I think the criticism was platform level, but sure make it some sort of superiority complex.

They didn't even say reddit was better.

Yea maybe if telcos were utilities I would have more than one option for high speed internet. As it stands my choice is between Spectrum and ATT, but ATT can only give me a 3Mbps connection. So really my only option is spectrum.

yes.. here I am.. not pretending to be superior to users of other social media platforms

Here you are..

I think you're absolutely kidding yourself if you think you're not defending him. The company was near profitable, and he burned the real revenue- ADS. if you look at streaming for example, you might think "it's because they charge all the users a monthly fee that keeps the lights on" but generally it's not even a third of the money pulled in by advertising to those users.

There will always be an algorithm. For social media feeds, it could be minimal, like bookmarks, but then you still need to decide what order to present items in, and just gets more complicated from there.

Perhaps exposing why a particular item is being presented to you and allowing you to modify that behaviour could allow users better control, but that would get very complex (for the user) very quickly.

Good , Fuck Sony. Looking forward to all ACTi-Bliz games on GP.

I Know, Right!

Twitter was making about $28 million from subscribers at the end of last year. Not sure how much it costs to keep the lights on since Musk fired 75% of the staff, but it would easily be above $1 billion. Add to that a drop in ad revenue from driving the "normies" away, it just doesn't stack up to a sustainable business.

Mastodon lmaooooooo ok

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I’m no expert and my speculation might be worthless here, but I would imagine the health of a “consumer market” probably correlates with how much money the average person spends on things they want rather than need. Not to say that doesn’t happen outside the US (that’d be quite the ludacris statement), but the US citizens do spend a lot of money of a lot of stuff.

More than likely the Blue Checks will buy you algorithm bias.

due to constant forcing of right wing politics in my "recommended" i told Marjorie Taylor greene to step into traffic and got permanantly banned on twitter. The website is a joke.

Lol no they don't. Twice at best and in the US the costs of the society like medical care, tips etc. will take everything you ever earned.

OK, fair point, but you do not have to do that monthly.

it’s much more similar to Twitter than it is to reddit.

honestly quitting twitter was really good for me, and I’m glad I didn’t just replace it with Mastodon.

Yeah I spend a lot less time on Twitter these days because of it.

Regular people who buy check marks do it because they aren’t actually funny or interesting enough for their posts to get traction on their own. So when the platform boosts check mark people over regular users, the app is less enjoyable to be on.

You have to be a special kind of desperate to spend money on the check mark, people see it and immediately start making fun of you for it. It’s either boring people who want more attention or journalists who need it for professional purposes.

Is mastodon basically the same thing as reddit?

A few mega corps and influencer wannabes will invest in the checkmark, but getting a majority of your base to pay $8, enough to become profitable will not happen on a social media platform. An alternative to twitter will be made and everyone will migrate to the new platform. It's basically myspace happening all over again.

I agree 100%. There needs to be some kind of publicly funded platform (fuck off libertarians), otherwise things would just move to another huge company.

Either way, it would (will?) be a major undertaking to extricate everything from Musk's madhouse.

Ah don't worry, AI will take all those jobs away and everyone will be poor in America apart from congress and 5 other people.

Same with Japan. The salary difference is crazy

I think they should start calling it “Only Mugs”

US workers also work very long hours. OECD data shows the average worker works 10-20% more hours in a year than the average Japanese worker