Comment on The year Twitter died: a special series from The Verge

AnneBonny@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨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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  • RTRedreovic@feddit.ch ⁨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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    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨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.

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  • Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yep was a great way to reach politicians and people could hsve direct effect on companies. Because when people took their complaints to Twitter it got shit fixed quick.

    Elon saw all this people joke but his goal from day one was to destroy the platform and render it useless for us small folk.

    Because at one time it was a powerful tool we could of used to organize and get shit done.

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  • spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You say this as if the entire world used Twitter.

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    • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Day to day? no

      When shit hits the fan? The Arab Spring is probably the quintessential example. But en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#Usage_2 and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_usage are good reads to be aware. Rather than just, ironically, do a drive by hot take.

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      • spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

        I think you are stuck in your own bias.

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