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littleMAS t1_jdfi0qc wrote

Pay to play in Elon's sandbox.

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StaticNocturne t1_jdgnlqe wrote

Ladies and gentlemen: the pre-eminent digital forum for free speech*

*Where you can buy credibility

*So long as it doesn't reflect poorly on the supreme leader

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S4T4NICP4NIC t1_jdg9ed4 wrote

Unfortunately, it's the official sandbox for virtually every single government/municipality/official/lawmaker in the goddamn country.

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[deleted] t1_jdglqcb wrote

But there's no reason whatsoever it has to continue to be.

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S4T4NICP4NIC t1_jdhpsxx wrote

I agree 100%. There needs to be some kind of publicly funded platform (fuck off libertarians), otherwise things would just move to another huge company.

Either way, it would (will?) be a major undertaking to extricate everything from Musk's madhouse.

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[deleted] t1_jdjr9tx wrote

Maybe I'm showing my age here but I would argue there really doesn't need to be this type of platform at all. It wasn't that long ago that society functioned just fine (I would argue in some ways better) without it.

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S4T4NICP4NIC t1_jdkkwnl wrote

That's a fair point. I'm also not young, so I get where you're coming from. But alas, we live in a social media world now, and we can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.

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50mm-f2 t1_jdgime7 wrote

there is so little real value there nowadays though. it’s all memes and shitposting .. even at the high level. at least that’s what’s popular. there are lots of valuable things being said and shared on the DL, but it’s all drowned out by the loudest dumbest voice.

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Honest-Frosting6242 t1_jdlz1t8 wrote

He paid 44 billion for the company and people get upset that he wants it to be profitable.

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