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[–] [email protected] 186 points 3 months ago (15 children)

I just can't believe anyone still uses Twitter for any purpose.

At this point remaining active on the platform is more or less unethical.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago (3 children)

A lot of sites have weight. Twitter sheds users every day but the large user count makes it attractive to public figures and if you want to follow that public figure you need to have twitter.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 3 months ago

My point is, it's becoming unethical for public figures and their followers to remain on the platform.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's why the more prominent the public figure is, the bigger ethical obligation they have to switch to Mastodon and force their followers to follow.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Cue a flood of Swifties when Taylor finds out about Mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah but to me it's insane that public people that have publicists or companies that have communications staff simply don't cross post to multiple sites.

Sure for a regular person that's a lot of work to do when just posting a random thought. But for someone who's job involves posting things to social media? Most of the work is coming up with the copy. Once that's done it's just copying and pasting to different sites.

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