PwnallthethingsJul 1, 2023

Welcome new twitter expats!

I know for a lot of you this is a temporary migration, and you'll head back once they fix the problems.

But before you go back to twitter, take this thought with you: the owners of twitter don't just push their agendas at you. You already know that, and probably think it doesn't affect you. But what you don't see is how much stuff is gone there now. You don't see who's gone, or what views aren't there anymore

Show threadPwnallthethingsJul 1, 2023
It's easy enough to spot what's there. It's *much* harder to spot what's missing. And one of the things I enormously appreciate with this place and a few others is that it highlights just how many important local perspectives on a ton of different important topics just never surface there anymore.
Show threadPwnallthethingsJul 1, 2023
Overton windows shift not just by adding weight on one side of the scale, but by taking it off at the other side, and blasting trash in the middle to confuse and disorientate. You can't easily protect yourself from platform owners doing that on purpose if its your only information source.
Show threadAlexey Merz
@Pwnallthethings At this point Twitter is not even serving as a disinformation source. It's effectively shut down.
Jul 1, 2023 at 9:24pmWeb
Show threadInnerPartisanJul 1, 2023
@merz @Pwnallthethings Yup. If Elon the boy genious doesn't reverse his... unquestionably brilliant 69d checkers move, Twitter is, as of today, effectively gone.