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I find this utterly infuriating. The CCDH is accusing Twitter of this and that, and where is one of the places they make these announcements? On Twitter itself!
If 1/2 the people who state they hate Twitter or thought it was hurtful or damaging to society simply stopping posting on Twitter, the entire site would collapse. Instead these very same people who claim to not like Musk or his company, also support his platform by having an account and posting to it.
This is referred to as a "social trap", "social dilemma", or "multipolar trap", wherein everyone in a group can have an openly-rewarded incentive to act in a way that's against the group's common good.
From the inside, a social trap feels like:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_trap
Psychiatrist-blogger Scott Alexander has compared social traps to the ancient god Moloch, to whom everyone in a civilization sacrifices an infant in the name of social stability.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
Resolving social traps is a primary problem of social organization — including (e.g.) labor organization, consumer organization (boycotts), and so on.
It's fucking wild reading this from a lemmy instance full of reddit refugees
Oh, you wanna read something wild? I got you.
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/