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But it’s a problem people keep using Twitter because of what musk has done. Without his antics, using Twitter wouldn’t really be a bad thing, would it?
Well, arguably the microblogging format does have some intrinsic disadvantages.
Yes, but that wasn't the question, now was it?
I would argue that the format incentivizes short quips and discussions lacking nuance in favor of brevity, and yes, therefore it's "bad" (to use their term) to use Twitter even if musk wasn't turning it into Truth Social.
I would argue that a brief, broadly encompassing feed has its advantages when it's not being driven into lunacy. Discussions on Twitter are always terrible, but as a source for news headlines and media announcements it works pretty well.
Sure, but you can get that with something more long-form, too; it's not exclusive to Twitter/microblogging .
Conversely, if someone wants a summarized feed, having to browse past walls of text is an inconvenience.
Well, that's a good point but I still think there are better services than Twitter/microblogging for that. Like our old friend RSS
I like RSS in theory, I used it a lot, but these days websites don't maintain them as well as they used to.
until he bought the thing, it wasn't
hate posting racists used to be banned. They had to create a dozen accounts just to spread their scum