https://multiverse.soulism.net/u/Vaelix_Prism posted on Apr 2, 2026 21:13
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Did you miss Elon performing a nazi salute at an official event in front of millions of people?
If your platform is owned by a nazi who actively messes with its algorithm, nazi content gets more popular. Additionally, since that nazi guy bought it, other people have been leaving Twitter in waves - resulting in an increasing percentage of nazis.
Because of the Nazis.
It’s hard to imagine now, but, when the internet first took off, twitter was basically the world’s social media. everyone was there, from global leaders, to your municipal government, from major news networks to dissident groups, from religious clergy to individuals protesting in libya, from taylor swift to baseball players, and us, the regular population. Instant, direct, constant connection from anyone you could care about or should care about. That was the first time anything like that had happened.
Twitter didn’t remove a whole lot of content, but one thing it did ban was hate speech against minority groups. Neo-nazis didn’t like that, so a billionaire neo-nazi bought the platform to remove censorship of hate speech. Now the site is a partisan tool that censors anything that isn’t political dogma.
Which are you asking? Why it’s referred to as such, or why it’s a Nazi platform?
It’s kind the same answer for both. It’s because of all the Nazis and Nazi adjacent people there.
Because of the nazis https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0cf8e214-a570-49c9-89c4-15b3e7fd3f97.jpeg
What in the trolling is going on here?
It’s hard to imagine now, but, when the internet first took off, Twitter was basically the world’s social media.
That came quite a bit after the internet took off! The world wide web too off in the 1990s, and the broader internet (email, ftp, usenet etc) before that
https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2014/02/11-internet-use-over-time.jpg
The late 90s did have a growth spurt, but you are seeing a massive increase in internet usage from “some people” to “everyone” that exactly coincides with Twitter’s age of prominence
Sometimes I begin to forget how blatant it was but god damn that isn’t even debatable
Your statement was “first took off”. That’s what I was addressing. It definitely hit critical mass later than that, but the first big explosion was the 90s.
Is it possible to read about the times when the internet first took off ??🤔🤔🤔
I was 6 years old in the year 1990, and l remember reading about the internet in my country when l was 9.
Are you a troll, wilfully ignorant or looking for a fight?
There are many things about social sites that l don’t know.
Books?!?
There are many of them. We got technical literature, history books. Shorter essays…
It’s certainly possible. Every university library will have a whole selection of books about this very thing. Most bigger regular libraries as well… You can get the gist of it by reading Wikipedia articles…
And if you like technology and computers (like me) I can also recommend visiting a computer museum. They’re awesome. And they will have it laid out in a very approachable way. And maybe they’ll even have the old computers from back then. Old network cables and all the stuff that made it work.
I don’t believe there’s any computer museum in lndia 😄😄😄😄😄😄😄
Hmmh. I mean India has A LOT of IT skill. It’s wild there isn’t a single computer museum in the entire country?! Maybe we should all support https://computermuseum.in/
I mean I (here in Germany) can hop on a train and there’s a big one within my reach. And another smaller one about computer games.
