Resistance Twitter 2.0

Where will the resistance end up posting, mostly?

  • Bluesky

    Votes: 16 72.7%

  • Threads

    Votes: 1 4.5%

  • Mastodon

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other (please specify in comments)

    Votes: 2 9.1%

  • On Planet X, we resist telepathically

    Votes: 3 13.6%
  • Total voters
    22
  • Poll closed .
mumblethrax said:
The idea that people are leaving Twitter because Elon Musk won't censor people (except for the people he does censor) is just delusionally self-important.

They're leaving because it's a joyless cesspit.
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It has always been a joyless cesspit. Musk didn't change that.
 
Rolfe said:
Do you want it to?
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No. I'm pointing out that Twitter was never especially good for presenting opposing perspectives to people, and most of its users weren't even looking for that.

Ziggurat said:
It has always been a joyless cesspit. Musk didn't change that.
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He did change that. Most obviously by forcing the opinions of one reprehensible idiot in particular on the user base.
 
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Rolfe said:
I don't think that was ever envisaged. You can choose "For You" and let Twitter choose what it thinks might interest you, or you can choose "Following" and only see tweets from people you are following. It doesn't and never has served up random posts.
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It serves up ads which are boosted posts.
 
Ziggurat said:
No one's opinion is forced on anyone. You know that you can block people, right?
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That hardly matters in terms of artificially furthering his reach. I'm comfortable with characterizing this as forcing (in the sense of imposing) his opinion on the user base, since not everyone who doesn't want to see it will block it. And of course he intends to remove that feature in any case.

When I did block him, Twitter amusingly recommended that I follow him.

Anyway, you're incorrect. Musk did change it. He also changed the algorithm to promote Trump.
 
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Orphia Nay said:
It serves up ads which are boosted posts.
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I just block these on sight. Apart from one, which was a young academic with a novel take on early Shakespeare. I followed him and ended up reading not just his blog but his PhD thesis.
 
I'm hearing that anyone who joins BlueSky and says something like "transwomen are men" is instantly blocked or banned or however they do it. People known to post such views on Twitter are being blocked before they've posted anything.

Quite the echo chamber.

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I suspect he means "male privilege", it's an easy typo to make.

Also this.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1857513485527298370

I read a tweet claiming that soon after BlueSky was set up it was colonised by a large group of trans people and their supporters, who now set the rules and control the moderation. They are determined that nobody who doesn't share their views will be allowed on the platform.

Well that's fine for them if they want their own echo chamber but since slavish adherence to the demands of the Holy Trans Caste was a big factor in Harris getting beaten, it might not be all that constructive.
 
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a large group of the trans joined the website and now are setting the rules and controlling moderation. that sounds true.
 
dirtywick said:
a large group of the trans joined the website and now are setting the rules and controlling moderation. that sounds true.
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I don't really know. But that's pretty much what happened to Twitter before Musk bought it, so it's plausible.
 
you think a bunch of trans signed up to twitter and started changing the rules and controlling moderation? how did they do that? by being so trans that this giant billions of dollars company could do nothing to stop it?
 
Rolfe said:
I'm hearing that anyone who joins BlueSky and says something like "transwomen are men" is instantly blocked or banned or however they do it. People known to post such views on Twitter are being blocked before they've posted anything.
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Can you give an example where someone was banned before posting anything? I suspect you're confusing two different features.
 
I saw somebody tweet that BlueSky is like LinkedIn, except that instead of posting your employment you post your virtues (or virtuous beliefs).
 
Safe-Keeper said:
First time hearing of BlueSky. Is it another replacement for Xitter?

As for location, Resistance 2.0 shouldn't advertise where it meets. It should be a secret place you get tipped off about once you've proven yourself worthy. Then you get an address and a secret knock code and handshake.
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Bluesky was founded by Jack Dorsey but he has no control over it and it's somewhat decentralised, so looks to be somewhere between Twitter and Mastodon.

www.bbc.co.uk

X users jump to Bluesky - but what is it and who owns it?

Bluesky is picking up one million new users every day at its current rate.
www.bbc.co.uk
 
Rolfe said:
I don't really know. But that's pretty much what happened to Twitter before Musk bought it, so it's plausible.
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I never saw any trans posts before Musk bought it. As it is, even now all I see is the occasional JKR post.

You reap what you sow.
 
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