• NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip
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    11 months ago

    Strongly disagree

    Twitter as a venue for influencers to yell at brands and for brands to make risque jokes and for people to have hot takes? Good riddance

    Twitter as a venue to allow the people being directly impacted by oppressive regimes, ethnic cleansing, and natural disasters to speak directly to the world? That is very much something that will be missed. My hope is that that would migrate to Mastodon (which would have a lot of benefits) but there is nothing quite so ubiquitous and “simple” that still allows the people being erased by brutal regimes to have a voice.

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          11 months ago

          Plenty of people were linked to it, sure, but that would be the same without Twitter, too. Twitter is not a new type of service nor is it unique. It’s a flavour.

          I think you are stuck in your own bias.

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            11 months ago

            Yes. If a different service had the same market share and the same base concept it would fulfill the same role.

            But twitter is what fulfilled that role in this timeline. And, as many of us have been lamenting since the chudstain bought it, that is a very major loss.

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      11 months ago

      Twitter as a venue to allow the people being directly impacted by oppressive regimes

      Twitter has played a large role in supporting said regimes.

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        11 months ago

        Yes. That is the nature of an open platform. If you can find a way to keep the bad people off while not preventing the good people from having a choice, the world would love to hear it.