{"id":7777,"date":"2022-11-09T18:37:53","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T17:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/09\/i-found-my-partner-and-a-job-on-twitter-mastodon-and-parler-could-never-compare-sarah-manavis\/"},"modified":"2022-11-09T18:37:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T17:37:53","slug":"i-found-my-partner-and-a-job-on-twitter-mastodon-and-parler-could-never-compare-sarah-manavis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/09\/i-found-my-partner-and-a-job-on-twitter-mastodon-and-parler-could-never-compare-sarah-manavis\/","title":{"rendered":"I found my partner and a job on Twitter. Mastodon and Parler could never compare | Sarah Manavis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elon Musk\u2019s takeover has seen an estimated million users leave the site. But was it already past its prime?<\/p>\n

Like much of what has happened in recent years, the possibility of Elon Musk taking over and actually managing to destroy Twitter had the quality of a fever dream: something that would probably be a disaster but would almost certainly never happen. It felt likely that, even in the most dramatic case, he would succeed only in making an already bad platform slightly worse. Which is why the last 10 days have awed even Musk\u2019s harshest critics: since he took over Twitter on 27 October, after firing thousands of staff and the company\u2019s entire board so that he became its sole member, the site has truly begun to tank. By Musk\u2019s own admission, the company is losing<\/a> $4m a day \u2013 reportedly in large part due to advertisers fleeing.<\/p>\n

In the few days after Musk\u2019s takeover, more than a million people<\/a> are believed to have left the site, many in pursuit of an alternative Twitter-esque platform. While there are several popular existing sites that allow users to create text posts shared to an online message board (like Discord, Reddit, and Tumblr), the emerging favourite is Mastodon: a social networking site which uniquely operates as a nonprofit, effectively <\/strong>pitching itself as \u201cTwitter, but nice\u201d. However, the idea that you can recreate a version of Twitter without Twitter\u2019s pre-existing problems is a pipe dream. It won\u2019t happen on Mastodon; it most probably won\u2019t happen anywhere.<\/p>\n

Sarah Manavis is an American writer covering technology, culture and society<\/p>\n

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\nElon Musk\u2019s takeover has seen an estimated million users leave the site. But was it already past its prime?
\nLike much of what has happened in recent years, the possibility of Elon Musk taking over and actually managing to destroy Twitter had the quality of a fever dream: something that would probably be a disaster but would almost certainly never happen. It felt likely that, even in the most dramatic case, he would succeed only in making an already bad platform slightly worse. Which is why the last 10 days have awed even Musk\u2019s harshest critics: since he took over Twitter on 27 October, after firing thousands of staff and the company\u2019s entire board so that he became its sole member, the site has truly begun to tank. By Musk\u2019s own admission, the company is losing $4m a day \u2013 reportedly in large part due to advertisers fleeing.
\nIn the few days after Musk\u2019s takeover, more than a million people are believed to have left the site, many in pursuit of an alternative Twitter-esque platform. While there are several popular existing sites that allow users to create text posts shared to an online message board (like Discord, Reddit, and Tumblr), the emerging favourite is Mastodon: a social networking site which uniquely operates as a nonprofit, effectively pitching itself as \u201cTwitter, but nice\u201d. However, the idea that you can recreate a version of Twitter without Twitter\u2019s pre-existing problems is a pipe dream. It won\u2019t happen on Mastodon; it most probably won\u2019t happen anywhere.
\nSarah Manavis is an American writer covering technology, culture and society Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elon Musk\u2019s takeover has seen an estimated million users leave the site. But was it already past its prime? Like much of what has happened in recent years, the possibility of Elon Musk taking over and actually managing to destroy Twitter had the quality of a fever dream: something that would probably be a disaster …<\/p>\n

I found my partner and a job on Twitter. Mastodon and Parler could never compare | Sarah Manavis<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7777"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}