Comment on On the future of Lemmy vs reddit

Sygheil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• bappity@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  twitter has transformed my view of people with verification checks to “most likely to be an idiot”

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  • rhaegar_shaka@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It could also be that they are forced to be an idiot, like for content creators (MKBHD, Tekking101)

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    • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Paid speech.

      Those people should be double and triple posting to different platforms.

      There’s no reason MKBHD can’t post to both Twitter and Mastodon. You get the reach, and you enable an alternative.

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  • Tygr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes, it went from “person of influence” to “dumbass pays for attention” rather quickly.

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  • K1nsey6@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s why musk now allows people to hide their check

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• 1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Lol I didn’t know, I haven’t been there in months now. That’s awful… But good for us. :)

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