eh, cohost & counter social & mastadon are pretty usable for propaganda too, in different ways, and bailing him out isn't gonna make people wanna keep using the website. that said we might see more legislation to try and kill off smaller sites
My analysis of fediverse is that it actually makes it MUCH harder for fringe opinions to penetrate spaces and MUCH easier for fringe information to be marginalised because of the way every single ideological bubble will just defederate with anything that isn't conforming to their ideological circlejerk. Not to defend centralised corporate media here but it's a massive concern I have about all of it.
Imagine reddit but every subreddit defederates with every other subreddit that they don't like and blocks participation from everyone and anyone from that space.
:yea: yeah... although, that said, the lack of economically centralised power is a plus, randoms running their silly little instances are gonna be less attatched to global capital than the Saudi sovereign wealth fund and/or Elon Musk. and also imo all big websites are basically fucked long term no matter how you cut it - moderation alienated from the places that they moderate will inevitably end up at odds with those places. might just be nostalgic cope on my part though, I miss there being more than 3 websites... (part of why I'm on here lol)
The day he took over I think he started to do about a week's worth of damage in a day. I think he's reached about a few months worth of damage in a day. It's an arbitrary and it's 58 days from now but I wonder how much damage will he have amassed by New Year's Day.
I'm starting to actually wonder if next year - he'll get a federal bailout due to "attacks from the left" and the amount will be at least $10 billion.
If he was actually half as smart as his marketing department claims he is, he'd keep Twitter together enough to get as many fascists elected as possible in a few days.
GOP is likely to win a lot of races, but not quite as many as they would have if their "strong man" leaders were actually smart.
All Musk needed to do was go more slowly and use terms like "reorganize" and "restructure". With little to no analysis the media - idiots that they are - would simply repeat his corporate PR verbatim. And some of the reporters would be showering him with praise for his "bold", "aggressive", and "smart" moves.
And he could gut moderation etc quietly. Meanwhile on Twitter he could still have his fun having convos like this...
"Mr. Musk, sir - is it true that the head of all content control and moderation is a guy nicknamed 'Himmler'?"
when you're a fucked up sociopath, winning twitter arguments is better than not losing a $44B investment
Of course he's not even winning twitter arguments but I think that's more a factor of our titans of industry in this advanced stage of capitalism all being useless fuckwits
Goddamn what is the rush here. Didn't expect things to collapse this fast
Major social media networks are useful tools for propaganda and the empire probably won't let twitter fail
:melon-musk: is going to get a nice big yank government bailout into his pockets
eh, cohost & counter social & mastadon are pretty usable for propaganda too, in different ways, and bailing him out isn't gonna make people wanna keep using the website. that said we might see more legislation to try and kill off smaller sites
My analysis of fediverse is that it actually makes it MUCH harder for fringe opinions to penetrate spaces and MUCH easier for fringe information to be marginalised because of the way every single ideological bubble will just defederate with anything that isn't conforming to their ideological circlejerk. Not to defend centralised corporate media here but it's a massive concern I have about all of it.
Imagine reddit but every subreddit defederates with every other subreddit that they don't like and blocks participation from everyone and anyone from that space.
:yea: yeah... although, that said, the lack of economically centralised power is a plus, randoms running their silly little instances are gonna be less attatched to global capital than the Saudi sovereign wealth fund and/or Elon Musk. and also imo all big websites are basically fucked long term no matter how you cut it - moderation alienated from the places that they moderate will inevitably end up at odds with those places. might just be nostalgic cope on my part though, I miss there being more than 3 websites... (part of why I'm on here lol)
I have never even heard of any of those, and I'm online as fuck. Twitter is basically a house-hold name (as cringe as that sounds)
The day he took over I think he started to do about a week's worth of damage in a day. I think he's reached about a few months worth of damage in a day. It's an arbitrary and it's 58 days from now but I wonder how much damage will he have amassed by New Year's Day.
I'm starting to actually wonder if next year - he'll get a federal bailout due to "attacks from the left" and the amount will be at least $10 billion.
If he was actually half as smart as his marketing department claims he is, he'd keep Twitter together enough to get as many fascists elected as possible in a few days.
GOP is likely to win a lot of races, but not quite as many as they would have if their "strong man" leaders were actually smart.
All Musk needed to do was go more slowly and use terms like "reorganize" and "restructure". With little to no analysis the media - idiots that they are - would simply repeat his corporate PR verbatim. And some of the reporters would be showering him with praise for his "bold", "aggressive", and "smart" moves.
And he could gut moderation etc quietly. Meanwhile on Twitter he could still have his fun having convos like this...
"Mr. Musk, sir - is it true that the head of all content control and moderation is a guy nicknamed 'Himmler'?"
"Can't confirm nor deny. :)"
when you're a fucked up sociopath, winning twitter arguments is better than not losing a $44B investment
Of course he's not even winning twitter arguments but I think that's more a factor of our titans of industry in this advanced stage of capitalism all being useless fuckwits
Imagine if this somehow kickstarts the revolution. It would be so funny but also really piss me off.
Let me get a mouthful of popcorn in first, at least!