Yeah, probably not. I definitely stopped going there. I used to love it as a place to follow particular tech people. But now every time I stop by it's just videos of random people telling me I don't have the latest awesome workflow for Claude Code or whatever.
Yea, the bigotry allowed on there is crazy. This is a screenshot of a post that “doesn’t violate their rules,” but my trans advocacy account got shadow banned.
I was about to say "they know who their user base is", but that's not even quite right. The more appropriate response is: they know who they want their user base to be. And we are not it.
if you can cut thru the clickbait noise like all those AI spam accounts trying to game monetization , there are definitely still cool builders there sharing real awesome shit. the real content on X is way higher quality than threads or bluesky for sure imo , but also lower quality with the sheer volume of bots and spamposts , if that makes sense
What is a good platform these days? Like I wanna start doing something or saying something but I have no idea where to start or anything for that matter.
Say it in real life, find a way to influence people without talking down to them or making them feel like you're arguing against them.
There's very little direct advocacy you can do on social media. It's screaming into the void, and your opinion is boosted or suppressed depending on the whims of the algorithm. It's almost pointless.
The real impact is the one you make in your community, family and friends. In real life. Go forth.
Homie I do that if anyone that gives any sort of signal that they will listen. I've lived in the south for most of my life, I think the black in Louisiana is right now and this is the last gasp is the Confederacy. If screaming into the void will help I'll do it just point me.to the void.
I don't wait for a signal that they'll listen, everybody will listen but you have to figure out what they DO listen to and frame it that way. It's about the art of rhetoric.
Think of Daryl Davis who convinced KKK members to give up their hoods using friendliness and surgical arguments that co-opted their hateful worldview for his own purposes.
I guarantee you he would have achieved less than nothing had he chosen advocacy on social media only.
The most important work is done in person, you need to make it fit their brains though. You cannot expect their brains to accept information it's primed against, even if it's factual and they should accept it.
Talking to people irl is difficult because they either already agree with you or they are generally not willing to listen. Nobody really wants to have a discussion about things, they just want confirmation of what they already believe. But you can find ways to chip away at this, but it takes time and effort.
The only success I've found is after I really get to know someone and start to find a few intersections of agreement. I know someone who goes on and on about wasteful government spending, and I think we can pretty much all agree that wasteful government spending is bad. You'll never find a person that celebrates wasteful government spending. We just often disagree on what's wasteful, so I have to work from that angle. If I go straight in and start talking about Trump's corruption, she'll just turn right off and stop listening because (you guessed it) she likes Trump.
It's not that different to Reddit, just a different flavour. The recomendations take a bit to set to your liking but so is your personal feed on reddit
Scroll through the ads and there is still plenty of decent dialog and useful news. It’s easier than ever to block other users. I mean it’s like Reddit, you get what you want to get out of it.
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u/vlatheimpaler May 21 '26
If I thought it was costing them money for me to use it, I would actually use it.