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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Shouldn't renaming a social media really be up to the users? Shouldn't twitter users vote on that?

We just conceded that social media are owned by some corporate entity but the only values is in the users themselves. They build it. They should "own" and control the social media democratically, it should be accountable to them. It seems much more obvious than with traditional media that these should be democratic institutions.

Elon Musk behaving so blatantly stupid is unusual but the problem is really much larger.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (12 children)

No.

Users shouldn't have any say over how a social media company is run -- there would be utter chaos.

Take Twitter for example -- I would imagine there are 33% liberals, 33% conservatives, 5% neo-nazis, 5% neo-communists and 24% who don't give a crap about politics because they are bots from China.

(I am just using these figures for an example -- I have no idea about real figures).

So if you need a new name then there would be a huge fight to call it any number of things, none of which relate to a corporate brand.

And if you ask them about corporate policies? "Censorship"? "Should we allow free speech?" "Should we allow hate speech?" "What is hate speech?"

Can you imagine the chaos?

No. Social media should not be run by its users. It is just asking for it to implode within a day.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

In professional settings, I still call it Twitter because my customers doesnt know or understand the name change

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Twatter

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

People talk about Twitter?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Epic rebranding fail.

[+] [email protected] -21 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (7 children)

The owner wants it to be called "X", it is disrespectful to call it anything else. It is a happy coincidence that all name recognition is gone.

Edit: What is so hard to understand.

Calling it X reduces the value of Twitter. Calling it "X, formerly Twitter" tires the two together. I want people to pass on joining X.
You live your values. You should skip your values because someone else is a shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ownership doesn't give you some moral right to rename something. Especially ownership of a public platform

It probably gives you the legal right... That's it.

Maybe it's disrespectful, but I'd strongly argue the opposite - it might be a husk of its former self, but Twitter is an impressive technical feat. They did a lot of good in pushing the limits of technology, and modern programmers stand on their shoulders.

A drunk man-child changed its name late one night, with no respect for what he's destroying or even the slightest consideration of how to actually do it

I've never liked Twitter itself, but I think the creators deserve respect for advancing computer science

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Thank you for your perspective. I had not considered that some would think of Twitter as something special and valuable. While Twitter has created some neat ideas, I see them as the "also ran that win due to huge amounts of cash". No morals involved.

The community that grew around Twitter was special, but temporary. Just like to communities before and after it.

Cheers

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