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It's so wild witnessing the degradation of Twitter.
by hidden80 3y ago
It's so wild witnessing the degradation of Twitter.
- TigeriusKirk 3y agoRagequitting is also degrading to NPR.
- toomuchtodo 3y agoWhy engage on the platform when it’s rigged by a narcissist? Like the Greyrock method, disengage. Twitter only has value so long as it has network effect. People leaving diminish it. So why not?
- sneak 3y ago[flagged]
- toomuchtodo 3y agoTesla and SpaceX combined have obtained $5 billion in subsidies from the US government. NPR’s budget subsidy is less than one percent (~$3M). The label is not accurate, it’s a weapon of childish behavior.
- AlgorithmicTime 3y ago[dead]
- sneak 3y agoAre Tesla or SpaceX media companies? I thought they were in manufacturing. You are comparing apples to oranges.
- toomuchtodo 3y agoIt feels like you’re attempting to make excuses for bad faith behavior through contortions of criteria. That is a choice, but not one I think that would stand up to scrutiny (based on the facts of the matter, Elon’s very public history of how he exists, operates, and “lashes out” whenever feeling challenged or sleighted). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini's_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini's_law
- nailer 3y agoNo really SpaceX isn’t a media company.
- byyll 3y ago[flagged]
- brandonagr2 3y agoThey have not. You are relying on a false headline that calls things like contracts, loans, zev credits from other automaters as ' government subsidies', which is obviously incorrect. Tesla is only just now receiving subsidies to produce batteries from the IRA that was passed last year, but previously had received no subsidies from the federal government
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- sp332 3y agoState funded is not the same as state affiliated. The government doesn't have any editorial control of NPR.
- Overtonwindow 3y agoTrue but it does lean heavily in one political direction. If it is receiving any federal funding then it should be pushed to neutrality, and remove the one-sidedness of their news programing. I think NPR would be very upset if the government required political neutrality as part of its funding.
- dpkirchner 3y agoNPR seems plenty neutral to me. Neutral is not defined as the midpoint between our two main US political parties (as your username would suggest you know). I always hear more than one side to each story, when they're long enough, and a good mix of brief stories about either side, positive and negative.
- FeloniousHam 3y agoI am a regular listener to at least Morning Edition and All Things Considered, and I can assure you their reporting is very biased to the Left. The credulous reporting of politically left ideas, policies, and positions on news stories without even strawman explanations of competing ideas is very frequent. I listen to podcasts for long form, fair discussions of issues, but NPR used to (seemed to?) hew to an objective ideal of reporting, and the new crew happily crusades for their team/goals.
- tstrimple 3y agoOr maybe your perception of what is actually neutral is too skewed by American political extremism. It seems any source that isn’t ranting about trans folk and teachers being groomers or that the 2020 election was stolen is somehow “left leaning” to many people in this country.
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- rcme 3y agoHaving standards and self respect isn't rage quitting.
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- rideontime 3y agoHow, specifically, does it degrade anybody to stop using Twitter?
- mwsfc 3y agoNot at all ragequitting and not degrading to NPR. Staying on the platform tacitly implies NPR accepts the label ...which would be degrading, from their perspective.
- nailer 3y agoIf NPR doesn’t wish to accept the label it should refuse government funding.
- orwin 3y agoSo any company accepting grants is a state-affiliated company? Honestly I kinda like it. I would extend it to any company accepting tax breaks. Imagine the headline 'The church of the Last days, a state-affiliated non-profit, is warning that the end is near'.
- dylan604 3y agoMcDonalds, a state funded eatery,... (because they accept tax breaks) Amazon, a state funded company,... (because they shopped around for the best tax breaks) Or any single other company that does what a company does by making any deal they can to better their bottom lines by taking tax breaks or gov't funding in any form would need to be called state funded. It sort of loses its stigma from that view point.
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- JohnFen 3y agoI think it speaks well of NPR.
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- colanderman 3y agoRight? > Twitter's communications shop now simply responds to reporters' emails with poop emojis. Like, does Musk realize the market of trolls, clowns, and morons who enjoy his adolescent antics is... not worth $44 B?
