The Moral Case for No Longer Engaging With Elon Musk’s X
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The Moral Case for No Longer Engaging With Elon Musk’s X::The former Twitter is incentivizing violent content, which will only become worse to stand out to users.
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This is your daily reminder to engage and boost Twitter alternatives such as Mastodon. It's not enough to ignore Twitter. We must build communities to draw in users, show them social media can exist without Elon or Zuck. Only when good alternatives exist, with content and people sought after, do users feel safe to abandon old platforms.
Mastodon, Firefish, Misskey, Sharkey. There really are a lot of interesting options. Mastodon seems to be the most popular though.
Firefish is my favourite, the design is fantastic, and I can read all of Mastodon on it. Very enjoyable and everyone is quite welcoming.
I made an account on Firefish as well. A bit of an adjustment after Mastodon. But my Mastodon account has been untouched since.
I think it's just a very pretty design! For some reason I can't explain it's adorable.
I get that. I feel it still needs a bit of polish. It's amazing but has some rough edges to work out. Sadly it probably won't catch up to Mastodon. Mastodon has too much of a head start. The nice thing about the fediverse is that it doesn't matter though. I can use the less popular option and still connect with the popular one.
Mastodon is never going to be as addictive without that algorithm. You can't just replace one with the other when what you're hooked on is the outage. What we really need here is regulation.