They Criticized Musk on X. Then Their Reach Collapsed.
They Criticized Musk on X. Then Their Reach Collapsed.
Three users who disagreed with the site’s owner saw views for their posts plummet.
It's beyond me that after all this people are still using Twitter
Same with Facebook, instagram, WhatsApp, etc. but the response usually boils down to “I like to communicate with people on [platform] and since they won’t leave I can’t leave”
But Twitter now has a legit alternative that many have gone to. Unfortunate that's not mastodon, but still.
I've tried to get away from WhatsApp. I've got the majority of my friends off it (at least when they communicated with me). But some people just will not leave due to familiarity/fear of change. I'm still working on them, but I'm pretty sure it's a lost cause.
You can only go so far. And cutting people off because they won't move away from something like WhatsApp isn't always feasible.
But I agree with you: I don't understand why people still use those platforms. I think it's because they don't keep up on things, or just don't care.
"free speech absolutist"
He only means his own.
free speech
absolutistabolitionist
X is a propaganda machine for people that need to believe their bigotry and racism come from a place of "virtue."
I used Twitter for all of a day, but you have to be real with it
It's an ocean with a whole lot of toxic spills. The whole thing is polluted, but some of it is nearly clean while others are basically tar.
There's too many people doing too many things on that platform to condemn them all... We need to get most of them somewhere safer, but that's where they are right now
I mean, anybody using Twitter is ok with Elon Musk. You can give the excuse that people on social security have to use twitter, but otherwise there's really nothing necessary and there's no telling what is a bot or a bastard. Facebook and reddit were heading the same way before I dumped them for lemmy.
Well said.
It is not clear what precisely happened to the three accounts that feuded with Mr. Musk in late December.
The number of views and user accounts are fraudulent. Botnets push right wing nonsense, until you piss of the Nazi Fuckwit. Then the bots stop promoting you and you fall into obscurity. They were never really popular, just the illusion of it like a concert in a stadium with cardboard cutouts of fans. "Sold out"
It's not even the bots; it's that the feed ranking on 𝕏itter is tuned based on Musk's whim, and he's most likely modifying it so that people dot get seen if they're not going along with his Nazism or cult.
Probably both.
I suggest everybody to read up on the Twitter files.
https://www.ungaway.com/p/twitter-files-1-11-downloads-pdf
Part 2 (Release 2) is where they talk about the labels, such as "Do Not Amplify".
Musk was talking all big about how this bullshit sucks and he wants to get rid of it. But he's just doing the same thing, on an even worse scale.
Oh, shadowbanning, or something like "Do Not Amplify", is against the DSA in the EU and thus illegal.
He's on the record as saying freedom of speech, not freedom of reach in regards to X.
It just means he won't ban you (but he'll do that too!) but he has absolutely no problem making it so it's almost impossible to see your content.
Again. Why the fuck do people who claim to hate Elon still use Twitter/X?
That is the kind of "free speech" fElon wanted.
Get off that site.
Those peaches are mighty frosty