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I wonder what the ratio of people actively deactivating to people silently never returning to the website/app is. At least 1 to 10 is my guess.
There's not much more a person can do for freedom than to cowardly run once people, who don't agree with you, get to open their mouth without being banned.
One has to be terminally online if they A care about twitter, B think it has anything to do with "freedom"
Few things I despise more than an absolute number provided with no context. Is 60K a lot? A little? The usual? How much does it deviate from the norm?
Indeed. And on a site with 611 Million monthly active users, that means 0.01% are deactivating their accounts each day. 3% after a year. Sounds insiginificant to me.
I'd expect in general the number of people who leave a site but don't bother to actually go through the steps of deactivating the account to be quite a bit higher than the number that do deactivate.
There's not much more a person can do for freedom than to cowardly run once people, who don't agree with you, get to open their mouth without being banned.
It's the only social network that feels unfiltered and not the typical politically correct crap.
I can understand left wing people leaving the platform and they account for half of the population so the numbers make sense.
It'll make for some interesting stories a decade from now when we'll all reminisce about "remember how Musk fucked Twitter? Oh shit, is it still running?"
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One has to be terminally online if they A care about twitter, B think it has anything to do with "freedom"
Why? There's no free speech environment if it lacks spaces that upset you for existing. X's existence in the name of "freedom", even if you disagree with the characterization, in turn protects your free speech. In fact, nothing else really does.
btw freedom of speech doesn't exist anywhere to begin with. Even in the self proclaimed "land of the free" you can't swear on public tv lmao, libel, slander, obscenity, fraud, &c. are all illegal. Meanwhile nobody talks about freedom of press even though the US ranks closer to Hungary than western europe, so much for freedom of speech...
Reminder that twitter is a bubble in the internet, which itself also is a bubble, and that real life exists out there.
There's not much more a person can do for freedom than to cowardly run once people, who don't agree with you, get to open their mouth without being banned.
If I wanted replies to my posts to be the most offensive thing the person could think of just for the keks I would just go to 4chan where at least it's more creative. You can call it running away but it's not out of fear, it's because the quality of discussion dropped to nothing. It didn't used to be that bad when a post broke containment. I've had great discussions on HN with people who disagree with me on very fund…
Where exactly is there "quality of discussion", if we include low quality responses in that rating, in any political space that isn't siloed? It doesn't exist today, and if the space is siloed then it also doesn't exist by definition.
It's okay to want to go where people agree with you more, even if it's because others aren't allowed in. But call it what it is, and note what it isn't.
There's not much more a person can do for freedom than to cowardly run once people, who don't agree with you, get to open their mouth without being banned.
"You cowards! Come back! We've got multiple drug resistant e coli on special this week!"
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Why? There's no free speech environment if it lacks spaces that upset you for existing. X's existence in the name of "freedom", even if you disagree with the characterization, in turn protects your free speech. In fact, nothing else really does.
People should touch some grass instead of debating if insulting groups of people online is what the founding fathers meant by freedom of speech, or if it actually brings anything of value to society. Twitter is still censoring a lot of shit, it just changed side and now that it's yours it's "freedom" btw freedom of speech doesn't exist anywhere to begin with. Even in the self proclaimed "land of the free" you can't s…