Honestly if he had just bought reddit it would be going great for him atm. He’s such a reddit guy how did he get goaded into buying twitter, the place most hostile to reddit guys?
Ironically I think the left (communism not liberalism) does better on reddit than on Twitter. Twitter's short format is very poor for leftist education but great for liberal soundbites, snappy retorts and a lot of generally useless things.
Problem is that reddit ownership is hostile to us where twitter was generally not until Musk bought it.
Ironically I think the left (communism not liberalism) does better on reddit than on Twitter.
As a format, I'd agree. One reason why I think Hexbear is fun while any kind of Leftist Mastadon channel disappoints.
But as an organization, I think Reddit's done a much better job of squashing anything resembling leftist community building. While Twitter remains far more freewheeling and wild, Reddit's turned itself into a series of Walled Gardens and taken the pruning sheers to the good shit. Musk's biggest problem has been playing wack-a-mole with the thousands of different organizations and activists running amok across the platform. Musk will be wrestling the Twitter Tiger until he sells it or shuts it down. The Walled Garden approach to organizing content makes the process of gutting things you don't like far easier, which is why it only really works with good Leftist admins.
Which brings me back to why my diet of social media is almost exclusively Hexbear (and various leftist Discord channels) atm.
Honestly if he had just bought reddit it would be going great for him atm. He’s such a reddit guy how did he get goaded into buying twitter, the place most hostile to reddit guys?
He bought Twitter to "fix" it until it works just like Reddit.
Why would he buy Reddit, when there's nothing to fix?
If you wanted to turn twitter into an alt right fashpit then what would work better than making it more like reddit?
It's genius actually.
Ironically I think the left (communism not liberalism) does better on reddit than on Twitter. Twitter's short format is very poor for leftist education but great for liberal soundbites, snappy retorts and a lot of generally useless things.
Problem is that reddit ownership is hostile to us where twitter was generally not until Musk bought it.
As a format, I'd agree. One reason why I think Hexbear is fun while any kind of Leftist Mastadon channel disappoints.
But as an organization, I think Reddit's done a much better job of squashing anything resembling leftist community building. While Twitter remains far more freewheeling and wild, Reddit's turned itself into a series of Walled Gardens and taken the pruning sheers to the good shit. Musk's biggest problem has been playing wack-a-mole with the thousands of different organizations and activists running amok across the platform. Musk will be wrestling the Twitter Tiger until he sells it or shuts it down. The Walled Garden approach to organizing content makes the process of gutting things you don't like far easier, which is why it only really works with good Leftist admins.
Which brings me back to why my diet of social media is almost exclusively Hexbear (and various leftist Discord channels) atm.
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