Comment on One year after being bought for $44 billion, X is worth $19 billion

iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• finthechat@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In its most ideal form, a microblog style site could literally provide an online version of a collective consciousness of society. It would be a live feed of normal people's thoughts.

  Except in reality it's porn, smug posting, corporate advertising, vitriol, and propaganda all fueled by algorithms written to keep mofos scrolling.

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  • TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It was good for two things: on the ground news, and speaking directly to businesses to resolve customer complaints.

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    • Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Which Elon ruined since most businesses are abandoning it. But man at one time if you complain on twitter and tag the company in it your problem would fix pretty fast. Doubt that would work today.

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    • netburnr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Which is dumb you have to take your support request public before you get sny sort of help

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    • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      speaking directly to businesses to resolve customer complaints.

      It really pisses me off that companies respond to Twitter posts but will ignore tickets and emails in their own support system.

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    • iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah. I pretty much only used Twitter for live event updates.

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  • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Porn, smug posting, and vitriol? Sounds like collective consciousness of society to me.

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  • OscarRobin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You don’t get advertising or algorithmic crap on Mastodon, and they have reasonably reliable filters to hide most porn I think

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  • oce@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Would the collective consciousness actually be interesting to read?

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• doublejay1999@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Any social media that involves Followers are destined to be bin fires.

  I tried mastodon, some of it is sweet, but eventually you voice a different opinion to someone with lots of followers, and get attacked by the tribe.

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• AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Honestly the format is good for stuff like quick business headlines and rumors that you could use as an input to your trading (basically free “squawk”, given that professional squawk services cost a lot). It’s also good to quickly spread the word during protests or similar.

  But I agree that all of that is still offset with a huge amount of smugness and “ratio” competitions.

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  • PeachMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah that’s a fair summary. It’s brands doing announcements and ads, and people being assholes. Why would I be interested in either?

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• akaxaka@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  All depends on who you follow. If you follow people who make stuff (art, software, etc) then you’ll find your feed a lot more upbeat.

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  • tias@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Still, on another platform (such as Lemmy) they could make more meaningful posts.

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• scorpious@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think the whole point is that it gives media companies something to pretend is “news,” and everyone else something to be pretend-outraged over. Full stop.

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• Flamingflowerz@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I'm with you. Lots of randoms giving their opinions on something that other randoms can show their support for? Huh... alright, I guess.

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