[CydeWeys]

I curate a relatively tame Twitter feed, but X has been showing me animated advertisements of some fleshlight-like device going to town on a dildo. W. T. A. F.

It's started making me worried that I can't even use the app in a place where anyone else is, lest someone shoulder surf that and wonder WTF I'm looking at.

[fourside]

It continues to surprise me how much people insist on using this platform after everything that’s happened in the last couple of years.

It’s like having dinner at a restaurant that you know is owned by a mafia boss and then being surprised when you get robbed while you eat there.

[qchris]

I totally get the point you're trying to make (and don't even disagree) but I think the analogy isn't quite right.

I'd actually be surprised if I got robbed at a mobbed-up restaurant; my naive understanding was that they actual put a lot of effort into keeping places like that above-board so they have legit businesses to attach their name/revenue/employees to, while still retaining muscle in case a rival tries something. It's arguably one of the last places I'd expected to get robbed outright.

[mildzebrataste]

It’s like when you’re having dinner at a restaurant owned by the mob and act surprised when the owner pays for your meal because “you look like such nice girls.”

[CydeWeys]

Sadly there's a bunch of interesting communities on there that aren't really available anywhere else, plus some of the competing platforms are even worse just in different ways (though their ads are for sure better).

[duped]

People are literally addicted to it, this is like expecting smokers to stop smoking because it's bad for them.

[some-guy]

Dumpster fires are unfortunately entertaining.

[mucha]

That's actually an ad for X Premium+. No embarrassing ads!