It’s so cringe and ridiculous how they implement these obnoxiously biased changes and then immediately walk them back when they’re called out for it. Just trying to figure out how much they can get away with
I’ve never been an active Twitter user but it surprises me how much they do seem to be getting away with. Does it really not bother most people? Last time I logged in (before deactivating my account like a month ago) it seems like people I followed were still going about using it as usual. I suppose similarly I’m saying that here on Lemmy having migrated from Reddit - and Reddit is very much active after its own drama too, I guess.
People have invested a lot into Twitter. They’ve built social networks there, they have brands or client bases for people who make money and it’s also just where most people are. Leaving means giving up most of what they need or want Twitter for. It’s a captive audience
Yeah, it’s the same problem for people who rely on exposure to get business. Artists, for example, are pretty much locked into Twitter. Because they rely on a large user base for their work to be seen and spread. And switching to another site (even if it has better quality of life) isn’t feasible if the massive user base doesn’t already exist there.
It’s not infeasible to post the same comments or media to multiple sites
And that’s exactly what needs to happen. Organizations post to both and get the benefits of both. Even better, it allows for better segmentation of user types. Lemmy and Mastodon users tend towards a different demographics by self selection with no privacy infringements needed. The same applies to the classic differences between Twitter and Facebook.
Just trying to figure out how much they can get away with
then immediately walk them back when they’re called out for it
this is how bullies operate. bold and loud but, ultimately, cowards with no conviction.
Schrodinger’s douchebag but as a moderation policy
The best part of the NYT article linked in the tweet is the image. It shows the letters from the sign on the side of the building. Specifically the T, the W and the @.
Subtle.
Tw@? Is that supposed to mean something?
/s
We should care even if we don’t use X. It gives other companies permission to do the same. Once Verizon started throttling in an effort to shake down Netflix for money then other providers joined in.
True. Once Twitter started ass-raping users for API access, reddit got the same dumb idea, and voila! millions of people flooded over to lemmy.
his shittiness is contagious
lemmy has like 100k users, maybe less if we go by users within the last month. definitely way way more than before the api debacle but nowhere near millions
seems we were both wrong:
the number were adjusted down after several instance owners culled large numbers of inactive and spambot accounts
X (formerly known as Twitter) has become even more of a wild landscape of a social experiment that is particularly centered around one person
“experiment”… lmao, as if we didn’t all know exactly what would happen if Musk bought twitter, what he would turn it into. Sure, he may surprise sometimes us with the absurdly stupid and petty ways he’s doing it, but the end result is still precisely what we all knew he’d do.
I mean, the shear level that he fucked with fundamental shit, and immediately at that, surprised me.
I expected him to attention whore, and put himself front and center like Tom from MySpace. I expected him to fuck with accounts of people he didn’t like. And generally to manipulate the content towards his fucked up world view. And that would have been bad enough.
But to just drop dynamite under the foundation and run away plugging his ears giggling… that was impressively stupid.
Or an alternate question, what other changes have they made that haven’t been noticed yet that is quietly degrading experience?
I clicked before I realized it was a link to twitter…er…X.
Don’t you use X when you want to cross something out?
