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A Twitter boycott probably will not work
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A Twitter boycott probably will not work

But socialists can't stop moralizing about strategic disagreements!

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Carl Beijer
Jul 12, 2024
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Now that I have been exiled from Twitter for disagreeing with Nazis, most of my minimal social media presence is confined to Bluesky. In case you are unfamiliar, Bluesky is basically Twitter for liberals. It launched during Elon Musk Twitter takeover and pointedly marketed itself as a safe space for marginalized identities, even going so far as to target LGBT folks with exclusive invites during the rollout. The strategy had more success than other platforms trying to fill the same niche have had in the past, even attracting a few high-profile users like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, but it failed to attract the mass exodus from Twitter that many of its users were hoping for.

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