Elon Musk’s X suspended an account for “White Dudes for Harris” after massive fundraiser raised $4 million for the Vice President.
  • umbrella
    137·
    4 months ago

    so why is ‘white dude for harris’ not on mastodon, instagram, bluesky or whatever the alternative is instead?

    twitter, as you say yourself is not a useable source of information or platform for people not on the nazi part of the political spectrum.

    its not like a public space we can take over. musk has all the control over who even gets seen.

    • Tiefling IRL@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      11·
      4 months ago

      Likely because those are vastly under populated compared to Xitter. When running promo, you have to go where the people are sadly. It’s harder to make people come to you.

      • umbrella
        11·
        4 months ago

        does it matter if they get banned anyway?

    • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
      101·
      4 months ago

      Because it’s an election and X has hundreds of millions of monthly active users. It would be irresponsible not to campaign where there are people.

      Again, ignoring the existence of X won’t make X go away or stop mattering.

      its not like a public space we can take over. musk has all the control over who even gets seen.

      Yeah, and when he uses that power to manipulate the gigantic captive audience he bought, we should call him out on it.

    • bss03@infosec.pub
      4·
      4 months ago

      I thought it was founded on Mastodon. At least that’s where I heard about it, 5 days or so before the fundraising call on Monday.