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- Lex, I don’t know how to put this nicely. But if you are reading this, sell your teslas. Finger wagging about Twitter/X has roughly zero moral weight coming from someone who has bought two Teslas.
The bumper stickers are worse, unfortunately. They read as self awareness without moral conviction.
by janalsncm - >His point, as I see it, is that yes, Elon Musk is awful, but the X algorithm no longer shoves his posts into John’s feed, and new Apple CEO John Ternus is posting there (along with other Apple executives), and that there are interesting people who post on X and not elsewhere.
>That all may be true. But it’s not the point.
They are talking past each other.
"I like this technology because it's good" vs "I hate this technology because I hate the people behind it"
It really comes down to how much conscious decision do you do every single time you buy a product. Or as the meme says we live in a society.
by haunter - Nobody cares. The left overs have no moral high ground to stand on and judge anyone. If you demand stability( by conservating social order or nostalgia for the past) in unstable times by your own making you are disqualified. Somebody disqualified does not get to choose the people, the platform or the social order. Or which ideas are discussed and which are not.
- There are a lot of ways to scrape the content you want into a different interface, or filter ads and the content you don't want to see.
I mostly scrape and use a different interface, but when I view the actual site, I use https://imbue.com/blog/bouncer (I work at the company that makes this, on other projects).
- I excitedly thought this was an indictment of the X Window System, which is decidedly not bad in my experience.
What a relief that it's just another pants-shitting opine over the trillionaire.
by bharrison - Good post, and I agree with it.
I've been preferring Bluesky lately. It's much more open so you can write your own feeds to consume it however you like. I currently have one that runs every post in my following feed through a cheap LLM filter to throw out ragebait and topics I don't care about. It requires some initial work to curate your experience (including blocking some annoying people) but after that it's good.
by ripley12 - I guess I should say I shared this here to see how people would react, as it is pretty much the converse of the Daring Fireball piece.
I want my work to be seen as much as anyone; I currently post to bsky and mastodon, and I've stayed off threads and twitter. I often wonder how much I'm sacrificing by not doing everything possible to maximize my social media footprint in the name of sleeping at night.
by ayaros