I found this here: https://bsky.app/profile/matthewdowsmith.bsky.social/post/3ma6wfldigs2g but it’s a screenshot from https://nitter.net/AaronRDay I couldn’t locate the original Tweet likely because it was posted far back or censored by Musk and I gave up scrolling.
If you’re trying to reach Twitter users, where the hell else should you be posting it?
Don’t use Twitter and it’s not an issue you have to concern yourself with. At this point no one on Twitter has any expectation of privacy or they wouldn’t be using the platform.
But that’s the whole point of the message. This person is clearly imploring Twitter users to not use Twitter.
I also don’t think this is true. It’s easier than ever for people to live in bubbles these days. There are also a lot of people who only engage with apps like Twitter/Reddit/Instagram/etc extremely casually. They aren’t power users and they don’t follow “platform drama”. It’s pretty easy for these people to slide by without being aware of the deep, creeping rot that’s gradually been enshitifying these platforms for years. It’s worth trying to reach these users, and the only way to do that is by talking to them where they are.
And my point is that his message rings hollow when he posts it on Twitter. It’s hypocritical. This was posted 6 days ago and he’s posted another 100 tweets since then.
It is true or they wouldn’t be on Twitter. Nobody doesn’t know they’re being spied on. You can’t not at this point. I talk to tons of people about this in real life and they are completely aware of the spying and literally could not care less. But the more important evidence is that all these people are still on these platforms by the billions, despite the existence of dozens of more private platforms.
Meta created a brand new platform last year and had more active users than BSky in a matter of days!