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this post was submitted on 21 May 2026
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Because Twitch is owned by a tech oligopolist. One of a handful actively running this country into the ground. The one who paid Melania $28M to make a movie that no one wanted. (AKA a bribe). The one who's responsible for killing more small businesses than anyone else, ever? I mean I could go on...
Well, fuck, I guess that means Democrats can no longer go on television, either, since most of those networks are also owned by nazis.
I guess we have to give up because this choad here doesn't want to live in reality.
Good news, they don't have to.
The personal attacks are not called for.
Sure they are.
The world is fucked up BECAUSE we stopped telling stupid people that their ideas are stupid.
I've never felt more strongly towards a comment before. Stupid people really are getting increasingly brazen. Enough is enough, tbh.
100%
You can point out why my ideas are bad without being uncivil. Now you're just being a dick. And for what? The crime of suggesting that someone might embrace free platforms? That's fucked, my guy.
so name a social media company that is not shit.
Owncast. Piefed. Peertube. Mastodon. etc. etc. etc.
If you're trying to reach people, you need to go where they are.
"Where they are" is actively being used to manipulate and control them. As long as he keeps "meeting people where they are", that's where they will remain, and he is actively contributing to perpetuating that. Change means taking them somewhere else.
They will remain there until content creators they regularly watch and enjoy start moving. Mamdani is not that. No one is going to be creating a twitch account just to watch this, nor would they do it for some much smaller platform they've never heard of. Mamdani is not the one that will get people to move to new platforms, at least, not before he gets them more interested in the first place. Young people like him specifically because he reaches out to them on a personal level on platforms they actually use.
Do you just not understand the "chicken and egg" scenario you're describing? Someone has to be first.
...and why not?
Again I ask, why not? Why couldn't he be? Who better than someone with his influence, whose entire job it is to make life better for his constituents?
No one likes him because of the platforms he uses. They're just already on those platforms.
I would be happily surprised to learn that any of those sites could actually support the traffic this generated
These are not sites, they're software. Much like Lemmy. They can support as much traffic as you build them to support.
In an ideal world there would be federal servers set up, and every public servant would be entitled to an account.
E: who is downvoting me for stating facts?