With 1b people, you've just qualified 15% of the planet as "obnoxious, superficial, bottom of the barrel culture, cheap, narcissistic, lacking any depth.".

I'm not sure why you'd exclude Facebook users though, that's 3b or 40% of all humans.

Earth is beyond salvageable

> Which has an obnoxious, superficial, bottom of the barrel culture. Cheap, narcissistic, lacking any depth.

Ah yes, very different from the core Twitter userbase. /s

That is the point I was making, it's the worst of both worlds.

short form social media is an industrial farm of mental illness. it surrounds you with histrionics with all the time possible to spare, minimal commitment and inundates your monkey-brained need for peer approval with their low standards.

leaving leftist online spaces was the decision that had the most positive impact on my life. any community based around a struggle will have a hard time not being a pit of vindictive envy regardless of ideology.

I don't think leftists are really that associated with short-form writing, haven't you seen the jokes about "leftist memes"?[0]

They were on Twitter because they left Tumblr, which was long-form.

[0] the joke is they have pages of text on them

Tumblr leftism was much more contained though, it was hard to peer pressure targets and journalists outside the scene looking for easy stories had no ability to reproduce the gossip and slander.

Twitter's mechanics are a shouting competition, with 10% of users making up 90% of tweets, while giving users tremendous power over public figure's profiles. It turned leftist discourse into a more violent /r9k/ with a minority skin and corporate backing. I don't think the move towards a short-form platform had a non-trivial influence in this shift.

Fully agree. I'm center-left myself in the European political spectrum and cannot stand the leftist vibe, so gloomy, self-congratulating, fake.