[ SECRET POST #5795 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5795 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Twitter imploding is not going to be good for people who like social networks where you can use words and operate in ways that aren't reliant on an algorithm. All new social networks going forward will (like tiktok) focus almost exclusively on video and put a thick layer of algorithmic control between the user and the content.

And tbh even if that wasn't the case there were still communities on Twitter that just aren't going to be recoverable. And that sucks.

[(Anonymous)]

Twitter is extremely driven by their algorithm.

[(Anonymous)]

You can literally just press a button and turn off the algorithm

You'll still be served algorithmic content through trending topics I guess, but it's far less significant compared to Tiktok where it's the whole ballgame

[(Anonymous)]

It's a pretty big reach to argue that anywhere people go next will be worse than Twitter.

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, even if you have a very low opinion of Twitter, this seems highly optimistic

[(Anonymous)]

Clearly this person wasn't around for the past couple of decades in which something was always replaced by a worse something on the Internet

[(Anonymous)]

Anon the anon above you RT

Your assumptions - that my disagreement MUST be based on ignorance - are rude and incorrect.

The past twenty years have seen the rise of Dreawidth, Diaspora, Mastodon, a complete turnaround in the general perception of who should use encryption (thank you, Snowden), the flourishing of community-made marketing and malware blockers like Ublock Origin and SponsorBlock for YouTube, and front-ends for obnoxious sites, like Nitter, Libreddit, Invidious, etc. (Or the Firefox browser plugin Privacy Redirect.) I use qTox, email encryption, Sci-Hub, and a lot of other useful things that replaced something that was bad. These projects can be harder to find because they were just programmed by people (they are not the core software of some startup that hopes to balloon in userbase and then sell itself) and they are not sneakily monetizing you. But they exist and many of them are direct responses to companies trying to steal the internet out from under us.

It's disingenuous to portray every development on the internet as "a for-profit platform died and things got worse."

[(Anonymous)]

Let's say for the sake of argument that Mastodon is objectively superior to Twitter - if 0.1% of the Twitter userbase migrates to Mastodon, and 60% of the Twitter userbase ends up migrating to a new service that uses algorithms to steal your soul and trade it to demons from hell, then that's still a net loss for the Internet as a whole.

[(Anonymous)]

The past twenty years have seen the rise of data-stealing, proxies, cyberharrassment, doxxing, stuff you have to purchase so you can get half of your privacy and security back (good luck with that if you can't afford those things or aren't programming-savvy enough lol) and low quality content* fixed for you

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed. Twitter was full of problems even before Elno took over. But it was still my preferred social media platform, and it was the home of several different communities I’m a part of. I’ll miss it.