Re:Maybe Bluesky Has "Won"
by zeroonetwothree on Friday November 15, 2024 @07:42PM
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I don’t use Twitter myself but if having a “bad person” own a service disqualifies you from using it I have some bad news for you.
There are different levels of how bad that is, and it's not just owning the thing, but buying it in order to prop up right-wing propaganda and trolls. I don't belong to Gab or Truth for a reason. I wouldn't participate in a Fox News run website either.
Which bad news exactly? I already use decentralized/distributed systems whenever I can to avoid the enshittification.
Re:Maybe Bluesky Has "Won"
by pseudalopex on Friday November 15, 2024 @07:16PM
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> He bought Twitter to be able to shape the platform to his image of the world, while claiming it was about freedom or some such thing.
Musk tried to back out of buying Twitter. But this detail is not very relevant.
That's an incredibly reductive take compared to what's really going on.
Twitter isn't some neutral place where beliefs are on even footing. Twitter is owned by a right-wing, MAGA, conspiracy theory and propaganda spreading man-child. He bought Twitter to be able to shape the platform to his image of the world, while claiming it was about freedom or some such thing. He spreads verifiably false information, and other like him have been boosted all over the platform. And he poured hundreds of millions of dollars and directed features of the site towards a presidential campaign.
Twitter is massively biased now, and many people want no part of helping it continue to exist.