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.
Oh, so this is the time to leave Twitter?! Like, you were okay with the fact that it was basically a Nazi social media website by a Nazi for Nazis at this point, but this is too far? Fucking hell, some people’s priorities fascinate me.
Someone just before you left a comment saying "[The best] Time to get off Twitter [was] when a Nazi bought it.
The second-best time is now.". (source: https://lemmy.zip/post/55517537/23499919)
I agree 100% with that comment. If someone leaves late yes we wish they would have left sooner but we can’t go back in time and change that so we must just be happy that they finally left.
People on Twitter now will not quit it over some AI personal data munching.
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. If even a tiny amount of people leave because of this it’s a win! Think about it like chipping away at a stone with a chisel and discarding the fragments. If you keep doing it enough one day the stone will be gone.
After reading about how little bad training material is required to poison an LLM, I wonder if we might have an easier time convincing people to put random words in every few tweets.
I mean, I still recommend leaving twitter but for our friends who use it for whatever, seems a funny but reasonable suggestion.
The time to get off Twitter is now? But how else can we connect with the people on the global townsquare?
…they posted to Twitter.
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.
At this point no one on Twitter has any expectation of privacy or they wouldn’t be using the platform.
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.
But that’s the whole point of the message. This person is clearly imploring Twitter users to not use Twitter.
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.
I also don’t think this is true
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!
It is very ironic but I felt it was worded well so that’s why I posted it.
These all seem like things that are PAR for the course in mainstream social media platforms and really just modern platforms in general. If they haven’t already left, they’re probably not going to, and there’s pretty much nothing anyone can do to make them.
Twitter is more egregious than even other big tech platforms and there are major competitors that don’t have these AI training terms of services like Bluesky.
Also some people are just slow to change or don’t get the news so we have to try everything we can.
BlueSky is neither “mainstream social media”, “big tech platforms”, or “major competitor”.
I agree that Bluesky isn’t a “big tech platform”, it’s not as big as I wish it were but I do think currently it’s the largest competitor that’s at-least mostly ethical or far better than the big tech platforms. They recently hit a 41 million user milestone. How can platforms can you name with greater than that many users that is not part of what is commonly considered to be “big tech” (Meta, Google, Twitter, Snapchat, and TikTok)?
When BlueSky breaks a billion active users we can have a conversation about Big Tech because there’s no way they get there without enshittification.
