Miguel Afonso CaetanoNov 20, 2024

Any entity who abandons a social media network only because of the political opinions of its owner is just acting like a drama queen. If anything, one should stay, fight, resist, and continue to spread good ideas. These entities don't believe in the idea of a truly open public sphere.

As a matter of fact, when these entities abandon a social media platform, they're saying to the whole world, including critics, that they don't really believe in the power of their ideas and actions. In other words, these entities are revealing themselves as reactionaries.

Show threadPersonneNov 20, 2024
@remixtures
Insert proverbial quote "if you have 10 Nazis at a table and you don't get up, there are 11 Nazis at the table".
Maybe they don't want to be collaborators and refuse to give revenue to bastards.
Show threadMiguel Afonso Caetano
@per_sonne There are several leftists in Twitter. As a matter of fact, the ones who are abandoning it are mostly liberals. And that's the problem: Abandoning Twitter only increases the Echo Chamber / Filter Bubble effect.
Nov 20, 2024 at 10:40amWeb
Show threadPersonneNov 20, 2024
@remixtures
You're one of the most intelligent and cultured people I know, but you're on the wrong side on this one. Users have no control over Musk's Twitter algorithms, which he has been manipulating for political purposes for some time now. In order for your theory to be true, the platform would have be somehow "neutral", and establishing some kind of level playing field, which it is no longer doing. Staying is collaborating with the statu quo and being an enabler. Users leaving the platform is a form of voting with their feet and drying up their source of revenue (ads). Staying, however well intended, will only promote and normalise far-right speech and Musk/Thiel authoritarian slide.
Show threadMaier AmsdenNov 20, 2024
@per_sonne @remixtures I bounced after I was suspended twice for outspoken leftism and my engagement plummeted.
Show threadMiguel Afonso CaetanoNov 20, 2024

@per_sonne I wrote a variant of this on Facebook but here it goes:

All social networks should be seen as just a bunch of distribution channels for your blog posts that you publish on your blog. I guess this is even more true for media organizations whose aim should be to reach the widest range of potential readers/watchers.

So I do really think by deleting their account from Twitter, media organizations are giving way too much importance to Twitter, and particularly to Musk. More importantly, they're giving too much importance to social platforms, because what happened to Twitter can always happen to BlueSky or even Mastodon.

And most of the times I bet what ends up happening is that these organizations stop publishing their content over social networks, because in reality they come to realize there's not really any viable alternative for replacing Twitter - at least currently and for the foreseeable future. The tools and the mass audience are not really there. And another thing that these organizations are missing is that probably, sooner or later, Musk will give up on Twitter and move on to the Next Big Thing.

On the other end, I wouldn't be surprised that this is just another excuse to make these organizations more aloof from the general public by putting up more tight paywalls, closing up all comments section, etc.

Personally, I use Twiter as a media source, retweet interesting links to news articles - even if they're paywalled, one can always access them via third-parties -, and then share a small excerpt from the article on Facebook, Mastodon, and sometimes even LinkedIn.

Show threadMaier AmsdenNov 20, 2024
@remixtures @per_sonne Twitter is systematically shadow-banning liberals. #ConfoundingGoebbelsianLies The unchallenged echo chamber/ neutralizing leftist dissent was the point of the purchase.