• TommySoda@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    First off, I love that every article about X has to mention that it was formally Twitter. That shit will never stop being funny to me.

    Second, why the hell do you need Twitter on a TV? So people can sit on their phones while they watch Twitter?

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      2 months ago

      As I understand it, it’s not Twitter, but on TV. It’s a new service that is supposed to rival YouTube. As much as I would like to see that happen, fuck Elon. I hope it fails and costs him billions.

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        2 months ago

        I hope it succeeds just enough to take the right wing nutters off YouTube and give YouTube an incentive to improve its service. But that it stays unsuccessful enough that it keeps burning a hole in Elon’s pocket

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          As much as that sounds like fun, the right with their own platform end up in an right wing, conservative, , fake news sound board where people will be subject to propaganda and nothing but propaganda, completely radicalizing anyone on there, instead of confronting them with an alternative sides of the stories. Isolating the nut jobs makes them even more dangerous. Which is exactly what Elon tries to do.

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            While this is true, algorithmic feeds virtually guarantee that echo chambers exist within a platform already. Fascists won’t leave YouTube because they feel it’s “too woke” or offering varying viewpoints, they’ll leave because the people they already watch there tell them to go to the other service. So I think it’s possible Elon attracts the fascists, destroys YouTube’s ability to monetize that part of their algorithm, and consequently have to improve service for others to try and ensure other fringe echo chambers don’t follow suit.

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              YouTube had a very well working algorithm. Because of the echo chamber effect, they turned it off with the goal to prevent the echo chamber effect. Creating an echo chamber platform isolates people even more from reality. At least YouTube is trying to push as much content as possible, how junk it may be, but at least it’s less of an echo chamber then it used to be, and less like Twitter any other weird place where extremists unite. I loved the YouTube algorithm as I was able to find amazing unknown music based on my preferences. But I take it that’s all fucked up now, because it’s better for society. Isolating and alienating people is dangerous. People need to see different perspectives. Otherwise it won’t be different from a cult or dictatorship. One sided information to radicalize. We already have enough nut jobs on this marble, please, let’s continue to confront them with reality and prevent others to follow them otherwise we’re all fucked. Trump has already been president, we’re still stuck with Xi and Putin, India just re-elected a dangerous idiot, Elon keeps getting away with all his lies, schemes and crimes, Netanyahu is free to continue his war crimes, European countries are turning further and further into the extreme right because of fake news and dangerous idiots. All they need is followers and to get that they need a medium to isolate people into their propaganda.

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        2 months ago

        I grabbed it because that’s what I do and have always done.

        It’s Twitter on tv.

        tl;dr - Twitter vids on tv.

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      2 months ago

      I hope someone suggests to him that, now that Tesla has moved to Texas, they should rename the company “TeXla” so that it will match his other companies with an X in the name. Then all of the articles can start referring to ‘TeXla, formerly Tesla’.

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      2 months ago

      I love that people keep saying formally instead of formerly and it makes it seem like twitter is the proper nomenclature and X is just slang.