They Criticized Musk on X. Then Their Reach Collapsed.
Graphs from this story are stark.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/04/23/business/elon-musk-x-suppression-laura-loomer.html
Discussion
Evidence number 5B772 that Elon Musk is not your friend, and "X" is only good for your reach if you pay for it AND suck him off at the same time:
We did an AI project ad that said 'big corp AI does not care about truth. they care about money'. our ad account got banned 😃
The interesting thing is that the collective takeaway is that Elon is a bad dude not that centralized control of communication and censorship is a bad thing.
Dummies.
probably both
I don’t understand all of the Elon hate to be honest.
I don't hate him, but also don't see the need to put him on a pedestal. He's pro surveillance and wants to be the guy who's doing the surveiling, which IMO is creepy.
Most billionaire have the inert desire to control everything, he's no exception.
I agree with that. In my opinion on him and most people with power is clap for when they do good and hold their feet to the fire when they don’t.
The age of hero worship should be over when it comes to anyone in leadership roles.
He is such a phony, and a liar, and hypocrite
So are a lot of other rich people. Can you admit he’s doing some good as well?
You know he pretended to be a top video game player until it came out that he knew nothing about the game and paid someone to play for him
Shadowbanning.
All centralized systems are not free.
this is, in fact, the way "engagement" actually works on the app formerly known as Twitter.
It's been educational to watch the sucking up to Elon on that platform
Seems like saylor is a protected class on twitter too. Dare criticize "gigachad"? Shadowban
They probably have a custom app with a "Reduce Reach" profile button just for him lol
He just makes himself the most popular account, then the algorithm runs with his "user interactions" like blocking this person.
"Trust me bro, his account is totally organically the most popular in the world!"
Curious as to how much of this is Grok traction vs just X use
The good thing about #Nostr is that everyone is effectively shadowbanned because the userbase is so small. 😏😂🤙
My particular critique, just the way I use X is as a reply guy, I never expected feedback from the person I was commenting on, but would expect fellow reply guys to reply to me occasionally. Now that never happens.
I keep X for one single feed that I curated over the span of years, but it's completely useless to me other than that one feed. 🤷♂️
The platform has become a cesspool & I am now #Nostr exclusive when it comes to posting. 🤙
Nostr fixes this
#nostr
#zensur
#censorship
#freespeach
My Twitter experience got worse under Musk too, but the NYTimes is presumptively untrustworthy. Zero credibility.
Social network == A topN query in a SQL table.
You either put a purpose up or you will be given one!
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Elon reckons that "supressed content" isn't the same as censorship