From Casey Newton’s recent newsletter:
We also stopped posting to X. It felt bad contributing to a site that had actively dismantled its own content moderation operation and predictably soon filled up with hate speech of all sorts. Posting to it made us feel complicit in both in Elon Musk’s war against journalism and his own right-wing political project, which included a policy to label “cisgender” a slur.
I feel great about no longer posting to X, but it did cost us whatever opportunity we might have had to reach new readers there. Instead, I’ve been rebuilding primarily on Threads, where I increasingly find the kind of smart, timely conversations about the news that I once had on Twitter.
My long-term bet is that Threads will win out over X, and all the reporters who are still posting to X will eventually wish they had built their audiences on Threads when it was still easier to do so. We’ll see how it pans out, but the early returns are promising.
TL;DR you’re going to have quit eventually, all the time you remained there will be wasted and it will look terrible to be the person/organisation who clung to the fascist hell site until the bitter end.
Mark Carrigan 