Submitted 1 year ago by bboplifa@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66365968?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
I find this utterly infuriating. The CCDH is accusing Twitter of this and that, and where is one of the places they make these announcements? On Twitter itself!
If 1/2 the people who state they hate Twitter or thought it was hurtful or damaging to society simply stopping posting on Twitter, the entire site would collapse. Instead these very same people who claim to not like Musk or his company, also support his platform by having an account and posting to it.
This is referred to as a “social trap”, “social dilemma”, or “multipolar trap”, wherein everyone in a group can have an openly-rewarded incentive to act in a way that’s against the group’s common good.
From the inside, a social trap feels like:
“I know what I’m doing isn’t great. But I do it because everyone else does too, and I don’t want to lose out. Really, we all know the thing we’re doing is kinda crappy, but whoever stops first just loses. After all, it’s not like everyone’s gonna quit at once.”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_trap
Psychiatrist-blogger Scott Alexander has compared social traps to the ancient god Moloch, to whom everyone in a civilization sacrifices an infant in the name of social stability.
slatestarcodex.com/2014/…/meditations-on-moloch/
Resolving social traps is a primary problem of social organization — including (e.g.) labor organization, consumer organization (boycotts), and so on.
It’s fucking wild reading this from a lemmy instance full of reddit refugees
They’re trying to reach people who are still on Twitter. It’s not that hard to understand. If all the people who worked there were also posting random memes on their personal Twitter accounts you might have a point but the whole idea is to spread awareness of the shitty aspects of Twitter. People on mastodon don’t need to hear that, people trapped in the twitterverse do.
Exactly this.
Surprising absolutely noone.
I was surprised. What now?
stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 1 year ago
I’m just cracking up over here at how no one is calling it “X.” Not a single news story I’ve seen on this so far has called Elon’s lil app anything but “Twitter” in the headline.
That rebranding is going great! 🤣
fubo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Maybe he should stop deadnaming his own child first.
sebinspace@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My family won’t even stop deadnaming me. I’m not even trans, they just don’t really care.
VampyreOfNazareth@lemm.ee 1 year ago
TwatterX