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No true scotsman's fallacy - no serious person would use X; if you use X you aren't serious.
by gjsman-1000 1y ago
No true scotsman's fallacy - no serious person would use X; if you use X you aren't serious.
- fxwin 1y agoThis makes no sense, the comment obviously implies that there are in fact serious orgs using twitter
- pessimizer 1y agoThe question that motivated the comment obviously implies that this is unbelievable for undisclosed reasons (related to its "current state.") Smarter to argue with the premise than the fluff.
- izzydata 1y agoI don't agree. There are still serious organizations and people using Twitter. I believe that to be true. I'm just surprised they haven't moved. For example there are emergency systems or local governments that announce information on Twitter. These feel like serious organizations to me. At minimum I feel like they should be in multiple places and not just Twitter.
- djtango 1y agoUltimately Twitter is timely and has almost universal mindshare. A few weeks ago when there was the pacific earthquake, I had family who were very close to a danger zone vacationing. Google was not sufficient for finding good local timely info as an outsider but twitter was. I would never even think to check BlueSky or Mastodon, and my family will never have heard of them.
- izzydata 1y agoThings have to be posted in those other places for your regular person to have a chance of hearing about them eventually. If everyone waits for some adoption threshold to support something then it will never reach that threshold.
- gyanchawdhary 1y ago[flagged]
- svantana 1y agoNo true scotsman fallacy - only lefties downvote this comment, and if you downvote the comment you must be a leftie.
- gyanchawdhary 1y agolol, clever point you made there
- metamet 1y agoWell, if it helps you feel better, the downvotes are probably because it's not a No True Scotsman fallacy. And yours are probably due to your endorsement of it and whining about "lefties".
- gyanchawdhary 1y ago[flagged]