Aaron RuparSo Elon Musk, apparently throwing a fit after Substack announced a Twitter-like "Notes" product earlier this week, has now not only blocked tweets from being embedded in Substack posts but has blocked Substack articles from being shared on Twitter. It's preposterous but also reflective of his broader philosophy for ruini-- I mean running the company, which is hostage-taking and destruction instead of trying to grow the platform by, you know, improving it.
My video tweets alone have done more than 4 billion views over the years. I don't expect Twitter to throw a parade for me, but it would be nice if they would at least just leave progressive creators and journalists alone. Instead, every week seems to bring new opportunities to shit on us and make it increasingly difficult to use the platform to promote our content. It's ridiculous, and I'm going to take today off from providing free content for Elon.
MidLifeBroad@atrupar perhaps you should consider quitting the platform.
Kevin Leecaster@GreenFire @atrupar I quit the day it became Musky.
@MidLifeBroad @atrupar
I quit the day I got banned for calling a Republican senator an insurrectionist and that was under Jack. #J6 really should have been enough of a wake-up call for everyone that we needed to build a safer platform to protect democracy from with the benefit of hindsight imo.
I quit the day I got banned for calling a Republican senator an insurrectionist and that was under Jack. #J6 really should have been enough of a wake-up call for everyone that we needed to build a safer platform to protect democracy from with the benefit of hindsight imo.
@GreenFire @atrupar agreed. I like it here so much better. No one person or company owns it.