- jfengel 3y agoHe certainly figured it out, which is why he worked so hard to back out of the deal. Though he never really expected it to earn its price back. As a large-fraction-of-a-trillion-aire, he may well have found that having trolls, clowns, and morons to enjoy his adolescent antics is worth $44B in pure enjoyment. He was buying a chance to put a significant thumb on the finger of world culture. Musk has so much money that he doesn't really care if there's a net positive return to his purchases. He spends money to enjoy it. Which I actually find bizarrely refreshing, compared to the ones who want to use it for the purpose of acquiring more money, plus the occasional conspicuous consumption that seems more like a performance than actual enjoyment (e.g. megayachts). Too bad he's such an asshole, though.
- jrussino 3y ago> he may well have found that having trolls, clowns, and morons to enjoy his adolescent antics is worth $44B in pure enjoyment This is the most disappointing part. I have a hard time imagining that any of these billionaires are "good people" in a way that I would recognize. But before this Twitter thing I felt like at least I can respect the things Musk chooses to spend his time and money on. How much would that $44B have moved the needle on on his Mars dream? Seems like a waste to me.
- brandonagr2 3y ago> How much would that $44B have moved the needle on on his Mars dream It would make 0 difference, SpaceX is already moving as fast as possible, throwing money at them would not make things go faster. In the future when actual ships start flying to Mars Elon will still have plenty to fund that personally if he needed to. In other news, the first flight test of the largest rocket ever built is scheduled for Monday the 17th
- nailer 3y ago[flagged]
- LastTrain 3y agoPlease act in good faith. You know why Twitter did what it did, and you know why it was wrong. We know you know that. NPR is not state affiliated, or even government funded. Fox news airs ads from the US Military - is it state affiliated?
- nailer 3y agoYour logical fallacy is incredulity. What Twitter did was absolutely ethical, and since it applies to all government funded media, it is not political in nature. Yes anyone accepting government ad money should be labelled as well.
- LastTrain 3y agoI'm not sure what ethical means in this context, or what it has to do with them being wrong. What responsibility does Twitter have to anyone? They are a privately held corporation. Where they were 'wrong' is in not being consistent in their labeling, and the subtext surrounding that - of which we are all aware but some of us (like you) are unwilling to acknowledge in order to advance an argument or to just Troll. But go on...
- nailer 3y agoI think you don’t understand the difference between wrong and incorrect.
- fknorangesite 3y agoBecause "state-affiliated" specifically means the state has editorial control - which is certainly not the case here - not merely that they provide some funding.
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- poisonarena 3y agoPeople keep saying this but I haven't noticed at all, I stopped using it for years but now I am back and have noticed only improvements
- vicktour 3y agoSometimes it wont show me current tweets. My timeline is full of accounts that I don't follow and nobody I follow replied. I had to block musk's account because it was the only thing I was seeing. Tweets disappear when I try to look at them. Its been frustrating to say the least.
- stiltzkin 3y agoThere is a following accounts tab, and you can make lists to improve your your timeline.
- poisonarena 3y agoyeah, I noticed they divided your timeline to 'for me' and 'following' you just have to click 'following' and then its back.
- yamtaddle 3y agoIt's waaaaay better for those of us without an account. It loads every time, rather than failing about 2/3 of the time (at least on mobile—always figured that was some weird dark pattern to try to get me to use the app, did it to me consistently for years across multiple devices), and doesn't block me with a loginwall if I scroll too far before hitting "more replies" anymore. All the drama around Twitter's also flat-out hilarious if one doesn't care whether Twitter lives or dies, and lots of that drama's on Twitter, so I'd call that an improvement, too.
- muyuu 3y agosame I take it for what it is, a notification engine for "influencers" and media, and a time-waster, and basically nothing else it's essentially not good for anything else, if you put too much faith in it to do things like learning or discovering new things, you're going to be disappointed but at what it does I think it's better than a couple of years ago when I last spent some time using it - it was unmitigated garbage at everything back then
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- Eric_WVGG 3y agoIt really underscores how the Internet needs a notion of social networking that is based on open standards and open infrastructures. Imagine if it was 2002 and Bill Gates pulled a similar gambit and just "bought the web." Fortunately that was actually impossible, but it underscores how a thing like Twitter is also too important to be a plaything of investors and playboys. Every time someone mentions Mastodon here, we get a bunch of responders saying "they blew their chance" as if they're copy-pasting off of a script… I hate to be conspiracy-brained, but a quick note to those guys: if you are Twitter insiders, you're not being very subtle. From where I'm sitting, Mastodon — and more importantly, ActivityPub — is doing great. For those that thing the standard is too weird for normies, keep in mind that the way things are going, more startups are going to follow Medium and Substack’s approach.