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The Moral Case for No Longer Engaging With Elon Musk’s X (www.bloomberg.com)
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The Moral Case for No Longer Engaging With Elon Musk’s X::The former Twitter is incentivizing violent content, which will only become worse to stand out to users.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I joined Twitter fairly recently as Machine Learning Twitter is/was a thing, and I wanted to stay abreast of news from people like Andrej Karpathy, Chris Olah, Andrew Ng etc., especially since r/MachineLearning went down the shitter.

But I can't even - I log on and just instantly see ragebait posts from Daily Mail talking heads and bullshit.

Are there any better alternatives for this purpose?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Believe it or not, for tech deep cuts, Mastodon is better.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

If you know of a better ML related instance than sigmoid.social let me know, but none of those influential figures I mentioned post there, and the discussion is pretty much non-existent.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

If there are better alternatives entirely depends on how active those people are on Mastodon, Bluesky or even Threads. (Not sure on activity on Bluesky, as I haven't got an invite yet...)

I'm a PHP developer, many people (but not all) in the community crosspost on Twitter and Mastodon, so Mastodon is a good alternative for me personally.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

There is a Mastodon instance sigmoid.social for this ostensible purpose, but it's pretty dead.

[–] JoshuaACasey 1 points 2 years ago

Threads is just Mastodon, but your data is owned by Facebook.

Mastodon is the best option because it's decentralized, cannot be owned by a billionaire or a corporation, and if you want you can setup and run your own server (instead of using one of the already existing ones)