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> Oh my. Twitter, or any other platform, is not your megaphone that will amplify your opinion without restrictions Where did this sentiment originate from? I n
by soheil 5y ago
> Oh my. Twitter, or any other platform, is not your megaphone that will amplify your opinion without restrictions
Where did this sentiment originate from? I never heard of it before and all of a sudden in the last few years I hear so many people parroting it. Why is it that all these people were silent for so long and now they're yelling in unison about how bad Twitter as a megaphone is?
- admax88qqq 5y agoBecause fundamentally when people complain about being censored on places like twitter or TikTok, they're really complaining about not being broadcast loudly enough.
- matheweis 5y agoBecause of Trump. He figured out how to use social media to his advantage. Before for that, other “movements” that had bridged the gap between real and online worlds were celebrated. Arab Spring circa 2012, is a particular good example.
- charrondev 5y agoFor YouTube at least I can give a clear example. I’m pretty sure they’ve cleared this up now but for a while you had no way to get consistent notifications of new content from creators you’d explicitly subscribed to. Twitter is similar in this way. If I follow someone, I want to see their tweets. Full stop. I don’t want them arbitrarily hidden from my timeline by an algorithm. Twitter offers a chronological timeline but has repeatedly reset my user preference for it. If there weren’t third party applications that respected my preference I definitely would not be using it anymore.