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Is the destruction of Twitter and Reddit a conspiracy or am I just paranoid? (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by Quexotic@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org
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I've had this feeling that since there are forces that do not want us to have free speech, and that the destruction of Reddit and Twitter does this effectively, creating a chilling effect, destroying social links and communities. Might it not be an intentional effort to stifle the ability of the downtrodden to organize and fight the power?

There are so many other ways things are engineered to benefit the minority and prevent the majority from gaining power, why not this too?

Just a thought rattling around in my head.

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[โ€“] Dragonmind@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It really just might be idiots with too much money. Musk makes changes willy nilly without much peer review in the similar way the Titanic sub rich guys did before it imploded.

Then Steve Huffman was like, "Hey, I wanna get investors and money! Screw the people, the whole site is mine to play with like Elon does."

Money corrupts, man. It's overly worshipped by society because of its necessity and now here we are. It's a whole other system for the rich vs the poor.

But to go along your route of thinking, I'd still say no because powerful social media is even powerful when the people who use it are heavily propagandized. (especially by Russia) So when communities fracture into safer sites, propaganda loses its grip and has to work harder to spread influence.

[โ€“] Quexotic@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

when communities fracture into safer sites, propaganda loses its grip and has to work harder to spread influence.

This is my hope!