It's important to note that this single-post analysis above is entirely consistent with a much more comprehensive analysis by @ketanjoshi.co showing that changes in the X algorithm and moderation policies that began in Oct 2022 have massively favoured trolls and penalized climate scientists.
This is one of the reasons why I bailed the eff out of Twitter and never returned.
Also, I heard they are NOW making people cough up money to create new accounts there.
I'm surprised Twitter was not shut down at all.
Funny how that works when the only strong argument to buy one of his ill-conceived shitty cars is still to lower your personal carbon footprint, in a not-so-friendly enviroment of public transportation
Edgelord whose fortune has depended on environmentalists goes all in on climate denial.
I’m trying not to fall into a doom spiral but holy shit are a lot of things going to hell all at once.
I bailed on Twitter for reasons in his piece, but I’ve also seen Mr Joshi unwilling to engage w/ minimal pushback on issues within climate change solutions (e.g. not accepting non-unionized, often forced labor with poor safety/ESG standards in China’s mining/EV production), so what’s a troll to him?
It was g@mergate all along!! (Tldr Twitter's moderation choices in 2013/14 wrt to gomergoot did the mis en place for all this to happen, as moderation normalized some harassment because some folks thought a girl was ucky)
omg K how did I miss this whole thread!! Fantastic analysis. Will share it around with colleagues and friends. Every time I have a dark little moment of 'hmm maybe I should give X another go' I spend even a brief moment lurking there and it is SO dark
Actually I left X/Twitter because after the Musk Takeover it got flooded with nazi trolls, anti vaxxers, climate deniers!
It was to be expected and did happen!
It was pointless to stay there, just drags you down into hell!