[stolenmerch]

> "an off-putting nerd named Elon Musk won’t stop talking about an “everything app” called X that will help him manifest his extremist views"

> Twitter’s slide into irrelevance and extremism as it decays into X has hastened the explosive growth of a whole host of newer social networks. There’s the nerdy vibes of the noncommercial Mastodon communities (each one with its own set of Dungeons and Dragons rules to play by), the raucous hedonism of Bluesky (like your old Tumblr timeline at its most scandalous), and the at-least-it’s-not-LinkedIn noisiness of Threads, brought to you by Instagram, meaning Facebook, meaning Meta.

A completely unserious take. It's fine if you hate Musk, you can hate anyone you want, but to slop praise on tiny little social media sites like Bluesky while demonizing new Twitter/X shows me you are completely prepared to lie and distort reality to fit your political agenda.

[davesque]

Isn't it reasonable to question the future of a platform run by a man who recently hosted a conversation between Andrew Tate and Alex Jones and also one whose advertisers are jumping ship by the day (while he tells them to go f*ck themselves)?

[lazyeye]

Its called "free speech", that is what he is promoting. The opposite of this is the extreme position (or at least used to be).

[davesque]

I've got opinions on the free speech question, but notice how I wasn't making a statement about free speech. I was saying that Musk has made some exceptionally bad business decisions lately and that they're impacting his bottom line. Advertisers are fleeing Twitter because of Musk's erratic behavior.

[anildash]

He’s banned everyone from sex workers to activists to journalists from the platform. If you like conspiracy theorists who profit off of the mass murder of kindergartners, you’re the extremist, as is Musk. This isn’t actually complicated. Those with an agenda of amplifying vice signaling are always the biggest whiners about this stuff.

[lazyeye]

I dont think you understand what free speech is.

[hasty_pudding]

The state of modern journalism.

[xhkkffbf]

I have to agree. If anything, it's the anti-Musk people who are sliding in extremism and foolishness. Twitter seems to be doing just fine. I miss some of the people who've left out of some political agenda, but the rest is fine. There's a great mix of people and it's much less curated than it used to be. (It's not completely unmoderated-- and that's why I'm happy that other options like Mastadon are doing fine.)

[mydogcanpurr]

> If anything, it's the anti-Musk people who are sliding in extremism and foolishness.

I’m not convinced the anti-Musk people are as monolithic as this comment would imply.

[dpig_]

My experience is very different to yours. The feed is full of AI fact-of-the-day accounts, whose post replies are kilometers of smaller AI accounts attempting to add more low-effort content to the original (or just plain non-sequiturs).

You have to wade through so much shit to see human tweets in replies to most popular tweets now. It's a demonstrable deterioration in quality.