If he manages to make twitter fun then I might join, but probably not.
Poll: Are you going to leave Twitter after Musk's acquisition?
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Re: Poll: Are you going to leave Twitter after Musk's acquisition?
#32Elon's statement suggests forced "authentication" for all users, so that'll presumably be the end of anonymous Twitter profiles and the start of needing to prove identity at sign-up time: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1518677066325053441
I think that means making blue checkmarks available for all humans.
Great news for everybody not-famous whose legal name happens to be Donald Trump or Vladimir Putin.
They can expect to make a ton of money using their famously named blue checkmark account for "Elon wants to donate you 1 BTC! Click here" spam.
Re: Poll: Are you going to leave Twitter after Musk's acquisition?
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe people will finally start moving the "official" accounts of politicians and government agencies to something federated like Mastodon or Pleroma.
It still boggles my mind how none of the big media conglomerates haven't even tried to set up their own servers. To me is the biggest evidence that big media doesn't really care about the the quality of public discourse of the dominance of closed platforms, and all those editorials are just posturing.
They've pretty much all tried having comment sections, and removed them. Turns out, it's kind of hard and the incentives discourage it.
Re: Poll: Are you going to leave Twitter after Musk's acquisition?
#34Here's what I have a problem with: He's probably going give the donald his twitter account back. I can hardly express how much better things have been since he was de-platformed. Like him or hate him, you can't deny his tweets were both divisive and a huge distraction around anything else happening in the world because everyone and every media source had to repeat them and give their reactions or hot takes. I hated every bit of it. I don't even use twitter but it didn't matter, I could not escape Trump's tweets. This, by analogy, is like being told your previously cured cancer is back.
Re: Poll: Are you going to leave Twitter after Musk's acquisition?
#35How about, I had Twitter, left it, and now I'm going to rejoin ?
Re: Poll: Are you going to leave Twitter after Musk's acquisition?
#36Hell no, Donald Trump is guaranteed to have his account restored and I want to be there for the absolute sh*tstorm that ensues.
You kinda touch on something I think is interesting and I'm hopeful for - a more return to balance. It seems a lot of people and groups who go against the status quo were effectively banned or suspended until they fall in line. Where's the fun in that?
Do I want to see it turn into Voat? God no. But I'd appreciate way more diversity in thought than they currently allow.
Re: Poll: Are you going to leave Twitter after Musk's acquisition?
#37If he replatforms Trump or brings in fb-esque name transparency (ie real names only) then I'm out. Till then it's lets wait and see.
Re: Poll: Are you going to leave Twitter after Musk's acquisition?
#38I honestly don't think it'll change that much. Musk's statements thus far suggest that he lacks a basic understanding of the problems inherent to running a platform like Twitter, so he'll probably just get frustrated and lose interest once he starts running into them. I suspect that the company will end up in the hands of a group indistinguishable from the current board, except they'll be Musk's friends.
I don't think you'll see changed policy, but you'll see the one-off demands of a guy who gets what he wants. So Trump unbanned, people who upset him randomly banned, etc.
Re: Poll: Are you going to leave Twitter after Musk's acquisition?
#39“I’m moving to Canada if Trump gets elected.” Remember that crowd?
I remember the "I'm moving to Canada if Bush gets elected" crowd.
Dukakis lost and as far as I remember nobody moved.
Re: Poll: Are you going to leave Twitter after Musk's acquisition?
#40If he allows the trolls back on to tank the S/N ratio again then I'll probably have to leave, but I'm not jumping ship just yet.
I don't expect him to do anything to actually improve the situation, but it is possible he just maintains the status quo, minus that "Elon Musk Private Jet Tracker" account of course.