@taylorlorenz When you're drowning, your panic causes you to grab onto whatever floats your way. Of course if it's a person and they're not a lifeguard, you may cause them to drown too. In this case, one can only hope.
@taylorlorenz es interesante el desarrollo de apps muy populares entre los menores de 25 años, quienes sin duda acaparan el tráfico web, aun con ello Twitter es una plataforma robusta para el mundo real, no por nada ahi se realizan campañas políticas y se filtra la brutalidad de las actuales guerras.
@taylorlorenz Professional athletes are prohibited from betting on their own sport, but somehow lawmakers are allowed to own stock in companies and options that they directly influence...makes sense
"Posters generate Discourse; reply guys and commenters continue and refine it; finally, influencers and Brands capitalize on it. It is possible, though rare, for reply guys, commenters, and influencers to generate Discourse, but the point is: someone has to kick it off and usually that someone is the person with the least inhibitions." https://www.theverge.com/24058356/trolls-social-media-commenter-lurker-reply-guy-threads
@taylorlorenzhttps://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/ Surpluses are first directed to users; then, once they're locked in, surpluses go to suppliers; then once they're locked in, the surplus is handed to shareholders and the platform becomes a useless pile of shit. From mobile app stores to Steam, from Facebook to Twitter, this is the enshittification lifecycle.
"At some level, this is just one of the asshole capitalists who are wrecking the world talking like the sort of asshole capitalist who would wreck the world. But there is a threat only barely latent in it, too." https://defector.com/how-will-the-golden-age-of-making-it-worse-end
Massive study analyzes 23 million headlines from 47 news media outlets in the US from 2000-2019. They find that over this time period, headlines became more likely to denote anger, fear, disgust and sadness and less likely to be emotionally neutral. Headlines from right-leaning news media were consistently more negative than headlines from left-leaning outlets as well. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0276367
At the Dealbook summit, with X CEO Linda Yaccarino sitting in the room, Elon Musk just told advertisers who have pulled out of X — including Disney CEO Bob Iger — to go fuck themselves.
If journalists can report on the platform and find readers there then they should. That’s their job.
This take is like a doctor refusing to serve an accident site because he doesn’t like the type of people who frequent that venue.
No, X is a place where journalists can effectively publish their work. If they are avoiding the platform purely because they don’t like the way it looks then they are not doing their jobs, they are letting bias override their work.
If journalists can report on the platform and find readers there then they should. That’s their job.
This take is like a doctor refusing to serve an accident site because he doesn’t like the type of people who frequent that venue.
No, X is a place where journalists can effectively publish their work. If they are avoiding the platform purely because they don’t like the way it looks then they are not doing their jobs, they are letting bias override their work.
"Our goal with Threads is to make social content as interoperable as email. We are working on the ability for Threads to integrate with ActivityPub, the open, decentralized social networking protocol. Once that happens people will be able to enjoy the best features of Threads across platforms." https://engineering.fb.com/2023/09/07/culture/threads-inside-story-metas-newest-social-app/
@taylorlorenz These are the same wastes of neurons who see the word "demon" in pride month and think they're on to something. No, Patricia, you're just on something.
@taylorlorenz That's some real "let's all get together to see the MMO servers go down" energy.
Only seeing Twitter from the crossposting peephole creates such a weird impression of it, which I'm guessing is not entirely accurate, but really conveys a mood.
@taylorlorenz When you're drowning, your panic causes you to grab onto whatever floats your way. Of course if it's a person and they're not a lifeguard, you may cause them to drown too. In this case, one can only hope.
@taylorlorenz, but put #Mastodon up there! :ameowsipzoom:
@taylorlorenz es interesante el desarrollo de apps muy populares entre los menores de 25 años, quienes sin duda acaparan el tráfico web, aun con ello Twitter es una plataforma robusta para el mundo real, no por nada ahi se realizan campañas políticas y se filtra la brutalidad de las actuales guerras.