- cross-posted to:
- mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
Thanks to Popcrave https://twitter.com/popcrave/status/1691852136236327316?s=46&t=lcH0dp9biwkMEBKsRQeVeQ
Who here is going to put their ID and photo on X/Twitter
✅ Biometrics and ID stored forever who-knows-where ✅ Continued data mining and exploitation ✅ Total surveillance state
💩 The enshittification continues. Gotta love it.
Seriously though… I’m not bullish on this platform. I don’t know what it’s turning into, but if it truly is a “WeChat of the West,” it’s not something I’m interested in participating in. And I don’t wanna have a hand in building it.
In this route, it means that X would really become an identity platform.
And us being on this platform gives it value. Gives it validity.
I wonder every single day if it makes sense to leave the platforms in protest, or stay in the belly of the beast and raise awareness from within.
I see value in both, but I don’t think there’s a way to know which is the “correct” or “best” approach until you have hindsight.
Either way, it’s clear that we don’t matter for anything other than exploitation. The business model doesn’t allow for anything else, really.
Side note: Here’s a clean version of the URL: https://twitter.com/popcrave/status/1691852136236327316
(Remember to delete everything after the ampersand. Everything after it is an identifier.)
Staying there is called “engagement” and it’s exactly what the platforms want. They thrive on your attention, report that as engagement metrics, and turn that into money. “Raising awareness” feeds the beast.
Nobody is surprised when shitty people running companies do shitty things. They stay until it meets a certain threshold of shitty, or they go to a competitor.
Drive engagement at the competitor instead of railing against the toxic site from within. People will move toward something better more readily than they’ll move away from something bad but comfortable.