The former Twitter is incentivizing violent content, which will only become worse to stand out to users.

The Moral Case for No Longer Engaging With Elon Musk’s X::The former Twitter is incentivizing violent content, which will only become worse to stand out to users.

  • TheMauveAvenger@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21128·
    1 year ago

    Then stop already. Stop mentioning the name. Stop posting articles about it. Stop sharing articles about it on other social media.

    You know what’s immoral? Posting ragebait articles about a platform because you know users will engage.

    • MotoAsh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      242·
      1 year ago

      I dunno’, kinda’ sounds similar to, “racism would be over if you’d just shut up about it.”

      X and Elon don’t magically disappear because you choose to ignore them.

        • VikingHippie@lemmy.wtfEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          If you think it isn’t, you clearly haven’t been paying attention to all of racism in general and hypercapitalist neofascism in particular.

      • RaincoatsGeorge@lemmy.zipEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        I dunno. Racism isn’t entirely manifested by one man. He’s just one more bucket of piss in a sea of piss. Fuck him. We can at any time choose to ignore him. Choose to ignore his shit app. He doesn’t matter to any equation, he’s just an annoying rich person struggling with their addiction to child pornography. Wups did I say the silent part out loud. Shit.

      • lloram239@feddit.deEnglish
        04·
        1 year ago

        “racism would be over if tou’d just shut up about it.”

        Well, that’s way more true than it is false. The way the left hyped up race as the single most important and defining feature of people wasn’t exactly helpful. The idea of racial realism should be deconstructed, not actively supported. I have literally never seen as much racism in my life as what the left has been doing in the last 10-15 years.

        And as for Elon, ignoring him would go a long way as well. The only reason why he is relevant, is because news media hypes up everything he says, no matter how false or irrelevant it is. Simply sticking to the important news, instead of clickbait and hype, would go a long way to quiet things down.

        • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          I get your point that major media outlets constantly talking about them is empowering them, but pretending that Lemmy talking about it has any effect whatsoever is vastly overestimating how consequential this place is.

          I know a lot of people here are just sick to hear of the matter but lets not pretend that not talking about it is a moral stance.

    • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Back before Apollo was killed I had the words “Elon” and “Trump” filtered out. I just never saw these rage posts in the first place. Man, I’d love to see that feature in a Lemmy client. Anyone know if it exists?

    • Marruk@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Posting ragebait articles about a platform because you know users will engage.

      Lol irony.