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Reddit is pretty useless for getting any kind of advanced information on any topic. The impression I had of the US election based on it was completely out of line with reality, so in that case it couldn't be trusted as an accurate source of information on current affairs.
People are addicted to it, but you'd have to be pretty sad to pay for it.
Blocking ads on it is a trivial matter. It never made any money.
The question is why did anyone think it would ever be worth much at all.
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Its value is equal to its usefulness as a propaganda organ. Twitter wasn't purchased to make money. A megaphone is more of a tool than an investment.
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Dunno, I think Musk was forced to buy it, then he suggested it was going to be all sorts of things while massively cutting costs, before pivoting to giving Trump a quarter of a billion in order to get access to government.
I don't think there was any intention to buy twitter for propaganda, and I haven't seen any evidence that shows to what degree (if at all) it helped Trump get elected.
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I mean, you DO understand that the current situation involves granularity like we have never witnessed before, algorithmic fuckery that we have been warned about, and the fact that access to Twitter data in controlled by the guy who initiated all of the fuckery involving twitter, right? What I'm saying is that your standard for evidence is not in touch with the current reality. Fortunately, this guy can't seem to hide his intentions, so we really don't need an in depth analysis. The only ones who would wish for the rest of us to demand such a thing in order to believe what we are seeing in front of our very eyes are the ones who would benefit from the truth being obscured.... Oh. I think I understand now
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I wish I was naive as you.
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he only used it as a propaganda tool after he was forced to buy, he had to make that money back somehow, SAUDIS and putin did step in to help.
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Exactly. I responded to somebody who said twitter was bought not to make money but as a propaganda tool.
Then a sequence of morons 'attacked' me. (I put attacked in quotation marks as it hardly counts as any kind of 'attack'.)
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Reddit is pretty nice as a source of information, but mostly on smaller and more obscure things, not big political topics like US elections.. that's what the last year has taught me, at least.
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Stop, stop! He's already dead!
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I thought they were supposedly going to be making money selling training data for AI's.
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And what is an ai trained on reddit going to help with? Misinforming people on specialised topics, or misinforming people on current affairs?
Edit - I suppose you might be able to train an ai not to reply as per replies on reddit, dunno.
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lol
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Fuck if I know. I never said it was a good idea!
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