and it will destroy the user base of twitter. it will be tumbler 2.0 and see a mass exodus of the core users and essentially twitter will end up being a shell of its former self. you know, i was quite disturbed and astounded when i saw this report researching before my conversation with you from the anti-defamation league in 2021 it reported that 64% of lgbtq people polled reported experiencing harassment online. that is the vast majority of them. is there another platform that the lgbtq community can turn to to feel safe? yes. i mean, i don t think there s going to be a perfect replacement for twitter and the function it had for the lgbtq community in terms of organizing and finding community. i know discord is another one which allows much more specific
as to what might be the effect or how elon musk s takeover, potential takeover, will impact your community? right. i think we have already been starting to see it this week, some of the worst fears realized. i ve already seen multiple tweets of people gloating that because elon musk has purchased the website that they re going to purposefully and intentionally target trans people on twitter. and that s something i feel that already i ve seen on my own twitter account. i for the first time had to go take my twitter account private on monday because i had a tweet criticizing elon musk and i was starting to get hate mail to my personal work email. so that kind of harassment is part and parcel of being a visible trans person online. and did you flag it, alejandra? were you able to report that? and was anything done? or did you get any responses? well, yes. at least particularly with anything to my personal email i
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inclination to try to find community even in the darkest moments of american history. the problem is the incentive structure of social media is to find community in really dark spaces. that s why you see the last year when people were isolating, they were finding community on the internet. the communities were just horrible. i just saw over and over again people falling into qanon because they stopped meeting together in person. so what do they find? they found the largest community they could find on the internet, the most open and accepting ones who happen to be these extremist movements on the internet. that s what you would get politically. the positive infrastructure out there for this doesn t exist to the extent the negative stuff does on the internet right now. and correct me if i m wrong, ben, but there is not an algorithm, facebook or twitter, let s take those two, that actually tries to get people not to go deemer into their bubble
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