Ultimately, it will prove impossible to beat Elon Musk by remaining on the platform he controls.
He and his goons control the most powerful aspects of the site. They can, and will, use it to empower authoritarianism, hate, misinformation and white supremacy.
They are just getting started. By continuing to operate within the framework they control, you will be at a disadvantage. More at FrameLab:
https://framelab.substack.com/p/with-trump-returing-to-musks-twitter
He Does NOT DELIVER TWEETS.
You can type WHATEVER YOU WANT into twitter, even criticize Elron.\
It doesnt get delivered to your followers.
I complained about twitter filling my time line with loon far right, no likes, no comments, no rts..
Your tweets arent delivered.
Tweets Elron Doesn't Like Are Not Delivered.
Allowed speech on twitter is decoration for the propaganda.
Silently. They are silent, there is no way to see your tweets not being delivered. They just arent seen. I have, had, 3000 followers, no likes anymore, no rt's no comments.
look
@kevinrns @tmstreet @georgelakoff
I have over 8,000 and not only zero likes, RTs, etc, but I also checked the "interaction" data, and any tweets I wrote directly (not replies to others) have no more than three views-- and I'm fairly sure I'm the only viewer, checking on their status.
My reply tweets only get interactions from the people in that thread.
Musk has shadow-banned me, and I am invisible.
At one time, I had hoped he would leave as promised, but that obviously isn't happening.
@georgelakoff @claesdevreese 100%
”Even if you spend all day fighting against him on Twitter, you are helping Musk and his ilk to win because they thrive off of being attacked.”
The #authoritarian #strongman game is to show they are above the rules. To try and make them obey to them is actually strenghtening their play.
.. and they fall when their schtick stops working.
@georgelakoff @claesdevreese … to add to this post some of my recent observations, is that actually there is a central tenet to all of post-Trump right-wing contrarianism:
”It’s better to be honestly an asshole than pretend to care.”
This has led to a movement that idolises, could even say worships, assholes. And it’s everywhere in the western world, where people feel their not being ”honestly cared for”
1/
@georgelakoff @claesdevreese Of course, anyone with functioning reasoning capabilities sees that this rallying call, while appearing a sincere call for the better, is bullshit.
The social agreement of any non-violent community is held up by the need to care, even if you don’t feel like it. Our laws are simply written approximations of that basic principle.
2/
@georgelakoff @claesdevreese So even if you don’t actually care, have the common courtesy of pretending that you do!
Do it for the children, at least. If you cannot do it for the poor and ill-positioned.
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@georgelakoff This should be a pull quote:
"Most websites today have a tweet button to automatically connect their readers to the site. That needs to change."
And afterwards, other paragraphs worthy of special attention:
"Fox has a major advantage: It’s an information warfare outlet rather than a news organizations. So Fox understands how communication and propaganda work.
(1/2)
Imagine if legitimate news outlets had the good sense to follow Fox’s strategy and stop tweeting until further notice. Imagine if they removed the tweet buttons from their sites until Musk stopped banning journalists from the site. Imagine if they used their collective power to push back on Musk’s tyranny – or to take their audiences to another platform altogether."
2/2
"If you’re tweeting as if everything is normal, you’re doing it wrong." agree!
And I like the suggestion to try to get banned...
@georgelakoff
I've been keeping my #BirdSite acct open, with hopes of bringing other folks over here. But at this point, I'm definitely #shadowbanned .
#Musk has TWICE forced my acct to follow him, but I infollowed. My acct has over 8,000 followers, as it has for awhile, but my visibility is suddenly almost gone. I have to search for my feed from another acct to be sure it's still accessible at all.
There's no point in staying when you have zero control & zero readership.
@georgelakoff
Btw, this is a nice toot about how to archive a #Twitter account.
#TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus
#ElonMusk #Elon #Musk #archivetweets
Attached: 1 image *Archiving and deleting your stuff from the :birdsite:* 1. Archive your old tweets via https://twitter.com/settings/download_your_data. You need to wait until it's available to download. 2. In the meantime, please delete all your direct messages via https://twitter.com/messages (you need to delete every conversation using the ⁝ menu). Actually this should have been done before Musk walked in, but it's never to late. 3. When your archive is ready, download it and backup it somewhere. 4. Delete all your tweet and likes via e.g. https://tweetdelete.net/. This can take a while. 5. After all your tweets are gone (don't forget to delete your likes - they are public!) tweet a message that Twitter is now owned by a #fascist and that you advise other people to leave as well! 6. Wait 24 hours for this tweet to make the rounds and lock your account via https://twitter.com/settings/audience_and_tagging. Don't deactivate your account, because someone else can steal your handle after 30 days (afaik). 7. Optional: Remove your header image and change your profile picture to something Musk doesn't like (be creative). 8. Optional: Probably you already did this, but replace your display name and/or your bio with a message that you left that shithole with your Mastodon address (or any other new location) in your bio. #Twitter #LeaveTwitter #ElonMusk
@georgelakoff
Another important point, for the record and for documenting what is happening:
My shadow-banned account has also been cut off from political "trending" suggestions. All I see are celebrity news and entertainment industry hashtags, nothing about the big political stories of the day. Those used to dominate my "For You" and "Trending" suggestion lists.
@georgelakoff
Yes!!!!
Twitter is not physical space that can be fought over.
It is virtual space. Musk can boost/hide your tweets at will. He can control what you see. He can disappear you from the site. There 👏 is 👏 no 👏 fighting. 👏Just 👏 leave 👏
The sooner you move, the sooner the network effect at safer sites.
#TwitterMigration
@susanyork @georgelakoff
Why stay?
I'll give you some reasons to go.
Deactivating your account removes you from the hatestream his algorithm will feed you and removes one more user count from his pitch to advertisers.
Delete the app too, because you know it's gathering data on you, whether used or not.
@palin @georgelakoff
100% yes!
As soon as he started unbanning white supremacists and blocking journalists, there was no doubt. It's not speech, range of view or profitability. It's propaganda he wants.
#TwitterMigration is inevitable.
@TCatInReality @palin @georgelakoff
Then inevitably Twitter will become nothing more than a "Truth" Social or Parler. Neither are all that profitable, are they?
It's unfortunate, though, that reporters are still legitimizing Twitter by quoting influencers' tweets in their articles. #StarveTheBeast #TwitterTwatter
@georgelakoff
We should petition Apple and Google to remove the app from their stores, as it has become almost exclusively a vessel of hate speech.
It's on their front page now, and beneath (and in!) every comment section, without objection.
@georgelakoff It's time to abandon Twitter. I can understand cross-posting to a point as larger accounts acclimate themselves here.
It may be a big step because here you actually have to work for success.
I don't get why this is so hard for people to understand.
> “You don’t fix a thing by leaving it,” said Stephen King, the legendary horror author who has become a staunch Musk critic.
I don’t understand this mentality at all.
Some things just cannot be fixed or are not worth fixing.
And why would you feel responsible for fixing a billionaire’s broken toy anyway?
I had no time to tell my followers I was quitting Twitter. I woke up Dec. 1 & found I was ‘permanently suspended’
I guess that is kind of a badge of honor.
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