John Oliver's Show covered what's happening with X/Twitter.

[hpod16@eupolicy.social]

@Eetschrijver I think people are still there because they love to watch the drama? Or perhaps they are attached to what twitter user to be?
Personally I can't bring myself to delete my account, it was a huge part of my life. I'm just inactive & linking to Mastodon on there.
The people I know who still prefer Twitter as a news outlet are pretty unhappy characters, I wonder if there is a link?

[eetschrijver@mastodon.social]

@hpod16 I really don't know. I do know that whilst Twitter was a huge part of my online life, what with Musk at the helm, there's no "for old times' sake" for me--much in the way that the United States, where I once lived, loved and worked, could never be "home" to me now. It's sad, but there it is.

[riverpunk@defcon.social]

@hpod16 just watched that one earlier today. Really good episode. I love John Oliver.

And yeah, Twitter seems pretty bad (although tbh I've got inclinations against pretty much any form of social media, be it racist or not).

[hpod16@eupolicy.social]

@riverpunk well, I can assure you it's no good over there on Twitter. No need to go back to check.

[w6kme@mastodon.radio]

@hpod16 Anyone using X has made their choice. "Oh, you can't blame people for that, that's not nice, it's not their fault, etc."

Nonsense. Does it suck what happened to it? Yep. Is there Any excuse for still being there? Of course not. The nazis took over the bar; you can't drink there and pretend you're not in a nazi bar.

[aka_quant_noir@hcommons.social]

@hpod16
Is there anyone left there of good faith or will? If you're there to promote your products that doesn't count toward good will.

[bonehead@poliverso.org]

@hpod16
Please, please leave Twitter, Facebook and everything alike, if you care about peace in the world. I don't care if you need it to keep in touch with people or to promote yourself, just leave and stop enabling propaganda that's tearing society apart.

[croyle@wandering.shop]

@hpod16 worth watch if you somehow after all this time still need to be convinced. But like MAGA people you may be a lot cause.

Also it's really worth watching for Elon's interview meltdown where he's desperately searching for something deep-sounding to say, and just utterly fails. Like John Oliver said, "And I promise, this answer is so much worse than what you are prepared for."

[hpod16@eupolicy.social]

@croyle haha, yes 100% worth it for the meltdown!

[maumau@chaos.social]

@hpod16 Could the EU finance a foundation that provides FOSS solutions for the public? Fediverse for everyone—like Signal.

[hpod16@eupolicy.social]

@maumau not an expert on FOSS; but there's some more info on funding for this kind of thing here: @EC_NGI

[smxi@fosstodon.org]

@aka_quant_noir @hpod16 yes there are. Several ukrainian youtubers who are too busy trying to survive the nightly kremlin missile and drone attacks to worry about following musk's hellscape creation status. Definitely good will but they have to use their finite time carefully. I wince when they say follow on twitter but it's hard to really get what an evil bastard musk is when you are on an active war front every day.

[ianto_jones@mastodon.social]

@hpod16 I can't comprehend why those who have been aware of the wide-ranging harm caused by Twitter (or Meta, or Spotify, etc.) are still using the platforms. There are options. The universe will not implode and your life will not stop if you cease giving your screen time and ad revenue to the Nazis and parasitic capitalists who are quite literally accelerating the downfall of society. It's bad enough that millions who don't know any better are still feeding the machines.

[joxe@tkm.eus]

@hpod16 Wow! Should be captioned in all languages!

[bridgeenjoyer@gamepad.club]

@hpod16 I cannot understand how people are still on that filth of a platform. For one, its bots. For 2, it enriches billionaire scum. Why use it!!

[penpencilbrush@mstdn.social]

@hpod16 Video unavailable in Canada.

[codinghorror@infosec.exchange]

@hpod16 people still use txwitter? News to me.

[halfy@mastodon.half-shot.uk]

@hpod16 baaaaaaaaah region locked

[jkn@mastodon.online]

@ianto_jones @hpod16
Choice is exactly the problem. People don't "choose" to use X or Insta or Windows. It's the "de facto standard" you never have to think about.
Moving to ethical alternatives is a choice, that involves effort and taking responsibility for that choice. Nobody wants that.

[peachmcd@union.place]

@aka_quant_noir @hpod16

I'd love @ThomHartmann to help me understand why he's not only still there, but telling his audience the #Xitter hadndles if his guests instead of promoting the #Fediverse