Remember how everyone a couple of years ago was talking about how X (Twitter) was going down the drain and wasn't going to survive or be relevant? While Elon has made a ton of changes some I agree with others I do not from personally having two X accounts, one focused on crypto and one personal, you can cultivate and find echo chambers for any and all sides.
The main issue that this article seems to have is that Elon himself uses and freely tweets on his own platform. Does he get stuff wrong? Yep. Does he also get stuff right way before other people? Also right.
I do not think anyone should ever be swayed by one single person. If you are with his comments I see that as more of an issue that you have and a failing of society for thinking that is remotely smart. Community Notes has been a pretty marvelous creation that has really outperformed what I think everyone thought. Elon and others from across the spectrum of views have all been checked by it which is something I do not see in other platforms like this.
Yes continued progress needs to be made but you would think this was a crazy right-wing platform from what the article gives off while at the same time, it is huge for the Free Gaza and Free Palestine movements along with its coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Community notes are awesome. Not perfect but a tremendous improvement.
Remember all the people who boycotted Twitter? 99 percent came back.
I know one person who still boycotts Twitter but he uses Facebook and lives in Portland Oregon.
Biden announced he was dropping out of the race via Twitter or X
The writer echoes the sentiment of many SN users who virtue signal they stopped using Twitter after Elon purchased it. It’s so boring and tiresome and predictable.
Of course they had no problem with suppressing NY Post and Hunter Biden laptop story. Censorship. Election interference. Facilitating lies spread by legacy media.
Predictable left wing talking points. National Public Radio said the same thing in 2023.
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This, there's no more to it that this.
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Haha thanks! I tried to cover really what are the basics to this whole thing. It is a place that Elon has done a rather decent job at allowing for the flow of free speech. When the huge Taylor Swift AI stuff happened they did what they could to shut that down ASAP. Nothing will ever be perfect but on X, at least right now, you can find every group represented somewhere and they often create their own echo chambers.
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X is the only viable source of information we have right now in Argentina. It's that dramatic. X and Tiktok are largely responsible for making Milei president, and thank god the youth has conquered those lands relegating the left to only be able to humiliate itself on them. Of course, such a dependence is not good at all, so I'm all about Nostr taking over X. That competition will lead to a dramatic improvement on both.
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