Friends, don't use the tools of the enemy.

[Emrys]

30. Nah, you use whatever media you want to in whatever ways you want, and I'll do whatever I see fit.

What I won't do is waste my and everybody else's time on this here social media site lecturing other folks on how they should spend their time online or elsewhere. It's beyond being a tired argument.

Listening to you, it seems you think everyone should just be glued to DU all the time if they're not out doing what you consider good works. If that happened, this would be a pretty boring place, and even more of an echo chamber than it is now.

I do use Twitter a lot, in a very calculated way which I reckon actually costs Musk money and gives me a lot of benefit. I never post there, and my main activity beyond reading a few select Twitter lists is blocking users and content I don't want to see. By using those lists, I steer clear of most of the algorithmic effects, as Twitter was never designed for users like me.

If I post a tweet here, it's valueless to Musk because advertisers only pay per view of their ads, and I don't post Twitter ads here, and nor does anyone else. If I hotlink a Twitter image, I and everyone viewing it are stealing bandwidth from Musk, so click away.

The only conceivable way Musk might benefit very marginally from anyone posting Twitter content here is in terms of Musk's overall site traffic. It's going to be a minuscule drop in the ocean, and given how many bots there are on Twitter, the days when raw traffic stats could be used to lure potential advertisers are long gone.

As long as there are worthwhile sources of information posting on Twitter, I'll keep on using it because it's a more effective use of my time than the ages I used to have to spend scanning MSM sites, blogs, forums etc. to gather information worldwide. If I find it's no longer useful, I'll stop using it.