Social Media: the Consequences of Elon Musk for Twitter

[dewline]

As of this moment, I have 384 Twitter "followers". I expect that to drop by this time tomorrow.

Because Elon Musk.

Comments

[ex_flameandsong751]

The Venn diagram of pro-Putin/anti-vaxx people and the people who want Elon Musk to buy Twitter is one circle.

I'm for free speech, but I'm against misinformation and hate speech, and we all know that Musk re-platforming Trump and his chumps is going to spread misinformation and hate. And we all know he's doing this to increase Trump's chance of getting elected again in 2024. Pretty sure Elon Musk is assmad his girlfriend left him for a trans woman, too...

[dewline]

I won't address that last point. I do know that he once posted a complaint about pronouns that leads me to distrust him.

[ex_flameandsong751]

Yeah, I saw that post and I think Musk miiiiiiight be a transphobe. Which is all the more reason to be wary of him.

[thewayne]

I am very undecided as to what I will do. A Lot of people are considering Mastedon.

[dewline]

I've been reading reference to both Mastodon and CounterSocial in recent days. I don't know enough about either one yet to make a decision, assuming that I really need a successor to Twitter. I've got accounts here and elsewhere across social media...

[thewayne]

Currently, my entire social presence is here, LJ, and two Twitter accounts.  Trump has announced that he will not rejoin Twitter, but we know how keeping he is to his word.  There's no telling what Elon's going to do with their policies, so I'm going 'wait and see' for the time being.  I'm not on it often enough at this point.  I hate to see it being reopened to the anti-vaxxers and neo-nazis that they've permabanned, but we'll just have to see what happens.  The only certainty for me is that I don't trust him to really improve it.