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The Moral Case for No Longer Engaging With Elon Musk’s X (www.bloomberg.com)
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The Moral Case for No Longer Engaging With Elon Musk’s X::The former Twitter is incentivizing violent content, which will only become worse to stand out to users.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, but that's the thing, most of them have not abandoned Twitter, they have just created accounts elsewhere. For now, at least on the case of nsfw artists, leaving Twitter is unfeasible.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They tend to mirror the content on other sites, so they can further grow their communities there too. Can you explain to me how Twitter remains integral when the content is available elsewhere too?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's integral to them because the bulk of their audience, including crowdfunders and commissioners and other potential paying customers, remains there. It can be a difference between having a viable artistic career or needing another job. Xitter is in clear decline and worse by the day, but it still outnumbers the alternatives by hundreds of millions of active users.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then the solution is for people who like art to accept invites and follow them on BlueSky.

Or to use Mastodon.

it still outnumbers the alternatives by hundreds of millions of active users.

Hundreds of millions of those active users don't care about art unless Elon's stealing it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

It's definitely better for them to move out but that's a whole process, if they want to try to bring even a fraction of their audience along.

Hundreds of millions of those active users don’t care about art unless Elon’s stealing it.

Eh, by that measure there's nowhere to go, because even here I see some people with a wild disregard towards art.

But really, there are people who care or those artists wouldn't ever have had a career to begin with.