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[-] Zink@programming.dev 28 points 2 months ago

Even worse is that Twitter/X still has an air of mainstream legitimacy since others built it into a household name before musk decided to vaporize billions of dollars to be able to enshittify it.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

It was never a good platform. Mainstream media just liked it because they could rationalize any shit take they wanted to push by saying "thousands of people on twitter are concerned about X problem". Their audience didn't realize that those thousands is the same as one belligerent drunk at a bar who won't shut up.

[-] ryper@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago

they could rationalize any shit take they wanted to push by saying “thousands of people on twitter are concerned about X problem”

A lot of the time they don't put any number on the people, and then it turns out they wrote a whole-ass article on what dozens of people on twitter are saying.

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