Eh, if they were doing it on Mastodon nobody would see their campaigning. And of that tiny amount that do see them, they’d mostly be preaching to the choir.

For an average user you have a point, though.

As people have pointed out, they’re an advocacy group, and trying to reach less aware people. The fact that Elon banned em shows it was most likely working.

They are an advocacy group, they go where their audience is. Of you are looking for white dudes what’s the point of looking for them in the fediverse, where 98% of them already agree with you?

What a coincidence, a strong liberal fundraising account getting banned just as Musk promises to donate $45mil/month to the Trump campaign and complains about the “woke mind virus.” I’m sure you can point to similar conservative accounts getting banned and staying banned for several hours right?

The ban lasted 2 hours and 45 minutes.

You mean during the time that they were holding their fundraising event?

Except that no reason for the ban was given. If the ban was due to a sudden uptick in followers, why wasn’t that reason sent along with the ban? And then there is the timing which coincided with the fundraiser. All of this on top of Musk publicly declaring his endorsement of Trump and the promise of finding his campaign. Too many “coincidences” are a clear indication of intent.

Mastodon lacks full-text search, which kills the main reason that Twitter appealed to me, the real-time-updated full-text index.

Elon Musk doesn’t have NPD. And accusing people of being disabled is not an epic burn. It’s only an insult if you think disabled people are worth less than neurotypicals. Sensible people don’t hate the disabled, so calling him a n*rcissist isn’t an insult.

Calling him neurotypical is a bigger insult. Because it implies that all of his weirdness is a choice.

On the flip side, hopefully this news story pushes more people away from X