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> It's not about the cost of the service, it's that it's a pointless endeavour it's never going to succeed. Every social media company succeeds or fails based o
by JadeNB 4y ago
> It's not about the cost of the service, it's that it's a pointless endeavour it's never going to succeed. Every social media company succeeds or fails based on the network effect.
I think that's a valid concern if your main goal is to create a social network, but less so if you're trying to create a reliable and trustworthy organ for government communication.
> Where did I mention Elon?
This:
> > Why don't they buy a considerable stake in these American social media companies instead of trying to reinvent the wheel that is deflating as soon as it launches.
does not refer explicitly to Elon, but Twitter is a much more common organ of government communication than any other big American social-media company, so it seems disingenuous to pretend that this wasn't at least suggestive of buying a considerable stake in Twitter (and so giving money, indirectly, to Elon).
- Ecstatify 4y agoDisingenuous, huh? previous poster interpreted "buy a considerable stake in these American social media companies" as give Elon Musk money.
- JadeNB 4y ago> previous poster interpreted "buy a considerable stake in these American social media companies" as give Elon Musk money. Which social-media companies did you mean? If Twitter is among them, then that is, at least indirectly, giving Musk money; and, if not, then it's hard to see how buying that stake would help to ensure communications reliability, since Twitter seems to be much more common than any other American social-media company as an organ of government communication.
- Ecstatify 4y agoI don't understand this link with Twitter, maybe because it's in the news now. I never mentioned any specific company. The previous poster wanted to go on some Elon rant/tangent. My point was to invest in a platform that people actually use. If I'm the EU I want to have a platform where I can spread my message to as many people as possible. The EU is already spending huge amounts of money advertising on these platforms. Why not purchase a seat at the table.
- JadeNB 4y ago> I don't understand this link with Twitter, maybe because it's in the news now. I never mentioned any specific company. Exactly, which is why I'm asking: when you said "buy a considerable stake in these American social media companies", which social-media companies did you mean?
- Ecstatify 4y agoI meant the concept of buying a social media company to gain access to a network/captive audience. I was not talking about a specific company. If I was talking about a specific company I would have said "Why don't they buy a considerable stake in {insert social media company}"