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by elforce002 589 days ago
To be honest, bluesky will become the left version of "Truth social". That's good for them in the long run (ad money) but it'll be another echo chamber. I follow both left-leaning and right-leaning people on Twitter and I don't see the "balance" going one way or another.

The other thing is reach. Twitter, Fb, Instagram are global brands. It'll be really, and I mean difficult to move the rest of the world to other platforms (TikTok is the exception because they went ahead with video from the get-go).
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bbzealot 589 days ago
How can a platform owned by a far-right man with a clear political agenda be the place for "political balance"?

It's inevitable that left-leaning people will increasingly leave Twitter, as long as it is run by Musk

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elforce002 589 days ago
Musk was left-leaning not so long ago. I follow left-leaning media (WYT, Pod Save America, etc...) and right-leaning media (Ben Shapiro, etc...) equally and see both posts without any issues. If the left-leaning people leave Twitter, the new platform will become an echo chamber the same way Reddit, gab, parler, and Truth Social are.
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bbzealot 589 days ago
> Musk was left-leaning not so long ago

So what? He's been clearly far right leaning since before he purchased Twitter.

He's been one of the main supporters of the Trump campaign and he's vocal about his political ideas. Twitter has no credibility as a neutral platform as long as it's run by him

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elforce002 589 days ago
I beg to differ. It's important because I can equally see both left and right posts. If you consume more left-leaning posts, you'll get more of that content. My feed is Web Dev, Machine Learning, Mobile Dev, etc... you have to be hardcore right to get anything related to that (same goes if you consume left-leaning posts).

In the end, people will choose their echo chamber no matter if they know it's an echo chamber. I try to be as impartial as possible. I use Twitter, Reddit (specific subs), and occasionally, IG. I have a tiktok acct but I rarely use it.

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bbzealot 588 days ago
My feed was mostly leftist but since musk took over I started seeing a lot of musk posts and far-right propaganda.

Twitter is far from being a neutral platform.

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