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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Social Media Companies: Tell it to Earth
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Youth Decay
Aug 18, 2015

Nelson Mandingo posted:

Yeah but look at it this way. This is the one very obvious pitfall that I think would happen instantly out of all this. Again using a hypothetical, discord starts it's own social media website/app addition. So you're doomscrolling one day as you do with social media and you see a post by @1776Patriot about how VACCINES are gonna KILL YOUR loving DOG!!!

You just got your dog it's shots, and you don't want your dog to die. So you click his post, and hey he's got a discord channel. And you join and now you're reading about how Hillary Clinton is drinking the blood of frightened white teens and giving YOUR MONEY to THE MEXICANS.

And now you're trapped in an information silo.

Anyway I'm not gonna harp on this much more. I just think with the obvious strength of the app and userbase it's a potentiality with twitter flailing and Musk deciding to ban comedy again it's an interesting thought experiment.



About that...

https://twitter.com/waxpancake/status/1589443469189484545?s=20&t=sHU8DVXmE5-ZGw6xqB01vA

The Chaser still has this up at least
https://twitter.com/chaser/status/1589443482628009984

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Youth Decay
Aug 18, 2015

 To paraphrase a tweet that I can't find now, we're all the band playing on the Titanic except everyone is laughing at the iceberg and the iceberg is very mad about it.

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Youth Decay
Aug 18, 2015

nine-gear crow posted:

https://twitter.com/verge/status/1589798095877214211

We are officially at the starting line of Elon Musk's Lowtax Speedrun Any%

I assume the paywall is subscription-based and not :10bux: once

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Youth Decay
Aug 18, 2015

Fortunate Bird posted:

Is this causing any journalists to actually leave twitter permanently in protest yet? The banned ones inevitably coming back on to continue complaining about Elon until he decides to ban them again is going to be almost as pathetic as Elon himself.

People really need to get over their Twitter addictions because at this point you're just giving the owner the exact thing he needs to increase the reach of his right wing shilling and conspiracy theories.

Supposedly Rupar is "permanently suspended" (or at least it's effectively that way because Elon borked the website)
https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1603553957867147265

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