Comment on Inconceivable Horror
the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 1 month agoCatching 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.
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.”
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.
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.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That wasn’t the point of the discussion we just had. That’s a new argument you’ve just raised. It’s existence on Lemmy wasn’t the argument being replied to.
But ideally, no one would be on or even visiting twitter (not even to bring content to Lemmy), so what I’ve said still stands. However I know that’s an unlikely and extremist position to adopt IRL… But it also wasn’t what I said, or anything I’ve argued thus far.
I really just came here to say I didn’t understand why the first comment was getting downvotes. The rest has been an organic and abstract discussion on a tangent.
Ideally no one should eat at Chick Fillet, no one should use PayPal due to Peter Thiel’s involvement, or stay at a Trump hotel… And explaining why these companies are bad, shouldn’t get someone downvotes. That’s my position, that’s the argument I was making.
Ideally, government would have stronger and more defensive capabilities to not be usurped by the Capitalists using these companies as political vehicles and funding sources/campaign pawns in their toxic politics - was my second comment.
However I’m not going to argue that this post or the content it’s self is toxic still when it’s on Lemmy - because that was never my position.
My position was that the thread starter shouldn’t be downvoted for saying Twitter is a Nazi platform. That this ppstt has made it’s way to Lemmy is just a product of the messy realities of how social media is transported from site to site.
That doesn’t mean some websites that are noticeable are beyond criticism or that their owners shouldn’t be called out on their politics.
Which is Musk/twitter in this case.
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.
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.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I don’t think you should be so offended or angry that someone dislikes Musk/Twitter and leaves a teo word comment.
It’s Musk’s controversial politics that makes people react to him with negative comments at anything even vaguely associated with him. I wouldn’t adopt his problems as your own, and I think it would be healthier to just go “yeah, his criticized everywhere because of the dumb shit he says on his main account, that makes sense” (and on that other account where he pretended to be a little kid, which was weird).
But it makes sense people object to the objectionable.
I’m just saying don’t let him take up too much of your life if it’s his objectionable nature that causes people to react even when/where you don’t personally see it as being relevant enough to warrant it.
TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I was aware and dissapointed by the transphobic Nutomic messages. I haven’t heard anything bad about Dessalines, though, besides the fact that they continue to work with Nutomic after said messages were exposed. Dessalines did at least make sure Trans mods were installed in c/transgender, so they seem to not share the same opinion.
What did Dessalines do? Or is Dessalinator someone different from Dessalines?