• wheezy@lemmy.ml
      71·
      1 day ago

      For journalist they can’t just “get off Twitter”. It’s become the means by which they communicate and share information with their audience and other journalist. It was this way long before Elon took over. It’s hard to undo a “public square” like that.

      A lot of them post on multiple platforms. But if you want your message to reach more eyes. You still have to post on Twitter.

    • limer@lemmy.ml
      141·
      2 days ago

      It’s like complaining about the injustice of moderation on truth social

      • wheezy@lemmy.ml
        3·
        1 day ago

        It’s not. Because despite the Nazis returning to Twitter after Elon bought it it is still the website used by journalist and political commentators to get their message to the most eyes. Should it be? No. But that doesn’t make it any less true.

        You post on Truth social if you’re a MAGA nut. Twitter is still filled with the most people to reach out to and will be for the foreseeable future.

        It’s the very reason a platform like that should not be privately owned. Hoping “the market” somehow removes its monopoly on user capture and scale is silly. And blaming people that still use it to reach the most people is even more silly. You meet the people where they are at.

        You don’t put your poster in a clean hotel most people won’t see. You post it the dirty public square. That public square is owned by a Nazi capitalist though. So pointing that out and complaining about it is more than reasonable.

        • limer@lemmy.ml
          1·
          1 day ago

          I understand and concede your points.

          There is a But. But there is no remedy or action to be taken for misadventures on that platform, however important they may be.

          I feel it’s like watching a car accident, nothing can be done.

  • Cocopanda@lemmy.world
    202·
    2 days ago

    Why are people wasting their time on Twitter? It’s a shithole. Just move on. I am off Reddit, Facebook and Twitter because it’s a Nazi shithole.

    • wheezy@lemmy.ml
      10·
      1 day ago

      Maybe because it’s not your job to write comments that reach the most amount of people?

      I’m so confused about this “blame the individual” thing around social media platforms Monopoly on user capture.

      There is a reason Monopolies have to be torn apart by governments. You don’t just organically have individuals fix that by leaving the public square. You remove the censorship and capitalist dictatorship that is controlling what is seen in the public square.

      You have the luxury of leaving them. It’s not your job to reach out to the most amount of people with your messages.

      • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        20 hours ago

        that only addresses the people that have to stay due to their livelihoods; which are in the minority.

        the VAST majority don’t have to be on those platforms, but chose to be nonetheless. doing so makes them more susceptible to manipulation of monopolies and propaganda; they’re self re-enforcing their own doom scrolling

      • turdburglar@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        1 day ago

        yeah i get that, but i still get frustrated seeing so many frenz and fam doom scrolling those shitty apps.

        i also don’t have to get the eyeballs for my job so was able to leave without consequence, and i realize that’s a great privilege. but it’s hard to watch others willingly, just out of habit, feed these shit machines with eyes and data.