Twitter facilitated exactly what Elon set out to do with it.
this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2024
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I just hope federal services (like applying for a passport) don't become Twitter-only after Trump appoints Elon as Secretary of Enshittification.
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I've made a huge mistake breaking my personal rule to avoid all political content and I've regretted that immediately
It’s more than 4 years. We just crawled out of Trump inflation and now are going right back in.
Dismantling and breaking is easy. They can do a lot of that in 4 yrs. Building takes decades.
There’s also a global effect. Would Putin have ever attacked Ukraine without a Trump term? How about Israel’s taking self defense into genocide territory?
America leads by example and the last example was an impulsive 3 yo with a giant military force and a dead diplomacy department in the executive branch. There’s permissiveness in that.
Thing is, mate.....fascists rarely stay inside their boarders. This is going to be the whole world's problem in about 3 months.
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Bummer that isn’t mastodon but any inconvenience to musk is appreciated
I say this as someone who likes fediverse microblogging (Mastodon, MissKey, etc) it will never be Mastodon. Mastodon and its maintainers are staunchly against all the things that would make it a viable replacement to Twitter.
could you elaborate for people who don't use it?
They don't like algorithms. They want you to select which content you see.
That's all I've got. Mastodon is a better, more open tech. And it's pretty easy to get set up, relatively. It's insane that companies haven't jumped on it.
You don't even have to quit Twitter. You can just post to more than one place and give people the option.
Threads (for better or worse) demonstrates that that's not a fundamental obstacle for fediverse microblogging.
If someone wanted to launch a Mastodon fork with algorithm-driven content discovery, they could do. Just as with Lemmy/kbin/mbin, the beauty of the fediverse is that different servers can take quite different approaches to use experience design whilst still maintaining compatibility with the rest of the community.
This is what happens when someone can't put themselves into their user's shoes and then wonder why a product isn't doing as well as it is.
They proclaim the product is great, it's everyone else that's the problem
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Actually not a bummer in my opinion, let people sort into different platforms based on their interests like we used to do with forums.
A fragmented internet is a better internet
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Countdown until it turns out that everybody associated with any competition to Musk's companies just so happens to be a criminal Trump siccs his DOJ after: 5... 4...
I wouldn't discount the possibility that bsky is backed by the same dark money pool that bought twitter. putin found that it's way too easy to buy elections worldwide just using social media. They'll never give it up.
It needs A) same functionality B) ban all forms of racism, especially Zionism and C) refuse investment from undemocratic nations like GCC or China
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I suspect it will only because every single furry on YouTube seems to be trying to get the entire fandom to move from Twitter to BlueSky. You know we run the internet.
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