The over-politicization here is annoying tbh. I still use Reddit for two things. To check on a reality tv show’s subreddit and to check Cricket discussions. I hope they move somewhere else, but neither are let or right wing. It feels like you’re seeing something you don’t like and attribute qualities you don’t like on to it.
How is this comment any different from a right wing person saying:
He never wanted good communities, he wanted communities he could market to. Having the idiot left wing that buys Chinese hats that has Mao pictures is absolutely the audience he wants.
It’s the same with Twitter. Apparently it has gone really right wing since Elon took over. But I’ve not noticed as I mostly follow football, tech, and music stuff.
Elon himself has gone really right wing, and coming out in public with some of the same hate and nastiness that Twitter showcases. There was a stink a while back because companies were seeing their ads posted next to full-on neoNazi content, which is absolutely the last thing a large company wants when they pay for advertising on a social media platform. I’m glad it’s not affecting you personally, but it’s part of why people are trying to move to p. much any other platform.
Wow that’s pretty nuts. I knew about him but not the advertising issues.
I do have a Mastodon account and tried to switch but the vast majority of Twitter accounts I follow aren’t currently on there.
Hopefully the other federated platforms take off - I used FidoNet and BBSs in the 90s, and the decentralised Fediverse very much reminds me of those days.
I hear you on Twitter, I think the only reason they’re not going down even faster is that there are people there who are staying for other people. Facebook has that advantage as well. I don’t think Reddit has that kind of specific-person pull, but it’s too early to tell.
The Twitter advertising thing comes up in the news coverage because it’s subject to quantitative analysis, and because advertising is Twitter’s main source of $$$. People can point to dropping ad numbers and say “this is how much worse Twitter is than before Elon bought it.” And I find it extra funny that Huffman is using it as an example of how he can make Reddit profitable by trashing it, because Twitter is most definitely not profitable, and no one but Elon thinks it’s going to become profitable any time soon.
The over-politicization here is annoying tbh. I still use Reddit for two things. To check on a reality tv show’s subreddit and to check Cricket discussions. I hope they move somewhere else, but neither are let or right wing. It feels like you’re seeing something you don’t like and attribute qualities you don’t like on to it.
How is this comment any different from a right wing person saying:
Because the right absolutely does buy maga hats and scam commemorative coins. The left does not buy Mao anything. Because we’re not a cult.
I get it. I’ve seen both left and right do that tbh. But what does it have to do with Reddit?
Right buys MAGA hat and is a cult so reddit is going right wing?!
It’s the same with Twitter. Apparently it has gone really right wing since Elon took over. But I’ve not noticed as I mostly follow football, tech, and music stuff.
Elon himself has gone really right wing, and coming out in public with some of the same hate and nastiness that Twitter showcases. There was a stink a while back because companies were seeing their ads posted next to full-on neoNazi content, which is absolutely the last thing a large company wants when they pay for advertising on a social media platform. I’m glad it’s not affecting you personally, but it’s part of why people are trying to move to p. much any other platform.
Wow that’s pretty nuts. I knew about him but not the advertising issues.
I do have a Mastodon account and tried to switch but the vast majority of Twitter accounts I follow aren’t currently on there.
Hopefully the other federated platforms take off - I used FidoNet and BBSs in the 90s, and the decentralised Fediverse very much reminds me of those days.
I hear you on Twitter, I think the only reason they’re not going down even faster is that there are people there who are staying for other people. Facebook has that advantage as well. I don’t think Reddit has that kind of specific-person pull, but it’s too early to tell.
The Twitter advertising thing comes up in the news coverage because it’s subject to quantitative analysis, and because advertising is Twitter’s main source of $$$. People can point to dropping ad numbers and say “this is how much worse Twitter is than before Elon bought it.” And I find it extra funny that Huffman is using it as an example of how he can make Reddit profitable by trashing it, because Twitter is most definitely not profitable, and no one but Elon thinks it’s going to become profitable any time soon.