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If I said a traffic light will turn from red to green you'd be exaggerating if you called my statement speculation. To my knowledge the only social media sites
by slowhadoken 3y ago
If I said a traffic light will turn from red to green you'd be exaggerating if you called my statement speculation. To my knowledge the only social media sites that have been shutdown were the ones that never had any traffic. LiveJournal is still up. Disney is a massive corporation that buys other companies, why and why not is speculation.
Twitter's brand under Dorsey was "brand poison", that's how it attracted so many post-progressive lunatics. A lot of those lunatics are now fleeing and/or attacking the site. CNN and FOX News have good reason to hate Musk's approach. Mainstream media has lost almost all credibility, if we could see a return to something approximating journalism that could hurt them.
- wpietri 3y agoIf you see yourself as to the right of not just CNN but Fox News, I hope you can understand that your perspective on what makes for a good platform is not likely to align with not just the median user, but executives who will have billions of dollars in acquisition budget. I also note that you haven't named any plausible buyers for Twitter, which suggests to me you're not very serious about this discussion.
- slowhadoken 3y agoI voted for Ralph Nader and Bernie Sanders. Realignment is exactly what our two party system needs. Obama was right when he told a group of children that politicians should be fighting for our vote. That's what I believe. Also I'm not your butler, find your own plausible buyers. Maybe if you stop pretending to be a mind reader you could learn to think for yourself.
- wpietri 3y agoI already said I don't think there are any plausible buyers. If you are claiming they exist, please name them.
- slowhadoken 3y agoGrow up.
- lmm 3y ago> To my knowledge the only social media sites that have been shutdown were the ones that never had any traffic. LiveJournal is still up. MySpace was the original biggest social networking site in the world, and they deleted everything in 2013. Friendster was once huge and is completely gone, even the company doesn't exist any more.
- slowhadoken 3y agoMySpace is still around. Also, "huge" is a relative word. Friendster was started in 2002, at it's peak it had 115 million users. Twitter has more than twice that now and Facebook has 2.96 billion users. Social media is a different animal now.
- lmm 3y ago> MySpace is still around. Not really. A company with that name exists and has a website up on their domain, but, like I said, they deleted all their existing accounts and content in 2013. > Friendster was started in 2002, at it's peak it had 115 million users. Twitter has more than twice that now "More than twice that" does not seem like a big enough difference to be confident in, particularly when you compare to the overall growth of the internet over the same period.
- slowhadoken 3y agongl they seem like old ludicrous example, man
- wpietri 3y agoSeems like there's a good reason that your four year old account is barely positive in terms of karma.
- slowhadoken 3y agoI don’t comment often because it’s pointless. Most techies I talk to are higher functioning normies. That’s why it took me so long to even create an account. I like to hear people rationalize and trash talk though.