X (formerly Twitter)

“the suggested tab is certainly full of crazy, unhinged conspiracy theories and obvious rage bait posts”

“Twitter/X never stopped being the place where people who have something interesting to say or show stopped hanging out”

“That does not describe any social media platform, they are not designed and optimized that way, that's the algorithmic manipulation coming through.”

“X getting better, especially due to a better fitting algorithm that gets me all relevant industry stuff”

“as long as you nudge the For You tab by clicking show less of this a bit and following the odd thing you like it becomes quite useable”

“X is more unbiased than it has ever been, and Community Notes work better than any other platform's nearest attempts.”

“Mine rarely shows rage bait and when it does I just block everyone involved or add words to mute list.”

“X is decent for getting the latest news. The comment sections are often filled with garbage, even more so than Reddit.”

“I need X for work but I don't really enjoy posting as it feels like you have to shitpost constantly to get engagement.”

“It is absolutely silly how many people here deny the importance of X for at least journalism and politics.”

“It's the one major social network I'm on where it is easy to view only posts from the people I follow”

“X remains the center of many circles, including tech. There is almost nothing posted on Hacker News that I haven't seen on X first, with better commentary.”

“They are both unprofitable and untrustworthy brands, a net-negative service provided to humanity as a mechanism for selling ads and manipulating public opinion”

“I think it deliberately avoids censorship of any kind, which makes it both more open to truth (if anyone posts it there) and more susceptible to manipulation.”

“I have been disappointed that "Not interested" seems to have very little influence over anything on X”

“Musk changed the rules all of a sudden and exposed a lot of accounts posting about issues from other countries.”

“X is excellent for following niche research interests but they’ve been pushing quite hard to force political news/opinions into the feeds which is really annoying.”

“X remains the platform where countries and many other official entities post official statements of policy first”

“Working as intended. It has been very clear for a very long time in Internet time that Mr Free Speech Absolutist Musk is only really interested in supporting far right propaganda.”

“Musk is not a neutral businessman but a political actor whose projects (X, Grok, etc.) help entrench an authoritarian, far‑right political economy.”

“Having Japanese, French, other countries' tweets automatically translated back and forth has been fun, too.”

“We've spent years exposing how this platform suppresses marginalized voices, enables invasive behavioral advertising, and flags posts.”

“the business owner is aggressively pushing his political views on users by heavy-handed methods like prioritizing his own posts in algorithmic feeds”

“It has a lot of problems - but if you want to track breaking news, I can't think of anything else close to it.”

“I hate what has been done to Twitter, but that's where so much of the useful information on using AI is being shared.”

“the closest thing to a truly open platform now minus the expensive api costs and some other annoyances with premium”

“The site's uptime is fine, and they've launched a ton of new features that were well received by the userbase.”

“They've added all sorts of great stuff, and recently have been near the top of the charts in the Apple App Store.”

“X has added more useful functionality in the last year or two than twitter did in their entire existence”

“the X experience, for a casual user like me, did not get worse because there are way fewer people working at X”

“Algorithmic feed surfaces the good stuff, or at least popular, but lately it picks some very niche stuff successfully.”

“for market insights and interesting perspectives, x.com is the best place (manual curation required)”

“Just use lists, "Your Followers" tab and never touch the "For You" tab and its basically the same as Twitter was 5 years ago.”

“the recommendation from related accounts often provide all the big releases from big labs, no following needed”

“It's a perfectly usable platform that I find pushes less political content to my feed than other alternatives”

“The system is so setup to reward rage-bait and slop that even if I try to curate my experience for it the meaningful individuals get drowned out.”

“On twitter it highly depends on who you're following. If you specifically wanted to avoid political posts, it's not that hard to steer your algorithm that way.”

“One of the few unqualified improvements that X (aka Twitter) made was rendering the usernames in a font that has wings for the lowercase L”

“mostly full of straight-up noise and largely decoupled from reality, with the only reliable signal being a bias towards information that is personally flattering”

“x has a convenient way to get every user a name, a profile picture and a way to be linked-back to something else immediately”