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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.
No. People don’t want Conservatives to have a voice.
Can you give examples where this takes place?
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No. People don’t want Conservatives to have a voice.
They have a voice. What they don’t have any more is the privilege to use it without any consequences.
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How do you imagine a "top down attack" on the richest man on earth?
If you are the richest man on earth and are attacked by political elites how would you defend yourself? Mind that they control, to some extent, media and institutions. There are things beyond money.
If anything we should sit back and let them eat their own. I mean they've been doing it to us for so long that it's a bit refreshing to see them attack each other.
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Some people don’t like elevating leaders who openly flout and degrade our culture’s expectations of how leaders behave. Some of those are silly, of course, but some of them are not. For example, a leader should be knocked down a few notches if they’re calling rescue workers pedophiles for no reason. They should be knocked down a few more for impregnating their employees. They should be knocked down for throwing child…
How Musk has tumbled so quickly will go down in history books. Now he's spouting conspiracy theories.
It was found later that the alleged "blog" David created wasn't created long ago and was taken down pretty swiftly after the attack, showing that this was created as a prop for a political stunt before midterms.
The residence for the attacker, David, was found to be a hippie commune with a gay pride marijuana flag in their front yard. Does anyone really think this guy was a far righty? Give me a break.
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Some people don’t like elevating leaders who openly flout and degrade our culture’s expectations of how leaders behave. Some of those are silly, of course, but some of them are not. For example, a leader should be knocked down a few notches if they’re calling rescue workers pedophiles for no reason. They should be knocked down a few more for impregnating their employees. They should be knocked down for throwing child…
How Musk has tumbled so quickly will go down in history books. Now he's spouting conspiracy theories.
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How Musk has tumbled so quickly will go down in history books. Now he's spouting conspiracy theories.
I feel the same about Hillary. She shared a conspiracy theory this last week that Paul Pelosi's attacker was a right-wing extremist. It was found later that the alleged "blog" David created wasn't created long ago and was taken down pretty swiftly after the attack, showing that this was created as a prop for a political stunt before midterms. The residence for the attacker, David, was found to be a hippie commune wit…
If Mastodon takes off because of Musk ill be pretty amused. There is an irony to Mastdon, a more open platform than Twitter, becoming more popular because people thought Musk would make Twitter... more open.
Digg and Reddit were basically like-for-like, the friction in moving over was non-existent, because the focal point of both sites was the interesting links that people would post and discuss in the comments.
Twitter is different because the 2010s social networks did everything to kill external links, and turn the focus on the 'personalities' on the platform.
Also trying to go from Twitter to Mastodon is going to be like what beginners experience trying to set up a crypto wallet. Terrible UX, especially with dialog prompts with inscrutable messages about 'instances' that are meaningless to people coming from a walled garden.
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Wait, that's literally Zuckerberg? How was it OK when a Saudi Prince bought into Twitter to make sure Saudi Arabia wouldn't be hit by an Arab Spring[1]? I don't really like Musk, but is every conversation and topic these days just plain hysteria? [1] https://www.computerworld.com/article/2471759/arab-prince-bu...
Yeah, it is not about a whole social network being controlled by a single person. It is about a whole social network being controlled by a single person you disagree with .
Musk is the only one of them who actively desires the spotlight.
Heresy: Why do we need a replacement for Twitter? There was a world and a life before Twitter, and there is one without Twitter as well. I deleted my Twitter account about a year ago and have not missed anything. People and topics I am interested in I can updated on by many different means.
Yes, and it was much harder to shill newsletters, courses, conspiracies and cryptocoins back then on the back of minor internet blogger fame.
There is significant money to be made in all of the above, which is why a replacement for Twitter (holding people in a dopamine cage) is inevitable, whether we need it or not.
What happens if/when Mastodon gets mainstream and gets plagued by all the same problems as twitter? It being the distributed platform there's a very little options to fight fake news, hate speech, bots, etc. on Internet-wide level. Is there any option other than users gravitating to servers hosted by like-minded people, creating a clear separation into social bubbles?