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X suspends account of Navalny's wife (news.sky.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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X suspends account of Navalny's wife::The widow of Alexei Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya, has had her X account restored after it was briefly suspended for unknown reasons. Meanwhile, his brother has been put on Russia's wanted list. Listen to a Daily podcast special on the Russian opposition after Navalny's death as you scroll.

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[–] [email protected] 108 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I kind of understand Reddit, but why do people hang in there with Twatter when there are currently three grown ass alternatives?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago (1 children)

a lot of people use it just because a lot of people use it...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

This is called the "network effect," so called after the Murderbot novel of the same name (recommended). It's what makes social medias, aggregators, and service platform so "sticky." It's what makes platform-capitalism work.

It also makes nice things work too, ofc.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Many big accounts like politicians are slow to adopt it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Many big politicians are also right-wing extremists, at least here in the US, so that makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

If only. When I ask my friends and relatives it feels like the reach of alternatives to shitty resources is nearly non-existent. We shouldn't fool ourselves about their current popularity and promote their adoption in our peers ):

[–] [email protected] 43 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Heh, it took me a minute to think of a third one after Mastodon and Bluesky.

Totally forgot about Meta's thing.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Meta's thing is... still a thing?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

And they're sticking with that name? ... huh

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Smarter than me, I thought of Nostr

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think they are talking about Nostr because saying threads is better than twitter is like comparing a piece of shit with another piece of shit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I mean Nostr is also a piece of shit but for different reasons, it's basically 4chan but without any moderation at all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Are you saying 4chan has moderation ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Well maybe I wouldn't necessarily call it moderation but it has a site admin that bans people and neighborhoods (IP ranges) for really nasty stuff (like child abuse material). Nostr doesn't even have that though, some nodes may remove content, but most don't, and people effectively can't be banned.