I’m just cracking up over here at how no one is calling it “X.” Not a single news story I’ve seen on this so far has called Elon’s lil app anything but “Twitter” in the headline.
That rebranding is going great! 🤣
Tbf news articles nowadays mostly focus on SEO and driving engagement. A single letter is the worst thing for SEO. Even suffixing it with Corp can’t overcome that. It just reiterates how big of a moron musk is. But well, at least we get front row seats to someone setting billions on fire.
I wish users did that more often. Is there any reason to say “Meta” instead of “Facebook”?
Well it makes sense when referring to the company because they own a bunch of popular brands like Instagram, WhatsApp, etc. Twitter just has Twitter so it doesn’t matter as much.
I find this utterly infuriating. The CCDH is accusing Twitter of this and that, and where is one of the places they make these announcements? On Twitter itself!
If 1/2 the people who state they hate Twitter or thought it was hurtful or damaging to society simply stopping posting on Twitter, the entire site would collapse. Instead these very same people who claim to not like Musk or his company, also support his platform by having an account and posting to it.
This is referred to as a “social trap”, “social dilemma”, or “multipolar trap”, wherein everyone in a group can have an openly-rewarded incentive to act in a way that’s against the group’s common good.
From the inside, a social trap feels like:
“I know what I’m doing isn’t great. But I do it because everyone else does too, and I don’t want to lose out. Really, we all know the thing we’re doing is kinda crappy, but whoever stops first just loses. After all, it’s not like everyone’s gonna quit at once.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_trap
Psychiatrist-blogger Scott Alexander has compared social traps to the ancient god Moloch, to whom everyone in a civilization sacrifices an infant in the name of social stability.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
Resolving social traps is a primary problem of social organization — including (e.g.) labor organization, consumer organization (boycotts), and so on.
It’s fucking wild reading this from a lemmy instance full of reddit refugees
Reddit is a bit different because (despite Reddit’s best efforts) it was never about your personal account it was a place to read and discuss interesting things. People arent on Reddit (or Lemmy for that matter) to follow /u/someRandomInfluencer. That significantly lowers the barrier to leaving. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram are all more person centric and so leaving them means leaving behind individuals that you want to be following and so makes it significantly harder.
Oh, you wanna read something wild? I got you.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
They’re trying to reach people who are still on Twitter. It’s not that hard to understand. If all the people who worked there were also posting random memes on their personal Twitter accounts you might have a point but the whole idea is to spread awareness of the shitty aspects of Twitter. People on mastodon don’t need to hear that, people trapped in the twitterverse do.
A lot of people on Twitter have a “well we were here first, why should we be forced out just because these pricks are now here trying to take over?” attitude. And besides, if the only thing you use it for is to chat with your own mutuals, and keep away from the Trending stuff then it’s still a usable place.
It’s like Reddit used to be - If you curate your feed and stick to that rather than diving into the All view then you can still have a good time.
Why just admit defeat and give it over to the bullies and grifters instead of sticking around and fighting for it?
Surprising absolutely noone.
Elon Musk is a bully.
