Comment on The Moral Case for No Longer Engaging With Elon Musk’s X

yamanii@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Pxtl@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Mastodon totally allows NSFW content. Maybe Threads doesn’t, but why trade one deranged billionaire tech overlord for another?

  Mastodon has some problems. It’s slow, the “instances” concept is confusing, discoverability is poor, and the UI isn’t as nice as Threads.

  Still worth making the jump for the sake of community governance.

  Twitter was destroyed by the governance problem. It proves how we can’t ignore the governance structure of the places we invest our time anymore.

  But yeah, I’m very disappointed how many people who hate Musk’s changes to twitter – even trans people – are staying there.

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  • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Mastodon totally allows NSFW content.

    Just search on the #NSFW hashtag, can’t miss it.

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• ram@bookwormstory.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Many artists have been hedging their bets the last few months, mirroring their content on Mastodon and BlueSky, so that when Twitter/X/Whatever it’s called now goes under/is closed/goes subscription only/is locked behind the blockchain, they don’t lose their fans, supporters, donators, and commissioners.

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  • Muyal@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, but that’s the thing, most of them have not abandoned Twitter, they have just created accounts elsewhere. For now, at least on the case of nsfw artists, leaving Twitter is unfeasible.

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    • ram@bookwormstory.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They mirror the content on other sites. Can you explain to me how Twitter remains integral when the content is available elsewhere too?

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      • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s integral to them because the bulk of their audience, including crowdfunders and commissioners and other potential paying customers, remains there. It can be a difference between having a viable artistic career or needing another job. Xitter is in clear decline and worse by the day, but it still outnumbers the alternatives by hundreds of millions.

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  • yamanii@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah but Bluesky is invite only still.

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    • ram@bookwormstory.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Do you need an invite?

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      • Encode1307@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You got one to give out? I’ll take one if so

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  • vidarh@lemmy.stad.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Still many who don’t, though, and they’re the main reason I still occasionally go back.

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    • ram@bookwormstory.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Like who?

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• HafizMuhammad@mastodon.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  @yamanii

  Sharesome is a social media site just for that.

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