X suspends pro-Nazi account after two brands halt advertising

X will soon allow brands to block ads from appearing next to specific profiles.

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[nzod]

Where else would they go?

Bluesky explicitly does not want accounts like Ars Technica on it. Threads might as well be Facebook for how effective it is at letting anything you post there be seen. It should be clear at this point that Mastodon is not a useful platform for most people.

I'm sure a lot of people would love to abandon Twitter, but other than abandoning the concept of social media entirely, there's nowhere to go.

Perhaps, but then that is the new reality, it's not like a platform with wide and easy reach existing is an inalienable right of humanity. I'm sure the money on the line is non-zero, but then the cost of staying is going up, associating with this crap while pretending it's still OK.

Clinging to the fast sinking ship to scrape every possible coin out of it is not a great look for any organization.

Something, possibly ActivityPub based that is a better fit for wider consumption, will surely come. Those affected, with the means, can invest in making it happen, as some orgs/companies are already trying to do - like making Mastodon itself better.

It's probably easy to armchair this and I don't see how joined at the hip with Twitter some entities are/were, but then again, the reality has changed, and the bird is truly gone, even if there isn't a replacement currently.

Edit: seeing hestermofet's numbers though, yeah. There's no excuse.

 

[nzod]

《brands ... avoiding ad placements next to "targeted hate speech, explicit sexual content, gratuitous gore, excessive profanity, obscenity, spam, drugs"》
I am not sure I would want to have dealings with any enterprise that knowlingly (as attested by their having ticked the conservative checkbox) using a service that harboured such content.
At the rusk of Godwinning myself this seems a bit like a 1942 business in the Reich requesting their advertising signage not be erected too close to one of "those" camps.

Any thread about X starts out Godwinned by default, by the company's own making.