• @BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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    581 month ago

    It’s past time to delete X. The platform is just as bad as it was a year ago. People couldn’t be bothered to do the simplest fucking thing until they realize, “Whoops! I was supporting fascism!”

    • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ
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      61 month ago

      To be fair, I’ve been on there calling the fascists and Trump apologists out. The pennies they get from ads pale in comparison to the fact I bought a Tesla years ago womp womp 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🫤

  • Kokesh
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    21 month ago

    Deleted Twitter when muskRat bought it

    • 4grams
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      11 month ago

      the very same day…

  • @Gsus4@mander.xyz
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    171 month ago

    …the only way this would have fought them was before the election, now they’re in the walls, that is palliative care.

  • ms.lane
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    81 month ago

    People were on Twitter in the first place?

  • @wildflower@lemmy.world
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    751 month ago

    At this point in time, anyone left on the platform formerly known as Twitter, is either a fascist, or at least think that fascism isn’t that big a deal.

    • @RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world
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      111 month ago

      That is just not true. I hate twitter but i still use it. I am autistic and follow very specific things on it and while i also use mastodon and bluesky, there is barely anyone that has the same current interests as i do.

      I don’t like it but i also don’t completely want to alienate myself from people i enjoy talking to and seeing their stuff. I try to follow them all on mastodon and bluesky if they have an account there, but not everyone has that.

      I have all ads blocked and purely use it for my hobbies. So suggesting that makes me a fascist is absolutely ridiculous. We are trying to move to another platform but its not as easy as you make it out to be.

      Same as Lemmy. I love Lemmy. BUT there are things that just so not exist here yet that do exist on reddit. And i have no interest in making a community for it either as i don’t want to moderate anything.

    • NoiseColor
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      81 month ago

      That’s complete and utter nonsense.

      There are groups of people using it that have no contact with politics or anything out of their sphere of interest. I am in a couple of such groups.

      I would love to go somewhere else and I am on lemmy, mastodon even bluesky, but there are no such communities there.

        • NoiseColor
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          31 month ago

          Yes, that’s why I wrote that I’m here. But it’s not happening. Maybe something will change in the future, but at this moment there is nothing anyone can to do, to move these communities.

      • NebLem
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        21 month ago

        If you are a major contributor in a niche community, you can publicize your move with info of how to keep following you and syndicate links to your content on your desired platform for a set time then leave. On your desired platform let followers from Xitter know how to follow you (email, rss, bridgy, etc) if they don’t want to join your desired platform.

        If you are mostly a content consumer or have FOMO, use a bridge not an account. DM all the friends you want to keep of where to find you then leave. Bird.makeup is a great Xitter bridge for the fedi.

        In either case, there isn’t a reason to keep am account there.

      • bufalo1973
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        11 month ago

        Except everything is related to politics. The price of the bread is politics. The roads made, politics too. Having to pay the doctor or not, politics.

        Politics is not “what the politicians do”. It’s “affairs of the cities”, from Ancient Greek πολιτικά (politiká). And everything that affects more than one person is an “affair of the cities”.

    • Darth_Mew
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      21 month ago

      this is an UNHINGED leap… so by that logic anyone living in america supports killing “foreign” civilians, bombing cities etc etc???

      • @wildflower@lemmy.world
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        51 month ago

        Seriously? It’s a social media site that openly support and spread right-wing misinformation, how is that comparable? People have no say in where they where born, and not all have the luxury of packing everything and move to another country, supporting a social media site is a choice.

        • Darth_Mew
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          I didn’t say people born here I said living. so all the people that have moved here willingly support bombing and invading since they CHOSE to live here got it

      • miss phant
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        For a lot of marginalized people Twitter was a place to escape to and find like-minded people, I can see how it’s hard to make a new place feel as homely. Most of us here left another site because we didn’t agree with the leadership so it’s a very biased group, “just do the same thing we did”. Not everyone is in as privileged of a position though and it might be way harder for them to leave than you can imagine, especially if they’re addicted to it.

