I find this type of algorithmic manipulation both fascinating and frightening.
Hoping Musk gets reports and presentations on how they manipulated things in the background. And Musk publishes it.
That should keep conservatives busy with discussion for quite some time.
Also, for all the talk about voting fraud, the biggest fraud is creating the left-wing echo-chambers. That verifiably has an influence on voter patterns. When you remove the guardrails for the progressive echo chambers, you won't see so much group think and folks will not lean as left (people are tribalistic and if they want to fit in).
Yet ppl stayed on Twitter. Morons
Eh... you arent winning any minds over here on poal tbh, this place is what happens when regular people are banned from regular conversation. To actually impact change you go into areas where people disagree with you, only problem is that if you make a good argument you get banned or brigaded or botted. Its a battleground, leaving the fight isnt winning
Did usa change Japanese minds at iwo jima with words?
Words are for peaceful discourse between friends. Not combating enemies that groom children. Lie about elections. Promote foreign wars and spread hate about your race
There’s no clear alternative, but we have a few that could take off if a lot of people gave them a try. The first one that comes to mind is Mastodon.
Even Jack Dorsey says Twitter can never be what we need. We need a standard protocol like email, not a centralized service that can be controlled by any single entity.
Mastodon could fit that. It’s what you call “federated”, like email. You have independent servers that use the standard Mastodon protocol. It’s not super hard to setup your own server and once you do your server’s users can talk to users on any other server that hasn’t explicitly blocked yours.
Whats the alternative to Twitter.? No twitter
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