Things got bad for me north of 25K. Bots, trolls, astroturf. Those with more followers face even more surveillance and harassment. I do not want to tick north of 35K. Not as a Black woman on the Web. Had fun here, met cool people, learned things & got a few ops. That's enough.
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From the quarter to blackface, from the radio to film and TV, and now online, Black folks have long been everyone's entertainment. This is just the latest instantiation. The next will likely be AIs that mimic us.
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The only reason why I am here now is because Verified Users (those "blue checks") have features that everyone on Twitter should have. We have quality filters. I have muted words and accounts, and block. If we don't follow each other, I can't see you in my mentions. And so on.
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But hey, I'm over on WT: Social. Learning the site. So far, so good. I'll likely migrate over there.
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It is run though like reddit. They expect the community to moderate. We know how well that has worked out for folks.
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