV I delete the history afterwards to keep it as I want it.

I also hide every Short and it's bliss.
Same for me, the algorithm is great and I never get any weird political shite at all.

The TV app is brilliant, it’s probably my most used platform.
 

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Same for me, the algorithm is great and I never get any weird political shite at all.

The TV app is brilliant, it’s probably my most used platform.
If you have a Firestick you can get SmartTube which removes all ads, sponsored parts of videos and any other fluff filler. It's great. Only downside is the UI isn't the best but it's worth it overall.
 

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As someone who’s never really bothered with social media I’m wondering why are people still using this platform? Theres other alternatives now in Threads and Bluesky, so what’s keeping people on Musk’s X?
 

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The Youtube algo is great for me. If it recommends something that turns out to be dodgy (very rare), I click on the three dots and click "do not recommend this channel" to teach the system that I'm not looking for that sort of content. Not sure about Twitter as I only use it for specific tweets posted elsewhere and then leave, but the first thing that came up in my feed was some nonsense video made in reverse.
I did that with Goldbridge and then the fecking thing recommended a reaction video about Goldbridge, the cnuts :lol:
 

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If you have a Firestick you can get SmartTube which removes all ads, sponsored parts of videos and any other fluff filler. It's great. Only downside is the UI isn't the best but it's worth it overall.
I pay for premium and don’t mind doing so tbf, it’s pricy but I still consider it great value for the amount of content I get and they actually pay their creators.