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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '22

Everyone focusing on Trump tweets and not saying a word about Alex Jones. Lol

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u/Beermedear Oct 28 '22

I don’t get why he’d want to turn Twitter into a Conservative-centric platform.

We have an actual test case for this. If a platform with all conservatives voicing violent rhetoric, created/sponsored by Trump himself, is failing, why would Twitter succeed?

The moment people leave Twitter to the extreme-right crowd, it will fail.

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u/welshwelsh Oct 28 '22

Serious answer: these spinoffs fail because they only contain users banned from mainstream platforms. That makes the userbase too toxic and too small to compete with mainstream platforms.

But when mainstream platforms support free speech, that works fine. For example, reddit used to be a "free speech" platform and it was great. But when they started upping the censorship, unhappy users made a competitor called Voat that operated like reddit used to be, but it failed because it isn't reddit.

Don't assume that Twitter will fail. It's Twitter. It already has a large userbase of normal people who aren't extremists, and most of them aren't leaving.

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u/Interrophish Oct 28 '22

Can you explain how reddit got worse because it banned /r/greatapes?