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I thought Twitter was a Hellscape before Elon bought it? That is why I left Twitter. Mastodon is much better.

by cable2600 4y ago

eesmith 4y ago
Yes, that's the thesis of the article. > With Musk’s regime adding a new source of daily drama, the obsessive navel-gazing seems unlikely to abate. Twitter will still be the “hellsite” that users love to hate.
- bb88 4y ago
  There's no such thing as bad publicity.
  - eesmith 4y ago
    That's PR-spin to shift blame off PR. And you believe it? It's clearly false.
    - bb88 4y ago
      So, Trump seems to have done okay. He appears to be the most popular republican politician even after losing the presidency and instigating a riot in the capital. Clinton only had sex with an intern, and republicans were willing to throw him overboard for that. That was after the entire "grabbing them by the p*ssy" comment, soooo....
      - eesmith 4y ago
        "Watergate." "But her emails." "Sandy Hook was completely fake." "Transgenders want to enter women's bathrooms to commit sex crimes." "COVID is caused by 5G technology." Tell me how these helped Nixon's presidency, Hilary Clinton's election chances, the grieving parents who lost children at Sandy Hook, transgender acceptance, and COVID vaccination rates.
fortran77 4y ago
That’s exactly what the article is saying.
poisonborz 4y ago
"BTW I use Mastodon"
- fortran77 4y ago
  on Arch Linux!
beej71 4y ago
I'd rather use mastodon than Twitter, since I like decentralized things. But I don't really get the use case for either. (I'm not saying there isn't a valid use case; just saying that I, personally, don't resonate with it.) I have a number of followers who like the links I post, but I never read anything on either platform. Instead, I'm in a number of slack and discord channels with friends and family. That's been working really well for keeping in touch and conversation.

5 ms·

I thought Twitter was a Hellscape before Elon bought it? That is why I left Twitter. Mastodon is much better.

by cable2600 4y ago

I thought Twitter was a Hellscape before Elon bought it? That is why I left Twitter. Mastodon is much better.

eesmith 4y ago
Yes, that's the thesis of the article. > With Musk’s regime adding a new source of daily drama, the obsessive navel-gazing seems unlikely to abate. Twitter will still be the “hellsite” that users love to hate.
- bb88 4y ago
  There's no such thing as bad publicity.
  - eesmith 4y ago
    That's PR-spin to shift blame off PR. And you believe it? It's clearly false.
    - bb88 4y ago
      So, Trump seems to have done okay. He appears to be the most popular republican politician even after losing the presidency and instigating a riot in the capital. Clinton only had sex with an intern, and republicans were willing to throw him overboard for that. That was after the entire "grabbing them by the p*ssy" comment, soooo....
      - eesmith 4y ago
        "Watergate." "But her emails." "Sandy Hook was completely fake." "Transgenders want to enter women's bathrooms to commit sex crimes." "COVID is caused by 5G technology." Tell me how these helped Nixon's presidency, Hilary Clinton's election chances, the grieving parents who lost children at Sandy Hook, transgender acceptance, and COVID vaccination rates.
fortran77 4y ago
That’s exactly what the article is saying.
poisonborz 4y ago
"BTW I use Mastodon"
- fortran77 4y ago
  on Arch Linux!
beej71 4y ago
I'd rather use mastodon than Twitter, since I like decentralized things. But I don't really get the use case for either. (I'm not saying there isn't a valid use case; just saying that I, personally, don't resonate with it.) I have a number of followers who like the links I post, but I never read anything on either platform. Instead, I'm in a number of slack and discord channels with friends and family. That's been working really well for keeping in touch and conversation.