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0 pointsrglullis2y ago0 comments

Put aside the personality of Musk:

- jacking up the price of the API

- Removing chronological timeline completely, to the point that one can not simply get a list of one's tweets by going to their profile

- his vision of the "everything app".

- the "pay to play" aspect of the blue check.

Are more than enough reason for me to want Twitter to fail.

I do not want a social media that favors those who are paying, and I do not want a company that started a simple communications platform to become even more of an ubiquitous device for Surveillance Capitalism.

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jongjong2y ago· 2 in thread

My experience is that before Musk, I felt like I was shadow-banned. No engagement. Also, as a consumer, the content was basically the same junk as all other media platforms. Now I feel like I'm getting all the latest news and things are actually happening. Small interactions between regular people are taking place again. It's not just some centralized mainstream broadcast platform as it used to be. It's way better.

rglullisOP2y ago

You got a big corporation on the same team as you. Doesn't make them the good guys or "better" in any way. The fundamental principles are all broken.

jongjong2y ago

Those who are against censorship and are against currency debasement are the good guys objectively.

Looking back over the past few years, it should be clear that the purpose of censorship was to suppress alternative (often correct) information about COVID policies.

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