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

[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.

[benjaminklein@mastodon.nu]

@hpod16 having watched the piece I think his advice is actually we need to do something about this, leaving is not enough. Propaganda hurts you and your society even if you don't read it. X is the factory polluting the water supply, it's not enough to boycott it's products, they need to pay damages and fix it.

[alterelefant@mastodontech.de]

@kauer
Ah, check.
@hpod16

[drain@mastodon.social]

@hpod16 wow, welcome to 3 years ago.

[zbrando@social.vivaldi.net]

@hpod16 I've been on Twitter almost since the beginning and when Musk took over and showed his real face I pulled the plug. No amount of nostalgia and network effect can justify being there IMO. I still use Meta for work related posts but for personal things I'm only here. And maybe one day I will delete even this account and will have a normal life: we can have social media but we don't need it.

[leffe@social.linux.pizza]

@hpod16

Please use content warning for this kind of post. Parts of the video contains pictures of a very disturbed individual. It can cause nightmares.

[hpod16@eupolicy.social]

@leffe that’s fair! I’m sorry you had to see this man on your feed