"The main problem with X is that it's a bad company run by bad people. A similar social network run by a good company with good people would be OK."
#EvanPoll #poll
https://cosocial.ca/@evan/113608443897810621
16 ▋ Strongly agree 123 █████▊ Somewhat agree 171 ████████ Somewhat disagree 136 ██████▎ Strongly disagree
I strongly disagree.
@evan define "run". I wouldn't call all X employees bad people. Not even the majority.
@evan always found Twitter use left me feeling bad, it seems it was better in the early years when I wasn’t a user.
All these platforms slide towards a similar sludge over time. Thats why I get […]
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Given a good company of good people, "similar" has to be pretty stretchy. Mastodon et al. demonstrate that microblogging is not inherently toxic, and I don't think it's *necessary* that […]
@evan I put strongly agree, but I think it's conditional on the social network continuing to be run by a good company/good people, which is not likely
@evan I'm a somewhat disagree, bordering on strong disagree. I think it does matter who runs and maintains a social network. But if that company and the network that it runs can be bought, then […]
@evan I think if you and I ran Twitter it would be pretty good.
@evan I see OK as two similar things. OK as in "OK, but not great" or OK as in "OK fine!" I see the answer here, for me, as the former but not the latter so I said somewhat agree. I don't […]
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its both the one ring problem of corruption and the fact that we are all biased. you can't give that power over speech to anyone.
@evan genuinely struggling to think of a “good company” that hasn’t just turned into “a company” given enough time.
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