The Moral Case for No Longer Engaging With Elon Musk’s X - eviltoast
The former Twitter is incentivizing violent content, which will only become worse to stand out to users.

The Moral Case for No Longer Engaging With Elon Musk’s X::The former Twitter is incentivizing violent content, which will only become worse to stand out to users.

  • yamanii@lemmy.worldEnglish
    92·
    1 year ago

    I just wish the artists would leave, but no other social media allows porn too.

    • Pxtl@lemmy.caEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      Mastodon totally allows NSFW content. Maybe Threads doesn’t, but why trade one deranged billionaire tech overlord for another?

      Mastodon has some problems. It’s slow, the “instances” concept is confusing, discoverability is poor, and the UI isn’t as nice as Threads.

      Still worth making the jump for the sake of community governance.

      Twitter was destroyed by the governance problem. It proves how we can’t ignore the governance structure of the places we invest our time anymore.

      But yeah, I’m very disappointed how many people who hate Musk’s changes to twitter – even trans people – are staying there.

    • ram@bookwormstory.socialEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Many artists have been hedging their bets the last few months, mirroring their content on Mastodon and BlueSky, so that when Twitter/X/Whatever it’s called now goes under/is closed/goes subscription only/is locked behind the blockchain, they don’t lose their fans, supporters, donators, and commissioners.

      • Muyal_Hix@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, but that’s the thing, most of them have not abandoned Twitter, they have just created accounts elsewhere. For now, at least on the case of nsfw artists, leaving Twitter is unfeasible.

        • ram@bookwormstory.socialEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          They tend to mirror the content on other sites, so they can further grow their communities there too. Can you explain to me how Twitter remains integral when the content is available elsewhere too?

          • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            1 year ago

            It’s integral to them because the bulk of their audience, including crowdfunders and commissioners and other potential paying customers, remains there. It can be a difference between having a viable artistic career or needing another job. Xitter is in clear decline and worse by the day, but it still outnumbers the alternatives by hundreds of millions of active users.

            • ram@bookwormstory.socialEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              Then the solution is for people who like art to accept invites and follow them on BlueSky.

              Or to use Mastodon.

              it still outnumbers the alternatives by hundreds of millions of active users.

              Hundreds of millions of those active users don’t care about art unless Elon’s stealing it.

              • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.worldEnglish
                11·
                1 year ago

                It’s definitely better for them to move out but that’s a whole process, if they want to try to bring even a fraction of their audience along.

                Hundreds of millions of those active users don’t care about art unless Elon’s stealing it.

                Eh, by that measure there’s nowhere to go, because even here I see some people with a wild disregard towards art.

                But really, there are people who care or those artists wouldn’t ever have had a career to begin with.

      • V H@lemmy.stad.socialEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Still many who don’t, though, and they’re the main reason I still occasionally go back.