IBM, a major advertiser on X, has pulled its spending from the social media platform, whose employees are grappling with what to tell its other advertisers, according to internal messages.
  • Bly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    618·
    1 year ago

    Truth social was born as a right wing platform from the beginning. It never had and will never have any casual users who are not right-wing. Going there and adding a left voice will not be very helpful as you would talk to an already established hard opinionated community. Twitter is unlike that, there are a lot of people who do not care about politics currently or are more casual about it. Though if you keep seeing more and more right-wing stuff, such people get normalized to that. Instead if there’s a left-wing voice there, any non-politicized person will have a look at the other side as well w. This is how you win over more people to the left, by being active on places where the most people will hear you. If you leave this place you just surrender and have more casual twitter users lean to the right as the time passes.

    • gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
      161·
      1 year ago

      It doesn’t matter what Twitter started out as, it’s a company and can be bought and sold. It was bought by a fascist and is now a de facto fascist website. You posting on Twitter is not “fighting the Nazis”, it’s supporting one by giving him a better return on his investment. If everyone who actually had any kind of conviction in their beliefs left the site then the casual users would leave too because the only content left would be fascist content.

      If you actually want to make a difference you have two options:

      1. Buy the site from Elon Musk and ban them.

      2. Stop using the website so it stops making money and becomes non-viable to continue operating.

    • Lowlee Kun@feddit.deEnglish
      516·
      1 year ago

      No use talking in an echo chamber my friend. People in this thread have decided that they are superior for being here and that there are only two kinds of opinions: Wrong ones and their own.

      • gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.worldEnglish
        131·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, it couldn’t possibly be that you are actually wrong in this instance. Much more likely that everyone else other than you and that person are wrong, that makes sense.

      • slowwooderrunsdeep@lemmy.worldEnglish
        43·
        1 year ago

        The whole internet has devolved into a series of echo chambers now and everyone thinks their own chamber is superior.

        We never should’ve killed flash games…