      • Nightwatch Admin
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        Because, as an example, some very important services communicate solely through Xitter. Emergency alerts, fire depart, governmental bodies, etc. Do I despise that? Yes. Do I ask them to move? Yes. Are they? Hell no.

    • Engywuck
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      131 month ago

      Bullshit. I have an account on X since it was Twitter. No post, no followed people, no follower. I don’t use my timeline. I just use it because many dealers use it as a channel to communicate with customers through DM. I’m a a fascist?

      • NebLem
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        11 month ago

        You really should encourage your contacts to use more secure channels than Twitter dms, especially for illicit behavior.

      • @itsathursday@lemmy.world
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        321 month ago

        Stats don’t care if you are or aren’t, you are +1 to the equity that Twitter uses to get money through advertisers, which gets funnelled to Elon and his interests, and now Trump. This leads to reducing your overall opportunities through fascism that contribute to you finding comfort in what your dealer is supplying you. Quit hitting yourself.

        • Engywuck
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          91 month ago

          Hope every single people on this thread quit using Amazon/Youtube and anything Meta for vey similar reasons. I’m waiting.

          • @TootGuitar@sh.itjust.works
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            11 month ago

            I actually agree with you on the Amazon/Youtube/Meta thing and I’m trying my hardest to stop using all those companies, but I think another point here is that Twitter is much more directly connected to fascism, given that it’s owned by the guy who just spent a week crashing the post-election party at Mar-A-Lago.

        • Engywuck
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          That’s something I hate in place like these, lately: you’re either a good boy if you do what I think it’s right or you’re an evil fascist if you dare not to follow “the right path”. People seem to forget that there are a lot of shades of grey between black and white.

          • ms.lane
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            51 month ago

            It’s actual fascism.

            Not the modern made up diatribe about fascism.

            The fasces is a bundle with an axe - anyone outside the bundle gets chopped. That’s actual fascism. It’s what both the far left and far right proscribe and (correctly) accuse the other of doing.

            Forget sides, forget the bundle. Just be a good person and keep your own ethical code.

            • Engywuck
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              31 month ago

              Thank you. You seem to understand what I mean.

    • oce 🐆
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      31 month ago

      There are a lot of people and organizations that are just slow to move and don’t really know where to go.

    • ℍ𝕖𝕝𝕚0𝕤
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      111 month ago

      That’s just not true. My mate uses it to follow music bands they like. The problem we have with X is that everybody uses it so you have to use it you wanna stay in the loop. I don’t use I myself but i can understand why people still do.

      • @droporain@lemmynsfw.com
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        31 month ago

        What if a band had very vocal Nazi beliefs even lyrically, would you still like them because the music was good? Lol that is you.

        • ℍ𝕖𝕝𝕚0𝕤
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          21 month ago

          What if a band had very vocal Nazi beliefs even lyrically, would you still like them because the music was good?

          I don’t see how that’s relevant to be honest. Twitter users didn’t choose for Musk to be in charge, and I’m sure a lot remaining users hate him.

          Lol that is you

          I said I don’t use twitter, what’s your point ?

  • @mrfriki@lemmy.world
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    11 month ago

    If you didn’t deleted it like 5 years ago chances are that you won’t be deleting it now or in the future.

  • @theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world
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    461 month ago

    Way too late to “fight” them this way, it’s already served it’s purpose for them. Everyone needed to have done this like a year ago, dummies. But yeah, still delete it anyway.

    • @devfuuu@lemmy.world
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      141 month ago

      Yeah. It served it’s purpose, he bought a mass social media outlet, let it run wild, influenced elections, spread hate and normalized even more extreme views to fuck with all the world. The damage is done. Claiming doing something good at this point when it should have been done at the early signs but everyone would call you paranoid is just non sense. Crying wolf and all that bullshit.

  • FlashMobOfOne
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    251 month ago

    Deleted mine two years ago.

    Kinda surprised it took everyone this long, TBH.

    • TuxOP
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      Agreed

      l never used *Xitter anyway

      *It’s pronounced as Shitter

  • Zier
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    201 month ago

    Twitter (I will always call it that-fuck you melon head musk), is just fox news for the internet, a fascist hate app.