Goddamn what is the rush here. Didn’t expect things to collapse this fast
eh, cohost & counter social & mastadon are pretty usable for propaganda too, in different ways, and bailing him out isn’t gonna make people wanna keep using the website. that said we might see more legislation to try and kill off smaller sites
My analysis of fediverse is that it actually makes it MUCH harder for fringe opinions to penetrate spaces and MUCH easier for fringe information to be marginalised because of the way every single ideological bubble will just defederate with anything that isn’t conforming to their ideological circlejerk. Not to defend centralised corporate media here but it’s a massive concern I have about all of it.
Imagine reddit but every subreddit defederates with every other subreddit that they don’t like and blocks participation from everyone and anyone from that space.
The day he took over I think he started to do about a week’s worth of damage in a day. I think he’s reached about a few months worth of damage in a day. It’s an arbitrary and it’s 58 days from now but I wonder how much damage will he have amassed by New Year’s Day.
I’m starting to actually wonder if next year - he’ll get a federal bailout due to “attacks from the left” and the amount will be at least $10 billion.
All Musk needed to do was go more slowly and use terms like “reorganize” and “restructure”. With little to no analysis the media - idiots that they are - would simply repeat his corporate PR verbatim. And some of the reporters would be showering him with praise for his “bold”, “aggressive”, and “smart” moves.
And he could gut moderation etc quietly. Meanwhile on Twitter he could still have his fun having convos like this…
“Mr. Musk, sir - is it true that the head of all content control and moderation is a guy nicknamed ‘Himmler’?”
“Can’t confirm nor deny. :)”
