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"Free" Speech Absolutist™ (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 237 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Why the fuck is anyone still using Twitter

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  • [–] 86 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Or even talking about shit like this? Musk is living rent free in a lot of people's heads. The way to make him irrelevant is to treat him as such. Making a fuss about everything he says, gives him undue importance.

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  • [–] 87 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    To be fair, he's commanding a ton of influence among policy makers, so it's pretty critical to not completely ignore the bullshit he's up to.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 years ago

    It’s one of those things where, while I’m sick of hearing about his bullshit, I need to know if he does something that directly affects me. E.g. if he started doing a similar thing in my country as the stuff he’s trying with Britain at the moment then I’d write to a couple of representatives to let them know they’ll lose mine and many other votes if they side with the dopey billionaire muppet.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Also because people like Musk are further empowered when no one is looking. I'm as tired of hearing about him as anyone but will keep reading until he's in prison, dead, or at least not the de facto president of the united states.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Yeah but are you not considering the thousands of other ideologues that work in the shadows everyday? Putting one on blast doesn't solve anything. People have yet to grasp that the public forum can't solve a multitude of problems all at once. If you put something in the public forum you should expect nothing to happen unless there is a system already in place to deal with it. What we should spend time talking about is solutions that can cascade into other solutions. Systems that can make other systems. We need to categorize our problems and put them in a queue to be reconciled. What we have now is people just wildly jumping from one problem to the next as if identifying that problem was the most important thing and solving it is secondary.

    It's like when you watch Jon Oliver. It's a good show but at the end of the episode all I have is another insurmountable problem I now recognize and I file that away with every other insurmountable problem Jon has shed light on.

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Momentum.

    The average person is really hard to move to a new platform. I saw this when Skype was the big thing for internet communication the Microsoft slowly made it worse and worse before it was barely a shadow of its former self.

    Alternatives existed, many that were much better, but they were slightly harder to use or came along way after people were already set on Skype.

    It wasn't until discord that the internet shifted, but even discord has its problems.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Good write up, except Skype is a bad example, because it’s better than any alternative, at least when it comes to screen sharing, audio quality, and file sharing. (Although I’d love to be wrong about this.)

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    United States law enforcement agencies have the ability to eavesdrop on Skype conversations and to have access to Skype users' geographic locations. In many cases, a simple request for information is sufficient, with no court approval needed. This ability was deliberately added by Microsoft for law enforcement agencies around the world after they purchased Skype in 2011.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_security

    Although I think Microsoft implemented end-to-end encryption for skype for single conversations at a time in 2018. Still, for seven years, microsoft was giving law enforcement every conversation they wanted.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    It was about the time they pushed the inclusion of banner ads in the application. Nobody left skype until advertisements were plastered all over it, even some with sound. Most of my gaming friends were early haters, as we'd been using Xfire and it served our primary purpose just fine.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Many answered you already but i'm gonna provide you with another piece of the puzzle. Why the fuck there always multiple threads about elon musk on lemmy frontpage? Propaganda and marketing runs deep.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I set up a filter to block any post title with "Elon Musk" but stuff like this will still get through though. Lemmy is obsessed with him.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    The thing about a cult is that it doesn’t need you in particular. It needs people. Ideally, idiots. So it doesn’t matter that a lot of people are leaving/will leave Twitter. The idiots will remain, and the platform will serve its purpose.

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