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

"Will you join wheat thins in the fight against lime disease?"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago

"Do I want to support Nazis?" The answer is no, it's always no. "No, I do not want to support a Nazi"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

If you were a brand that wanted to be part of any cultural moments that were happening, Twitter was a great place to be

what about fucking don't. fuck off our culture.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Ah yes the one time Oreos dunked on the Super Bowl.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 15 hours ago

It's hard. You'll lose all those potential nazi customers. And inbred rednecks, mostly from US southern states.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Of course, the BBC led the way by having it's own mastodon instance...

Which has been a trial for nearly two years now.

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

RIP mozilla.social

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

Not much activity I can see on the accounts I looked at?

[–] [email protected] 85 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

I read the article. I didn’t see anything “tricky”. Just a lot of weak excuses.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 hours ago

"But if I don't work with and promote Nazis, I will make less money! How will the Nazis watch my ads?"

[–] [email protected] 18 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Literally this. It's as easy as making a Bluesky account and mass changing all links to it, and putting a permanent banner on their site with their handle.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Or not making the same mistake twice, and opting for something decentralised that your company owns, such as your own Mastodon instance.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, but then they have to pay someone to maintain it. And low though that cost may be, it's precisely the sort of thing that C-levels like to cut when they feel like pretending that they actually do something.

It's a hard thing for a C-level's ego to set something up that they know someone else is going to cut later, or worse that they might be the one to "have to" cut it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

They have to pay someone to manage the account in the first place. No reason that worker can’t do both.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Typing in a box on a website provided by someone else can be done by practically anyone, even the boss themselves at a pinch. Heck, some of them love doing that.

Maintaining a server (or a service on a server) requires someone with more skills, which generally costs more money.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Some smart entrepreneur could offer a Mastodon-server-in-a-box service, where companies only pay hosting fees for company-name.social and a social network employee.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 16 hours ago

On the plus side, the BBC news website is normalising companies wanting to leave. This is a powerful message.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 16 hours ago

What is really tricky is that most people that seek top level leadership roles align with fascism.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 17 hours ago

I think brands should stay on X, this way they don't bother me with their advertisement on my social media.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 18 hours ago

Corporations with that Nazi fomo

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago

We just could not leave the NAZI camp the food was just too good. I get it corporations. When the dead bodies start showing up you will just step over them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 hours ago

Just stay there! We don't want you here?