The elongated muskrat is learning first hand how the Nazi Bar Problem works
Speaking of Nazis, are you able to provide any evidence whatsoever of Nazi activity on X?
Or is it more of a feeling you have?
He’s clearly an anti-semite, or at least a sympathers. ‘Nazi’ is getting thrown around a bit too liberally
He’s making X into a “whites only” platform. What did he expect?
I remain convinced he’s killing it on purpose. I don’t know a plausible motive, but I guarantee it’s on purpose.
I used to think so too, but I don’t know if he is also bad at that because it is taking him longer than I expected.
The problem with this narrative is that Musk lost money doing so.
I agree he’s killing it on purpose. Something to do with information control.
His meeting so long at the Superbowl with Rupert Murdoch in his suite sure didn’t give me a warm fuzzy feeling.
You think conspiracy theories in general sound reasonable, don’t you
He’s making X into a “whites only” platform
Is there some evidence of this outrageous claim or it is just something that sounded cool in your head?
With so many options becoming available, increasingly less people will select the platform preferred by Nazis.
Twitter is for fascists & their sympathizers.
My wife insists she’s staying there for the news and legal people she follows and she has a point. A lot of government, business, and schools continue to use it as an easy way to broadcast information.
Threads pulled off some celebrities, Bsky some policy and legal wonks, and Mastodon the tech geeks. If these services all start federating together and offering unified text and hashtag search, then where you land won’t matter.
Until then, it’ll be hard to get people to switch away, even with all the bad press.
If these services all start federating together
No one should federate with meta.
It’s a damn racket when most of the artists I enjoy only post on twatter. Just upload to mastodon too ffs!
He drove me back into using RSS after more than a decade for staying up to date. Much better for the mental health. Thankfully, since Wordpress and also some other CMS have the RSS feature enabled by default, many websites have it even if they’re not advertising it.
It’s built into Mastodon too
I never liked Twitter to begin with, once it became an unabashed environment for hate it was a piece of cake to close my account.
Yes, this is what happens when you take a big shit in people’s cereal. They tend to leave. I, too, could be an analyst.
Yeah telling your advertising megacustomers to go F… themselves on TV and naming them explicitly. Wow. That’s some kind of nasty.
It totally proved Disney right, too.
At least thats kind of reassuring in a way, that part of it is people dont want to associate with that stuff. (Though I realize that isnt the only reason)
I only follow specific youtubers and artists. If stray away from my specific feed, Twitter is too scary lol. I am at a loss for good social media though. It seems like most social media sites have just gotten worse over the past decade.
I guess there’s pros an cons to it all. Pro: less time wasted on social media Con: I’ve missed out on some information that is sometimes good to know.
It’s morbid but the only use it has to me is info on live shitty events.
Good.
Agreed, but, it makes meta stronger.
So at what point does/did it reach death spiral?
There’s probably a sociology theory that would apply, but my guess would be a loss of 33% of active users over the course of 6 months.
the death spiral is in progress, elon’s just rich so he can pay bills (or let leases go resulting in eviction…) for a while
When the “large” voices leave in significant numbers - in the UK it is used wildly by public sector and charity organisations, there are official governmental Twitter accounts, all the broadcasters have accounts.
Really wish I could convince local government entities to switch to Mastodon - my local police said it was “subject to O.P.R.A.” and needed to meet retention rules (if you rolled your own…), and the state wildfire commission said they were looking at Threads :/
So instead, both are still stuck on the platform that requires a login to see posts and filled with nazis.
I think Threads federation may actually help with. I’m trying to persuade a health body at the moment to switch from Twitter and to roll their own Mastodon instance, based on the fact that what they really want is the widget on the website, control of their data and the ability to reach people.
Twitter has already screwed the widget with the login/authentication requirements. If
Threads actually allows its users to see Mastodon posts, that’s a big old reachable audience.
Like when a US President was banned? Was that an example of those “big voices” leaving the platform?
So at what point does/did it reach death spiral?
It isn’t so much a spiral as it is a series of 90 degree turns.
X will be dead any day now people! Any day now!
Good.
