УНН Politics ✎ Elon Musk reacted to the European Commission's decision to fine the social network X, stating that the European Union should be
"abolished." He believ…
Twitter’s biggest asset is its market dominance. People can’t leave Twitter because all their followers are also on Twitter. If Twitter were to be banned in the EU, that would be a big market share where a competitor could emerge. Since said competitor would not be constrained to the EU, once a new market leader of the EU market emerges, it would soon challenge Twitter in the US and internationally.
The issue is you can’t have a “Twitter-like” platform in one day. So the next platform could very well be chinese and you will have just as many problems with them.
I’d rather have no equivalent, and people flocking to federated systems (Fediverse, ATproto being the 2 big names right now). If you have enough instances of sufficient size, not one instance, thus not one person and/or company can dictate everything.
Twitter’s biggest asset is its market dominance. People can’t leave Twitter because all their followers are also on Twitter. If Twitter were to be banned in the EU, that would be a big market share where a competitor could emerge. Since said competitor would not be constrained to the EU, once a new market leader of the EU market emerges, it would soon challenge Twitter in the US and internationally.
The issue is you can’t have a “Twitter-like” platform in one day. So the next platform could very well be chinese and you will have just as many problems with them.
I’d rather have no equivalent, and people flocking to federated systems (Fediverse, ATproto being the 2 big names right now). If you have enough instances of sufficient size, not one instance, thus not one person and/or company can dictate everything.
that makes sense. So it would be a good move ?
For everyone other than Elon Musk, yes.