There's nothing unique about twitter that makes it irreplaceable, and in fact the alternative of a post twitter world is worse for dictatorships. Imagine trying to block every mastodon and Lemmy server, most or all of which aren't in your borders, none of them have a commercial presence you can use as a hostage, and who would all tell you to go fuck yourself

[–] Endorkend@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Something like Twitter isn't just the tech behind it.

Why do people keep stating this wishful thinking bit as how reality works??

People flock to one social media platform of a specific type over time, period.

And as we're dealing with a large mass of people, this will never be fediverse systems, it will always end up being a corporate system.

And those governments either want to control or if that is not possible, destroy.

People are strongest together.

Divide and conquer et al.

[–] Uranium3006@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why muat it always be corperate systems? Thete's no reason to believe this

[–] Endorkend@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It doesn't have to be, it simply is.

That's the annoying thing with reality, it doesn't always do what you'd like it to do.

[–] Uranium3006@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Is right now, and that day looks to be ending

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Its the users, stupid. We saw the same BS when a Russian firm bought LiveJournal

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I'm honestly kind of loving watching the destruction of Reddit and Twitter. It is a big loss, sure, but like you said they are not irreplaceable. The communities, the people are what matters, not the platform. The people make the platforms. If you lose the people, you lose the platform.

If everyone migrates to Lemmy and Mastodon like I did, then these large platforms don't have to matter anymore.