Doug GordonAs far as Twitter is concerned, my take on the "Stay and fight! Don't cede the town square!" argument is that's fine and good for some people for a certain amount of time, but if the town square eventually becomes a Nuremberg rally it might be time to leave.
Vadim Graboys@BrooklynSpoke How would you even fight for Twitter on Twitter? Any "fighting" just increases engagement, which increases Musk's profits. The best way to fight is to leave
@deapthoughts Exactly. That's my reasoning. I don't need to create content, and therefore engagement, for the guy in charge. No more than I'd keep buying beers at a bar owned by a bigot.
Mike Says No@BrooklynSpoke it’s not so much the town square as it is The Villages.
Alon@BrooklynSpoke Yeah, what Americans who say "stay and fight" don't get is that when your adversary is the Third Reich, you're the most effective fighting from Britain, not from within. This is something all the European dissidents figured out, sooner or later, to the point that Sartre would give it as a straightforward example of conflicting duties: find your way to Britain and fight, or stay back in France with your ailing family.
Alec Perkins@BrooklynSpoke the rationale falls apart when the town square itself is hostile to your presence and is actively eroding itself. Better to create safe ground elsewhere and pull people to it.
Amy Plitt@BrooklynSpoke I have been thinking a lot about this wrt work and how Twitter is used as a public utility and have no idea what the answer is there.
@plitter It's really difficult. I think organizations, electeds, journalists and others who are more in public service jobs will have a much harder time of it.
Russell Darnley OAM@BrooklynSpoke I think that’s a fair comment. At the moment I’m at the watch and wait stage.