people are so easily controlled by FOMO it’s pathetic

I mean, the issue with vote with your wallet is that all of the people’s wallets combined are worth about 0 total votes compared to his and his friend’s wallets.

Exactly, except it’s true of all voting, since if just 80% of people voted, the Democratic Party would actually be left wing and have a supermajority in every branch of the government.

I vote with my wallet by not buying <thing>

Billionaires vote with their wallet by buying politicians and lawmakers.

It’s a bit uneven.

It would be nice if other people joined because of the network effect, but ultimately your decision is about you and what you want. I never used Twitter (the format is terrible for the sort of thing I like to read) but there’s an industry I’m morally opposed to and I refuse to support it despite the fact that this makes my life harder while that industry doesn’t even notice losing one customer. They do still lose the money I would have spent, and that’s a non-zero loss even if they aren’t aware of it.

Maybe one day my contribution will be part of a network effect, but even without that I feel like I’m doing the right thing and that’s enough for me.

“Vote with your wallet” also means people with bigger wallets get bigger votes.

That place only makes money from advertisers. It has lost something like 80% of them since he bought it. This is happening despite Twitter’s actual users still mostly hanging around.

The advertisers are voting with their wallets; your wallet actually doesn’t apply here. Apathy of the users doesn’t apply here either. Musk continues to run the site the way he wants because, fuck it, who cares, he’s still richer than god. None of this matters to him.

Yeah, but that requires him to go through effort to make a new account.

It’s easier for him to tell someone else to strip features and make the platform worse than it already is

He probably could. But he’ll spin this into ‘make speech free again’™ or some hulkshit

You can just make a new account… it’s not like blocking someone stopped them from ever viewing your tweets again. Blocking was always just to stop viewing their tweets.

He wouldn’t even need to do that. He could literally just make a third account (assuming his daughter is blocking the one where Elon pretends to be an actual child) and see all the posts he wants. This is truly Elon solving a problem only Elon has, by nuking a feature tons of folks use.