Yeah. This headline reads to me as “Stephen King begs X users to forget they are making Elon Musk money”
Comment on Stephen King calls on Elon Musk to change 'X' back to Twitter
originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 11 months ago
im with op on this one. king and other needs to jump the sinking ship already. be the change you want to see
nomnomdeplume@lemmy.world 11 months ago
glimse@lemmy.world 11 months ago
making Elon Musk money
More like “allowing musk to lose less money”
StraightArrow@feddit.de 11 months ago
It’s not easy to jump ship (because of the network effect) and possibly not being tech savvy enough to know where to land.
I jumped ship from Reddit this year after reading some posts about alternatives. I tried Tildes too, which I found interesting, but more of an experiment, than a substitute.
King (and others like him) may not know alternatives exist and can work just as easily.
Also, even if King knew of Mastodon, maybe his fans wouldn’t jump ship too even if he had said he’s moving there
It’s complicated
hardypart@feddit.de 11 months ago
According to your comment the solution seems to be keeping the status quo where a single company has that much power. This mega corporation power shit needs to stop, no matter what. The naming is the least issue. We’re heading towards a dystopian cyberpunk future and no one seems to give a fuck.
StraightArrow@feddit.de 11 months ago
Not really, no. I said I informed myself about alternatives to Reddit (as an example) and then dropped it and moved to Lemmy.
I said jumping ship for King may be hard for various possible reasons which I was trying to guess (and don’t pretend to know).
Mastodon is further along than Lemmy is, so I hope Stephen King can move there soon, but it might still take time.
If you have an X account (I never used Twitter/X), you can write King to let him know about Mastodon
RaincoatsGeorge@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
This is what blows my mind. Everyone keeps complaining about how terrible he is and how terrible twitter has become, but they keep fucking using it. I think if you were just using twitter to reach your audience you wouldn’t care too much what you used. I think these people know they stand to lose money and so they won’t jump ship.
Pussies. This website has effectively drawn a line in the sand and said we are where fascist voices can unite and coordinate. If you remain on twitter even if that’s not your belief you are providing them with legitimacy and enough of a smokescreen to do what they intend to do.
I listened to Rogan and Musk talk briefly because my curiosity got the best of me and you can tell musk has lost it. He’s full Kanye right now. You can kind of tell when someone’s fucked in the head. Their mannerisms and pacing tell the story. He’s totally off it and is going to continue to funnel millions of dollars into the hands of fascist dickheads in one way or other. Today it’s providing them with a platform. Tomorrow it’s funding politicians. He’s just up his own ass enough to do all kinds of fucked up shit because HE thinks it’s ‘what’s best for everyone’.
The world can decide to just dump this shitdick. The sooner the better. Unfortunately a number of people are very keen on keeping things how they are and super pleased to have his stupid ass spewing their talking points.
railsdev@programming.dev 11 months ago
This is what gets to me too: I notice this pattern a lot with all kinds of products and services. I understand wanting a company to improve a product as a customer but when something gets to this point it’s time to hop off the train and go somewhere else.
It’s astounding to me that people expect the companies of everything they use to have an exact customized version just for them. It’s just never going to happen.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Cory Doctorow put it well, the social media companies make the switching cost high by holding their “friends”, connections and follows hostage to them. It’s difficult to convince any individual to jump to the lifeboat unless they know the others with them will.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
If you want to reach your audience, you have to be on a platform they use. Despite loss of users, Twitter still has a much larger audience than alternatives. This remains a problem for people seeking alternatives. In my view the best approach is to use both and promote the less popular but better platform on the bad one. But this takes knowledge of what alternatives exist, willingness to learn them, and of course extra time.