It's honestly extremely humorous. I made a Twitter account in 2015 because it was a requirement for a emergency management crisis communications class I was taking for work. After the course ended I didn't log into it again until Musk bought Twitter. I knew it was going to be a hilarious dumpster fire and wanted to watch it melt down in real time. It hasn't disappointed. But this most recent thing about the rate limits is so hilariously dumb I figured I'd seen enough. Deleted the app off my phone yesterday.
As you point out, Twitter's death is going to mean a huge improvement to journalism. Someone on Lemmy mentioned yesterday how nice it is to not be on Reddit which had gotten to be like 80% Twitter screenshots. Twitter and Reddit diving like this at the same time is going to be a net positive.
Not sure how good it is that the only remaining Social Networks are owner by Meta (I don't count YT as a Social Media as I never use it to engage in comments there).
Edit: Ig there is tiktok now, too. Still it makes Metas slice of the Social Media pie bigger.
But Meta doesn't own social media. They have some social media platforms that are finding direct, open-source alternatives to their service...for FREE. The days of uncontested, corporate-controlled, AI-manipulated social media have come to an end.
It's honestly extremely humorous. I made a Twitter account in 2015 because it was a requirement for a emergency management crisis communications class I was taking for work. After the course ended I didn't log into it again until Musk bought Twitter. I knew it was going to be a hilarious dumpster fire and wanted to watch it melt down in real time. It hasn't disappointed. But this most recent thing about the rate limits is so hilariously dumb I figured I'd seen enough. Deleted the app off my phone yesterday.
As you point out, Twitter's death is going to mean a huge improvement to journalism. Someone on Lemmy mentioned yesterday how nice it is to not be on Reddit which had gotten to be like 80% Twitter screenshots. Twitter and Reddit diving like this at the same time is going to be a net positive.
Not sure how good it is that the only remaining Social Networks are owner by Meta (I don't count YT as a Social Media as I never use it to engage in comments there).
Edit: Ig there is tiktok now, too. Still it makes Metas slice of the Social Media pie bigger.
But Meta doesn't own social media. They have some social media platforms that are finding direct, open-source alternatives to their service...for FREE. The days of uncontested, corporate-controlled, AI-manipulated social media have come to an end.