Swifties say they’re leaving X over Elon Musk’s support of Donald Trump—and the rhetoric that has erupted on the platform following Trump’s win.
  • paddirn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    55·
    1 month ago

    I had setup a bluesky account back when they opened it up however long ago, didn’t touch it much, then just randomly decided to start using it a little bit before the election because Lemmy felt like it was running dry. It definitely seems to be popping now, though I don’t understand much why people waited so long to leave X. X seems like it’s been a shithole for awhile, did people not see the writing on the wall this whole time, or did the right-wing BS reach a critical mass after the election?

  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world
    23·
    1 month ago

    Elon got what he wanted from Xhitter so I doubt he cares. But of course it’s good to leave a toxic environment behind.

  • njm1314@lemmy.world
    15·
    1 month ago

    All the promotion and sponsoring of Nazis and racism and pedophilia didn’t already drive them off of there?

  • WeUnite@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    21 days ago

    That’s excellent! For those in the EU have you seen the petition to get X banned in the EU? https://ban-x-in.eu/ X is violating EU law so it must be banned. EU residences: please contact people in your government and demand X be banned.

  • ekZepp@lemmy.worldEnglish
    57·
    1 month ago

    Problem is… You still think that Musk and his “buddy” play by the rules. Ticktock will be sooner or later blocked because is a china “spyware”, after that, who knows what kind of “terrorist movement” the government will find on Bluesky, or the Fediverse.

    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world
      221·
      1 month ago

      Sir, this is a post about a boycott. Also, tiktok is chinese spyware. All mainstream social media should be assumed to be spying on its users and doing dark pattern shit.

      • ekZepp@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        1 month ago

        Sir dude, I’m here and I use bluesky and I love both of them, an that’s exactly why i’ve posted my first comment. Considering the Epic ammount of bullshit i’ve seen piling up during the election is not really too much of a stretch thinking how Musk will use his “pal” to undermine other socials. For what is worth, i hope I’m wrong.

  • WoahWoah@lemmy.world
    1235·
    1 month ago

    I really think it’s kind of unimportant. Elon is the richest man in the world. There is quite literally no way for him to ever not be rich. He decided to target what turns out to be over half the country to use his social media platform, and it will now, even more than before, become a central communications tool for the hard right and incredibly politically important. That’s valuable and, in this case, dangerous. You know how people use to talk about how important Twitter was for organizing and political dissent? The Arab Spring? Occupy? Well, it works both ways.

    Swifties leaving X is the most unimportant thing I’ve read in a while, and I’m on Lemmy. SpaceX is still the most important space program in the world and NASA is now utterly reliant on them. Tesla, even after the mass exodus of liberal consumers, is still one of the top 5 auto companies in net profit. Elon is still the richest man on the planet and is about to get a high-powered position in the federal government.

    But the swifties left, so. You know. Great.

    • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.mlOP
      27·
      1 month ago

      Network effects matter a lot for social media. You need people on a platform for people to use it

      Every erosion of a platform’s users will matter. Platforms often die by a thoudand cuts. It doesn’t have to be a single death blow

    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
      19·
      1 month ago

      Musk cares what people say and think about him. And he cares if you use his products.
      So that’s where you hit him.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        24·
        1 month ago

        No he doesn’t. At least not the way you think he does. He gets enormous amounts of money from the government. Our tax dollars. He doesn’t need you to buy his products or like him. Also, he could lose 99% of his money and still be a multi-billionaire. He’d still be one of the richest men in the world. OP is right, it’s literally impossible for him to go broke.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 month ago

      Tesla, even after the mass exodus of liberal consumers

      This is mostly just online bullshit. It’s a fairy tale that people believe because they want to believe Musk can fail. Go drive around West Hollywood, which is one of the most liberal cities in the USA, and count the Cybertrucks. You wouldn’t be able to count to 20 before you got 2 blocks if there was a mass boycott of Tesla by liberals.

      • WoahWoah@lemmy.world
        6·
        1 month ago

        Tesla sales dropped in the first two quarters of this year for the first time in the company’s history, by ~10% and another 5% respectively. And this doesn’t specifically breakout the new red-hat purchasers for whom Elon is the new god-king that replaced some of those liberal consumers.

        Every cybertruck owner I’ve talked with and/or seen was clearly a Trumpet. Two of the ones I’ve seen even had Trump stickers and one had one of those American flags on a pole on it. Admittedly (and thankfully) I do not live in California. Nevertheless, the net effect of Elon’s mask-removal has negatively affected sales, specifically because the almost exclusively liberal, college-educated, upper-middle-class purchaser that was the company’s main consumer is declining.

        Nevertheless, my point wasn’t that it is somehow going to bankrupt Tesla. My point was the exact opposite: all this stupid shit – “liberals are boycotting tesla!” “Swifties are boycotting X!” “Engineers are boycotting SpaceX!” – does not actually affect anything enough to be worthy of celebration.

      • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml
        7·
        1 month ago

        Numbers from the article if you don’t want to wade through everything:

        • 105m monthly Spotify listeners
        • 283m Instagram followers
        • 32.8m TikTok followers
        • 95.2m Xitter followers
        • 58.2m adult (18+) swifties in the US
        • Napkin math estimate of a billion-ish worldwide fans
    • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 month ago

      Swifties leaving X is the most unimportant thing I’ve read in a while, and I’m on Lemmy.

      I like hats.

      There’s no way that’s more important than anything else going on in the world today.