Comment on Inconceivable Horror

• the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Catching strays from the people still on Twitter, angry at being reminded that in doing so what/whose purpose they are being made to serve? Yeah that sounds about right.

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  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Or people who think “yeah it is, but this is clearly an innocuous post, and it being reposted here actually has very little to do with the political leanings of the other platform’s owner, so this comment feels out of place. Seems more like a reply to ‘twitter is good’ than ‘hey look at this octopus and funni caption.’ Sort of a non-sequiter, outside of being tangentially related due to it being a screencap.”

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    • DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The use of a platform is how they get money, clicks, throughput they then show those numbers to advertisers - to get money.

      So the content doesn’t matter. The use does.

      You post to Twitter, you help Musk. Simple as that.

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      • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        But the post is on lemmy, the OP likely isn’t the twitter OP, the one who needs to receive the message is not here to see it. Boycott away, but if the goal is to stop twitter posts you have to tell twitter users, lemmy users are more likely already not using twitter.

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    • the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Perhaps. Though to argue against that point, id say there are plenty of people who don’t know it is/why it is a Nazi platform. Though once improbable to a terminally online person like me, I’ve since seen it too often. so i don’t think we should discount the comment as irrelevant to the discussion based on our own knowledge.

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      • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        But the discussion had nothing to do with the political leanings of the platform’s management, it’s just a screenshot of a post some random user. By definition it is irrelevant.

        A cool fact about octopi especially regarding their propensity to wear shells as hats would have been relevant, but this is basically just like if someone posted a screenshot of a lemmy post about octopi somewhere else and I commented “lemmy devs are tankie shitstains.” Like, sure, Nutomic and Dessalinator are pieces of shit with abhorrent views who are transphobic and murderous and suppirt genocide, but what does that have to do with the user “steve’s” post about octopi? Diddly squat, the OP isn’t Nutomic (or for the OG meme, the OP isn’t Elon), and we have no way of knowing the political leanings of the OP (they could be nazis, but if we say “everyone on twitter is 100% nazis,” by that logic we must then say “everyone on lemmy is a genocidal murderous transphobic tankie.” Idk about you but I think both of those statements are clearly not correct, there clearly are lemmy users and twitter users that would not meet the definitions they’re supposed to assuming we’re applying the sins of the creator/owner to their userbase.

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• zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Twitter is dead.

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