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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?
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Re: Poll: Are you going to leave Twitter after Musk's acquisition?
#53I decided to take a break from social media this week so logged out of Twitter & Instagram prior to this announcement and removed the apps from my phone. Depending on how it goes over the next week will depend when and if I will resume using it. I deleted my Facebook account in 2020 mid-pandemic and noticed an improvement in my mental health. Deleting my Facebook account had an interesting side effect, I found myself actually conversing more with my social circle instead of liking posts.
Re: Poll: Are you going to leave Twitter after Musk's acquisition?
#54Elon'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
They could use zero knowledge proof
Re: Poll: Are you going to leave Twitter after Musk's acquisition?
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
This is not what I mean. What I mean is that they (CNN, FOX, MSNBC, NYT, WSJ et caterva) could, e.g, set up a Mastodon server and give accounts to their staff and at least encourage cross-posting. They could give free accounts to their subscribers. There is so much that they could to send a strong signal that they are against Twitter/Facebook as the single place of public discourse.
But of course they don't do any of that. The NYT is more interested in paying 7 million dollars to buy Wordle than in combating the Big Tech oligopoly.
Re: Poll: Are you going to leave Twitter after Musk's acquisition?
#56Here'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 e…
Trump said that he will be staying off Twitter even if his ban lifted, in order to focus on TRUTH Social.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-25/trump-say...
Personally, I wouldn't bet on it though, he sure loves the attention that comes with Twitter
Re: Poll: Are you going to leave Twitter after Musk's acquisition?
#57I can't, I have a 4 letter username. Valuable real estate...
Sell now? Might be at it’s peak?
Re: Poll: Are you going to leave Twitter after Musk's acquisition?
#58Probably not unless most of the people I follow leave or he doesn’t something to really fuck it up. Like Reddit: that redesign and crippling of the website on mobile made me drop it pretty fast.
Re: Poll: Are you going to leave Twitter after Musk's acquisition?
#59I have been Twitter-free for about half a decade now. Why change a good thing?
Re: Poll: Are you going to leave Twitter after Musk's acquisition?
#60Hell no, Donald Trump is guaranteed to have his account restored and I want to be there for the absolute sh*tstorm that ensues.
Did you delete your account before he got banned from Twitter? If not, what makes now different from then?