For clarity.
Everyone is entitled to opinion, entitled to quote whatever platform they want.
Re what @ISMF stated above…
I will on occasion return to here and underline the proposal to ban ban X.
We will, one day ban X as most places will do.
I will take no joy from when we do, save the fact that we should have done it sooner.
I’ve decreased my usage of X/twitter .
On ocassion, I will post a twitter link though especially if related to LFC. I don’t use twitter for anything else anymore.
I’d rather not but if more credible sources actually used their bluesky accounts when posting rumours. I wouldnt have to use shitter/twitter/xitter.
You could say I’ve gone from someone who didn’t want X banned to someone who couldn’t care less if it was banned.
I don’t think you post significantly more Twitter links than I do. That said, I don’t see anyone having a go at me for doing that, which I find interesting.
ISMF hit the nail on the head. For me, it’s about content and convenience. I couldn’t care less about the owner of the platform, who’s not a likeable person but I’m sure that I could find out I’m using other products of similar people if I only looked close enough.
If/when all of people I follow on social media migrate to a new platform, I will do likewise. Until then, I’ll be using those that I’m currently using. Until TAN bans Twitter, all of us are free to post news from the accounts using it. If anyone has a problem with that, they can just skip those posts. Freedom of speech and all that.
On that note, can we also ban Facebook and Instagram?
I can do that, if you want.
I think the only time I use twitter/X, or whatever they want to call it, is through the links on here.
So I have no idea about whatever else happens on the platform. I do like many dislike Musk.
Regarding Cynnie, it seems that he isn’t that he is against any posters using X (quicker to type) it is that it lags his experience of using TAN.
Whether we ban it, I don’t care either way and the only thing I am for banning it is because of my dislike for Musk.
Be my guest!
Shut the fuck up.
Yeah that Eeyore needs to be silenced.
In my lifetime, and I’m guessing yours, we’ve never been in a situation before where someone so rich and so influential was attempting to grab so much power and destroy so much for such repugnant aims.
In such a situation, we, normal people, have miniscule amounts of power, but what little we have we should, surely, use to oppose this person and his agenda.
It may be small, it may be token, but if enough people withdraw their consent eventually he will lose his power.
It is important to recognize that Musk doesnt make money from twitter. It is a dog of a business. SO from that regard using it is not the same as the moral responsibility you take on for buying clothes made by pre-teens in foreign sweatshops.
The question then is if you want to hurt musk how do you do it? As long as the network effect on twitter is still significant, engaging there to counter his bullshit can still be argued to have value
Good luck with that Limes.
It’s not about the money Musk makes or doesn’t make. A platform that is used by less and less people becomes more and more insignificant. And the extreme right-wingers already have enough platforms where they can be among themselves. Let’s add twitter/X to the list.
That being said, do what you want.
And there is a huge difference between Musk monetizing this directly and indirectly for his own benefit.
Usual request for the forum to implement the aubergine/eggplant emoji…
He gets power from it.
He doesn’t need to get revenue from Twitter. He runs the discourse, and he reaps the benefits out of this in someway with his other ventures. Be it SpaceX , Tesla or DOGE.
And it’s somewhat ironic given the calls for tiktok to be banned when Musk is doing far worse with Twitter.
I’m also with @Cologne-Liverpool in the “do what you want” camp. I can easily ignore X posts and not have any regrets. I do wonder if in a few years (months/days) we’ll look back and wonder why we stayed with a hate mongering site. We’ll never know when it becomes that. But maybe it won’t. I know if I ran a business, I’d never want to be associated with the downside of that risk.
Caveat: I am a proud snowflake
The calls to ban tiktok are primarily based on the data they collect from users and how they use it, not it’s impact on society. That is not really applicable to the current twitter debate.
