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> What's not to like about a world where there are a bunch of viable options of different sizes rather than a single eternal September? In essence, we have see
by nemo44x 3y ago
> What's not to like about a world where there are a bunch of viable options of different sizes rather than a single eternal September?
In essence, we have seen the ghettoization of political organizations when it comes to influence over social media networks. For the previous ~10 years, Twitter was the place everyone of every background roamed and progressives were very successful at leveraging the platform (and influencing the corporation externally and internally) to center their issues and create a false consensus on their positions and to get opposition exiled into ghettos.
They have since been ghettoized themselves as many left Twitter because their rivals have been allowed to participate, pulled from exile and others emboldened. Hence there's this desperate search for "New Twitter" amongst the chattering class. The election cycle is going to heat up in 6 months so it's becoming critical to try and herd normies into a place of their choosing where their media and influences can again dominate. Mastodon was too hard. Threads is a deal with the devil (Meta is evil) but it's the most legit chance to un-ghettoize them and reclaim social media dominance and thus real world influence like they've recently lost.