Mike Masnick ✅So, uh, not pleased that Elon is now implying I might be a gullible sucker who would pay him his monthly "I'm a gullible sucker" fee. Dude should just take away our legacy blue checks like he promised.
Jarvis Slacks@mmasnick You could always, I don't know, get off Twitter.
@Jayslacks I kinda need it for work.
What is it with so many people on Mastodon who feel they should tell other people what they should or should not do?
ASP ¯\_(ツ)_/¯Its a very enthusiastic community 🤷♂️
But you are correct, heard similar explanations from other journalists. Its still a bigger platform with many more users. If you need this platform for communication you have to be active on this platform. No one to blame for that
Similar reason why people have to use Windows even if there are enough alternatives like Linux. If you need a certain program and its only available on Windows there is almost nothing you can do about it.
Louis Ingenthron@mmasnick @Jayslacks While I agree with you that that can be annoying in general, it does seem to be a somewhat reasonable response to a complaint about a major social network posted on a competitor network. I'd expect a similar response on Post, Gab, even Facebook. I don't think it's unique to Mastodon.
@mmasnick I'm not trying to tell you what to do. I'm just very anti-Twitter. And if every single journalist got off Twitter, it would almost instantly collapse. That website needs you, not the other way around.
@Jayslacks the account is locked down. I only use it to tell people to come here. But I need to read stuff on the site for my job.
OldHound@mmasnick @Jayslacks Yup! Though with the way Elon is running the company into the ground, I'm not sure that there will be a Twitter left in a year's time.