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What are you talking about? I used to be able to interact with interesting people in the public sphere on twitter, now it's just a bunch of people verified that

What are you talking about? I used to be able to interact with interesting people in the public sphere on twitter, now it's just a bunch of people verified that I never cared who they were anyway, and everyone I joined to follow has been gradually leaving. My own account is still in a banned state for telling Microsoft they suck for making their OS bloated. Before I was off twitter, because fuck deleting a reasonable tweet to appease some censorship bot and its review team, twitter was less and less 'free' for anyone not worshiping that rich ass-hat.

intelVISA 3y ago
Banned for speaking the truth? Sad to hear of this.
spookthesunset 3y ago
Twitter was the only platform I could tell our public health director they were doing way more damage with their insane covid mandates than good. I even got replies from the dude. There isn't any other platform out there where you can do this. So while Twitter is indeed a toxic hellhole, it is oftentimes the only way you can directly attempt to communicate with "the right people" in an organization.
- sanderjd 3y ago
  You could do that. It was that platform. As it increasingly loses its universality in favor of incentivizing subscriptions, it will increasingly lose that position.
  - red-iron-pine 3y ago
    sounds like a need for something like a utility or public corporation.
    - oneeyedpigeon 3y ago
      Twitter should just be an open protocol like email. I.e. Mastodon.
      - sanderjd 3y ago
        Literally just RSS.
- 1270018080 3y ago
  Twitter was a useful tool years ago... indeed.
- rat87 3y ago
  That sounds like you were making Twitter a toxic hellhole by harassing a public servant trying to protect people's health. Maybe that's not what actually happened (possibly context makes it seem less bad) but that's what it sounds like
finikytou 3y ago
you might have missed the covid era under twitter. or the presential elections. all before musk, all freedom altering events by a scale your "microsoft sucks" is a story you tell yourself to think you a justice warrior. they even censored the president of your country but no Musk is the evil lol. Somehow I can understand that the average joe is deep into politics and biased because they want their team to win but in HN, between engineers, that like facts and concepts that are abstract can't we just say that censoring the POTUS was something unseen in any kind of social media platform and that was probably the biggest event that ever happened? whatever we think of the guy, he got trough where he was through the voices of millions of american and just banning those is a danger to freedom and democracy

intelVISA 3y ago

Banned for speaking the truth? Sad to hear of this.

spookthesunset 3y ago

Twitter was the only platform I could tell our public health director they were doing way more damage with their insane covid mandates than good. I even got replies from the dude. There isn't any other platform out there where you can do this. So while Twitter is indeed a toxic hellhole, it is oftentimes the only way you can directly attempt to communicate with "the right people" in an organization.

sanderjd 3y ago
You could do that. It was that platform. As it increasingly loses its universality in favor of incentivizing subscriptions, it will increasingly lose that position.
- red-iron-pine 3y ago
  sounds like a need for something like a utility or public corporation.
  - oneeyedpigeon 3y ago
    Twitter should just be an open protocol like email. I.e. Mastodon.
    - sanderjd 3y ago
      Literally just RSS.
1270018080 3y ago
Twitter was a useful tool years ago... indeed.
rat87 3y ago
That sounds like you were making Twitter a toxic hellhole by harassing a public servant trying to protect people's health. Maybe that's not what actually happened (possibly context makes it seem less bad) but that's what it sounds like

finikytou 3y ago

you might have missed the covid era under twitter. or the presential elections. all before musk, all freedom altering events by a scale your "microsoft sucks" is a story you tell yourself to think you a justice warrior. they even censored the president of your country but no Musk is the evil lol. Somehow I can understand that the average joe is deep into politics and biased because they want their team to win but in HN, between engineers, that like facts and concepts that are abstract can't we just say that censoring the POTUS was something unseen in any kind of social media platform and that was probably the biggest event that ever happened? whatever we think of the guy, he got trough where he was through the voices of millions of american and just banning those is a danger to freedom and democracy