BURN

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[–] BURN@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Twitter is literally being dismantled. It’s a shell of what it previously was, and does not work for organizing protests and other counter-culture due to the billionaires buying and taking it apart piece by piece.

The whole point of Twitter was reach. None of the other platforms have the same reach.

Also the other platforms are doing their best to follow twitters lead. So yes, it’s being dismantled.

[–] BURN@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

None ever had the organizational reach Twitter did. FB/Instagram require more personal data and are much worse for discoverability. Mastodon and BlueSky have the issue of nobody using them (in the grand scheme of things). Lemmy and Reddit don’t work well because of reach and censorship respectively.

There still isn’t something out there that replaces the use cases of Twitter.

[–] BURN@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Have you attempted to use the platform since the rate limiting? It’s approximately 2-3 searches before you’re rate limited out of the app for 24+ hours.

You’re also unable to view comments unless you’re logged in, so you’re required to give them semi-accurate information for an account too.

It’s literally useless for organizing unless you pay for it, which defeats the entire purpose of wide spread reach like it used to have.

[–] BURN@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Rate limiting and heavily pushed “premium” options have made Twitter near useless for large scale organizing.

[–] BURN@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They put laws in place that reflect their desire for control. Is your head so far up your own ass that you think that the people setting those laws actually follow them?

There’s separate laws for the ruling class. They don’t give a flying fuck about “values”, they just want control