[conspire] Twitter successors

[Steve Litt]

Nick Moffitt said on Sat, 9 Mar 2024 15:47:14 +0000


>First of all, I'd like to state quite clearly that any further
>workaround is a house built on sand.  I'm not advising this because I
>think it's the correct way forward.  Getting intelligent thoughtful
>people off of "enshittified" walled gardens is clearly the path to
>progress.

Yes!

Almost all these walled gardens turn into bitchfests, black holes of
hate, political partitions, and falsehood fortresses. Twitter became
garbage long before Musk bought them. Facebook has been a cesspool for
over a decade. 

Even LinkedIn, which started as a *professional* group advising you to
accept connections only with those you knew and could vouch for. Well,
today LinkedIn sends you suggestions of people you "might" know, for
you to connect with them. And today a lot of LinkedIn posts are about
abortion or the standard political tropes. And don't get me started on
these guys who repost these smarmy feelgood anecdotes that belong in
Chicken Soup For the Soul, not LinkedIn.

Walled gardens must continuously increase usership in order to
thrive. So conflict and promiscuous recruiting are their friends, and
the result is a quality race to the bottom.

SteveT

Steve Litt 

Autumn 2023 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century
http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21