• LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Yes, my content was way up when I joined Twitter, before Musk. I deleted it and took the financial hit, don’t want customers from that user base now anyway

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      3 months ago

      Even just mirroring their stuff to one of the Twitter alternatives would be nice

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        3 months ago

        What!? Why? That’s worse. That amplifies it. The world needs less horrible hate.

        It also does nothing to stop the news outlets from sourcing twitter

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      3 months ago

      At the end of the day incentives are incentives. All the engineers Elon fired when he took over did in fact build a site that’s really good for announcing things like news to the world, and it was really quite complex behind the scenes. And if someone wants to replicate that, it’s a lot of work with the added problem that unlike the original Twitter, they have to compete with Twitter in building a new network. Additionally, social media news just isn’t very profitable which is why Meta/Threads has discouraged news and politics. So unfortunately Twitter is really all there is, social media news now essentially has a strong built-in right wing bias for the foreseeable future.

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      I really hate when news articles embed tweets directly as a source, it’s blocked by Privacy Badger, so I only see an article full of holes. Why can’t they use screenshots?