observing right-wingers for twelve days

I’m the kind of person who is very interested in far-right movements, but never interested enough to follow them directly. I let others do such masochistic rituals and then digest them for me on camera. So almost twelve days ago to the dot, I made the decision to create an X/Twitter account for research purposes and cut the middleperson. I was curious to see the American far-right’s rhetoric directly how it is broadcasted on that platform and see how it affects me as a marginalized person.1 What I was also curious to see was how X/Twitter today (especially within the EU) measured up to other microblogging alternatives. I’ll address the latter interest first: Despite initially following many right-wing extremists shortly after account creation, my algorithm still showed me the wokest posts you can imagine. My feed is filled with left-wing people arguing about things in a left-wing way. If a right-winger shows up, it’s because they’re being discussed or debunked by lefties. I was…