Yeah some niche communities that have nothing to do with extremists or politics at all are only on Twitter/X unfortunately. For example, I am into domain name investing and all my domainer friends gather on X to discuss our latest acquisitions and sales. I’ve tried to get people to move to Mastodon, but it’s difficult.
You’re giving them money and engagement with which to continue. Having your eyes on that content and then returning the next day to see more is explicit approval of that content. And having those ads served to you makes Elon money which he then uses to serve more ads to everyone.
Essentially, visiting X is paying Elon real dollars directly and telling him thank you for the propaganda, may I please have another
Adblocker works on twitter too though, and I don’t really mind Elon profiting from my use of Twitter anyway. People should be compensated for running social media platforms like twitter.
Anyone still on Twitter now is actively part of the problem
Uh, woah there. Why the extremeist view? I’m on there pretty actively for industry chatter. What’s the problem I’m a part of?
Yeah some niche communities that have nothing to do with extremists or politics at all are only on Twitter/X unfortunately. For example, I am into domain name investing and all my domainer friends gather on X to discuss our latest acquisitions and sales. I’ve tried to get people to move to Mastodon, but it’s difficult.
Yeah same in defi software engineering. All of crypto is on Twitter and calls it “ct” aka “crypto twitter”.
FYI, I’m referring to engineering, not shitcoin scam crap.
If I don’t keep up with stuff there, there’s no other places to follow the buzz.
What’s the problem?
The right-wing extremism and misinformation if you were actually wondering
Right, but I don’t see how simply being on the platform makes one part of the problem.
Something something lie down with dogs get, up with fleas something something.
You’re giving them money and engagement with which to continue. Having your eyes on that content and then returning the next day to see more is explicit approval of that content. And having those ads served to you makes Elon money which he then uses to serve more ads to everyone.
Essentially, visiting X is paying Elon real dollars directly and telling him thank you for the propaganda, may I please have another
Adblocker works on twitter too though, and I don’t really mind Elon profiting from my use of Twitter anyway. People should be compensated for running social media platforms like twitter.
Exactly. Don’t use it, let others live.
What? Using twitter causes people to die now?
Don’t use it (if you don’t wanna). Let others live (let others use it if they want to).
Ah, I see. Live and let live.