It's not like Twitter's creators maliciously set out to become the flaming hellscape it is now. It responded to market forces and user behavior. Neither of those factors have changed, so why would we expect any for-profit public square to do it any differently?
TikTok is winning the race for zoomers' attention by doing better content filtering. I'm sure that a well-ran Twitter competitor can take all of their market.
My biggest issue with Twitter is not even really that the content is inflammatory or controversial, it's that seeing "a person I don't know calling another person I don't know a Nazi" is irrelevant to my life.
"I didn't tear down the rainforest, the markforces made me"
"I didn't cause global warming, I was merely responding to market forces"
Please. They wanted profits and made the world a worse place. Don't condone such behavior.
Ah, a variation of "don't hate the player, hate the game". Well, we can and should do both.
“Good” contents that the vocal minority wants are rocket science compared to that. They’re not finding @NASA after another.
This is an oxymoron, and distills the dysfunction very well.