The X exodus - could Bluesky spike spark end of Elon Musk's social media platform?
The X exodus - could Bluesky spike spark end of Elon Musk's social media platform?
Even Google appears to trust X less, with one expert telling Sky News the search engine treats X competitor Bluesky as 10 times more important than Elon Musk's platform.
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We can only hope it does
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C'mon. "Xodus" was right there.
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Elon about to be charge of the United States budget and where our money is spent. He has tons of government contracts and more I am sure he wants. Twitter (X) did just what he paid for it to do. His 44 billion dollar investment paid off. He don't give.a fuck if it fails.
Hell Trump/Elon about to announce it as the official commination app for the white house. Advertisers are already headed back to X. No it isn't the end but the beginning.
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No, lol. Twitter will drift further to the right (thus appealing to an evergrowing demographic) but it wont end because of bluesky.
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Truth Social is the real victim of x going further right. Won't these people think of the upcoming presidents future??
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I can't agree more.
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At the same time, most people in my country that engage in politics still use Twitter. Even though they're often left-leaning. It's so annoying.
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Local non-english discourses are neglected by the Big Brother. Sometimes it's good and sometimes it's Myanmar: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/myanmar-facebook-hate/
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No. He doesn't need people to keep the platform running. He doesn't need advertisers. He needs his Russian bots. He needs news organizations to pay attention to the crap going on there. That's it.
He's richer than god and owning the platform is paying dividends.
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He doesn't need people to keep it running, but the platform is useless without audience to influence.
All the people who think that celebrities should move out and that they themselves don't matter if they are on Twitter or not. Musk does not use Twitter to influence celebrities he uses Twitter to influence YOU and people like you.
Myspace still exists right now, but it is now irrelevant, we should make sure the same is true for Twitter.
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While you're correct, you're missing an angle. No news companies report on everything on Myspace. Fox News has the highest viewership. If they report on both everything that happens to Twitter and everything that's happening on the platform then shitloads of folks are going to hear about it even when we don't have accounts.
I know about all kinds of shit on that platform and I no longer have an account.
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Here's hoping! Bluesky is nice. The people are nice. And the subscribe-to-blocklist shit is amazing. Never have to see some maga fuckwit spouting poorly spelled hatred again.
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To be enough of an unquestioning sheep to allow someone else to decide what you see and don’t see is a very smug centrist lib thing to do.
Dems (and I’m NOT one because I consider myself an actual leftist who supports free speech) tend to think that censorship is good. IMO, all it does is create more polarization and torpedoes any inroads we might’ve had toward coming to an understanding. But instead, they put on blinders and hide in their safe spaces, safe from hearing perspectives to the right OR left of theirs. It’s embarrassing and a HUGE reason why we have these insipid culture wars.
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Naw, dude. I want my social media to be a pleasant experience, like a chat around a water cooler. Not a road- rage yell-fest filled with bad takes, worse spelling/grammar, and where fucking Elon Musk gets to decide what I see. Just no.
It's not my responsibility to educate mouth breathing morons. Especially when they're not interested in anything beyond their own hatred.
Also, lol at your strawman. I'm not even remotely centrist. My political compass is waaay down in the bottom left. But thanks for making assumptions like that - kinda underlines my point on why Bluesky is a pleasant experience.
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Could you tell more about the subscription to blocklist please ? I still haven’t figured out how/what
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Basically, you subscribe to the list (e.g. https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:e4elbtctnfqocyfcml6h2lf7/lists/3l53cjwlt4o2s ) and then, as people get added to the list, they're automatically blocked for your.
People can be added by the maintainer, or automatically based on profile content/keywords.
There are a bunch of lists for different things. Like, if you don't want to see crypto bros, or AI artists selling shit, or whatever.
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