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I am seriously restricting my inbound and outbound reach by boycotting X. It's a hit I can afford to take, but for some people they'd be making a very foolish c
by petesergeant 1y ago
I am seriously restricting my inbound and outbound reach by boycotting X. It's a hit I can afford to take, but for some people they'd be making a very foolish choice when that's where their audience and the content they want to read is.
- davidw 1y agoNPR found that they really didn't lose much: https://bsky.app/profile/carlquintanilla.bsky.social/post/3ltkgw5tavs2c https://bsky.app/profile/carlquintanilla.bsky.social/post/3l... But sometimes you have to make some sacrifices in life over your principles. And the more people move, the easier it is for everyone else.
- petesergeant 1y agoNPR's audience is very different from mine (AI researchers and thinkers) though. Some communities seem to have managed the move wholesale: all the cartoonists I like switched, for example.
- guappa 1y ago[flagged]
- MSFT_Edging 1y agoThe "thinker" is one of the main audiences of twitter now. The Statue PFP, incorrect assumptions about the path, and extreme dunning kruger.
- Applejinx 1y agoBy the time I left I was deleting multiple bot followers a day. You cannot take X's claims at face value, everything about the platform is aggressively dishonest. NPR's experience is instructive: https://niemanreports.org/npr-twitter-musk/ https://niemanreports.org/npr-twitter-musk/ I don't think it's realistic to pretend that abandoning X is seriously restricting anyone. If anything, sticking with it is brand endangerment and by leaving it you're making the smart move, with or without animus.
- ghaff 1y agoAre you really? I found my personal network got pretty much shredded. At this point it doesn’t matter much if I used X or didn’t use it.