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| Topic | Elon's handling of Twitter tells me that Twitter itself was a mistake. |
| adjl 11/14/22 1:54:50 PM #61: | ItsKaljinyuTime posted... This modern Internet killed the Mortal Kombat forums, for instance. It didn't kill them. It just provided an alternative that people liked better. As much as that's unfortunate for those that preferred the old communities that haven't been able to sustain themselves, that's just the nature of any service industry: People will leave one service if another one serves their needs better. Are there issues inherent in consolidating the Internet into mega-sites that hold near-monopolies on whatever service they provide? Absolutely. We're seeing that with Twitter now, actually: Musk running it into the ground is causing problems for those that have come to rely on it and he's killing it faster than a competitor can take its place. But the demand is there and I expect several similar services will be competing to fill that vacuum in short order. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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