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

[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

[aka_quant_noir@hcommons.social]

@PeachMcD @hpod16 @ThomHartmann

He's selling books and making bank. Shillin'.

[horqua@mastodon.social]

@hpod16 xitter kicked me off for saying naughty things about the and it’s probably the best thing that’s happened in a long time.

[kryten@veganism.social]

@hpod16 Why is a single platform for human collective consciousness important elon?

So painful to watch.

[hakuso@mastodon.social]

@Eetschrijver
Unless you have *work* that forces you to stay connected to things using Twitter for infodumps it shouldn't be.

Journalists, I see being there for follows and auto-posts, then being active on other spaces.

Everyone else is ling past the GTFO stage of Twitter.
@hpod16

[alterelefant@mastodontech.de]

@Montaagge
The old community center is taken over by right-wing extremist. I stopped hanging out there over two years ago. Will actually have to look up when it was I deleted my account.

Unless you feel comfortable hanging out with Nazis one should not be on the dead bird site anymore.
@Eetschrijver @hpod16

[alterelefant@mastodontech.de]

@Hakuso
Even for professionals I can't think of any good reason to keep posting on the dead bird site. Unless Nazis are your target audience, in that case it is exactly the place where you need to be.
@Eetschrijver @hpod16

[alterelefant@mastodontech.de]

@W6KME

@hpod16

[alterelefant@mastodontech.de]

@jkn
Not taking responsibility is probably key here.
@ianto_jones @hpod16

[alterelefant@mastodontech.de]

@kauer
Geoblocking is indeed not cool.
By the way, where is Oz? I presume it is a real place, not a place of wizardry?
@hpod16

[billclawson@sfba.social]

@hpod16 or was the video a lesson in how to get rich by betraying your principles? Saw most of it. Fascinating that people would by the bullshit so easily.

[brad_rosenheim@climatejustice.social]

@hpod16
I have long thought that Huxley's Soma from A Brave New World, in our world, would be the dopamine addiction to social media. I guess in some ways it is more useful than a simple chemical high because someone like Musk can dial it up situationally.