Comment by WendyTheWillow
2 years ago
Then you are still part of the problem.
Besides, if you're trying to reach the people who remain on Twitter, that says a decent amount about you.
2 years ago
Then you are still part of the problem.
Besides, if you're trying to reach the people who remain on Twitter, that says a decent amount about you.
This is the only correct answer, if you don't like the boss of a social media company, you should just cut all ties with everyone on there. Then lock yourself into your room, never go outside again, and complain about it on HN.
Or you could have a spine and move over to a platform not run by a billionaire antisemite.
Fix everything that makes Mastodon a terrible user experience, get me and all the people I want to reach an invite to Bluesky or persuade people to start using Threads, and I'll happily switch.
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"users of my application".
You seem to be claiming that everyone still on Twitter is ideologically compromised. There's a ton of people just ignoring the politics and I still need a channel to reach them.
The politics are all that are left; it's impossible to use Twitter and not participate on some level.
For example, Twitter is now called X. Surely they noticed that.
I can't take this seriously. Sorry.
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>For example, Twitter is now called X. Surely they noticed that.
So what?
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This kind of rhetoric had a good run, but you should understand it is now (solidly) a net loss in persuasion.
The attempt is not persuasion, but alienation. This is the fate of people who behave as he does, and I believe will contribute (to the extent any one person can) in deterrence of others from trying to normalize continued Twitter usage in light of its antisemitic shift in tone.
Alienation from what? People who uncritically parrot fabrications and propaganda on HN?
THAT is what shouldn't be "normalized".
But since you brought it up, of all the indicators of societal descent over the last 7-10 years, the shift away from critical analysis and open dialogue to soviet-level information control and behavior/thought policing is most troubling.
I use Twitter daily because it's the only platform where I have a chance to hear the whole truth on a given subject, usually assembled from multiple sources. I follow a lot of actual leftists as well as the conservatives and liberals-in-exile that make up the modern "right".
I don't know that I follow anyone with whom I agree on every topic, and that's as it should be IMO. Even when I strongly disagree, I'm grateful for the freedom to hear and evaluate these voices.
And while I'm reluctant to engage with your "argument", I'll say that I've seen a handful of antisemitic posts over 10+ years on Twitter, none recently. I have seen a fair amount of anti-Israel and anti-Zionist content in the last six weeks, consistently from those on the left and consistent with what I've seen in demonstrations around the world.
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