ScalziOh. No.
(Sips tea)
Nicole ParsonsThe billionaires who helped Musk buy Twitter still consider it money well wasted.
It destroyed Twitter as a means of communication about science, democracy, pandemics, the law, or human rights.
It made Twitter into an unrivaled source of disinformation for the GOP, #KochNetwork, Russia, China, and OPEC.
It made Twitter the friend of every despot or wannabe despot on the planet.
It made Twitter into a platform for bigotry, anti-vaxx Qrazies, election & climate deniers, and incels.
JL Roberson
Panda CabIt's very reductive to think of the decent people still on Twitter as shallow idiots.
As was said earlier a oot of networks and communities are vanishing from the platform. Guess what's happening to the remaining members who don't know how to find safe alternatives elsewhere? Or whose friends and support networks are only easily accessible via Xitter?
Many of them are victims of that takeover, I think they deserve a bit more kindness...
@FrenchPanda @Npars01 @scalzi Certainly and they should also be kind to themselves. I already said months ago the idea this was still a safe space for anyone but Nazis was a desperate delusion, and I still do. I don't accept that after a whole year of Musk consistently proving it wrong. It does someone no good, nor is it kind, to encourage them to stay near their bully, especially when you can see that bully coming for them next, sorry. This almost might have made sense a year ago at this time.
@FrenchPanda @Npars01 @scalzi It's like screaming at a group of people walking down the road, "Watch out! There are bandit rapists waiting for you around the corner" because that's what you saw waiting there, and that group throwing rocks back at you saying "THIS IS SUCH A NICE WALK WE'RE HAVING! LET PEOPLE ENJOY THINGS!" and continuing their walk
@jlroberson @[email protected] @scalzi
There have always been people who ignore warnings, walk into disaster, then blame others for not warning them often enough or loudly enough.
Self-absorption. Anxiety-reduction tactic. Self-soothing conduct.
Martin Ruskov@jlroberson @FrenchPanda @Npars01 @scalzi hmm, did these rocks actually hit you?
Forgive me, but from your tone, it appears to me that you're the one throwing rocks. I have no idea what response you got from others, but I do know a lot of people on Twitter who can't really be bothered to throw rocks at someone shouting around about a niche network (as they see it).
Your non-acceptance means nothing to me or to them, sorry. But I am glad you can feel better and wiser than they.
Bye.
@FrenchPanda @Npars01 @scalzi Your bye means nothing, you're a random stranger, and I'm already blocking you.
kaz@FrenchPanda @jlroberson @Npars01 @scalzi that’s fair. Before finding Mastodon, I considered going back to X a handful of times. I left when Elon bought out Twitter but missed the community that I built on the site. It was really difficult to find an alternative for a while. Glad to be on Mastodon now though, I’ll never go back to X as it is.
Chancerubbage@FrenchPanda @jlroberson @Npars01 @scalzi
There are still many active decent folks with highly active networks of benign interests who have neither been targeted, or have successfully shielded themselves, and aren’t seeing the chaos beyond the hot useless mess made of notifications.
The issue is, their particular nerddom is NOT presented nor as interactive on the other platforms. They see no reasons to migrate. Media fans, comic nostalgia music comedy nerds, nostalgia not active elsewhere
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