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Reddit's censorship is even worse than Twitter's, so I would expect Reddit to be next on the list of places to liberate on the Internet.
"Censorship" has always been a dog whistle for "not letting propaganda and incitement run rampant".
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No. People don’t want Conservatives to have a voice.
I've always been curious about that. Does Twitter forbid discussing lowering taxes? Maybe demanding harsher immigration policies? Higher prison sentences? Bans on abortion? Shutting down the department of education? Reinstating a monarchy? Who is more conservative than The Federalist? Quillette posts "race science" articles, and even the Claremont Institute, which is so reactionary that it balks at the term "conserva…
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I think that's a vocal minority. The majority doesn't care, and two equally small, vocal minority groups love and hate him, respectively
For what I see from Twitter, I'd say Twitter is the vocal minority.
Source: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/05/05/10-facts-ab...
Considering all the attention the acquisition received I was surprised to read that more people don't use Twitter. The idea that what gets posted on Twitter automatically becomes what the average Joe talks about is probably overstated.
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> If Mastodon takes off because of Musk ill be pretty amused. Iirc, Elon Musk said social networking should not be centralized but distributed. Perhaps he bought Twitter just to shut it down so that ActivityPub would become more popular?
You've only got to look at the inconvenience of setting up a matrix home server and soon think "centralised it is". Mastodon is even worse. I can't see it taking off.
I use Twitter to follow fellow engineers and honestly all the politics (regardless of the new guy in charge) was getting annoying. I might as well use this opportunity to become more active on mastadon. Can anyone recommend a good android client? Preferably from f-droid?
> all the politics was getting annoying Dumb question but why would this be any different on Mastodon?
Twitter's appeal is outrage and controversy. Their users are addicted to it, even if they don't care to admit it. That's why no significant migration to Mastodon will take place. Even if you do manage to lift and shift your bubble (you won't), you'll then find yourself in a calm and slow place where nothing happens. For a bubble to exist and thrive, it needs a common enemy. With the enemy removed, it collapses. Every…
>Twitter's appeal is outrage and controversy I feel like this is what a lot of people miss. I try very hard to avoid it but it eventually finds its way into my feed. People want to be angry. Just look at political accounts of similar stature but of opposite parties. The replies are rarely people supporting, rather people complaining.
That said, I'd still rather go in on a protocol like ActivityPub or SSB so I'm now posting to both Twitter and AP and see what comes of it
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I think "More open Twitter" is a red herring. The bigger issue seems to be that people simply dislike and distrust Musk.
I would rephrase it to "political propaganda machine dislikes and distrusts Musk". It is telling that Tesla was not invited to the EV summit or that or was removed from S&P 500 ESG.
Nothing to do with politics and everything to do with not wanting to live in a world where all of these things become the norm.
I use Twitter to follow fellow engineers and honestly all the politics (regardless of the new guy in charge) was getting annoying. I might as well use this opportunity to become more active on mastadon. Can anyone recommend a good android client? Preferably from f-droid?
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No. People don’t want Conservatives to have a voice.
I've always been curious about that. Does Twitter forbid discussing lowering taxes? Maybe demanding harsher immigration policies? Higher prison sentences? Bans on abortion? Shutting down the department of education? Reinstating a monarchy? Who is more conservative than The Federalist? Quillette posts "race science" articles, and even the Claremont Institute, which is so reactionary that it balks at the term "conserva…
? you dont have to use hyperbole to make a point.