I’m pretty sure OP knows this, but some of the replies? Wow.
The Chaser is a parody news site, just to be clear. It’s a really funny one, and just like good parody anywhere it strikes close to home. But it’s not actual reportage (more’s the pity).
God it would be so fucking nice if “vote with your wallet” wasn’t literally impossible because so many fucking people are just apathetic and won’t leave…
I mean, the issue with vote with your wallet is that all of the people’s wallets combined are worth about 0 total votes compared to his and his friend’s wallets.
That place only makes money from advertisers. It has lost something like 80% of them since he bought it. This is happening despite Twitter’s actual users still mostly hanging around.
The advertisers are voting with their wallets; your wallet actually doesn’t apply here. Apathy of the users doesn’t apply here either. Musk continues to run the site the way he wants because, fuck it, who cares, he’s still richer than god. None of this matters to him.
It would be nice if other people joined because of the network effect, but ultimately your decision is about you and what you want. I never used Twitter (the format is terrible for the sort of thing I like to read) but there’s an industry I’m morally opposed to and I refuse to support it despite the fact that this makes my life harder while that industry doesn’t even notice losing one customer. They do still lose the money I would have spent, and that’s a non-zero loss even if they aren’t aware of it.
Maybe one day my contribution will be part of a network effect, but even without that I feel like I’m doing the right thing and that’s enough for me.
I imagine the solution, for his child at least, would be something like moving to a different platform and if the deadbeat follows, block him. Also, why would he need to change the block system to see her posts? As far as I’m aware, unless posts are made private, anyone can go to your account by creating another account if you’ve blocked them.
Yeah, but that requires him to go through effort to make a new account.
It’s easier for him to tell someone else to strip features and make the platform worse than it already is
Imagine being the world’s richest deadbeat father.
The best possible outcome here is that it drives more people off the platform. Frankly, I’m annoyed that so many people still use twitter. I’m in favor of anything that makes it less user-friendly.
