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?

@66ALW99 I think the news media are very defensive. #Twitter is a major channel for promoting stories to people who are not regular readers of a magazine or newspaper, particularly in other regions. Their subscriber growth models are all built on you sharing stories on #Facebook and #Twitter.

@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?