I keep asking this because I don’t understand - how is Elon “killing” twitter?
I’ve frankly not seen any difference, at all. If anything there’s slightly more activity
I’ve frankly not seen any difference, at all. If anything there’s slightly more activity
At their scale and in their market the premium subscriptions model doesn't appear to work, unless their costs can be reduced much, much further.
Sharing revenue with creators is great. Not everything being done is bad. On the whole it just doesn't seem sustainable and sometimes even petty and foolish. Almost appears as if he's trying to bankrupt the company.
What I'm trying to say is it seems like the world is "demanding" too much from Elon. Additionally, there is a weird trend of people rooting for his failure. This is something I strongly stand against.
Why would I want to live in a world where "a superapp" is needed?
Why would I want to live in a world where you have one company in control of the "town square"?
Personally, I just wanted Twitter to fail because I think that any ad-funded business is bad for us. But if you tell me that Elon's long term game is to make it something even more dystopian than it ever was, then yes I will do everything in my power to see him fail and fail catastrophically.
Rooting for someone's success is not about personal preferences or endorsing their actions. It's about fostering a positive and supportive environment that encourages growth and achievement.
> Why would I want to live in a world where "a superapp" is needed?
Super-apps already exist in other markets. Entrepreneurs want to create ones in the US market to foster the diversity of options. This is a healthy process. You live in the world with wars, but you want to do everything in your power to see Twitter fail. That's strange. A world catered only to your preferences is unlikely, so you have to be realistic.
> Why would I want to live in a world where you have one company in control of the "town square"?
I don't know. You don't have to live in that town.
> Personally, I just wanted Twitter to fail because I think that any ad-funded business is bad for us.
Pretty much every business in the world is driven by ads, one way or another. However, as I said, Musk doesn't care about ads. In fact, he wants even fewer ads on Twitter. That being said, his goals kinda align with what you want.
Not when this "growth" and "achievement" is something that affects part of the society negatively, or when there might be unknown consequences.
> Super-apps already exist in other markets.
And they are enablers of authoritarian states and continuous centralized power over a handful of corporations.
> You don't have to live in that town.
Just on another thread I was being accused of being "socially inept" for refusing to use WhatsApp.
If we live in a world where so much power is centralized into a few corporations, they affect everyone's lives, even if they don't participate directly on it.
> Pretty much every business in the world is driven by ads
Does it help you sleep at night to be telling yourself this kind of bullshit, or are you just apathetic?
> he wants even fewer ads on Twitter.
You forgot to capitalize your Lord's name.
Emotions are the enemy of a constructive dialogue. I bail.
That honestly sounds more like the goal for an elementary school class than the goal for an adult society.
We don't necessarily need to support and encourage development that we don't agree worth, or even see as dangerous. And the idea that growth and achievement are always good things and should be wholly supported and encouraged sounds lovely on the surface, but there are plenty of things that could be considered achievement that we are better off without.
Like, common he set expectations by himself. He was the one bragging and running his mouth how everyone before him was an idiot while he is going to clean and fix the place.
> Additionally, there is a weird trend of people rooting for his failure. This is something I strongly stand against.
I really really hope for failure of his, quite apparent, political project.
There's way more ads. Now every blue checkmark tweet is an ad, paid for placement. So I click on a tweet and all I get are pages of ads with the real tweets buried at the bottom.
Ads aside, there are host of other ways he's ruined twitter from censorship to blocking anon access to amplifying his own terrible tweets.
It's not "opinions I disagree with," I hope. Because labeling that "unsafe" is a new level of Orwellian.
> Most people i know don't use it anymore.
Twitter hasn't really changed much. If you know people who no longer want to use the platform, then their decision is likely driven by the propaganda. In a way, it's not their personal decision, but the result of influence from elsewhere.
In addition, Must is not even trying to stand up to regimes and such. It became completely meek.
Also, twitter is not "balanced". It is right-wing in the sense of "we use right-wing as euphemism for nazi and such".
It also depends on how you define "killed". I dont think twitter will be gone, but there is a chance it will become a lot more similar to truth social or parler.
Do you think Hackernews would do better or worse if they introduced a paid tier that put your comment above others every time?
If a paid tier alone puts your comment above others, then the result is negative. However, I do not believe Twitter's algorithm simply ranks by the presence of a blue checkmark. It is a signal amongst other signals and not a sole criteria. My feed has improved after all the changes, which is why I could not share your observation.
Truth social exists because of a censorship. The idea of a social network with high censorship results in a state of content being a walled garden. While the intention behind censorship may be to create a safer and more controlled environment, it often comes at the cost of limiting diversity of thought, stifling creativity, and hindering the progress of society.
Censorship, when implemented excessively, can lead to a state where only certain viewpoints and information are allowed, effectively creating an echo chamber that reinforces existing beliefs and discourages critical thinking.
Twitter has the potential to become the next Truth Social. If Meta enforces excessive censorship in Threads, people might perceive it as a more "positive" social network, offering the illusion of a better alternative. With media support, people could gradually migrate towards Threads, leaving Twitter in decline. However, if Elon achieves his super-app goal, Twitter's current form will no longer exist, rendering these social media-related issues irrelevant. Consequently, Twitter and Threads would evolve into a completely distinct applications.
The only good thing about it is that I spend more time reading books now.
1) fake/shell drop shipping companies dominate the ads with nonsense names and computer generated logos. An endless stream of low quality ads as opposed to real companies that used to advertise there.
2) Low effort facebook style posts have began to dominate any reply section, as users who typically had bad posts that saw no engagement, now pay to force people to look at their low effort/hateful/uneducated opinions. (still not gaining many followers but users are now forced to see it over higher quality users).
3) Bot issues are still very much there, every time I make a post with more than a dozen likes, I get 2-3 bot follows that are always a vaguely feminine name and a single post, following hundreds of accounts.
4) API cost increases have hurt positive bot accounts(ie OpossumEveryHour, various "every lot in x" accounts) while tons of crypto scam accounts, tshirt bots, etc have taken over.
5) The general changes to the checkmark system has destroyed the meaning behind the check, it used to serve to ensure accounts were not imposters. Now its simply every guy who watches self help entrepreneur videos has a check.
Just a handful of aspects of the overall degraded experience. Every day the site becomes more hateful and zenophobic, looking more and more like low effort boomer facebook groups every day. Regardless of opinion, the site used to be a place that you could get news from verified sources, follow public figures, and not be inundated literal Nazis. If you own a bar and a couple Nazis are made to feel welcome, you now have a Nazi bar.
Only from bots. I mean, this is not even disputable, saying that twitter has more genuine activity now or somehow better content is in the reals of fan fiction.