There was this consensus of not going to X after Elon Musk turned it into a right-wing hellhole but I see more and more especially journalists going back "because the AI people are there".

[xs4me2@mastodon.social]

@tante

Very...

[nick_appleyard@mastodonapp.uk]

@tante

This is the reason for slowly backing away from the AI folks.

Don’t turn your back on them though.

[clintonanderson@universeodon.com]

@tante

Shitter was awful long before Musk

[arenacops@infosec.exchange]

@tante There's no good argument for legitimizing & whitewashing supremacist Afrikaner Musk's screwed fuX at all!

"...
The center said the suit was a baseless attempt by X and Musk to silence free speech.
U.S. Senior District Judge Charles Breyer dismissed the lawsuit in March 2024.

“Sometimes it is unclear what is driving a litigation, and only by reading between the lines of a complaint can one attempt to surmise a plaintiff’s true purpose.
Other times, a complaint is so unabashedly and vociferously about one thing that there can be no mistaking that purpose.
This case represents the latter circumstance.
This case is about punishing the defendants for their speech,” the Bill Clinton appointee wrote in his ruling.
..."
https://www.courthousenews.com/x-asks-ninth-circuit-to-revive-data-scraping-suit-against-hate-speech-monitor/

[aka_quant_noir@hcommons.social]

@tante These are the same journalists who created and still maintain SubStack accounts to monetize their work despite it being known at the get-go to have paid nazis to post there. They will go to literally any radioactive place from which to earn a follower's eyeball.

That's why their industry is melting, in part. They're selecting their audience, and it's radioactive eyeballs.

[misterdave@tilde.zone]

@tante right wing hellhole people / ai people venn diagram: ️

[cy@fedicy.us.to]

I'd be awfully worried for my safety, if I was getting followed by 30,000 Nazis.

[theeclecticdyslexic@mstdn.social]

@glyph @tante the one problem with that metric is fedi tends to have a higher rate of fall off. People join, stay active for about a few months, then stop being active.

There is a sort of worrying consistency to the number of active users, despite people signing up all the time.

There are definitely a few factors to this, but it's something many of the devs connected to various parts are trying to figure out if they can improve. I think mastodon follow groups was one attempt at this.

[lidsel@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@tante It makes sense to have an account if you report on what people write there, especially when you can no longer view content without an account. I also remember a popular cartoonist who left talking about leaving the account be to prevent squatter scams - where someone else could impersonate you once the handle is available. Where one should definitely draw the line is actively posting.

[lukefromdc@kolektiva.social]

@lidsel @tante I won't touch Musk's degraded version of Twitter. Access only by the current crop of outlaw Nitter servers defying Musk's takedown. When they go I will treat Twitter as Facebook and consider it taken down too.

Oh and I will keep deadnaming Musk's website so long as he keeps deadnaming his trans daughter.

[lukefromdc@kolektiva.social]

@NfNitLoop @tante There is exactly ONE reason to go to a Nazi bar. That is to go there with your best anti-fascist combat crew, storm the Nazi bar, and beat up the Nazis inside.

This of course has quite literally been done...

[lukefromdc@kolektiva.social]

@sharpcheddargoblin @tante You need one of the takedown-defying Nitter instances to do this without an account

[mohs@climatejustice.social]

@tante so they are essentially degrading themself from journalists to ai repeaters.

[rberger@hachyderm.io]

@tante It shows at a minimum, that whoever is on X to talk about AI ether are Nazis or don’t care that they are Nazis.

You would think that if you wanted to promote AI to the masses who are already pretty pissed at Data Centers and the destruction of our economy by these TechOligarchBros, would not congregate in a Nazi Bar. But then we have Substack too…

[psh@infosec.exchange]

@tante Unfortunately it still has network effect for whatever reason, much like instagram, even though its slowly dying and likely propt up by bots.

Journalists, especially freelancers, who live off eyeballs are beholden to finding subscribers and viewers.

I don't like it, but I understand it. I'm blown away how there hasn't been a single platform alternative to bring in the death blow at this point. But social media is now conflated with addiction... without that addiction, most people will just not use it.

[thriftwicker@mastodon.social]

@tante Apparently self control and common sense are in short supply.

[anathema_device@bne.social]

@faraiwe @tante on bluesky, blocks actually work. And fascists get driven away PDQ

[faraiwe@mstdn.social]

@anathema_device @tante eeeeeeh........

[oberstenzian@mastodon.social]

@tante The journalists were virtue signaling. They were cool with Twitter all along and with the whole fascist vibe. They want a seat at the table with the fascists. We’ll only hear them complain about fascism if they aren’t included. So long as they get that seat they’ll act like everything is cool.

[ahermitforhire@pagan.plus]

@misterdave @tante it'd be more accurate if the diagram was an asshole.