{"id":18390,"date":"2024-12-14T09:02:06","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T10:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=18390"},"modified":"2024-12-14T10:25:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T10:25:47","slug":"another-new-twitter-good-luck-with-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=18390","title":{"rendered":"Another New Twitter? Good Luck With That."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Recently, while talking to a friend who used to run a large media website, I casually mentioned the rise of Bluesky. More than a million users have deleted their X (formerly Twitter) accounts and moved over to the upstart social media site, which they see as a healthier replacement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI don\u2019t get it,\u201d my friend said, his voice (and apparently his heart rate) spiking. \u201cWhy? You\u2019re free!\u201d After all, we had witnessed X\u2019s unraveling, as it turned from a genuine community space into an often venomous one. Why should we imagine Bluesky would avoid that fate? And more to the point: Why keep trying to recreate the internet of the past? Why not accept where we are and move on?<\/p>\n

We have officially arrived in late-stage social media. The services and platforms that delighted us and reshaped our lives when they began appearing a few decades ago have now reached total saturation and maturation. Call it malaise. Call it Stockholm syndrome. Call it whatever. But each time a new platform debuts, promising something better \u2014 to help us connect better, share photos better, manage our lives better \u2014 many of us enthusiastically trek on over, only to be disappointed in the end.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Bluesky, created by one of Twitter\u2019s original founders, Jack Dorsey, has been around since 2019. In the aftermath of the presidential election in November, it has become a digital refuge from the interferences of Elon Musk. People have been fleeing X since Musk bought the company in 2022, when, seemingly for his own amusement, he began stripping it of nearly all its conversational functionality. (Shonda Rhimes was an early deserter: \u201cNot hanging around for whatever Elon has planned,\u201d she posted on the site. \u201cBye.\u201d) Musk started charging a fee for security features that protected users from hacks, and introduced a requirement that all content be used to train Grok, X\u2019s A.I. chatbot. Since Musk took over, the volume of hateful slurs directed at Black, Jewish, trans and queer people has soared. For many, Musk\u2019s close alignment with Trump was the final straw.<\/p>\n

The history of the internet is littered with the virtual headstones of services that rose and faded as tides of attention \u2014 and money \u2014 came and went. (Anyone remember Turntable.fm? Foursquare? Versus?) Typically the demise of a company doesn\u2019t inspire a collective funereal lament \u2014 and a rallying cry to decamp for greener pastures. People rightfully see Musk\u2019s X as emblematic of the overreach of our technocracy, and the site\u2019s devolution into bot chatter, nonsensical spam, low-grade advertising and Pop Crave alerts as a harbinger of the era to come.<\/p>\n

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Recently, while talking to a friend who used to run a large media website, I casually mentioned the rise of Bluesky. More than a million users have deleted their X (formerly Twitter) accounts and moved over to the upstart social media site, which they see as a healthier replacement.Listen to this article, read by January LaVoy\u201cI don\u2019t get it,\u201d my friend said, his voice (and apparently his heart rate) spiking. \u201cWhy? You\u2019re free!\u201d After all, we had witnessed X\u2019s unraveling, as it turned from a genuine community space into an often venomous one. Why should we imagine Bluesky would avoid that fate? And more to the point: Why keep trying to recreate the internet of the past? Why not accept where we are and move on?We have officially arrived in late-stage social media. The services and platforms that delighted us and reshaped our lives when they began appearing a few decades ago have now reached total saturation and maturation. Call it malaise. Call it Stockholm syndrome. Call it whatever. But each time a new platform debuts, promising something better \u2014 to help us connect better, share photos better, manage our lives better \u2014 many of us enthusiastically trek on over, only to be disappointed in the end.Bluesky, created by one of Twitter\u2019s original founders, Jack Dorsey, has been around since 2019. In the aftermath of the presidential election in November, it has become a digital refuge from the interferences of Elon Musk. People have been fleeing X since Musk bought the company in 2022, when, seemingly for his own amusement, he began stripping it of nearly all its conversational functionality. (Shonda Rhimes was an early deserter: \u201cNot hanging around for whatever Elon has planned,\u201d she posted on the site. \u201cBye.\u201d) Musk started charging a fee for security features that protected users from hacks, and introduced a requirement that all content be used to train Grok, X\u2019s A.I. chatbot. Since Musk took over, the volume of hateful slurs directed at Black, Jewish, trans and queer people has soared. For many, Musk\u2019s close alignment with Trump was the final straw.The history of the internet is littered with the virtual headstones of services that rose and faded as tides of attention \u2014 and money \u2014 came and went. (Anyone remember Turntable.fm? Foursquare? Versus?) Typically the demise of a company doesn\u2019t inspire a collective funereal lament \u2014 and a rallying cry to decamp for greener pastures. People rightfully see Musk\u2019s X as emblematic of the overreach of our technocracy, and the site\u2019s devolution into bot chatter, nonsensical spam, low-grade advertising and Pop Crave alerts as a harbinger of the era to come.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18392,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18393,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18390\/revisions\/18393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}