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    244 points Jimmc414 | 14 comments | 13 Nov 24 20:58 UTC | HN request time: 1.161s | source | bottom
    1. mikeryan ◴[13 Nov 24 21:45 UTC] No.42130362[source]▶
    In related news Bluesky added 700,000 new users in the week after the election. Count me in the group who deleted Twitter as soon as the election was over - (I had planned to do so however the election went)

    https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/11/24293920/bluesky-700000-...

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    2. nicce ◴[13 Nov 24 21:50 UTC] No.42130429[source]▶
    Imagine selling Twitter just to create it again. Then some desperate billionaire buys this new Twitter as well, because the audience escaped the old Twitter.
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    4. pkaye ◴[13 Nov 24 21:55 UTC] No.42130495[source]▶
    Twitter was a public company so basically the shareholders decided to sell it when a good deal came up.
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    5. dools ◴[13 Nov 24 22:16 UTC] No.42130740[source]▶
    I deleted Twitter as soon as musk took over because he’s a feudalist
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    6. odo1242 ◴[13 Nov 24 22:17 UTC] No.42130765[source]▶
    Bluesky was created before Twitter got sold
    7. talldayo ◴[13 Nov 24 22:26 UTC] No.42130852[source]▶
    What ruined Dorsey for me was the crypto nonsense. I didn't use Twitter but it seemed like he was the typical asocial self-loathing nerd for a while. Then he went full on savior-syndrome and tried to use Twitter as a marketing tool for NFTs and cryptocurrency, more or less signing the platform's death warrant. I don't know a single person that actually enjoyed Twitter's brazen embrace of crypto.

    If he was still a bumbling nerd with a sympathetic plight then people would have an easier time defending him. But his aimless endorsement of radical nonsense is basically a mirror to Elon's own behavior, unfortunately. I don't trust Dorsey with power anymore.

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    8. nicce ◴[13 Nov 24 22:54 UTC] No.42131123{3}[source]▶
    I think you missed my irony. It does not matter. It is just happening, whether there was intent or not.
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    9. mey ◴[14 Nov 24 01:46 UTC] No.42132306[source]▶
    I deleted Twitter back when they changed their community guidelines to carve out exemptions for important people (Trump as president), looks like that was 2019. Figured it was downhill from there...

    https://blog.x.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/worldleaders201...

    10. fragsworth ◴[14 Nov 24 02:34 UTC] No.42132573{3}[source]▶
    On one hand you have the richest man on earth purchasing one of the largest social platforms, and singlehandedly wielding it to subvert American democracy.

    On the other hand you have a guy who kinda liked crypto.

    You call it "basically a mirror"? Do you see the absurdity of comparing the two things as if they're even remotely close to one another?

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    11. talldayo ◴[14 Nov 24 03:54 UTC] No.42133020{4}[source]▶
    If American democracy can be subverted by a fucking iPhone app then we deserved it. I'm not going to accept the "psyop steal" accusations this time around any more than I tolerated it in 2020. Misinformation is a perennial issue, and Twitter wasn't protected by some holy ward against hostile takeovers or even government meddling. It's fundamentally flawed, which is why Dorsey had to let it be destroyed with all of it's users being eaten alive inside it.

    The damage caused by both owners has been equal, in my opinion. Elon Musk is a fundamentally bigger shithead, but as someone that doesn't have an account on Twitter I genuinely don't feel like this is an issue. This was an inevitability from the very moment Twitter started running a profit deficit it could never pull itself out of.

    We forget that there's an easy solution to things being uploaded online that make you angry. "Just Walk Away From The Screen" - @tylerthecreator, 2012

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    13. jacooper ◴[16 Nov 24 10:18 UTC] No.42155642{3}[source]▶
    Jack is no longer involved, he was thrown out in 2023.
    14. dragonwriter ◴[16 Nov 24 10:25 UTC] No.42155668{4}[source]▶
    > On one hand you have the richest man on earth purchasing one of the largest social platforms, and singlehandedly wielding it to subvert American democracy.

    > On the other hand you have a guy who kinda liked crypto.

    That last bit, it should be noted, also describes Musk, not just Dorsey.