• Zink@programming.devEnglish
    29·
    3 months ago

    Even worse is that Twitter/X still has an air of mainstream legitimacy since others built it into a household name before musk decided to vaporize billions of dollars to be able to enshittify it.

    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      3 months ago

      It was never a good platform. Mainstream media just liked it because they could rationalize any shit take they wanted to push by saying “thousands of people on twitter are concerned about X problem”. Their audience didn’t realize that those thousands is the same as one belligerent drunk at a bar who won’t shut up.

      • ryper@lemmy.caEnglish
        9·
        3 months ago

        they could rationalize any shit take they wanted to push by saying “thousands of people on twitter are concerned about X problem”

        A lot of the time they don’t put any number on the people, and then it turns out they wrote a whole-ass article on what dozens of people on twitter are saying.

      • Zink@programming.devEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        Yeah I was never really a user, or considered it particularly good. But I think the mainstream legitimacy was definitely there. Any company, media personality, celebrity, brand, etc was pretty much expected to have a presence there, and you’d see their @usernames displayed prominently even outside Twitter. Or even just the little bird icon so you knew to look for them there.

      • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        A lot of creators are still there, and outright dismissed even alternatives like bluesky, let alone Mastodon, which many of them call a “tech-bro infested hellscape” (most of the techbros moved back to Xitter the moment thez were allowed to say the N-word).

        • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          I’m not parasocial to follow creators on twitter. I’d like it if they’d post their schedule to an RSS feed, but the lack of that isn’t enough for make a twitter account.

      • smayonak@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        But we’re there any better platforms that people were using? The problem was that all the alternatives were doing next tot nothing for countering disinformation. Twitter was the best of a bad situation.

        • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          3 months ago

          You could always NOT use social media as a news source. Short form media is just ripe for manipulation.

  • buddascrayon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    3 months ago

    The really stupid thing is that even though I ditched Twitter long before Elon bought it and started turning it into a dumpster fire it still gets shoved in my face constantly because shitty “journalists” continually link and quote some dumb random on there and spin whatever their dumb ass says into “people are saying/doing/boycotting/protesting/etc etc etc ad nauseum…”

    I’m really sick of it.

    • luciferofastora@lemmy.zipEnglish
      8·
      3 months ago

      X probably has far more traffic. I don’t find it particularly hard to believe that there is a higher quantity of misinformation there. Maybe not a higher concentration though.

  • penquin@lemm.eeEnglish
    13·
    3 months ago

    I had a 2fa on shitter and then I factory reset my phone and the 2fa app stored shit locally, so all of my 2fas were gone. One of them was shitter. Tried to log in, but they wanted me to call them and go through hoops and loops to retrieve my account. It was for the better. I let it go for good. It has absolutely nothing anyway, I was just a lurker. Fuck Elon.

  • Sibbo@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    7·
    3 months ago

    Arguably, twitter has more users, so more opportunities to produce and spread lies.

    • smeenz@lemmy.nzEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Less lies overall due to a smaller userbase, but more lies per post