Comment on The Right Has a Bluesky Problem
HawlSera@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
For the most part, X has held up as the closest thing to a central platform for political and cultural discourse.
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Whoever told you that is a god damn liar.
It’s kinda correct in that it’s full of right wingers and also lefties, although the scales have been quickly shifting.
Genuine question though, what social media platform is better at being central?
If you say Lemmy I’m gonna laugh myself into a coma 😆
Twitter has always had an entire order of magnitude less users than other social media platforms like Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, or TikTok. Heck, it’s barely bigger than Reddit. I’ve honestly never understood why anyone has ever paid any attention to that cesspool.
Because among the users it does have are some of the most influential people in the world.
Like, the US Senate’s pretty small, too, but people from the world over have to pay attention to its members.
Meh. Those people all have Facebook accounts too. It can’t just be that.
oyo@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Unfortunately it’s true, whether you like it or not. The amount of times one random radical asshat saying something outrageous turns into a major outlet “people-are-saying” news article is infuriating.