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Does Musk gain anything for making Mastodon such a good alternative?
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I think Twitter and Reddit going down the drains is an op at this point. The state department heavily used Twitter in their work. The NSA gathered a ton of data from both of them. They manipulated public discourse in real time when they needed to.
Musk is someone they have control over due to his ties to the MIC. He doesn’t just do things that would disrupt state propaganda operations without approvals.
Two major social networks effectively destroying their ability to get information produced by the community into the wider public through search indexing? This isn’t a coincidence.
Reddit would very much like their subreddits to all return to normal operation. They’re going to remove all mod teams that don’t unprivate later this week. Reddit’s valuation by Fidelity has been going down the drain since all this drama began. I don’t see evidence that they are purposely sandbagging against their own capitalist self-interest.
Musk being an incompetent (Hanlon’s Razor) can explain every single move he has made.
Reddit is also killing all sources of data egress and will likely sunset the old interface when their numbers look good enough and the new interface is less usable for finding counter-narratives and likely less searchable by search engines.
Remember that the profit motive of reddit is not separate from war profiteering as the companies that are involved in any IPO are the same companies that control pretty much every other industry.
If you grant Musk’s incompetence and you grant Twitter’s function in state propaganda then the MIC isn’t letting Musk buy it out and they aren’t letting him make decisions when they already have state actors in executive positions at Twitter to handle and manage him.
