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elonMusk is not the problem, people who continue to use twitter are!
Ok but also Elon Musk is a problem
As are any single persons with this much money and, in consequence, power. It's the old problem with monarchy all over again. Sure, you could get a benevolent leader that favoured the arts, but it was more likely that is was a spoiled inbred who wanted to be famous by starting a few wars with neighbors.
elonMusk is a problem because people let him be a problem.
sing this part with L7 in your head: the masses are asses
Nazi’s taking over a site is usually the last chapter of site traditionally lol. Not to worry, that’s probably a good sign that Twitter is cooked.
4chan is still chugging away.
But it's certainly the death of Twitter as an advertising platform.
was i defending elonMusk?
was i defending elonMusk??
Oil companies are not the problem, people who still drive their car to work are!
Are you sure about that?
it's different in this case. twitter is nothing without users. oil companies don't just sell car fuel. they also sell oil for plastics, lubricants, fuel for ships and heating, etc.. twitter would die. oil companies would survive.
I agree that people should stop using twitter and if nobody used it, it would stop being relevant. But it still is relevant at this point. We've put a big piece of our "interaction infrastructure" in the hands of a small number of maniacs. If those maniacs misbehave, they need to be punished.
Just nationalize twitter and be done with it.
i'm suspecting elon is trying to run twitter into the ground for the US elections.
But it’s a problem people keep using Twitter because of what musk has done. Without his antics, using Twitter wouldn’t really be a bad thing, would it?
Well, arguably the microblogging format does have some intrinsic disadvantages.
Yes, but that wasn't the question, now was it?
I would argue that the format incentivizes short quips and discussions lacking nuance in favor of brevity, and yes, therefore it's "bad" (to use their term) to use Twitter even if musk wasn't turning it into Truth Social.
I would argue that a brief, broadly encompassing feed has its advantages when it's not being driven into lunacy. Discussions on Twitter are always terrible, but as a source for news headlines and media announcements it works pretty well.
Sure, but you can get that with something more long-form, too; it's not exclusive to Twitter/microblogging .
Conversely, if someone wants a summarized feed, having to browse past walls of text is an inconvenience.
Well, that's a good point but I still think there are better services than Twitter/microblogging for that. Like our old friend RSS
I like RSS in theory, I used it a lot, but these days websites don't maintain them as well as they used to.
until he bought the thing, it wasn't
hate posting racists used to be banned. They had to create a dozen accounts just to spread their scum
Asteroids are not the problem. Dinosaurs who live in their path are!
contrary to the dinosaurs, ppl have a choice
Yes, may I have the asteroid now please?
I, too, would like to vote for the meteor.
A choice and an equally valid alternative in Mastodon.
The person has a choice. People are a force of nature.