> It particularly interested me that Twitter under Musk is trying NOT to discuss Ukraine
What makes you say this? I’m aware tweets about Ukraine are down ranked. This seems analogous to subreddits (such as world news, geopolitics, etc) stickying a live thread for the war. This is to prevent it from taking over the subreddit and it happens to slow down discussion.
Seems like the Ukraine war topic is similarly tuned on Twitter. Ukraine can still trend it just takes more activity than other topics.
This is exactly what "trying not to discuss Ukraine" is. Without outright banning it.
When subreddits create a mandatory megathread, it is always with the purpose of kneecapping that specific topic. Putting a large topic into a single thread makes sharing information about the topic extremely difficult.
I'd like to add that there's no reason to believe that such topics that get buried into megathreads would have taken over a subreddit otherwise. The news cycle turns. For example, worldnews today would look no different if the Ukraine war topic had been allowed to breathe. At most it would have caused the minor inconvenience of going to page two for the fraction of people not interested at all in the Ukraine war at that time.
What makes you say this? I’m aware tweets about Ukraine are down ranked. This seems analogous to subreddits (such as world news, geopolitics, etc) stickying a live thread for the war. This is to prevent it from taking over the subreddit and it happens to slow down discussion.
Seems like the Ukraine war topic is similarly tuned on Twitter. Ukraine can still trend it just takes more activity than other topics.