Re:2 Years at Twitter
by midoridensha on Thursday November 24, 2022 @12:15AM
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>It was slowly becoming a propaganda machine that was disguised as social network.
Is there a difference? From what we've seen over the past couple of decades, it seems like social networks are doomed to devolve into propaganda machines.
>Twitter dying in fiery musky fireball might be the best thing to happen in long term.
That's what I feel like too.
There is a difference between people using platform as propaganda machine and platform itself picking a side and deprioritizing anything that they don't like, especially with reach it has.
First one is de facto popularity contest and each side is free to call on other's bullshit, if control comes from company running it the detractors from "right" vision gets silenced,either explicitly, or by just modifying algorithm to deprioritize their content
> It's tragic that Musk is depleting whatever capital twitter had remaining on its current death march. Financially "profitable" or not, twitter did undeniably have social and political capital. Soon, it will have neither.
Is it tho ? The social capital Twitter had was just used to push ideas of whoever was in charge there at the time. It was slowly becoming a propaganda machine that was disguised as social network.
Just like a week ago we had HN discussion about how after firing a bunch of people Japanese twitter suddenly stopped being so political [1], coz those topics were being forced.
Twitter dying in fiery musky fireball might be the best thing to happen in long term.
* [1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2022/11/14/japanese...