please just ban this shit already. please. i'm so tired.
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Why do people still use Twitter?
It drives me insane. Most of the top so called leftists are fully addicted to it and treat it like it’s an essential medium.
To an extent. In a know your enemies sense it's useful. In a useful communication sense it's becoming more and more ineffective. There's software that will post to both twitter and mastodon. If your audience is on twitter but you make no effort to change that. Then you support it to your own determent. Part of it is a publicity thing.
More need to be like hey, if you follow me but want less fascism popping up in your feed. You can now follow on mastodon etc. If enough people did that, we'd see some changes. Probably banning mention of mastodon on twitter. But still better than passive inertia.
Edit And hello again.
Most people don't want to actually change anything. They want everyone else to change things, and keep living their happy little lives.
Because people still use twitter, and other people go to where people are.
The EU were being hypocritical just having an ad account with Twitter.
The same way elon musk didn't become the richest man in the world by working hard, twitter didn't magically become the platform used by every politician in the world. One of the reason peoples still use twitter is because the representatives of their country use (and are told to use) it.
If you hate Musk…stop using fucking twitter. Nothing grinds my gears more than all these leftists who are still fully addicted.
Addictions require effort to quit, regardless of what it is.
Every time I said this, I get downvoted.
People on here get really weird about and start downvoting and insulting people who call it X, because they refuse to accept the stupid new name... What are you clinging on to? Twitter is DEAD.
Yes, the new name, X is stupid. It's now the Nazi platform X, accept that and stop using the Nazi platform. Your line in the sand is way further back than it should be, you can't keep using the platform and insist you're giving the finger to Elon by calling it Twitter.
Stop using Twitter, accept that Twitter is dead. Stop using the Nazi platform.
Twitter was always terrible and I've never had an account to quit, so the whole "Twitter is dead, call it X to respect the dead" argument doesn't work for me. I will how ever continue to deadname twitter so long as Musk continues to deadname his daughter.
I do not care if you keep a facebook account open just to talk to your dear aunt Ethel over the holidays
I do care. Aunt ethel got used to twitter, she got used to facebook, she got used to messenger when they forced that switch... she can get used to signal/matrix/xmpp or whatever else you desire.
But it's the only place I get the daily recipes I want or some shit
To be fair…the site link is literally still Twitter.
No it's not... They kept the domain because it costs $8/year and it would be incredibly stupid to let it go, even for Elon.
But it forwards to x.com
Yea I have no clue why people still use the damn platform. Especially those who hate musk and what bullshit that comes from his mouth...like gtfo the platform, all you're doing is keeping his revenue going.
Because they fucking suck.
It just floors me the kind of excuses they come up with.
Same with leftists still buying Tesla. Which is still a fucking lot.
Honestly I figured his shit would tank, most of the magats are on trumps platform now, and we know magats weren't buying tesla cars...so who's buying and using his shit...the same people who hate him. Like wtf, they literally have the power to remove a ton of his wealth, but nope.
Or better yet, if you're a government: stop using it yourself and destroy it for being unlawful.
“Why is the world this way?” says the blue checkmark Tweeter clutching their phone.
Though to be fair, many are more disingenuous cash farming influencers.
Do I get bonus cred for having never used it? I don't use X, or Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, whateverthefuck.
I have a Lemmy and Youtube... and before you get all "why not peertube???" because peertube sucks. Sorry, someone has to say it, it's not there yet, content is subpar.
if any leftists is in the nazi platform, they aren't leftists.
I wish we could say that - but those terminally online leftist “influencers” like Kyle Kukinski are completely addicted to it.
Then he isn’t really a leftist. He is a grifter who uses left wing talking points.
I wouldn’t say he’s a grifter…he’s definitely got leftist credentials…but he’s also terminally online and really cares about “clout”.
I’m sure he would argue that he’s fighting fire with fire…and I agree with that to an extent: we need somebody operating in those spaces to provide an alternative. But he’s not just reposting content there…he’s genuinely addicted. If he were to be making a coherent argument to remain on Twitter…every single post he makes should include a tagline to a competing platform where you can read his entire post until he’s banned.
If you claim to be a journalist you don’t actually need to be on Twitter…you can just use an aggregator.
But where else can you toxically brow beat people who do not agree with you?
The thing is, quitting X is something people can actually do. The core tenet of leftism is to viciously attack any actual leftward action in favour of endless wanking about a glorious revolution that will make everything better for ever and ever. Anything that could produce actual results in the here and now and which doesn't involve a bloody civil war followed by mass executions must be wholeheartedly opposed.
More governments and corporations need to stop using this piece of shit platform.
Everything is better with less Musk
And nothing of value was lost. Who wants to advertise to thousands of Nazi bots?
which is run by russia.
Elon Musk is hardly Russian, the US is capable enough of creating its own supervillains
I think they meant that the Nazi bots were Russian - Xitter turned user location on and loads of ostensibly American MAGA accounts turned out to be based in Russia!
Some of them turned out to be in Russia. Some turned out to be in Pakistan. Some in Israel (including the Homeland Security official account). And many in the US itself.
What percentage by engagement was in Russia and what percentage in the US?
I didn't memorise the numbers, lol! I just remember there being a surprisingly large number of MAGAs claiming to be American who were outside the US and specifically a lot in Russia.
Xitter turned off the feature pretty quickly, but also a lot of those specific accounts that got outed as non-Americans disappeared thereafter. I suspect they came back with new usernames!
I found the whole thing amusing because I always thought it was pretty braindead to think you were "making America great again" by voting for Trump, who anyone could spot a long time ago was going to be very damaging for the USA, and Xitter accidentally outing MAGAts as foreign actors was a fun example of rightwingers being to stupid to implement their biases without shooting themselves in the foot.
European comission has their own mastodon server at ec.social-network.europa.eu. Why in the fuck they're still advertising/doing anything on twitter?
Because a lot more people are still using Twitter than have started using mastodon
If all European politicians moved to mastodon, they would drag a bunch of journalists and media behind them. On Twitter, only four insignificant influencers and far-right spammers would remain; all serious debate would shift immediately.
The EC absolutely has the marketing budget to change that though.
By getting the word out in X about their mastodon link?
European comission has their own mastodon server at ec.social-network.europa.eu. Why in the fuck they’re still advertising/doing anything on twitter?
Because they can control the narrative much better on X
He is hurting them by taking their revenue away from his company. Ouch! It hurt itself in its confusion.
Who tf still fucking uses Twitter?
Boomers, Bots, and Bigots
What's Twitter?
Way too many artists.
For many the choices are paying for their patreon or following them on twitter or instagram, both of which are ass.
Seems Musk is trying to challenge Trump for that pettiest man alive title.
I hope this serves as the final push to have all official EU accounts move to, say Mastodon. Every institution still using this fascist hellhole of a social network helps legitimizing it. It's high time they find another outlet, ideally a FOSS and decentralized one.
No one needs twitter
Cool, then fuckjng get some balls and block Twitter altogether.
See how quickly they rolled over when Brazil blocked them and they realized everyone was moving to Threads, Bluesky, and Mastodon, giving lots of other people the same idea.
This by itself should be enough to have Twitter banned, at least temporarily.
You don't just get to retaliate for getting fined for breaking the law. That's how you upgrade a fine to a prison sentence if you're a regular person.
Elon Musk should threaten to sue Elon Musk for hurting Elon Musk's ad revenue, right?
I thought at one time he was trying to sue people who wouldn't advertise on his platform.
Why would the EU place ads for fascists anyway?
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