C’mon. “Xodus” was right there.
Elon about to be charge of the United States budget and where our money is spent. He has tons of government contracts and more I am sure he wants. Twitter (X) did just what he paid for it to do. His 44 billion dollar investment paid off. He don’t give.a fuck if it fails.
Hell Trump/Elon about to announce it as the official commination app for the white house. Advertisers are already headed back to X. No it isn’t the end but the beginning.
No, lol. Twitter will drift further to the right (thus appealing to an evergrowing demographic) but it wont end because of bluesky.
Truth Social is the real victim of x going further right. Won’t these people think of the upcoming presidents future??
I can’t agree more.
No. He doesn’t need people to keep the platform running. He doesn’t need advertisers. He needs his Russian bots. He needs news organizations to pay attention to the crap going on there. That’s it.
He’s richer than god and owning the platform is paying dividends.
He doesn’t need people to keep it running, but the platform is useless without audience to influence.
All the people who think that celebrities should move out and that they themselves don’t matter if they are on Twitter or not. Musk does not use Twitter to influence celebrities he uses Twitter to influence YOU and people like you.
Myspace still exists right now, but it is now irrelevant, we should make sure the same is true for Twitter.
While you’re correct, you’re missing an angle. No news companies report on everything on Myspace. Fox News has the highest viewership. If they report on both everything that happens to Twitter and everything that’s happening on the platform then shitloads of folks are going to hear about it even when we don’t have accounts.
I know about all kinds of shit on that platform and I no longer have an account.
The news similarly report from Twitter (frankly this is lousy journalism and I would stay away from any news that uses social media as their source, but that’s another topic) because Twitter has audience. If no real person uses it, it becomes irrelevant.
Look at truth social, not one cares about it, with one exception - trump, but that’s because they look for his opinions and that’s where he posts them.
Though to reiterate what I wrote above, we should stay away from any news site that calls themselves serious and do reporting what people write on social media. They aren’t bringing any value and infact they are taking the quality of journalism.
My only argument here is that I really think coordination between certain news organizations, even if you and I aren’t watching them (and I’m pretty sure neither of us are) and a big enough fake audience will keep it going for years to steer opinion with minimal human input.
I could be wrong. I just have very little faith in folks right now and really believe that they’re both evil enough to do that and stupid enough to fall for it.
We can only hope it does
At the same time, most people in my country that engage in politics still use Twitter. Even though they’re often left-leaning. It’s so annoying.
Local non-english discourses are neglected by the Big Brother. Sometimes it’s good and sometimes it’s Myanmar: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/myanmar-facebook-hate/
Here’s hoping! Bluesky is nice. The people are nice. And the subscribe-to-blocklist shit is amazing. Never have to see some maga fuckwit spouting poorly spelled hatred again.
Left Xitter in 2016, but Bluesky has me enjoying the format again.To be enough of an unquestioning sheep to allow someone else to decide what you see and don’t see is a very smug centrist lib thing to do.
Dems (and I’m NOT one because I consider myself an actual leftist who supports free speech) tend to think that censorship is good. IMO, all it does is create more polarization and torpedoes any inroads we might’ve had toward coming to an understanding. But instead, they put on blinders and hide in their safe spaces, safe from hearing perspectives to the right OR left of theirs. It’s embarrassing and a HUGE reason why we have these insipid culture wars.
Naw, dude. I want my social media to be a pleasant experience, like a chat around a water cooler. Not a road- rage yell-fest filled with bad takes, worse spelling/grammar, and where fucking Elon Musk gets to decide what I see. Just no.
It’s not my responsibility to educate mouth breathing morons. Especially when they’re not interested in anything beyond their own hatred.
Also, lol at your strawman. I’m not even remotely centrist. My political compass is waaay down in the bottom left. But thanks for making assumptions like that - kinda underlines my point on why Bluesky is a pleasant experience.
If I’m being charitable, you are in the TOP LEFT. Authoritarian left since you think others controlling what you see is ok. Thats called authoritarianism.
Did I say I wanted to be on Twitter? No. I left the day Elon Musk bought it.
I also abandoned Reddit for similar reasons.
I happen to hold the opinion that BlueSky users that subscribe to official block lists like yourself are hypocrites. You even allude to the fact that you by default assume that you’re better than most people because you mention spelling and grammar as barriers to entry. Did you know that there are poor people living in Alabama that didn’t get the same quality education as you? Do you know why? It’s BECAUSE you think they are subhuman and they look at your openly smug behavior (judging them based on their level of education) and reinforce your hatred. This all further reinforces the stupid tribalism. It’s so foolish. The true focus should be poor vs. rich in this country but we have educated douchebags like you that act so self-righteous and hateful to the less educated that they have no choice but to HATE YOU TO THE CORE.
You’re far more right wing and centrist than you may think you are if you’re not comfortable with other people’s opinions. Couple that with the fact that you’re lazy enough to leave the decision of who you should hear out to some anonymous, smug lib is enough for me to question everything you say.
Since you mention “water cooler conversations”, you should probably admit that your analogy is flawed unless you think the participants of social media should be chosen as employees are. A town square is a better analogy that your centrist myopia misses entirely. In a town square setting (like in an actual free country), each person has the right to express their opinions however they want.
Go hide in your corner and pretend that you care about anyone but yourself if it makes you happy, though. But please stop pretending that you are even remotely a leftist. You’re an 80’s style republican at best if you think that social media should have the same relationship to its users than an employer does to its employees.
So many strawmen, lol!
Again, I want my socials experience to be pleasant. I have no problem with uneducated people or people who spell poorly - I do have a problem with people (like you) who only have rage. People who think every person they disagree with needs to be yelled at. And when that rage addiction is combined with bad spelling/grammar it just underlines that it’s coming from a place of ignorance. Just makes for a better experience to not interact with those people at all. Just like I’ll no longer be interacting with you - because you’re unpleasant.
Is strawman your blanket term for clearly worded points that others make that you disingenuously and smugly refuse to address?
If you don’t want me to appear in a thread and rant against you, don’t say vapid, anti-democratic, fascist boot-licking stuff like you did, expecting no one to even remotely challenge you on it.
In retrospect, maybe fascist, hyper censored social media is better for utterly fragile, unquestioning, intellectually lazy people like yourself that like to paint an entire “side” of the political spectrum as having “no empathy” while actually showing no one else any empathy in the first place.
Could you tell more about the subscription to blocklist please ? I still haven’t figured out how/what
Basically, you subscribe to the list (e.g. https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:e4elbtctnfqocyfcml6h2lf7/lists/3l53cjwlt4o2s ) and then, as people get added to the list, they’re automatically blocked for your.
People can be added by the maintainer, or automatically based on profile content/keywords.
There are a bunch of lists for different things. Like, if you don’t want to see crypto bros, or AI artists selling shit, or whatever.
