The claim is a major departure for the service, which has long been known as a destination for posting short snippets of text.

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    9 months ago

    For the reason above. There’s not a serious alternative that replaced it for those people.

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      9 months ago

      It’s fucked up how threads immediately devolved into a bigoted Antisemitic shit hole like twitter in a fraction of the time.

      Is it impossible to develop a social media platform that doesn’t get overrun with conspiracy whack jobs and assholes?

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          9 months ago

          It’s just not a useful platform at present. Maybe one day it’ll be relevant enough but not today.

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        9 months ago

        Social media in modern times is an instrument of war. It will always be used as such whenever possible. So no, I think the answer is no

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          Social media in modern times is an instrument of war

          It is fascinating watching what Iran, Qatar and Russia have pulled off this past few years.

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        9 months ago

        I think we just underestimate the amount of people who think like that

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          9 months ago

          Sadly I’ve just come to assume most people are Antisemitic bigots these days. I’d rather be pleasantly surprised than disappointed.