Re:Elon Musk moves ahead with Twitter deal in 13D filing
by amadeuspagel on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @12:07PM
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What concretely is your concern here?
Twitter might some day remove the block button? They might some day push certain people on you, without recourse? Therefore, they have to ban these people now?
Re:Elon Musk moves ahead with Twitter deal in 13D filing
by MrDresden on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @12:46PM
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There is no concern here, as I do not use Twitter.
Rather it was an attempt at an simple example to explain to you the differences in control that a user of an open protocol has, versus the control a user in a closed ecosystem like Twitter has.
Think it didn't land.
As a user in a closed ecosystem like Twitter, you have no control over what content will be served to you (the same goes for any filtering tools said ecosystem offers it's users). The state of a closed ecosystem today, does not guarantee that there won't be future state changes (and users have no control over those).
With a protocol like RSS you have full control over the content being served up to you. If a source you previously agreed with and enjoyed, starts souring for you then it is as simple as unsubscribing. It will not be pushed on you.
So as said before, the example doesn't really hold.