[ezekg]

I don't understand the obsession with hating on X/Musk right now. He has his opinions, but X is still a great platform, and last I checked, Mastodon and Bluesky still feel like echo chambers (and the latter has a lot of... furry content). In the quiet, it feels like the media moved from hating Trump to hating Musk, and people are now obsessing over amplifying that message. But for what gain? It all kind of reminds me of Two Minutes Hate from 1984.

[harvodex]

I am a conservative but I can't imagine how anyone is not tired of Musk at this point.

Not 1984 but just standard 20th century type dangerous cult of personality with one person having way too much power.

[ezekg]

I'm not a big fan of Musk either outside of Tesla/SpaceX/StarLink.

But if it's not Musk, it's the DNC, if it's not the DNC, it's someone else. I don't see how it detracts from X still being a good platform. You have to curate your TL, yes -- but you've always had to do that!

[gordian-mind]

Perhaps there's a little bit too much reporting on him.

[lbeltrame]

I have no interest in EM. I joined an anime themed Mastodon instance and left two months later as all I could read was EM hatred. I wasn't interested in EM to begin with! FTR the old Twitter was as bad as the new X for those who strayed just a bit from whatever was the trend, in my experience.

[NoboruWataya]

Musk's politics aside, content on X has been getting less and less accessible. APIs have been shut down and it seems you need to be logged in to view most posts now. That means if you're a content creator relying on X as your main distribution channel, you now have less reach than ever before. The platform also seems overrun with bots. I'm not on X so can't speak directly to the moderation policy, but from reading others' accounts it seems inconsistent and, at best, not the bastion of free speech that Musk promised when he bought it.

Some of these problems pre-dated Musk's acquisition of Twitter, and some of them will no doubt eventually plague BlueSky as well. But that is kind of the way of social media, nothing lasts forever and people tend to hop from one sinking ship to another.

As for not understanding why people hate Musk. I am loathe to get into politics on this site, but he is (himself) actively using X as a platform to meddle and stoke tensions in a number of democracies throughout the world. That is part of why a lot of people dislike him, and it also casts further doubt on X's future viability as a global content distribution channel, if countries start blocking it.

[ezekg]

> As for not understanding why people hate Musk. I am loathe to get into politics on this site, but he is (himself) actively using X as a platform to meddle and stoke tensions in a number of democracies throughout the world.

What do you think was happening on Twitter before Musk turned it into X?

[postdoc74]

It's not hate but unwillingness to support a guy promoting extreme right wing Nazi parties in Europe. That's a no go in my agenda. The only reason I don't delete my profile is I don't want anyone to use my name.

[ReptileMan]

It is exactly that.

[g-b-r]

Yeah it's a conspiracy of the media, not even supporting neonazis salvages him from the hate : ' (

[thrance]

Musk turned twitter into a far right echo chamber. Make a new account and navigate to the "for you" page: all you see is Elon Musk, Alex Jones, Andrew Tate and other far right "role models".

The media moved from hating Trump to Musk because the latter appears to hold more political power over the former, he already got his ways on H1B visas and a few other issues.

Musk also appears quite pathetic/sociopathic to non-MAGAs. He has many children he barely sees and often insults online, he was caught lying about a video game recently, and that's not even bringing up the sexual assault allegations.

He also switched from supporting Obama and considering himself a socialist to becoming the largest donor of the GOP in a few years.

Also, please reread Big Brother, because that comparison is very misplaced.