It's a bad sign for things to come. As platforms become more and more openly fascistic, it's only a matter of time before they start actively promoting Nazi accounts rather than just passively protecting them. People are too addicted and reliant on social media to switch to other platforms, and even if they did there would probably be a massive amount of suppression put on those other platforms. We're going to have to deal with the consequences of all major media openly pushing for our governments to implement outright fascism. How are we supposed to deal with that when most of us primarily operate on these platforms?? We can't survive on the good grace of those who actively want us dead forever, and the very same fascists are monopolizing alternative forms of media.
Trump barely won and only because of a technicality with only marginal media support. Could you imagine how utterly fucked we would be if every one of these platforms just all at once decided to gaslight the public and put their support behind an actually dangerous fascist? People already forget that less than 100 years ago the concept of fascism was popular in the States, and it's getting dangerously close to making a comeback.
I don't mean to be a doomer but holy shit when you consider all the stuff that's going down, things are looking bad.
I dunno, on the other hand it’s an opportunity for comrades to plug off from big websites (distant possibility, I know). But the right “managed” to do it, or at least passably try
I've already migrated to Mastadon after my twitter ban, but I hate how you can't search 2 tags at once, and cross-community compatibility is trash.
I mean big guys tbh, and their followers. Unfortunately, twitch infrastructure is too capital intensive too replicate, at least storage part.