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Hey Twitter, it’s not a competition. You can get rid of your users at whatever pace suits you best. Even though Reddit is clearly speedrunning this game, and you’re getting left behind, doesn’t mean you have to double your efforts.
Serious question: is musk actively trying to run twitter into the ground for some kind of financial benefit, or is he just an arrogant asinine asshole who has no idea what he's doing?
My tinfoil hat theory is this: Musk has ties with dictators who would really, really like to see Twitter die as it’s been used in the past to organize resistance and broadcast embarrassing information. Musk is used to do the dirty job of running it into the ground. He may or he may not be actually aware of this, as your characterization of Musk is on point. Just speculation of course.
Hand me the roll of foil next. The Arab Spring, Hong Kong protests, those sorts of things were where Twitter truly shined. A lot of powerful people want to take the voice away from the masses.
And crafting a little addition to my own hat: I firmly believe Reddit is doing the same now. The goal is to silence everyone but the voices they want to hear from. It's working but with federated social media, the tide may turn. 🤞
3rd-party Twitter clients are going to have quite a spike in popularity then, just need to implement clientside blocking.
Twitter is killing those, too: https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/22/23564460/twitter-third-party-apps-history-contributions
Twitter's fundamental model of user interaction is said to be broken, and lots of things have been made to mitigate it. And now everything goes into the shitter because of Elon's hurt feelings.
Awww Musky’s feelings got hurt that so many people have blocked him on twitter lol
Are you kidding? Being able to block people who are harraing you is the ONLY thing that keeps social media civil. What the actual fuck.
I smile every time when I see that Musky did some more stupid shit, because I know that every time he does shit like that, Mastodon grows more. And with that, the entire Fediverse gets stronger.
Go on Elon! Don't Stop please! Kill Twitter!
First thing I did after he bought Twitter is block him. Did I hurt his feelings?
(Not that I follow what's going on with Twitter anymore since I found Mastodon.)