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I think Twitter will probably remain popular for a long time, especially for people with a more right leaning perspective on the world. That's not really the pe
by Quothling 2y ago
I think Twitter will probably remain popular for a long time, especially for people with a more right leaning perspective on the world. That's not really the people I associate with, and it probably needs to be mentioned here that I'm Danish. Which matters because the sort of people who post right leaning stuff here are kind of your crazy uncle on Facebook kind of people. Which means that Danish Twitter is slowly becoming a like an actual Facebook feed where the only people who post are the ones you'd likely associate with if you're here on HN. Even if you're conservative, because it's just so crazy and hateful.
I personally wish people were heading for Mastodon. I especially think that our institutions should operate Mastodon instances on their own, so that an American tech giant can't decide to "cancel" a Danish politician as an example. I mean, I don't agree with anything our far right does on social media, but the concept of a foreign tech giant being able to ban an elected Danish official is still sort of crazy. Anyway, people are going to Threads for the most part.
Note that this is a perspective from my little point of the world. Though some of our major news media have decided to ditch Twitter, as well as closing their posts on Facebook to comments.
- thesuavefactor 2y agoI love this comment, you are absolutely right. If every country/government would use the fediverse to enable free speech, and maybe even promote it, that would be a big step forward.
- Quothling 2y agoSometimes I'm a little embarrassed about just how readily Danish politicians and news media have adopted the large tech companies. I know it's related to users, but it's also sort of an egg and the hen situation / bad spiral where it would be nice if they actually put ideology/democracy first. At least the EU is doing a lot of good work. https://www.edps.europa.eu/system/files/2022-07/22-07-26_techdispatch-1-2022-federated-social-media-platforms_en.pdf https://www.edps.europa.eu/system/files/2022-07/22-07-26_tec...
- heraldgeezer 2y ago>especially for people with a more right leaning perspective on the world. Why add this without any source lol? Things like the leftie Palestine protests and the news streamer Hasanabi extensively get news from and use Twitter.
- filoleg 2y agoMy good faith take on it is that it might indeed be the case in Denmark (which is where the grandparent comment user is from). Though Denmark’s twitter culture/userbase breakdown doesn’t seem likely to to me as being representative of the larger twitter. And also, I totally agree with you that this is definitely not so clear-cut in the case of North America and Japan (aka the two largest countries on Twitter/X by their userbase).
- Quothling 2y agoI can give you some Danish source. (Prominent news paper - paywalled): https://www.information.dk/kultur/leder/2024/01/dommedagsprofeterne-fik-ret-paa-godt-aar-elon-musk-totalskadet-twitter https://www.information.dk/kultur/leder/2024/01/dommedagspro... (Prominent news paper - paywalled): https://pro.ing.dk/datatech/artikel/twitters-algoritmer-forstaerker-hoejreorienterede-men-udviklerne-ved-ikke-om-det-er-et-problem https://pro.ing.dk/datatech/artikel/twitters-algoritmer-fors... (danish national human rights institution - note that it's a NGO that works with our government but isn't an actual government institution): https://menneskeret.dk/lgbt-barometer/diskrimination-had https://menneskeret.dk/lgbt-barometer/diskrimination-had (Democratic analytical NGO - note that democratic is democracy not a political party): https://www.ogtal.dk/publikationer/ytringsklimaet-for-skeive-paa-twitter-og-facebook https://www.ogtal.dk/publikationer/ytringsklimaet-for-skeive...