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FarmVille said:
It’s not. I was hoping Twitter would be dead. That was what I wanted. Now it’s even worse than it was before.
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if Twitter died then the plague that infected it would simply spread to other sites and contaminate them to an even more extensive degree
it's exactly what happened with it and tumblr, it's what always happens with these kinds of communities
wherever they go they will spread their rot with them and overrun any sensible community that might've existed there before to make way for their cultish delusion
it is a good thing that Twitter still lives. it is a containment chamber, holding off the rest of the internet from becoming even more like it, even if the chamber continues to leak just the tiniest bit while it remains
 
FluffyJackal said:
What´s the use of making Tweetah pull the plans down at this point?
The Russians have probably read and downloaded them by now and NATO will probably change them because they´re now useless..
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They're not doing this for tactical reasons, they're doing this because they want to cover their own asses and blame someone else for the incident.
 
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We might be getting more
 
Terrifik said:
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Considering the US Military has had it’s Tank schematics leaked to the War Thunder Discussion Threads more than once, you’d think some of these decision makers would just go “if you’re in any branch of the Armed Forces, you don’t get to have Social Media”.

If nothing else, that’d probably instantly cause the Troons to not want to be anywhere near the Military.
FarmVille said:
As much as posters here want to believe otherwise, he’s failing pretty miserably at pissing off progressive lunatics. They still have their site, they still have their check marks, still have their reach, users can still get banned for mis gendering, still no trump. There was a million times more leftist angst every single day Trump was tweeting.

Far more than being pissed the discourse is more often everyone cringing at the cringiest divorced man to ever get divorced.
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It’s still entertaining to watch though. I’ve said it before, either Elon somehow makes Twitter better, or he drives it into the ground. Either way, we get Content.
 
Anonitolia said:
if Twitter died then the plague that infected it would simply spread to other sites and contaminate them to an even more extensive degree
it's exactly what happened with it and tumblr, it's what always happens with these kinds of communities
wherever they go they will spread their rot with them and overrun any sensible community that might've existed there before to make way for their cultish delusion
it is a good thing that Twitter still lives. it is a containment chamber, holding off the rest of the internet from becoming even more like it, even if the chamber continues to leak just the tiniest bit while it remains
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What sites are there to even spread to anymore? Reddit is about as bad as Twitter and I doubt anyone would know the difference if there was a big exodus there.
 
Lone Star said:
What sites are there to even spread to anymore? Reddit is about as bad as Twitter and I doubt anyone would know the difference if there was a big exodus there.
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there's nothing, really, all the other social media sites are so walled-garden locked down that they don't provide the value of twatter (driveby links) and tiktoc might be the closest but it's overrun by zoomers and chicoms.

the proggies all tried to flee to mastadon and realized that's just a blog with extra steps and mostly came crawling back
 
FarmVille said:
As much as posters here want to believe otherwise, he’s failing pretty miserably at pissing off progressive lunatics. They still have their site, they still have their check marks, still have their reach, users can still get banned for mis gendering, still no trump. There was a million times more leftist angst every single day Trump was tweeting.
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What are you talking about?
  • He is pissing off progressive lunatics left and right. Have you not noticed their endless seething?
  • Many of them have lost their checkmarks (latest is the New York Times), and those that keep them are angrily paying or will have to soon. NPR has stopped tweeting since they got their state-affiliated media label.
  • They are losing their reach. Some on their own: Taylor Lorenz and Liz Fong-Jones have self-silenced by privating. But also Musk has changed the algorithms so far-leftists no longer dominate every feed.
  • There are still ban-happy woke jannies, but it's not nearly as bad as it was, and you can get away with a lot more anti-troonery, including misgendering. The Babylon Bee is unsuspended.
  • Thousands of accounts are back that had been banned often for no reason other than being right-wing and popular. Many more are still wrongly banned but the situation is far better than it was.
  • Trump's account is unbanned. He has simply chosen not to return. He probably will in some capacity (such as a campaign account) once the 2024 election season starts heating up.
 
