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Twitter was locked in a chaotic doom loop. Now it’s on the verge of collapse | Siva Vaidhyanathan

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  • Pretty much this. The whole of (popular American) sports is entrenched in Twitter. They aren’t going anywhere unless forced to do so.

    My kid plays football and has aspirations to play in college. Every person has told him to build a prescience on Twitter as that is what all the recruiting coaches use and look at.

    I think tech people don’t understand how social media supports non-tech areas.

    • Zero dark thirty at the arctic circle.

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  • Come back on Jan 5 for the noon photo.

    • Massive Norwegian phosphate rock deposit can meet fertilizer, solar, and EV battery demand for 100 years

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  • Truly the North Star for a resource extraction economy.

    • That's why no one with half a brain downloads the official Reddit app.

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  • The official app is a horrible user experience, but the bigger issue is that most of the content is fake. Between commercial shills, political activists, social-media marketing groups hired to “increase engagement”, and various other bad actors, the site is no longer useful or differentiated. The only places that seem unaffected are smaller private subs.

    I don’t know how the fediverse will prevent the same thing happening. The bad actors are just going to follow the eyeballs. They don’t care which platform is used to host their actions. There was already an instance of a group of new kbin accounts being used to mass upvote topics to appear in the hot feed here.

    • Today we celebrate no longer being responsible for the USA.

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  • Awful smug for a place that still has Croydon.

    • “Reddit cannot survive without its moderators. It cannot.” - The Verge

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  • Reddit is not public, so it’s just private investors at this point that funded series tranches. They, of course, are pushing to have Reddit get profitable and then IPO.

    I guess we will see what happens, but Spez may have totally messed-up their plans with the inept API pricing and the response to the concerns about it.

    It could have been totally averted if they just introduced a reasonable user fee and license that could be used in any third party app.

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  • The shills don’t care about the platform, only that their actions are seen by human eyeballs. They will gladly burn accounts on every post because they use bots to create them by the hundreds of thousands.

    It’s what ultimately killed Reddit for me. I am hoping a Lemmy won’t go down the same path.

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  • Good post. Any idea how Lemmy or the fediverse will prevent the systematic astroturfing that social media marketing, political activists, commercial shills, and others will engage in? They are just going to follow the users from Reddit to here and keep up their antics.

    When a lot of Reddit users stopped for the blackout, it became really eye opening how most of Reddit is just a wasteland of fake accounts posting, mass up/downvoting, and posting anything to keep you engaged on the site.

    I was hoping to see something in Lemmy that would prevent this, but I just don’t. So I expect the enshitification to happen here too unless something is done to prevent it.