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Re:2 Years at Twitter by midoridensha on Thursday November 24, 2022 @12:15AM (#33728002)
>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.

Re:2 Years at Twitter by ilyt on Thursday November 24, 2022 @08:41AM (#33731175)
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