“Seething” is their default state of being, there is no hypothetical scenario where they would not be seething. They were all seething before Elon, they’d be seething over something else if Elon didn’t own the platform. There’s no denying the seething is absolutely minuscule compared to when trump was posting.

NYT main account is the only one to lose its check mark, and that’s only because Elon had to publicly announce he was removing it because they hurt his feelings. Lame. Every other random journalist writing for whatever leftist blog still has theirs. Including all NYT topic accounts.

Elon has now backtracked over labeling NPR “state media” calling it a “mistake.” The major accounts on Twitter have all the power. If they really are losing reach this probably has more to do with the constant technical errors and loading problems that plague the site.
 
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"Debate users Matt Taibbi and Mehdi Hassan on the relevance of the Twitter files, how much importance should be given to them, how many factual errors are in them (and the MSNBC reporting), and how far on the spectrum both users are"
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Archive as per the janitorial rules
 
Lone Star said:
What sites are there to even spread to anymore? Reddit is about as bad as Twitter and I doubt anyone would know the difference if there was a big exodus there.
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actually that's a good point
I guess Facebook and Reddit but those two can only get so much worse
damn it, I need to pull my brain out from a time when there were more than 5 sites on the internet, it's tripping me up lol
I still don't think killing Twitter would be good for the rest of the internet, but idk...
 
There's a pretty significant drama developing. It's not just Taibbi. Some other Substack writers have sided with the site against Twitter. Twitter searches for Substack instead redirect to searches of "newsletter" (tried it myself). Eugyppius is probably known to kiwis, as he has a large blog critical of pandemic measures and vaccines with more info and less sperging than usual anti-vaxxers.
Some examples (I could archive, but unsure it's worth it for rants):
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The journos and libs on Twitter have sensed weakness and that Elon's petty, desperate "muh money" behavior is creating rifts with other enlightened centrists, and are milking it to hell and back, and the right is largely confused and has no idea which internet daddy is best. Elon will win simply by size of wealth and because the right tolerates greed and corporate shenanigans far easier than the left.
On the other hand, it has to be noticed that Taibbi is petty too.
This is a rich journalist. He said that the only reason he uses Twitter is to promote his Substack. That's just sperging out and poking Elon's pride for no reason. If Twitter's use is just so you can sell subs, then fuck off the site.
Tired of all these greedy fucks. Why can't they use it normally just to shitpost and talk to others? Why it always has to be Sell Sell Sell.
Slow down gringo, you're multi-millionaires, relax, you dumb whores.
 
Lord of the Large Pants said:
Twitter told him to pick a side. Taibbi picked Substack.
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So they drove off one of the few remaining actual journalists in existence. Good move Musktard.
AgendaPoster said:
On the other hand, it has to be noticed that Taibbi is petty too.
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Maybe but he seriously doesn't actually need Twitter. But they need credibility, and they're pissing it away with nonsense like this.
 
FarmVille said:
Elon will not win because too many high profile Twitter users make all or a portion of their living off of substack.

Twitter needs these users’ free content to survive. It’s never been the place where randos go to read other randos.
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twitter makes most of its money by pushing ads on the millions of brainless normies who go there to follow their kardashians, beyonces, sportsball players and hollywood actors
the journos, the wannabe journo grifters and their fanboys are not where they money is at
 
DumbDude43 said:
twitter makes most of its money by pushing ads on the millions of brainless normies who go there to follow their kardashians, beyonces, sportsball players and hollywood actors
the journos, the wannabe journo grifters and their fanboys are not where they money is at
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The money and influence on Twitter is absolutely with journo grifters.

Why else do you think Elon folds so quickly every time they’re displeased? He knows who holds the power.

Substack links are already back. If all twitter needed was an avenue for the karadashians to repost their TikTok’s this wouldn’t have happened.
 
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