FR#151 – TikTok Won’t Be Another Twitter
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The conditions that made 'leaving Twitter' a meaningful part of the open social web's identity don't exist for TikTok. What happens when people can't see each other leave?
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The conditions that made 'leaving Twitter' a meaningful part of the open social web's identity don't exist for TikTok. What happens when people can't see each other leave?
X to doubt. Considering that they already had issues with censorship which is labeled as "bugs".
The bug wasn't that the message wasn't sending, the bug was that you were able to detect that the message wasn't sending.
That's how X/Twitter works. They don't "censor" anything, they de-prioritize it things that don't match current ideologies.
They can call it whatever they want, the fact that the bugs only happens on specific topic points, and not on others, tells you that something was changed that was regarding those topic points which was causing the issue in the first place. What else would they be changing that required those specific topic points if not either a de-prioritization or a censorship.
Being said, the article makes some good points, but also fails to realize that it's twitter/X was the same boat. Many people had to choose either to make a political statement or to keep their current friends or influences. I lost access to almost every content creator I followed when I left twitter. plus, you can tell when people leave a platform, the effect is very noticeable. On the individual level they are probably right, but on the majority level it will be noticeable.
