It's mostly photography and tech.
Compare that to Reddit where my "Home" page is actually FILLED with left extremist political propaganda and an endless onslaught of posts about Trump across frontpage subreddits.
I think left extremism is a fair description here; it's at least far left.
Many of you seem to jump to the conclusion that I'm some sort of hardcore MAGA supporter or far right Trump fan.
In reality, I'm European and arguably only conservative leaning, and I don't like Trump and his erratic trade and geopolitical policy.
Apparently disagreeing with far left politics already often makes me a pariah on the internet. This discussion alone has already cost me like 10 karma, for pushing back on X supposedly being the worst for political content.
On social media, when I click "Pics", I'd expect photography.
What we see there is political content that distinctly reminds of a publication from a local socialist youth chapter.
To contrast X and Reddit, I’ve not seen content on Reddit that advocated for invading allies, passing illegal tariffs that as Americans, justifying accepting jumbo jets from other nations, shooting citizens in the streets, denaturalizing citizens of different ethnicities, or numerous other examples.
Bias side, also consider that discussions about Trump on Reddit are just current events and not something unexpected, since that’s just today’s news.
On the other hand, apart from extremist content, on X I also see extremist users. The replies on many topics and profiles are absolutely vile, and that’s what makes me think there must be a large number of bots. It’s an echo chamber because normal people can’t tolerate that type of toxicity, but it’s an echo chamber with massive reach apparently.
This sort of content is illegal in some EU jurisdictions and after I reported it, it took Reddit days to take it down, with no action on the subreddit's moderation who participated in it.
Some of that content has been posted in the comments here on this HN submission.
This sort of content is illegal in some EU jurisdictions, and post-elmu era, after I reported it, twitter never took it down at all.
I don't follow anyone and rarely use Twitter, so it doesn't have much signal on me, but a short scroll of my "For you" feed is pretty innocuous.
If I venture into any comment section, it's absolute drek. Going to the feed for a few of my local news channels and clicking through a few of their posts from today, I'm treated to half the comments being stuff along the lines of the following:
"Gee…an immigrant…no surprise"
"Another 3rd world import"
"Can’t predict the weather two days in advance but sure, global boiling for the summer. Got it."
"Queue in the carbon tax. FmL wake up people, it is a scare tactics. Like acid rain, hole in the ozone, polar ice caps flooding the coasts, you NEED CO2 for vegetation to live, and for the vegetation to gove YOU oxygen. Enjoy the few weeks of heat we get."
"She is a communist cow who supports terrorists"
