Comment on The year Twitter died: a special series from The Verge
spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 1 year agoPlenty 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.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Yes. If a different service had the same market share and the same base concept it would fulfill the same role.
But twitter is what fulfilled that role in this timeline. And, as many of us have been lamenting since the chudstain bought it, that is a very major loss.
spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
The world is not and was not a better place with Twitter in it. Grow up.
People are generally stupid and easily influenced. Not sure if you’ve noticed but (“western”) society has pretty much taken a nose dive over the last couple of decades. Social media such as Twitter and Facebook are a big reason for that.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Personally, I think giving a voice to the voiceless is important and twitter’s role in many of the protests listed in the wikipedia links I assume you ignored have been incredibly important. Especially as it gives a venue to convey information that news outlets might shy away from for a range of reasons.
If supporting civil disobedience and a way for people to rapidly communicate and coordinate searches in times of emergencies is childish then I hope to never “grow up”/