The former Twitter is incentivizing violent content, which will only become worse to stand out to users.

The Moral Case for No Longer Engaging With Elon Musk’s X::The former Twitter is incentivizing violent content, which will only become worse to stand out to users.

  • @[email protected]English
    30•9 months ago

    I joined Twitter fairly recently as Machine Learning Twitter is/was a thing, and I wanted to stay abreast of news from people like Andrej Karpathy, Chris Olah, Andrew Ng etc., especially since r/MachineLearning went down the shitter.

    But I can’t even - I log on and just instantly see ragebait posts from Daily Mail talking heads and bullshit.

    Are there any better alternatives for this purpose?

    • Jo MiranEnglish
      20•9 months ago

      Believe it or not, for tech deep cuts, Mastodon is better.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•9 months ago

        If you know of a better ML related instance than sigmoid.social let me know, but none of those influential figures I mentioned post there, and the discussion is pretty much non-existent.

    • @[email protected]English
      12•9 months ago

      If there are better alternatives entirely depends on how active those people are on Mastodon, Bluesky or even Threads. (Not sure on activity on Bluesky, as I haven’t got an invite yet…)

      I’m a PHP developer, many people (but not all) in the community crosspost on Twitter and Mastodon, so Mastodon is a good alternative for me personally.

      • @[email protected]English
        4•9 months ago

        There is a Mastodon instance sigmoid.social for this ostensible purpose, but it’s pretty dead.

      • Joshua CaseyEnglish
        1•9 months ago

        Threads is just Mastodon, but your data is owned by Facebook.

        Mastodon is the best option because it’s decentralized, cannot be owned by a billionaire or a corporation, and if you want you can setup and run your own server (instead of using one of the already existing ones)