Once upon a time, Twitter was paradise for sex workers. We could post our thirst traps, network and build community with each other, find clients, and build a following. Then came the hateful algorithms with their dreaded shadowbans. Building a following became virtually impossible, and our posts were hidden from our actual followers who WANT TO SEE THEM BC THEY FOLLOW US! We tried to warn the masses that these tools would be weaponized against political dissenters, but predictably we were mostly ignored. (We’re trying to warn y’all about banking discrimination and the dangers of facial recognition technology too but that’s a subject for another post. Just know that they always test their hateful tech tools on us first, then roll them out for the respectables and normals.)
If you are interested in learning more about this, check out Hacking Hustling’s piece
Anyway, when Melon Husk bought Twitter, we knew it didn’t bode well, but some remained hopeful due to all his yapping about “free speech.” Of course things only got worse for us under Apartheid Clyde, but most of us have stayed because it remains one of the only platforms where you can post tit without catching a permaban for it.
I guess the Neo-Nazification of the platform culminating in the re-election of Trump with Elon’s help has finally pushed us over the edge, because there has been a huge migration over to BlueSky (aka LibSky.) Will it be better? Probably not. But for now, the shadowbans are minimal and fascists don’t appear to be tolerated so here we are.
Y’all may or may not realize it but sex workers tend to be at the forefront of new tech trends and innovations. When a new platform pops up, we’ll be there shortly with innovative new ways to sell hole. So I predict that LibSky may just take off.
TL;DR: if you post tit, they will come
One of my most libbed up opinions: Twitter under Jack Dorsey was… probably about as “good” as one can expect from a privately run, “for profit” (on paper anyway. I don’t think Twitter’s model is ever profitable in and of itself) “general use” social media app and company.
Good is relative obviously compared to… Twitter now with daily incantations from Mein Kampf being boosted to millions of viewers. Same goes for Facebook, Instagram (also “Meta” owned), YouTube comments, 99% of Reddit. If anyone or any company ever tries to actually abide by “both sides have extremes” it seemed to be Dorsey’s goal. I don’t agree with the goal for ideological and I’d argue moral reasons, but, he did ban the outright and obvious Nazis. The bar is in Hell here, but, libbed up opinion, “he was the lesser of the evils!” We finally found who should’ve been president…
And by general use I mean seeks to bring in a broad audience and isn’t explicitly going to be favoring certain ideological viewpoints. Of course it still favored liberalism as that’s the default “western” stance, to defend western governments and such, but again,… an attempt was made. It was imperfect, even “bad” most of the time, but the bar is deep inside Satan’s rectum on this topic.
If we had tribunals for the creators, major investors and owners of these rancid platforms, and I were a judge (which obviously I would be 👀), I’d argue for leniency for Dorsey. Let him be a humble miner for the rest of his life. Musk, Zuckerberg, that Tom guy from MySpace… well… I am censored on their fates
This is the part where I’ve set myself up to have someone come in and inform me that Dorsey is a suspected serial murderer or some shit
I agree. Dorsey’s Twitter was probably the best we’ll ever get. I’m sure he’s a piece of shit like the rest of them, but the golden days of Twitter were something else. We shall never see their like again 💔