I wonder how soon Meta moderation policies will kill this platform.
Elon of course abuse his power to ban those he dislike and to ban trackers of his plane (and to help some dictator war criminals while he at it), but Facebook / Instagram censorship and bans are pretty random, harsh and irreversible.
Platform by Meta likely mean that good chunk of Twitter audience is not allowed to use it: some journalists reporting on war crimes, OSint, anything related to porn and gambling, sex workers, etc. Twitter is full of shit, but at least I have a choice to look at whatever I want without corporate nanny censoring world for me.
If there's one thing I think we've learned from Twitter, it's that for most people, none of that actually matters.
De-platform folks on the alt-right?
Twitter lives on.
De-platform folks on the left, re-platform folks on the alt-right?
Twitter still lives on (though with far fewer advertisers).
Ban journalists and then invite them back? Journalists: "Please sir, may I have some more?"
It seems only folks who are chronically online actually talk about any of this, and only a vanishing few actually care enough to do anything about it.
That said...
> but at least I have a choice to look at whatever I want without corporate nanny censoring world for me.
Yeah, I don't know which Twitter you've been visiting, but this is just flat out not correct. Twitter is absolutely censored. Maybe it's censored in a way you like, but let's not pretend it's some sort of free speech free-for-all.
I dont pretend that Twitter is not censored, but Facebook censorship is far more intrusive, random and puritanic. This is not about some political views, but I just practically dont see how platform like this can succeed.
After all Instagram and Twitter have really different audiences for a reason.
Elon of course abuse his power to ban those he dislike and to ban trackers of his plane (and to help some dictator war criminals while he at it), but Facebook / Instagram censorship and bans are pretty random, harsh and irreversible.
Platform by Meta likely mean that good chunk of Twitter audience is not allowed to use it: some journalists reporting on war crimes, OSint, anything related to porn and gambling, sex workers, etc. Twitter is full of shit, but at least I have a choice to look at whatever I want without corporate nanny censoring world for me.