I've been feeling a kind of grief, too. It was a kind of home & school for me, & I found so many wonderful people, & beautiful, weird, & funny stuff. I'm genuinely sad about it all.
As someone who never completely adapted to the Twitter world, my sense of loss is vastly outweighed by the smug satisfaction that comes with correctly predicting it’s demise at the hands of a man who only exalts its worst aspects.
Its sad because it became an integral part of everything from political organizing to early warning weather systems to relatively dry governmental agencies making jokes about holiday tree safety standards. The loudest idiots got mad they weren't getting adulating attention and ruined it for everyone
it is really sad, i spent YEARS building a following on that app and making so many friends in the process. i still have hope that it turns around, but i’m not sure how at this point.
someone said to me recently, “if you make 100 million, you could be just a person who worked hard and is lucky, if you make a billion, you had to do something bad to get there”
I've seen a few who were *less* bad like the founder of Nvidia. Just worked his ass off as an immigrant with truly nothing. Probably fucked over a ton of people but still not quite as evil as most AFAICT
Exactly. He was encouraged to buy it by his “friends.” And encouraged to systematically break it. Too much breaking news, boycott power in the hands (fingertips) of the people.
I see that too. I realised a while back there has never been such a powerful way to communicate for the likes of us in the history of humanity. That meme of the 1% vs 99% became real. So we've been stopped.
A tactic that has been around for some time:
eliminate free info exchange
"Prohibiting schools & other gatherings connected with learning, and doing everything to ensure that people are as ignorant of one another as possible, since knowledge tends to give rise to mutual trust"
-Aristotle Politics
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Sabotaging the free marketplace of ideas is a good way to undermine a democracy.
I see Twitter decay as deliberate.
eliminate free info exchange
"Prohibiting schools & other gatherings connected with learning, and doing everything to ensure that people are as ignorant of one another as possible, since knowledge tends to give rise to mutual trust"
-Aristotle Politics
https://youtu.be/gGfFXc0TwhU