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Re:Is everything falling apart? by krapp on Friday April 29, 2022 @09:53AM (#31205096)
>I’m skeptical that he can fundamentally change the incentives that make social media amplify extremist views over moderate views.

I'm skeptical that someone who unironically uses the phrase "woke mindvirus" has any such intent. There's a reason right-wing accounts are flooding the platform now and everyone else is running for the hills, and it isn't because Elon makes both sides equally welcome or unwelcome. He's clearly picked a side.

Re:Is everything falling apart? by SpicyLemonZest on Friday April 29, 2022 @10:24AM (#31205534)
I'd really encourage you to take a step back and think about how deeply the attitude of extreme-vs-extreme conflict pervades this comment. You say "everyone else is running for the hills", but I don't think you'd claim that 100% or even 25% of left-wing Twitter users have left the platform today. Is it true that the "wokeness" debate is such a big issue you can't use a social media platform run by someone who doesn't agree with your stance, or have the incentives of social media tricked you into seeing it as a totalizing conflict where nobody can agree to disagree?
Re:Is everything falling apart? by krapp on Friday April 29, 2022 @11:02AM (#31206050)
>You say "everyone else is running for the hills", but I don't think you'd claim that 100% or even 25% of left-wing Twitter users have left the platform today.

Sorry, I forgot where I was posting for a second. It was an idiom, not an attempt at a mathematical proof.

The point is that only one side suddenly feels unwelcome and the other suddenly feels very welcome.

>Is it true that the "wokeness" debate is such a big issue you can't use a social media platform run by someone who doesn't agree with your stance,

No. I just don't look forward to the flood of edgelord Nazi shitposters, bots and harassment I predict Elon (and, Trump's probable reinstatement) will draw to the platform, nor do I particularly want to use a platform whose owner considers my views to be akin to a plague. I will, as long as it remains feasible to block accounts I have no interest in.

>or have the incentives of social media tricked you into seeing it as a totalizing conflict where nobody can agree to disagree?

I didn't take over Twitter because I felt it needed to be liberated from the "woke mindvirus." Elon is bringing the totalizing conflict, I just want to read my feed in peace.

Re:Is everything falling apart? by fallingknife on Friday April 29, 2022 @11:26AM (#31206367)
Why is it that liberals run from a platform full of conservatives, but conservatives don't run from a platform full of liberals?
Re:Is everything falling apart? by krapp on Friday April 29, 2022 @11:34AM (#31206483)
What do you think Voat, Gab, Parler, Rumble, WeMe, Truth Social, Gettr and numerous other "alternative" platforms formed in the last few years were all about? Conservative safe spaces are a whole market segment now.
Re:Is everything falling apart? by mikkergp on Friday April 29, 2022 @12:55PM (#31207631)
I will grant you it must be difficult trying to voice your opinion as a conservative in a liberal space, but there are countless examples of conservative safe spaces and running away from those platforms, or they just never join them in the first place.