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Musk could have kept twitter that universal platform and keeping an eye on political interference from within, knowing that right wing people would just trust h
by ithkuil 4y ago
Musk could have kept twitter that universal platform and keeping an eye on political interference from within, knowing that right wing people would just trust him doing the right thing.
But no, he wanted to make a big public outcry out of it, and he's now reaping the consequences.
- _djo_ 4y agoExactly. He couldn't stop his ego from taking over.
- nemo44x 4y agoIt is the if e universal platform. He’s just getting rid of the toxic people that thought they were immune to the types of canceling they’ve asked for more of previously. Live by the cancel, die by the cancel, I guess.
- ithkuil 4y agoI'm not leaving Twitter because they canceled somebody or because they don't have canceled somebody else. I'm leaving Twitter because it no longer provides me an interesting timeline with content that I care about. Enough people in my network left (for whatever reason) and that's enough to create a network effect. I tried blocking musk and other accounts that created what I perceived as just noise I don't care about (I'm not a us resident, I've had enough of your culture war. It was educational and all but I'm also interested in other things!). But that wasn't enough, the Twitter recommendation engine keeps notifying threads about people I don't follow that talk about things I don't care about. Often just because Musk replied (and since I blocked him I don't really notice that until I click to see to details of a hidden post). It's a shame. I'm not a social media person. I found Twitter to have been a nice low friction way to subscribe to interesting topics and people. This whole drama has just turned it into a permanent worst version of itself