This comment hit the nail on the head. I feel like I played right into his hands. But what is a person to do?
remember the real reason he bought Twitter was to influence the 2024 election and stop any kind of leftist organizing on the site
This comment hit the nail on the head. I feel like I played right into his hands. But what is a person to do?
remember the real reason he bought Twitter was to influence the 2024 election and stop any kind of leftist organizing on the site
Doubt many leftists use Twitter/X anymore anyway. Too much fascism and enshittification. Much better alternatives that are decentralized with the fediverse.
But that’s kinda the problem, isn’t it? They lost their platform. Sure, alternatives like Mastodon are cool in their own ways, but we lost a lot of reach. Twitter was utterly massive in terms of reach (and that’s why there’s some people on the left who still haven’t left it yet). At its peak, it had something like 400M monthly users. Mastodon has like 2.5M monthly users and Mastodon has been repeatedly criticized for being difficult to discover people, so who knows how many of those users you can reach even if you manage to get something to go viral.
Yeah, that’s the real issue and I didn’t think of it until you pointed it out. I don’t think he bought it to meddle with the election. I think he got forced into something that he’d changed his mind about. He’ll still meddle, because he’s an asshole, but that’s a product of his broken brain rather than a predetermined plan.
Broadcast television used to be the platform with reach. Social media is fickle. Remember MySpace? Friendster? If it didn’t implode from Musk now, it would have at some point anyway. I think things will get better being decentralized myself instead of one entity controlling everything. Technology doesn’t sit still. Just because it might be hard for discovery for some right now, doesn’t mean it will always be the case.
That’s the point, I think. I heard someone else say somewhere that he’s hoping to silo Twitter to the point where it becomes this echo chamber of his right wing tech bro bullshit.
I think, us, with our integrity might have played right into the hands of fascists. I just hope that enough people wake up to the fediverse because it might be what the world needs if enough people catch on to it.
For Shitter💩, it really comes down to advertising. If they can generate revenue with it they’ll survive. If not, it’s gone. It’s still bleeding millions from what I understand.