- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
- technology@lemmy.world
X runs ‘timeline takeover’ ad promoting anti-trans film::Thursday on X (Twitter), all users saw the same pinned topic under the “What’s happening?” sidebar. As part of a “timeline takeover” – which gives
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All decent people should get off X and let it continue to fester. The people who continue to use it despite claiming to be against everything it and Musk stand for are a part of the problem.
The problem is, it’ll take forever to die. Just like Facebook. Most of the people who are aware, or even care about these kinds of problems are a small slice of the user base. Most will never hear about it because they don’t give a shit
Yeah, I don’t see a lot of people jumping ship until something even bigger happens or an alternative can slow bleed them well enough.
My friend got the SBF news off of Ex-Twitter as well as getting NBA news as well. He doesn’t like Musk but definitely won’t change his routine.
It might be faster than you think. I know a lot of people who used to look at/share tweets without an account.
Since the X rebrand, it works about 30% of the time for me.
Twitter had a lot of users, but also a whole lot of people who used the platform passively without signing up (and were either uninterested in doing so or incapable).
oh right that’s something I completely forgot about! I don’t use the site/app myself.
Hard pushing accounts and I think charging an annual fee to deter bots can push others out harder.
it would make me so happy to see Ex-Twitter fail.
Getting normies onto federated platforms is going to be a real problem. With centralized services, all people need to know is they type in the name “Twitter” or “Reddit” to Google and click the first link. They’ve probably seen the site and browsed it already. What federated platforms need is a flagship instance that people can easily find. In order to be a real competitor, that instance needs to be able to handle millions of active users.
I’m “on” Facebook - but barely. I have to be though as it’s the only way to reliably contact some relatives overseas.
It doesn’t bother me though, maybe I have target ads on there, but I can’t see them, and they never get to load as I rarely open the platform until I need it.
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the “film” is absolute garbage
As is the social media site. This is the kind of shit he bought it for and it someone made a film full of trans people saying “yep I feel much better now”, there isn’t a chance in hell he’d let them run these kinds of ads for it.
Wow, such a loving and supportive father.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
PragerU, which is not a university, aims to “preserve American ideals.” The organization has been criticized for doubting climate change and downplaying the realities of slavery.
“PragerU has chosen X/Twitter specifically for this campaign, as it is one of the least censored social media platforms,” the organization wrote in a press release.
PragerU calls the short documentary its “most important” video yet, but extensive research shows that detransitioning is incredibly uncommon.
In spite of research indicating that these procedures are often life-saving and rarely result in regret, right-wing figures continue to drum up panic around gender-affirming care for LGBTQ+ people.
X CEO Linda Yaccarino claims that the company will be profitable by 2024, but other evidence shows that the platform’s advertising business continues to suffer.
As recently as this week, Musk has posted that he believes the word “cis” is a “heterosexual slur,” a personal position that reflects changes made to the company’s content moderation policies under his leadership.
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There was a simpler time when anti-trans meant you opposed both autobots and decepticons.
Prager U is the American rightoid version of Pravda.
An ad for a film is the best a technology community can think of to post? Why is this here?
One of the biggest social media sites promoting what is basically just anti-trans propaganda is a pretty big deal
What part of that is technology other than it being on a website; one of the most common and mundane things in the modern day.
What is the purpose of your questioning of the common sense in question?
Like, you are technically correct. This news is not about technology per se, but about content on some technology.
What i can’t really grasp from your comments is, if you’re genuinely bothered that the post isn’t hard tech talk or if you’re actually coming from a “this idiots here all pro-trans” place …
It’s common sense to post things about the most mundane technology to a technology community? What new tech was used? What new use for an old tech was used? What neat technological innovation was there?
I’m with you. This community is watered down and rarely contains anything a techno geek would appreciate.
Go on, post some
When I have something appropriate to post I will do so.
