Comment on Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible
tdawg@lemmy.world 8 months agoBecause providing a central location for people to communicate about things on via an information exchange system is clearly what people want. The issue is that it isn’t held up and maintained by society at large but by private interests. Stuff like mastadon have a chance at changing this, but we’ll see
TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id 8 months ago
Correction; it’s what some people want. Most people pay very little attention to Twitter, X or Mastodon. These systems are very much about providing a way for media and tech elite to talk to each other.
tdawg@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m sorry but no. Nearly the entire English speaking world was using twitter at one point. Just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean it’s not what people want