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   Dr. Matt Lee 🎃 (mattl@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 11:07:06 JST Dr. Matt Lee 🎃

   • Evan Prodromou

   @evan if you’re in the US or your audience is predominantly in the US, yup.

   So many UK folks I know have had a hard time finding an audience off-Twitter.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Jul-2024 11:07:05 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @mattl why does it matter which country you are in?

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 03:30:49 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @mattl I disagree. By using X, anywhere, you're generating revenue for X Corp.

     https://cosocial.ca/@evan/112803170944998276

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     Dr. Matt Lee 🎃 (mattl@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 03:30:50 JST Dr. Matt Lee 🎃

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan I think if you’re in the UK posting about UK stuff for a UK audience you probably don’t do much for US elections either way.

     I barely gave US politics a second thought before living here.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 05:36:47 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Ben Werdmuller

     @ben @mattl hey, these are all tough choices. And if someone feels like the good work they do on X outweighs the revenue they're generating for the Trump campaign, awesome. Just being cognizant of that tradeoff is important.

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     Ben Werdmuller (ben@werd.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 05:36:49 JST Ben Werdmuller

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @mattl @evan Right now in some industries (looking at you, journalism) the social media stats are so bad that dropping any source of referrals is job-threatening. It's going to be up to top management at the very least to make a decision to move. Likely a CEO / Publisher-level choice.

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     Dr. Matt Lee 🎃 (mattl@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 05:36:50 JST Dr. Matt Lee 🎃

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan yeah I don’t use it anymore but I can’t fault people who are just trying to share their work. Between Mastodon and Bluesky there’s just not enough people for some people to share their stuff exclusively.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 05:58:32 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Ben Werdmuller

     @mattl @ben

     I think you may have skipped the part where Elon Musk is donating $45M per month to the Trump campaign.

     Using X generates revenue for X Corp, which makes money for Elon Musk, who contributes money to help Trump win.

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     Dr. Matt Lee 🎃 (mattl@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 05:58:33 JST Dr. Matt Lee 🎃

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     • Ben Werdmuller
     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan @ben yeah I just don’t know how much other countries feel like their usage of Twitter has a bearing on Trump campaign. I need to find a thing that’s not Instagram and start putting photos there too.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 06:30:24 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Ben Werdmuller
     • Jesse Baer 🔥

     @misc @mattl @ben yeah, that's not how ad-supported social media works.

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     Jesse Baer 🔥 (misc@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 06:30:25 JST Jesse Baer 🔥

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     • Ben Werdmuller
     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan @mattl @ben I've heard people try to argue that they are costing Musk more by being there, and I get that he's a bad businessman, but that seems highly unlikely.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 07:17:55 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Ben Werdmuller
     • Farce Majeure

     @ben @vathpela @mattl agreed. It's really obscene.

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     Farce Majeure (vathpela@better.boston)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 07:17:56 JST Farce Majeure

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     • Ben Werdmuller
     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan @mattl @ben which is a little weird, especially to say out loud, since the individual campaign contribution limit is $3300.

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     Ben Werdmuller (ben@werd.social)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 07:17:56 JST Ben Werdmuller

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     • Farce Majeure
     • Evan Prodromou

     @vathpela @evan @mattl It's a PAC. Which is a system that really, truly has to be abolished.

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     Farce Majeure (vathpela@better.boston)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 07:36:44 JST Farce Majeure

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     • Ben Werdmuller
     • Evan Prodromou

     @ben @evan @mattl yeah. It's basically just money laundering.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 07:36:44 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Ben Werdmuller
     • Farce Majeure

     @vathpela @ben @mattl can you imagine what $180M would buy?