Post AR8gh3M4lhu50TaDOC by DataDrivenMD@mstdn.social
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(DIR) Post #AR7nvIZfUANImdikDI by DataDrivenMD@mstdn.social
2022-12-30T06:46:44Z
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At some point it becomes impossible to give people the benefit of the doubt. As it relates to generating content + revenue for a bigoted billionaire who is friendly with fascist regimes around the world, that point in time is fast-approaching.
(DIR) Post #AR7nvJCf9BZCjZxszg by DataDrivenMD@mstdn.social
2022-12-30T06:48:33Z
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Like, seriously, I don't fcuking care how important you think Twitter is to your job. All that's telling me is that you're willing to sell out entire swaths of the population for your personal gain.
(DIR) Post #AR7nvJnAxQm2Yp32uG by DataDrivenMD@mstdn.social
2022-12-30T06:52:34Z
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If you don't like Mastodon, fine- find something else that works for you, but don't think for one second that the people you're selling out don't notice that you're actually on Twitter and cross-posting to other platforms.Yeah, even if you host your own crossposter, it's pretty fcuking obvious that you're not really here when you don't engage *at all* with anyone that responds to your posts
(DIR) Post #AR7nvKNKmzhIMxxvGa by DataDrivenMD@mstdn.social
2022-12-30T06:55:12Z
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But, since we're being honest, let's be real and call a spade a spade: the thing you don't like about Mastodon is the absence of a caucophany of pro-fascist voices. Their extremism makes you feel like your extremism isn't extreme, but it is.
(DIR) Post #AR7nvKzGVy2SGbiDOC by chris@abraham.su
2022-12-30T07:11:48Z
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@DataDrivenMDThere are so many pro-fascist voices. You just have a wall to them. A block. They've been here since the beginning and they're rough. You're just enjoying a block list.
(DIR) Post #AR7nvOS5dFsV0sDmEa by DataDrivenMD@mstdn.social
2022-12-30T07:05:23Z
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If you're reading this, I'm not talking to you. Thanks for being on the right side of history.But, I am probably talking to your acquaintainces and friends. You know them better than I do, and I urge you to reach out to them－ tell them how you feel about the fact that they're willing to sell you out for the dimming prospect of maintaining their relevance via a platform that is overrun by anti-semitic, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-Black, anti-immigrant, anti-everything you are and/or care about.
(DIR) Post #AR7o1PAbsKWeyfuaH2 by chris@abraham.su
2022-12-30T07:12:55Z
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@DataDrivenMDSelling out? Yikes.
(DIR) Post #AR7o5sFpgOIAL5UAN6 by JenWojcik@mastodon.social
2022-12-30T07:13:39Z
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@chris @DataDrivenMD Yep.
(DIR) Post #AR8gh3M4lhu50TaDOC by DataDrivenMD@mstdn.social
2022-12-30T07:33:28Z
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I've said this before, but it bears repeating: the end game for El** is to keep the fowl place afloat long enough to get advertisers to come crawling back. The *only* way that he'll succeed is if there's a critical mass of influencers creating content for him *and* there's a critical mass of followers consuming that content. That's it.That's all El** and advertisers care about. Why? Their goal is to insert ads into that creator-consumer relationship. That's it.
(DIR) Post #AR8gh41uGBMd6D9cae by DataDrivenMD@mstdn.social
2022-12-30T07:38:01Z
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This is the reason he does shit like amplify RU mouthpieces claiming that the U.S. will devolve into a Civil War: when there aren't enough content creators generating engaging content, he literally steps in to juice the numbers. It's so fcuking transparent that it's laughable.Well, it would be laughable if he weren't cheerleading WWIII in the process, but that's who he is: an opportunistic narcissistic asshole who doesn't give a flying fuck what happens to the world so long as he's on top
(DIR) Post #AR8gh4VKUmtqZSv7S4 by DataDrivenMD@mstdn.social
2022-12-30T07:40:01Z
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His *entire* strategy is predicated on the notion that there are enough content creators with massive audiences out there who are willing to say, "Let's see how this plays out." time-and-time again until the advertisers start writing him checks again.
(DIR) Post #AR8gh4wGscRzv1WdRg by DataDrivenMD@mstdn.social
2022-12-30T07:46:48Z
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Twitter Blue? That's literally pennies on the dollar. 92% of the fowl place's $5 billion in revenue for FY 2021 stemmed from advertising. That's $4.6 billion.*Even if* every monetizable active user paid El** $8/mo, he'd be $3.9 billion in the hole *EVERY YEAR*The math doesn't work.sources: https://www.businessofapps.com/data/twitter-statistics/https://blog.hootsuite.com/twitter-demographics/
(DIR) Post #AR8gh5MVJ5QzENnaKm by DataDrivenMD@mstdn.social
2022-12-30T07:51:30Z
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So, as I said earlier in this thread, let's call a spade a spade: influencers who are generating original content for Twitter are the *only* reason that place is still around. They are literally enabling the hate and vitriol that they *claim* they are fighting against. Those claims are performative bullshit. The data makes it abundantly clear that they're doing abso-fucking-lutely nothing but keeping El** from bankruptcy, and selling out human rights in the process. That's it.
(DIR) Post #AR8gh6WSzWzupZT3VA by ripplestream@pawoo.net
2022-12-30T17:25:32Z
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@DataDrivenMD ...and governments, (like the government of canada/saskatchewan/ontario/the united states, the united kingdom, etc), who use it for official government news and information distribution
(DIR) Post #AR8gh7aP2Njy84JiHA by DataDrivenMD@mstdn.social
2022-12-30T07:52:57Z
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To those around to read this rant: Happy New Year! Thanks for ushering in 2023 on the right side of history. /X