Summary
Elon Musk confirmed that X (formerly Twitter) deprioritizes posts containing links, encouraging users to post links in replies instead.
This practice, aimed at keeping users on the platform, has drawn criticism for restricting access to external information and harming media outlets’ traffic.
Past reports revealed X also delayed links to rival platforms and news outlets, prompting concerns about press freedom and revenue impacts.
The Guardian recently left X, labeling it “toxic,” while other media and free speech advocates accuse the platform of enabling disinformation and controlling narratives.
Anyone still looking for news on Twitter at this point is actively seeking to be misinformed.
Not specifically for this news, it’s been obvious for a while now.
It’s only remaining usefulness is for finding the latest Russian propaganda if you don’t want to give RT advertising revenue directly
Idk there’s some decent porn on there too
Mastadon has it beat by a mile.
If you’re still on X, you deserve whatever you’ve got coming to you.
Anti-competitive, anti-net-neutral, unethical bullshit from a man for which none of that is surprising. And an incoming FCC chair who will abide, allow and even encourage this sort of thing despite it actively making the net worse for consumers, creators, news outlets, retailers, students, politicians, free speech advocates,… Basically everyone that doesn’t own one of like 10 student websites or make ISPs.
I am going to ask the rhetorical question. Why the fuck are people still on xitter ?But then again the same question would be why vote Trump ? People are just unfortunately stupid.
I have a … well - for the time being still friend - who is radicalizing himself since the pandemic and it appears it’s 95% due to shitter. I fill people beyond a certain point remain there because it’s like an addiction to their damaged brains :/
“Free speech” is newspeak for limited, curated speech.
Musk’s replies on Twitter (which I saw on Bluesky lol) are essentially instructions for how you should use Twitter in such a way that benefits and pleases him, even if this is inconvenient for you, the user. Twitter people seem to accept this. Why?
Some palates are just set on boot.
X is trash and no sane person should still be using it.
Of course he is. Abandon the sinking ship faster.
so the genius free speech absolutist has rigged his platform so that if journos, news orgs, and content creators post links outside of his platform those posts get buried UNLESS that content is posted on his platform.
in other words elon wants to own the work produced by others.
and then he wonders why people are fleeing his nazi echo chamber in droves.
and then he wonders why people are fleeing his nazi echo chamber in droves.
I skipped through the current episode of a podcast I used to like until I realized they were closeted magas just today to see if they’d come to their senses. Nope, it seems they will be dead to me forever.
However, I had to laugh that one thing I heard them lamenting was that since all the “liberal” people have gone to Bluesky “to cry”, the only people left for conservatives to argue with on X is each other. (And apparently they are doing so quite a lot over Trump’s cabinet choices.)
The real reason they want people to put content and images directly into the post instead of “lazily linking” it is because by doing so the EULA gives X the right to use that content for their recommendation algorithms and AI training data. External sites can be copyrighted and paywalled.
All a part of keepin’ 'em dumb.
