• 30mag@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The way people talk about twitter, you would think it used to be a respectable and civil forum for discussing ideas instead of people flinging shit at each other 140 characters at a time.

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          I still don’t understand what gamer hate - oops, gamergate was. I’ve tried to learn for years and I still don’t get it.
          Anyway, I was whatever about Twit and used it as a useless 2 word stream or consciousness feed for 5 years, which was okay. Then in 2020 I was suddenly homeless in Portland RIGHT as the Floyd protests started and I was uh…. Twitter is a useful minute-to-minute feed of events. Then I liked it for a year or two. Then, Elron.

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            Basically Gamergate started as some butthurt guy trying to get revenge on his ex by claiming she slept around to get better reviews on her (free) game. Gamergaters used this as an example of corruption, thus the rallying cry of “Ethics in gaming journalism”.

            However, in actuality Gamergate was driven by gaming going from a niche hobby to a mainstream entertainment. Many gamers were increasingly unhappy that games stopped exclusively catering to people like them (i.e. white and nerdy males) and started making token efforts to appeal to other groups. This combined with the spark of the butthurt guy’s lame attempt at slander birthed Gamergate, a fig leaf of “ethics” used to justify and to cover up a seething mass of resentment, misogyny and racism.

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      Yeah but nah. There was toxicity but it wasn’t promoted. You wouldn’t see a several pages of assholes who paid to stir up shit before a single actually interesting response in every single thread. It didn’t used to be like this

      People overstate how bad social media they don’t use is. Twitter was usable and even fun depending on who you followed. Now it’s just bulshit everywhere.

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        I agree, it was definitely there, but wasn’t promoted. Now, when I go there, I’ll get notifications that someone posted… Someone I don’t follow and the post is hate filled garbage. In my notifications of all places.

        The front page isn’t people I follow anymore, that’s in a different tab under Following. It’s not the default tab.