X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and...

[hunter]

15. Is it really?

How much "news" do you read on the site formerly known as twitter that is directly actionable by YOU in that it inspires you to think in entire essays and not just repost it elsewhere like an automaton.

All these sites are noise that I block out of my life. This includes bluesky which seems quite popular here.

I get more than enough clever quips and random facts (which may be true or not) from friends or family. Memes don't interest me at all.

DU itself, which is my only "social media," is often too noisy for me. I don't click on posts that are likely to be naked links to other social media sites. When I do by some accident it irritates me. I put people who do this frequently on my ignore list.

I think it's a very serious problem in our society that so many people are lost in the noise, never able to focus in on any single issue long enough to be a force for any meaningful progress.

Smart phones are a large part of the problem. You can't really see where you are or where you are going if your eyes are glued to a smart phone. That's one reason I hope I'm never forced to own one.