Tech Friday: Politics has triggered some people to leave X.com
Posted By RichC on November 15, 2024
It has been a challenging week and a half for a few of my more liberal Democrat friends on the social media platform X.com (previously Twitter). I’m unsure if it is anger, disbelief or a way to strike bad now that President-Elect Donald Trump won the election. Trump has been rapidly nominating his cabinet (mostly loyalists) and many on the left can’t stomach seeing and hearing about it on social media. I suspect that in frustration, Democrats partially blame Elon Musk (owner of X) and are leaving X just because he is part of the team?
So for now, I’ll tweak this and pretend it belongs on Tech Friday.
In any case, I’m a little sad (but mostly disappointed) to see social acquaintances for now leave the platform and joining a “leftist-friendly” BlueSky. I mentioned to one of them who claims to just be adding BSKY as “another” app, that it will likely be just another echo chamber as I found with a few other platforms in the past when Twitter was being manipulated by those with a leftist political ideology. Time will tell.
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