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The slow death of Twitter is measured in disasters like the Baltimore collapse

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The issue is not anything to do with Twitter in specific, but part of a wider societal problem that needs discussion where people feel they are losing their voice or belonging to the world. Put another way, yes, on other social media speech can be suppressed in favour of official speech and/or themes, but it hasn't changed how people feel.

It doesn't surprise me if people made cracks about the ship's crew. Where I am, we're familiar with the extremely low technical proficiency of graduates of strip mall diploma mill schools.

Given that the ship has had issues with systems that were flagged in the past, is just par for the course. Seemingly cheap, and apparently incompetent on the part of the owners/operators.

In this link, https://fortune.com/2024/03/28/maritime-law-francis-scott-ke... we can see that the ship has already crashed before. Baltimore wasn't the first time.

It's not Twitter's fault. Fix the ship's systems and operating procedures properly, and address societal imbalances.

> part of a wider societal problem that needs discussion

You mean this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39300863

It is their fault. Their engagement algorithm favors the most bellicose, ignorant, vapid, incendiary content. Dramas and fights bubble to the top because it gets the most eyeballs. The only thing stopping the dam from completely bursting in the past was a modicum of content moderation. It doesn't have to be that way. Case in point is hacker news.

I've been checking out Bluesky the last 10 days or so. It definitely seems like a better way to organize social media.

Being able to select which algorithms, moderation, data hosting, and interface app... all operating on the same fabric... this is the way.

It's probably (hopefully) only a matter of time, and coalescing around a protocol.

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