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Comment by davidw | Hacker News Reader

HN is heavily moderated by very knowledgeable people and that's part of what makes it continue to work well.

It's like if you go into a bar and there's a guy screaming a bunch of curse words and racist crap in the corner at everyone near him. Normal people are going to leave if no one kicks the guy out.

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Anyone can unfollow those people. Nobody on my timeline is screaming curse words or racist crap.

The real reason X is being attacked is because the Following tab doesn't inject propaganda like every other social media / news website does, other than ads of course.

I think a big part of the problem is the 'For You' feed, which has been trash since the day it was implemented (on practically every social media platform). I remember it being a big pain to get to the chronological feed years ago when they first implemented the curated feed as a default. It may not have been quite so full of ignorance and hate back then, but it was still full of things I had no interest in.

I still use X/Twitter weekly and I don't have any problem with the posts I see. My problem is with comments, which are usually where I will see hate and spam.

Yeah replies are a mixed bag. Some are funny, some are sad, some are just downright scary, but I like being treated like an adult and being able to choose which I spend time with, something that Americans haven't enjoyed from any other social media site in many years now.

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