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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    For the reason above. There’s not a serious alternative that replaced it for those people.

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

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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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          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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      I never seriously used twitter (I probably have used it less than 10 hours total), but what really is stopping people from getting on mastodon? It’s the same thing, and is extremely easy to sign up for.

      It’s right there, not that I have much of a desire to use it, but if people like twitter, is it just that not enough people are on it? Just the network effect?

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        Twitter has more people, meaning more content. It’s the same reason I still have Reddit downloaded.