Listening to a tv discussion about social media and how platforms are breaking into political silos, and there is no acknowledgement that we have been here before: this is literally what happened and continues to happen with newspapers.
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It's a misrepresentation of facts. People aren't leaving Musk's site over politics. They're leaving because it's no longer usable as a professional or social tool. The algorithm prevents balanced engagement, there's no moderation, and you have to sift through hundreds of ads to try and find things.
This is absolutely the truth. I enjoyed the site when I could post about a topic of interest to me and would be able to interact with people who cared about the topic. Musk killed what little was good about Twitter.
And the implicit assumption that none of us are exposed to alternative political and cultural viewpoints as we go about our offline lives...is frustrating
I think this narrative also oversimplifies what is happening. Twitter has been deliberately and methodically broken to the point it has become unusable for many. That merits much wider exploration imho.
Also, even as political siloes may be forming, geographic and cultural ones continue to weaken. Memes made in Bangalore or Seoul now shoot round the world and get popular in London or Seattle in a way unimaginable even ten years ago
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X is analog to the Sun after Murdoch bought it