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roguetrick ,

Science focused instances of Mastodon were always superior anyway. Generally if you're in a profession and looking to have professional focused discussion you want moderation that includes members of your profession. That's why Reddit medicine and nursing communities were good.

1bluepixel ,
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Worth remembering that Twitter’s problems didn’t start with Musk’s acquisition. He just redirected the city sewers into what was already a cesspool. Then took a piss in it for good measure.

fresh ,

I don’t know about that. Twitter seemed like a pretty stable platform before the acquisition, not a platform on the decline. Lots of problems, but now it’s a whole different level.

c0c0c0 ,

It was “Stable”, but money losing. Now it’s unstable but money losing.

fresh ,

I think that really understates the financial difference. Before Musk, Twitter was at just about break even for years and even had a few profitable years. Now, X is near bankruptcy. It’s saddled with a billion dollar loan while revenue is simultaneously way down as advertisers flee. When I say that Twitter was stable, I also meant financially stable. They had runway to raise more funding or take out loans, and the user base and advertising was growing. X doesn’t have any of those benefits.

Wrench ,

I always cringe at this argument for tech companies. “Ohh, but they aren’t/weren’t profitable!”

That is by design. Any money that comes in, they double, triple invest in growth with some nebulous end goal that gets continuously kicked down the road to keep growing revenue year after year.

It’s their business model to not be profitable.

They don’t need to grow at break neck speeds. They can reduce spending and grow slowly at sustainable speeds if they choose. But they want to corner the domestic market, then then international market, then expand into adjacent markets, etc etc until they implode.

Same argument was made for ride share corporations during the gig worker reform initiatives. “Woe is Uber, they don’t make money! They can’t afford to give drivers benefits, or a minimum wage if rides are slow!”

No, they could have, if they didn’t decide to throw mountains of cash on driverless R&D, international expansion, lobbying to kill taxi laws, subsidized ride rates in new markets, etc.

Same as Twitter paying celebrities to use their platform, news stations to adopt and push their platform, etc etc.

1bluepixel ,
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I wasn’t talking about Twitter’s profitability or lack thereof. I meant it was a breeding ground for trolls, brigading, bullying, and disinformation long before Musk took over. Musk made it worse, but it’s funny how some people remember pre-Musk Twitter as this bastion of integrity and civil discourse.

tillimarleen ,

I think the comment was in response to the problems that existed before. While this was about the economic problems, it‘s worth considering that both may be connected.

TwilightVulpine ,

I don’t think I have been in a single social media platform that couldn’t be described in such a way. Having come from reddit, that place was described exactly like that. Facebook is also infamous for disinformation. Social media has a lot of widespread problems, but people are way too quick to dismiss their merits.

But yes, Elon Musk made it worse. Now any asshole with $8 can stir up shit at the top of every discussion, getting in the way of the people trying to contribute or have fun. It’s noticeably, significantly worse now.

aquarisces ,

Jack Nicholson furiously smiling and nodding GIF

Jaysyn ,
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If you're still on Twitter, you're part of the problem.

merde ,

If you’re still on Xitter, you’re part of the problem.

why is this downVoted?

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    MaggiWuerze ,

    I wouldn’t even go so far to call Twitter a mistake. But acknowledging that it turned into something you no longer want to support should be even easier.

    magnetosphere ,
    @magnetosphere@kbin.social avatar

    Musk’s bootlickers, I suppose.

    chicken ,

    People don’t like being criticized or asked to change

    TwilightVulpine ,

    Because it’s shallow moralism. Not everyone, not even most people who are still there are just staying because they love Elon Musk. Most likely they are there to follow the same people and publications who they were following since before this whole situation, which may not picked a new place to go to just yet.

    This might be simple for people who just use it casually or established media and huge celebrities who are guaranteed to find a following wherever they go, but a lot of smaller artists are likely to lose most of their following if they change platforms, because not everyone will be going to the same platforms, or even check if they still have everyone they used to follow in a new place.

    deranger ,

    “His management has left scientists reconsidering the value of X” is a funny line

    WrittenWeird ,

    So long as they’re still sure about Y, we may still hold on to half of our values.

    Aceticon ,

    It’s about time they started giving more attention to the ones often treated as second class like M and N or even those which were once natural choices, such as A and B.

    WrittenWeird ,

    Shout out to my phase bros U, V and W.

    Zerfallen ,

    I know there’s an overlap, but if only this article were specifically about mathematicians.

    cheese_greater ,

    Elon Zzz’s me now

    magnetosphere ,
    @magnetosphere@kbin.social avatar

    I didn’t even catch that. It’s great! Thanks for pointing it out!

    pruwybn ,
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    The quality has just been too variable lately.

    Blaze ,
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    Great news!

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