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Elon Musk Admits X is Throttling Links — Effectively Limiting People From Reading News
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I am going to ask the rhetorical question. Why the fuck are people still on xitter ?But then again the same question would be why vote Trump ? People are just unfortunately stupid.
I have a ... well - for the time being still friend - who is radicalizing himself since the pandemic and it appears it's 95% due to shitter. I fill people beyond a certain point remain there because it's like an addiction to their damaged brains :/
It's like with cults - it's a source of affirmation that their opinions and emotions are the right ones. It pairs really well with fascism because the fascists give you somebody to blame, and then the Twitter cult content farm tells you that you're righteous in your hatred.
And that's also why it's so hard to break people away from it. To break away, they'd have to recognize and admit that they're wrong, that everything they've done up to that point hasn't been justified, and that they'll have to face the consequences of what they've done ("are we the baddies?"). After a certain point, the sunk cost fallacy sets in, and people will double down on the cult rather than admit that they were wrong, even when they know it.