“Uncle Steve has spoken!” » Harlan Coben almost seemed to raise his glass on the Threads platform, to celebrate the arrival of the other master of the thriller, Stephen King, just after leaving the life of a new town, when the one across the street has changed owners. .
Those who crossed the street did so at different times: when Elon Musk bought Twitter. When he reestablished neo-Nazi accounts in the name of free speech. When he decided in June to anonymize likes so that users could get excited about his anti-immigrant comments or when he started sharing false information (usually preceded by “Wow” EITHER ” interesting “). When he put his platform at the service of Donald Trump’s campaign. When, after the victory, X became the tool of the next government whose composition he influenced through the polls. Laggards may well say they stuck around to keep in touch with other points of view, but followers, like frogs, didn’t necessarily feel the temperature of Elon Musk’s hot water rising.
Go or stay? Although the question seemed to have only two possible answers, a whole range of boycott strategies were developed. Among which: posting on multiple platforms, claiming you’re leaving next year, keeping your X account but stopping posting there, replacing your username with your address on another platform, or, as Guardian, announce that we will no longer be present there but that the journalists from the newsroom will still be able to be there.
How do we recognize them?
Apart from its presence in sunday newspaper after its acquisition by Vincent Bolloré. They looked for justifications to stay. They know that those who abandoned the Mastodon platform, when Elon Musk bought Twitter, disappeared into a large black hole. They do not talk about their followers but about their ” community “.
how they talk
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