I find it genuinely confusing, like if you enjoyed a certain brand of ice cream but then found out the owner of the company used the money you spend on mint chocolate chip to hunt people for sport, you would buy a different fucking brand of ice cream! Posting *anything* there is INSANE.
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Richard Jacob
The owner of X is openly offering million dollar bribes to swing the election of Supreme Court judges in the US.
If you are a media organisation and are still using links to X on your website and posting there, quite simply..
You are part of this.
If you are a media organisation and are still using links to X on your website and posting there, quite simply..
You are part of this.
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Activists could organize digital protests and devote maybe 30 minutes a day to log in and talk to people about why continuing to use X doesn’t help anybody, left or right.
When progressive folks of all stripes became justifiably horrified by Elon's version of Twitter, we atomized to a handful of potential twitter alternatives. (1 of 3).
To the average voter, our voices disappeared & were replaced with multiple flavors of MAGA. (2 of 3)
The average voter was suddenly bombarded with MAGA variations and I think this was enough to tip the election.
Your mileage may vary.
I think we inadvertently helped. He goosed the algorithm AND we stopped producing content. To the average Twitter user, it was like all opinion to the left of moderate republicans just disappeared.
Maybe you like Roger Stone rooting through your photo library and it’s associated meta data, or tracking your movements and conversations, but I don’t.
They seem to lack auto-captioning or sensory guides?