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Steve Silberman (stevesilberman@newsie.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 08:40:54 JST Steve Silberman

Exactly this, this all day. And now millions of positive things will never happen because Elon had the power to shit all over the platform formerly known as Twitter. Text by Ryan Broderick.
In conversation Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 08:40:54 JST from newsie.social permalink
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1. I think hardcore Twitter users have rose-colored glasses about the site’s coolness. The reason for its success, if you can argue that it was ever really successful, wasn’t that it was cooler than Facebook. It was because of its proximity to power. The reason it was so popular with activists, extremists, journalists, and shitposters was because what you posted there could actually affect culture. The thing that ties together pretty much everything that's happened on Twitter since it launched in 2006 was the possibility that those who were not in power (or wanted more) could influence those who were. And | don't think it's an accident that a deranged billionaire broke that, nor do | think it's accident that we’re suddenly being offered smaller, insular platforms or an offshoot of a Meta app as replacements. The folks in charge clearly don’t want that to happen again.
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