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> Twitter is still the best place to follow this and get updates, everyone is still make "official" statements on twitter, not sure how long this website will last but until then, this is the only portal for me to get news.

It's only natural to confuse what is happening with what we wish to happen. After all, when we imagine something, aren't we undergoing a kind of experience?

A lot of people wish Twitter were dying, even though it's it, so they interpret evidence through a lens of belief confirmation rather than belief disproof. It's only human to do this. We all do.

>>quotem+(OP)
> A lot of people wish Twitter were dying, even though it's it, so they interpret evidence through a lens of belief confirmation rather than belief disproof.

Cognitive dissonance

>>quotem+(OP)
It was funny reading Kara Swisher keeping saying twitter is dying and is toxic and what not, while STILL doing all her first announcements on twitter, and using twitter as a source.

same with Ashlee Vance (the other journo reporting on this) and all the main players (Sam/Greg/Ilya/Mira/Satya/whoever) also make their first announcement on twitter.

I don't know about the funding part of it, but there is no denying it, the news is still freshest on twitter. Twitter feels just as toxic for me as before, in fact I feel community notes has made it much better, imho.

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In some related news, I finally got bluesky invite (I don't have invite codes yet or I would share here)

and people there are complaining about... mastadon and how elitist it is...

that was an eye opener.

nice if you want some science-y updates but it's still lags behind twitter for news.

>>ryzvon+B1
I don’t use Twitter any more, other than occasionally following links there (which open in the browser, because I deleted the app).

Discoverability on Mastodon is abysmal. It was too much work for me.

I tend to get my news from Substack now.

>>metaba+y2
interesting, substack doesn't sound like a platform for the freshest news, but for deep insights.

Don't you feel out of date on substack? especially since things move so fast sometimes, like with this open-ai fiasco?

>>ryzvon+B1
Skilled operators say what sounds most virtuous and do what benefits most. Especially when these two things are not the same.

>>noneth+s
Or they read about the large cuts to Twitter’s valuation from banks and X itself?

>>ryzvon+93
Twitter is incredibly uncivil. I don’t have the stomach for it.

>>ryzvon+B1
Twitter isn't dying, but it hasn't grown measurably since 2015. Still sitting at about 300m active users.

>>ryzvon+B1
Bluesky took long enough to invite me that I forgot what it even was when I got the email.

>>ryzvon+93
Did being up to date really have an impact on your life? It's mostly just gossip.

>>tayo42+ab
I understand what you are saying, but sometimes, news like this is perhaps the only excitement in our otherwise dull lives.