Young people in China are becoming more rebellious, questioning their nation’s traditional expectations of career and family

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    10 months ago

    Can you expand on how billionaires are dismantling social media?

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        10 months ago

        No. I don’t see how it was “dismantled.” Can you explain?

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          Rate limiting and heavily pushed “premium” options have made Twitter near useless for large scale organizing.

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              Have you attempted to use the platform since the rate limiting? It’s approximately 2-3 searches before you’re rate limited out of the app for 24+ hours.

              You’re also unable to view comments unless you’re logged in, so you’re required to give them semi-accurate information for an account too.

              It’s literally useless for organizing unless you pay for it, which defeats the entire purpose of wide spread reach like it used to have.

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                Okay so twitter is useless. What about all of the other social media sites out there?

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                  None ever had the organizational reach Twitter did. FB/Instagram require more personal data and are much worse for discoverability. Mastodon and BlueSky have the issue of nobody using them (in the grand scheme of things). Lemmy and Reddit don’t work well because of reach and censorship respectively.

                  There still isn’t something out there that replaces the use cases of Twitter.

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                    You’re kind of defeating the point here by talking about all of these other social media sites that are available, none of which you claim has been dismantled. . .and even rejecting some of them as not being good only because enough people aren’t using them. This is not a dismantling of the system.

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            10 months ago

            This is just repeating the claim. Can you explain how so?

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              It is wasteful by way of being botted up to the point of inefficiency for individual political communication and its owners are happy to take payments from abusive operators responsible for the bots, if not doing the botting themselves. That’s just Twitter. Other platforms experience similar crapitalist growing pains albeit not all exactly in the same way. For profit motivated entities, there’s always a diminishing ROI on politically actionable systems.

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                It is wasteful by way of being botted up to the point of inefficiency

                Twitter was a bot fest long before Musk took it over. And that isn’t a problem with billionaires, but an inherent problem with system itself that can be, and is, exploited by plenty of people.