Here in Japan, I used to use it to follow up and coming Japanese illustrators and webcomic artists, most of who tweeted fun, non-political, wholesome things. I got live updates whenever we had typhoons and earthquakes.
Obviously there’s toxicity if you look for it, but I didn’t really see it. Which is why I honestly didn’t understand why so many people shit in Twitter especially on “tech/bologicallysocially-aware” circles like Reddit calling it toxic. The reason why I stopped was because Musk bought it, not because of the content I was seeing. Maybe I was just lucky.
Note: This is just a single old man’s anecdote, so please take it with a huge grain of salt.
Grain of salt or not, your Insight into this is both valuable and appreciated; thank you for sharing.
It’s interesting that even back then JP twitter wasn’t very political. On the English areas of the site a lot of political rhetoric definitely still found it’s home. Granted nowhere near as much as current levels; but I think that’s more of a statement on just how much musk has tried to turn X into a political weapon more than anything else.
Here in Japan, I used to use it to follow up and coming Japanese illustrators and webcomic artists, most of who tweeted fun, non-political, wholesome things. I got live updates whenever we had typhoons and earthquakes.
Obviously there’s toxicity if you look for it, but I didn’t really see it. Which is why I honestly didn’t understand why so many people shit in Twitter especially on “tech/bologicallysocially-aware” circles like Reddit calling it toxic. The reason why I stopped was because Musk bought it, not because of the content I was seeing. Maybe I was just lucky.
Note: This is just a single old man’s anecdote, so please take it with a huge grain of salt.
Grain of salt or not, your Insight into this is both valuable and appreciated; thank you for sharing.
It’s interesting that even back then JP twitter wasn’t very political. On the English areas of the site a lot of political rhetoric definitely still found it’s home. Granted nowhere near as much as current levels; but I think that’s more of a statement on just how much musk has tried to turn X into a political weapon more than anything else.