I don’t want to crate account there because I’ll get into endless useless discussions. And you can’t use this website without an account.

why is that? Why can't you just use it in read only fashion?

No idea how it looks right now, but at some point Twitter started to block reading replies without an account. And sometimes it blocked even more, so you could not follow links to read.

sorry, maybe I wasn't clear. What I mean is that you can create an account to view posts and not reply, i.e. have a lurker account.

I tried to create an account but Elon banned it within a couple of hours for being inauthentic. Ironic given the large number of bots on the site

Can't you still read with a banned account?

I think this changed recently, but at least prior to that, when not logged in, you only saw the initial post and none of the replies.

It seems intellectually dishonest to blanket-label any principled stance that you disagree with as "virtue signaling".

I think the claim is that the principled stance would be to ignore all X content.

Which is just the "yet you participate in society" meme again.

No, it's not. Don't be so intellectually lazy.

The author of the comment higher up is describing a person who is boycotting X because they are strongly against its stewardship and moderation but regardless continues to find ways to indulge themselves in the content produced by users of X, for other users of X.

How else should we describe the position held? It's clearly not entirely principled and veers directly into performative action (i.e. virtue signalling).

I admit I'm not nor have been a Twitter/X user so am able to look at the situation without a sense of entitlement or attachment.

> The author of the comment higher up is describing a person who is boycotting X because they are strongly against its stewardship and moderation but regardless continues to find ways to indulge themselves in the content produced by users of X, for other users of X.

Yes. Because we have to participate in a society in which sometimes, that's where the info is. Some towns only post their announcements on Facebook/X! Some people prominent on my framework of choice are only on X.

> How else should we describe the position held? It's clearly not entirely principled and veers directly into performative action (i.e. virtue signalling).

Virtue isn't a binary. I can reduce my externalities, even if I can't eliminate them.