There's an interesting line in here, "...the novelist Jami Attenberg told me. She continued, “I think your loyalty is to your community; it’s not to the platform. I’m not in service of the people who are providing the technology.”
Now, maybe context has been cut or something, but it's not an either/or choice. You can open an account on a new platform and keep your old one.Why would you feel loyal to people who can't be arsed to open an account on a different platform?
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-case-for-quitting-elon-musks-twitter
Actually, here's another f-ed up bit
"Chris Black, the co-host of the podcast “How Long Gone” and a prolific tweeter, argued that the people threatening to leave are merely virtue-signalling. “Being anti-Elon is more important to them than continuing to use a platform they enjoy,” Black said"
Supporting a person whose views you find abhorrent doesn't affect enjoyment? Would he say the same if Musk were a rapist or something?
This whole article is coming across as more than a bit sus now, tbh
Sorry, I'm from the #UK. I know the media landscape here, the biases of various news outlets and whatnot, I'm less familar with the US. Is The New Yorker normally this dickish?
@peterquirk I remember around the time of the 'Arab Sprint', when social media was realy starting to take off as a mainstream thing, you heard a lot about how it was the future of journalism, sidestepping censorship and all that guff.
You don't hear so much about how it can be fairly easily co-opted by organised interests, do you?
@peterquirk @jjmacnab had a theory about it which I saw earlier today, to do with monetisation
https://counter.social/@jjmacnab/109365856619896250
Thing I'm noticing more and more lately about social media is that it allows multiple actors to get involved in funding/fighting any one front/issue that suits their interests. It's almost like a pick'n'mix of political interference. Don't like our 'Free Speech' option? Try the 'Immigrants Are Bad', that's always popular! 🙂
@66ALW99 It's probably not a coincidence that the Saudis provided some of the financing for Musk's acquisition of #Twitter. They would have leverage to demand information about dissidents, at home or abroad. However, it seems they may have spent a couple of billion to burn #Twitter down, which might be even more effective.