On the issue whether scientists have a duty to stay on X and fight
“On X, we are being asked to fight with one hand tied behind our backs. Our posts are given less and less prominence – throttled in favour of post from users more sympathetic to Elon Musk’s world-view.”
“On X, we are being asked to fight with one hand tied behind our backs. Our posts are given less and less prominence – throttled in favour of post from users more sympathetic to Elon Musk’s world-view.”
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Kit Yates
"Why engage in the cess-pit of misinformation that X has become and suffer the concomitant daily abuse when I could speak to the same number of people on Bluesky without the bile, the hate and the outright lies I’ve encountered on X?"
https://buff.ly/4hLOZyB
https://buff.ly/4hLOZyB
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X by name. Ex by nature.
If you want to help spread muck, spend a day on a farm!
In reality even on election day two weeks ago X had only 162 million daily users"
This doesn't augur well for Musk's future impact on the US economy, does it?
@lifelonglandlady.bsky.social
It's like The Fly. Mangled and dangerous and irrevocably changed.
Time to let it die.
You can see the rate of account loss on X here…the result of deliberate throttling and Xodus 👇
I’m guessing MARKEDLY fewer a day…& how many of those are PAID to troll?
On this question of a duty to stay and fight
A duty
I can see your job might require it
Especially if your job is disinformation & misinformation research & the consequences of it
Fertile soil for that there.
I do think it would be a valuable service if researchers could establish not only how many bots & trolls exist, but also how active and when + who funds/ promotes them.
I don’t think the “atmosphere” there is conducive to that any more
Maybe. I don’t know why a news organisation would REQUIRE (& thus also participate in enhancing) engagement in a site gone rotten - beyond, perhaps, purely for research purposes.