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We should stop posting them, yes. But it seems unlikely that "we", meaning all the users of HN, will. Musk has deliberately repositioned X as a social network
by LeoPanthera 2y ago
We should stop posting them, yes. But it seems unlikely that "we", meaning all the users of HN, will.
Musk has deliberately repositioned X as a social network that encourages hate speech, and the users have followed. It maintains a veneer of respectability only because of it's pre-Musk history, and because of the number of corporations and media outlets who continue to use it, presumably out of inertia rather than anything else.
If it were up to me, HN would not support any site that supports hate speech. And it mostly already doesn't. X is a weird quirk as it is in transition from what it used to be to what Musk wants it to be, and a lot of people haven't really accepted it yet.