Every time you post on Twitter, you produce value for the advertisers.
You tell everyone in your network there that it's OK to stay. That you're all helpless to leave.
You tell the people who've lost their jobs, the people who are being hounded and harassed, that they are not important to you.
You know you're going to be ashamed of it later.
Just stop posting.
Do it here, not there. Connect here, not there.
Don't reply, don't like, don't retweet.
Stop feeding your life into the machine.
or you stay and fight
you tell everyone in your network that it's not okay to surrender spaces to fascists without a struggle
you tell the people who've lost their jobs that we'll resist the new owner using his own wealth and resources
you provide an alternative example for all the normies still there that they don't have to be radicalized and recruited by haters and inciters of violence
when fascists march in the streets, when they intimidate and kill with weapons and vehicle attacks, when police protect fascists and attack counterprotesters instead, antifascists don't walk away, we stay and fight
there's no obligation to fight, the people who remain in their homes with their doors locked and window shades drawn aren't bad people, everyone can do or not do what's right for them
but there is a role for those who stay and fight, for those who set an example, who show that we will not be silenced without a struggle, even if it seems like a lost cause, even if we don't win
sure, nuking the entire site from orbit would be a good thing
unfortunately bankruptcy doesn't accomplish that
bankruptcy lets elmo stop paying creditors while the site shambles along
meanwhile the cesspool grows into a toxic superfund site, incubating the worst of the worst
a metastasizing cancer
@ares @jpanzer @graeme_0 @evan
I'm pretty convinced that they're facing an existential financial crisis because of the $B/yr in annual interest Elon signed up for, what with Twitter revenue now plunging.
Weirdly, a bankruptcy could have a good outcome, returning to public-company status with less debt, led by neither Jack nor Elon.
But that's clutching at straws, implosion is more likely.
But hey, I could be wrong.
@timbray @jpanzer @graeme_0 @evan
i don't know either, but my napkin math says existential financial crisis may not be how this ends
it's a roughly $5 billion business that breaks even, so $5b revenue (mostly ads) and $5b expense (mostly people)
if half the advertisers and half the expenses are gone, plus $1b in interest on the debt, that's $2.5b in revenue and $3.5b in expense
not good!
now what's that look like if even 10% of the 450m active users pay $8/month to float their excrement to the top of the cesspool?
it looks like a ridiculously profitable business, is what it looks like
@ares @jpanzer @evan it is absolutely delusional to think that as a user you have any control whatsoever about what happens on Twitter. It is not a democracy. You don't have a vote. Your disapproving tweets have no effect whatsoever on actual policy decisions. Elon Musk and his band of right wing conspirators are not influenced by you in any way. At best you are a resource for them, a little statistic that they can leverage into earning advertisers' money. At worst, you're a harassment target.
@smn @ares @evan I don't think anybody believes Elon is listening to anybody but sycophants telling him how great he is, nor are users saying things anywhere going to change his mind. Any activity on Twitter itself should be strategic (e.g., getting users to leave).
And if enough users leave Twitter, it isn't a platform. In a social network, the people are the platform. With just the Nazis on Twitter, it's just a way overpriced copy of Parler.
[edited to fix typo: Without->With.]
Don't disagree with @evan
but
• "stop posting" and
• "stop feeding your life into the machine"
can have different meanings.
Stop “feeding your life” definitely.
Ack to @ares !
Physically I am from the “space” which caused the Shoah.
I fight the past at twit and try to create future here with y'all.
I think that ads were Jacks business model and that the one of twit is now different
https://digitalcourage.social/@sl007/109496231345854264
The investors who sue twit say he made stock manipulation say he saved $156.000.000 only by first stock manipulation.
He wants to colonize opinions.
I think it is super important that employees and journos continue to amplify all the leaks on the platform and yes, that we fight.
I am in the EU to create awareness and advise about Open Protocols and ActivityPub in the context of Digital Services Act. If twitter becomes a gatekeeper in the DSA, the new model will be destroyed suddenly. Then I can leave to not fuel the ads which _then_ would keep it alive.