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A good article in which the author researched how Twitter's algorithm pushed people interested in history into alt-right content.

Quote: "Adhering to my guidelines to follow accounts suggested by the algorithm, I clicked the “follow” button. This was the first time I was recommended content adjacent to alt-right and "manosphere" ideology. Prior to that, it was all history related. After “liking” approximately 100 Tweets, however, I saw that the accounts suggested to me were becoming increasingly political, and I was specifically being recommended accounts run by internet political commentators – as opposed to professional politicians or journalists. I cannot definitively call this observation evidence of being led down an alt-right pipeline, but it was interesting to note that those were the types of accounts suggested to me by the Twitter algorithm."

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

TBH the underlying problem is "classics" itself. It's an extremely subjective eurocentric construct that's inherently racist. It elevates slavers, imperialists, and colonizers. It's no surprise when white supremacists adopt ideologies that validate their viewpoint.

We can't fight this with more "classicism".

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (6 children)

What if you live in Europe, though? I like our classical architecture, and I saw a post advocating for different countries to go back to their historical architecture instead of big plain concrete and glass boxes

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Classical architecture is an extremely broad term.

Are you talking about Greece or Roman architecture? Gothic? Byzantine? Renaissance? Baroque?

Even when you talk about "European" there are a variety of styles among different countries.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Victorian 😎

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