Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer

Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by hbn on Monday April 25, 2022 @10:36AM (#31155452)

Enforcing a real-name policy means the only users you'll have is:

1. People whose opinions are perfectly in-line with the corporate-backed, advertiser-friendly status quo, further cementing such ideas as the status quo

2. Maniacs who have nothing to lose, and/or want to be seen as a martyr

All of the reasonable people will just not use the site cause they don't want to risk stepping out of line and having aforementioned maniacs harassing you/contacting your employer/etc

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by B1FF_PSUVM on Monday April 25, 2022 @10:53AM (#31155710)

Amen. Basically, only pros will participate.

The school of "we'll destroy your livelihood" freedom of expression made sure of that.

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by mrtranscendence on Monday April 25, 2022 @10:49AM (#31155664)

That seems not to be the case with Facebook. Real name policy, plenty of reasonable people remaining. And plenty of nutters whose opinions aren't "perfectly in line with the corporate-backed, advertiser-friendly status quo".

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by hbn on Monday April 25, 2022 @10:59AM (#31155799)

I definitely would not call the people I know who still actively use Facebook to be on the reasonable side of things. For me it seems to be mostly people who got really into deranged politics and are constantly posting insane garbage (on every extreme of the spectrum), as well as housewives shilling MLM scams to each other.

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by mrtranscendence on Monday April 25, 2022 @11:12AM (#31155994)

Maybe that's the case for you, but I keep up with family, friends, and multiple groups on Facebook and I rarely encounter insane garbage. It's mostly cute animal pics, really. I've dropped (or never connected at all) with family I don't like, so that helps.

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Re:Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources by spywaregorilla on Monday April 25, 2022 @11:39AM (#31156409)

3. The vast majority of normal, current users who make no attempt to hide their identity and in fact frequently share it along with plenty of other personal info- as well as sharing links to their twitter profile on other real name identified social platforms.

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