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hailey
@hailey.at

> The culture on X today is remarkably friendly and inclusive. It is a cheerful place. That cheerfulness is another differentiator. bluesky has a lot of problems but twitter is the only place i really see people running around calling people trannies in public. must be nice tho to be welcomed by X

John Gruber@gruber.foo

I'm sure this one won't make anyone angry.

daringfireball.netX Once Again Marks the SpotIf you returned from exile on a desert island and took a look at X today for first time in a year, you might reasonably guess that Elon Musk got bored and sold it while you were away.

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hailey
@hailey.at

also “(a) believe all use of AI is unethical, and (b) will shove their viewpoints into your replies” this is a skill issue. i haven’t had problems with this in roughly 4-6 months at this point since using anti-ai labeler and blocking a bunch of people

hailey
@hailey.at

i also use x basically every day lol. he’s right it’s the only real place to keep up with a lot of AI stuff and i spend about an hour on it every day as a result. but i damn sure don’t know where “it’s a super friendly place” comes from and shows an obvious ignorance

hailey
@hailey.at

i mean, one thing that his post _is_ kind of correct about is there are way too many people here who are insufferable when you're on a fresh account. there are various labelers and stuff that help a lot but they also have a lot of false positives...

Paul
@pauld.sh

Could you expand on "it's the only real place to keep up with a lot of AI stuff." I'm not on X but all my feeds feel inundated with AI stuff so I'm wondering what I'm missing out on

hailey
@hailey.at

on X vs bluesky? there is just a lot of people posting research and similar over there that doesn't always make it over here. there's a ton of slop over there that has to get filtered through unfortunately, but a lot of the AI researchers are still over there rn

Olivier Simard-Casanova
@o.simardcasanova.net

White straight cis men be like "this place is friendly" when, in reality, they simply don't see the misogyny, the racism, the queerphobia, and the rest. It's friendly *for them*, which, in the case of Xitter, is literally by design.

I Need a Cocktail
@iantuck.bsky.social

One day BlueSky just had the sports juice, as if out of nowhere (although I'm sure it took a fair bit of organic growth until it hit critical mass). I've recently found a bunch of people posting about AI here, so it's just matter of time...[fingers crossed].

Romy Ilano
@romyilano.bsky.social

but you're right they do have a lot of good AI + nowadays 3js + creative work, especially now that the Chinese language + japanese twitter content is translated. I'm not sure what the solution is to bring this to bluesky.

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒
@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social

sometimes you just gotta consider both sides like, on the one hand, I like living in America, and on the other hand, some roman statues think I should off myself and move back to Israel, a place I am not from

Emelia
@thisismissem.social

I think "friendly and inclusive" here just means "my content is amplified and my views don't get challenged", which is different to how others see "friendly and inclusive", but that's just a guess

Romy Ilano
@romyilano.bsky.social

Ya I feel bad about getting back on twitter, but I had to for my startup accelerator program (plus all the events here ask for your twitter handle). I think they toned down most of the blatantly nazi posters, they exist, but to lure people like me back in I see less of it.