• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Twitter isn’t falling due to not being open source, or not being decentralized, or any of the other reasons I’ve heard people advocate for mastodon.

    People are leaving twitter because it has gone fully right wing in politics. Twitter will not “fail” in the traditional sense. Twitter will fall, but not fail.

    Twitter will be the right wing conspiracy platform.

    Bluesky will be what twitter was 5 years ago for the left wing.

    Nothing else has changed. This isn’t a rebellion against corporate social media. This isn’t meant to be a fediverse uprising. None of that is happening. This is nothing more than Mary, and Beth who voted for Harris wanting to use twitter how they used to, without right wing agenda being added to their twitter feed. Which is exactly what bluesky is. A twitter clone without the racists.

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      11 hours ago

      Twitter went right wing because of the model.

      When it’s all about following people and very short forms of communication, it will eventually lean right.

      Same way the lemmy format encourages nuance and ideas over people, so it will eventually lean left

    • SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml
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      12 hours ago

      Dare I suggest that the reason for twitter becoming so right wing, is that it’s a centralized social media website, subject to the crazed far right whims of the capitalist who bought it…

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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        1 day ago

        …I wasn’t replying to you. I was replying to the other guy who said it doesn’t matter since bluesky is just the same as twitter in terms of ownership.