Elon Musk officially turns his social medium X into a porn site.
I still remember the day when Twitter was an essential tool for many professionals, but does anyone seriously think ANY politician, media person, or CEO will open X on the go and risk being seen viewing pornographic material in public?
@rachel it isn't, in principle. But it is in form.
On mastodon you might have servers dedicated to that type of content, the user decides what to join and followers can block the server.
Every server has its own rules, it's the user that decides in witch one to sign up/block. On top, the server admins can block certain servers by default.
Yes, you can have an ocasional pop up of some NSFW, but if it's against the rules, will be banned.
@rachel I was using Twitter since 2009 to follow politics.
When writing, I would use the search functions to research a topic, and it worked well. This is my experience on Mastodon too.
But now, if I am forced to open X to find something, when searching, I will occasionally get completely irrelevant and unrelated pornographic content in the search result, because some accounts abuse keywords, and the platform is poorly moderated, if at all.
I think that problem will now increase on X. @PJFDF
@randahl@rachel@PJFDF Yep. Twitter always had porn, but it wasn’t just there, popping up in your feed (mostly 👀). Many users didn’t even know there was porn there at all. Him making a point of announcing it “officially” & with the name “X” seems like a conscious choice to go more in that direction. Should be interesting to watch what happens. Maybe he’ll buy whoever regulates that. 🤷♀️
@randahl There are ways to deal with that, like a NSFW tag. Mastodon has content warnings, but unfortunately not with categories. If done right, you can turn the pr0n on and off reliable.
@randahl i mean, there is a lot of easy to find porn around here too, most servers only ask to put it behind content warnings, and i'm sure some even don't ask for that. When i was using twitter, it was not very uncommon to stumble upon porn either.
As long as it's produced by consenting adults, is not stolen material, and presented hidden behind CW, or limited to people who already accepted the possibility of viewing that, i don't see anything wrong with that.
@randahl A series of Twitter/X horrors haven't driven most media people off the platform. I see no reason to think they'll suddenly flee now, unfortunately.