🍀Ed Murray
Ali Velshi@rogermcnamee believes Musk’s impact as CEO will be felt way beyond spheres on the internet: "We have essentially turned over the biggest communication systems in our country-- effectively the places where Democracy takes place-- to a handful of billionaires whose personal politics and personal ambitions are at odds with Democracy."
GBerni@velshi @rogermcnamee well said
WriteOrDie@velshi And... this is why we're here, not there.
Montana Magpie@velshi @rogermcnamee — Yup. It’s lunacy.
RJD@velshi @rogermcnamee like say the TV media or newspapers?
Roulette@velshi @rogermcnamee wee need to keep the momentum going. with federation in the public consciousness all the anger at big tech could actually be directed in a productive way. to pixelfed from instagram as well as mastodon from twitter
Locksmith@velshi @rogermcnamee Purchases the thing, wants to make it his personal toy, and if someone does not want to play, that someone is "against free speech." Perhaps that someone just thinks you are an idiot, Elmo, and doesn't want to listen to you or your fanbois.
PoeticLicenseDK@velshi @rogermcnamee
Can everybody with a media platform start promoting their Mastodon or other social media handles like sports talk radio promote their dirty bird social media handles?
Can everybody with a media platform start promoting their Mastodon or other social media handles like sports talk radio promote their dirty bird social media handles?
CeeDub70@velshi @rogermcnamee
The sale should have been blocked for that very reason. Twitter was the resource of the world for real-time news dispensation. The rest of it can be junked.
The sale should have been blocked for that very reason. Twitter was the resource of the world for real-time news dispensation. The rest of it can be junked.
OpenDNA⚙️@velshi @rogermcnamee I have bad news about a16z.
I confess that I didn't understand until pmarca endorsed the idea that we need a war like WWII every generation to decimate the population and teach workers not to be "whiny".
I thought it was was just the "PayPal Mafia".
Normal Guy
AnthonyUplandpoetWatkinsOne of the things that he and most people who spend a lot of time on Twitter, or at least did seem to not realize is that 94% of the worlds population is never on Twitter. Most of them have never heard of Twitter until Alon musk bought it and started making a lot of negative headlines.