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Community Notes vanishes from X feeds, raising 'serious questions' amid ongoing EU probe
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this post was submitted on 28 May 2025
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Serious question, why is any non-nazi posting on twitter?
Although insta has been making inroads, it was the default in Japan for a long time for govt info, shop notifications (bars, art galleries, you name it), as well as other customer interaction.
To use community notes
Ok, now that is actually funny. well played!
It such a large network and great at blasting information out. Lots of youtuber/livestreamers still have to eXcrete on x or less they loose their audience. And it's not just video, writers also depends on the big ole X megaphone to aunuce book releases, beta reader applications etc etc.
Honestly furry artists are probably the freest from X since they have so many of their own social media sites.
You X following even is part of the reason for publishers to pick up your book.
Add to that some police departments actually use to send amber alerts.
You just have the world's largest public megaphone in an attention based economy. People can't leave for anything smaller.
Great points, except:
They can and some do. It’s still a choice.
technically yes but if leaving means you loose half your income then is it really a choice.
Of course, but it needn’t be black and white. You can also diversify, make yourself less reliant on a single platform. And by doing so, enable your audience to follow you elsewhere. Or diversify into different activities altogether. And when it’s no longer half your income on the line, then switch.
But doing nothing and saying, “but half my income!”? That’s not only a choice, but also complacency.
True they could spend the extra time poating on blusky first. Thrn on Twitter with a note that all posts are posted first on blusky. Enough people do that it would move the audience. But then people need to care enough to spend that extra time and care about what platform is used. Moat people care Twitter in the same way they care about ipv4 vs ipv6 addresses. Sad but true.
Great, so make it a public utility.
For those people they should all contact the government agencies that are still on Twitter and demand they switch to Bluesky.
When is the last time you demanded a government agency do something that wasn't already their idea, and they did it
Or self host a mastodon server.
Bluesky is not a true alternative. Just recently there were news about them banning opposition accounts in Turkey.
Or mastodon.
Been using Mastodon for about two years now and never going back.
If people of your country is more likely to use Twitter, moving to Bluesky is not even realistic.
Also, for a lot of countries, moving to Bluesky is like moving from American controlled platform to the same American controlled platform.
I agree with the sentiment, but the action doesn’t do anything to address the immediate issue
Some friends of mine also think Twitter just has better content to consume when scrolling through. Too comfy & don't care enough about who runs it & the issues to jump off. It gives them what they want.
It's becoming like Facebook, which is were people's parents, uncles and aunts and even grandparents (as well as technically inept organisations) are, but you yourself either moved on or are too young to have ever wanted to be there ("because nobody my age is there"), only whilst Facebook is merelly a Propaganda outlet for the Far Right, Twitter is openly Nazi.
Inertia, at least in some cases. It takes a lot of work to rebuild your audience. Leaving is accelerating, though, albeit slowly.
In other words, the so called "Networking Effects" (which have nothing to do with technical networks and are actually about how "people go were people are, so the more people are in a place the more people go there, the more people are there, the more people go there and so on") in the business of social networking that made a handful of players dominant, are very hard to revert.
Some people continue to gaslight themselves into thinking there is something to be gained from the audience they once had