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Right, retweets are there to enhance "engagement" and "engagement" sells ads. Twitter is a platform for selling ads and nothing else - that you're allowed to co
by vorpalhex 6y ago
Right, retweets are there to enhance "engagement" and "engagement" sells ads. Twitter is a platform for selling ads and nothing else - that you're allowed to converse on it is a secondary feature.
- Loughla 6y ago>Twitter is a platform for selling ads and nothing else - that you're allowed to converse on it is a secondary feature. Isn't that just every social media or discussion site? This seems like a nothing statement.
- vorpalhex 6y ago> Isn't that just every social media or discussion site? Do you see ads next to this comment? What about on IRC? Mastodon? What if I told you that even many of the youtube series you may like are available on other platforms and you can pay a subscription fee to see them without ads? There are alternative to "engagement" based networks, they exist now and you can support them and choose to use them over Twitter and Facebook.