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I just can't believe anyone still uses Twitter for any purpose.
At this point remaining active on the platform is more or less unethical.
A lot of sites have weight. Twitter sheds users every day but the large user count makes it attractive to public figures and if you want to follow that public figure you need to have twitter.
My point is, it's becoming unethical for public figures and their followers to remain on the platform.
That's why the more prominent the public figure is, the bigger ethical obligation they have to switch to Mastodon and force their followers to follow.
Cue a flood of Swifties when Taylor finds out about Mastodon.
Yeah but to me it's insane that public people that have publicists or companies that have communications staff simply don't cross post to multiple sites.
Sure for a regular person that's a lot of work to do when just posting a random thought. But for someone who's job involves posting things to social media? Most of the work is coming up with the copy. Once that's done it's just copying and pasting to different sites.
Even before that, it just funnels value from users to a monopoly that does not innovate or improve user experience. It’s like the freemium model without much benefit in exchange for your data.
I use twitter to complain about products at brands, it's more effective than you think.
if Kampala staying on Twitter meant winning the election then sure.
It's my strongly held opinion that it won't significantly effect the outcome. A savvy media team could play it to her advantage.
Honestly how many swing voters are going to follow Kamala.
I use it to keep up with Street Fighter pros.
And watch a little of the dumpster fire burn. I report all of Musks posts that break policy and kinda surprised my account isn't suspended yet.
Sure I guess.
I have the luxury of not having to decide.
I'm not going to judge someone who feels they absolutely need to participate on twitter in order to avoid poverty.
I certainly wouldn't like to do that myself.
Twitter just has too much momentum. It's unshakable from its cultural position as it is now. It will take more than the alt-right openly congregating in their own circles to scare ordinary people away.
I disagree.
If anything the momentum is moving against it. The only question is how long it will take for alternatives to become viable and / or for twitter to lose its network effect.
Presently its only the inertia of users maintaining the network effect.
When the owner starts publishing misinformation I'm order to manipulate an election, that's something more than merely a consideration of features, users, and UX. Users really ought to emphatically withdraw their support, even in cases where it may be inconvenient.