John Oliver's Show covered what's happening with X/Twitter.

@hpod16
I have long thought that Huxley's Soma from A Brave New World, in our world, would be the dopamine addiction to social media. I guess in some ways it is more useful than a simple chemical high because someone like Musk can dial it up situationally.

@alterelefant @hpod16 Australia

@hpod16 having watched the piece I think his advice is actually we need to do something about this, leaving is not enough. Propaganda hurts you and your society even if you don't read it. X is the factory polluting the water supply, it's not enough to boycott it's products, they need to pay damages and fix it.

@kauer
Ah, check.
@hpod16

@hpod16 wow, welcome to 3 years ago.

@hpod16 I've been on Twitter almost since the beginning and when Musk took over and showed his real face I pulled the plug. No amount of nostalgia and network effect can justify being there IMO. I still use Meta for work related posts but for personal things I'm only here. And maybe one day I will delete even this account and will have a normal life: we can have social media but we don't need it.

@hpod16

Please use content warning for this kind of post. Parts of the video contains pictures of a very disturbed individual. It can cause nightmares.

@leffe that’s fair! I’m sorry you had to see this man on your feed

@leffe @hpod16 Am I too thickheaded to get the sarcasm once again?

@hpod16 @maumau @EC_NGI the Fediverse is a matter of public digital infrastructure, and its ecosystem should be duely funded by the EU

https://social.vivaldi.net/@everton137/116053448009650994

@codinghorror @hpod16 they do

https://leavex.eu/politicians

@hpod16 @maumau @EC_NGI in my opinion, we should also find ways to fund and strengthen its communities. Here are some ideas of successful cases

https://social.vivaldi.net/@everton137/116028993057524907

@tanghus @hpod16

Absolutely no sarcasm intended. Musk is an enemy of the people, and should not be quoted or allowed to speak on public media. My own opinion of course.

Content warnings for sensitive material is a general rule on Mastodon, which many users forget about.

@hpod16 @Eetschrijver it's rather stunning how many news media and politicians are still *very* active there. And then you get effects like news articles with videos embedded which are all hosted on Twitter because they are in large numbers *still* putting their statements and evidence there, instead of an alternative or their own sites...

@hpod16 But but but--reach! Stay where the eyeballs are! Blah blah blah

@hpod16 Already left a long time ago. Turns out: good riddance.

@aka_quant_noir @hpod16 @ThomHartmann

He's never pretended not to be a businessman. But he does play a Person of Integrity' for a living

@leffe @hpod16 It's your choice to watch the video, and the mention of X is a content warning in itself.

@hpod16@eupolicy.social we've been repeating "leave X" so many times, and provided so much evidence of its irreversible fascistification, that by now I believe that anyone who keeps actively using it is accomplice.

Those who still want to view content on X without an account can use any Nitter instance (mine is at nitter.ocus.top), which also provide RSS feeds.

Those who want to follow X accounts on the Fediverse can use bird.makeup

@hpod16@eupolicy.social @maumau@chaos.social @EC_NGI@ec.social-network.europa.eu unfortunately NGI allocated peanuts for FOSS projects.

US and China out there allocate trillions for their tech stacks, and Europe allocates just a dozen of millions for FOSS projects and thinks that it's enough. And then they also put out their "call for evidence" for FOSS - as if all the evidence collected in all these years wasn't enough and the ball was still in our court as developers.

The right ideas are there, but eligibility criteria should be thinner, funds much larger (at least by a 25x factor), and preferably raised through shared financial instruments (i.e. Eurobonds), so we don't have to dig in underfunded EU departments nor end up with a situation where the member States that can invest the most get ahead of the others, and more EU institutional accounts should be active on the Fediverse and actually respond to questions (in most of the cases it looks like institutional EU accounts are mostly mirrors of X accounts).

Oh, and projects like the W social network (or whatever its name is now) should be called out for going in the exact opposite direction: we need open solutions based on open protocols, not alternative closed corporate giants.