• aesthelete@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Lol, nothing like waiting until the last possible moment to do the tiniest thing that won’t even accomplish anything at this point and then writing an article about it.

  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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    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@lemmy.world
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      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 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🫤

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
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    That would require me to have X on my phone. I do not. Because I deleted Twitter when dipshit took over.

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    If you are still on X yet couldn’t bring yourself to vote for Kamala because of Palestine then WTF?

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    Sure, do it for your mental health, but it won’t do anything else now. That ship has sailed, been torpedoed, and is now chilling at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

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      Not give up. Just move away from corporate owned social media which generally has biases baked in and allows for easy manipulation by the company. The one we’re on right now is not one of those and there are lots of other alternatives. Not that they’re perfect, just that money and especially wealthy individuals aren’t able to easily and singlehandedly manipulate millions of people by purging factual but dissenting information.

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        as someone who made their own instance, talk about it to family and friends and try to convince them to jump on mine, I definitely have not given up. your completely valid talking points are null and void unfortuntately, my social circles are unable to get people they interact with to jump ship as well. they just want their family and friends to see their posts and don’t really care what’s going on behind the scenes…

        Its me trying to convert people to use signal all over again, but i won over many of my colleagues and family by telling them to jump on signal as my birthday gift years ago… maybe I’ll have people sign up as a Christmas gift for me this year lol

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      Find a small community of like-minded friends to hang with online.

      Hell, I only visit Reddit and Lemmy for the big news for a few minutes before heading off to check discord and matrix chats and everywhere else I go.

      Branch out.

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        I just tried that…went searching for a room and amongst some software package rooms the two I stumbled upon that made me nope the fuck out are “COVID-19 truth” or similar, and some pro-trump mafia thing that had the n-word in its description. I tried to search for something even in the state of california and the closest I got was a gay hookup channel.

        Thanks, I fucking hate the Internet now.

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            Are you saying for me? Cuz facebook sucks ass too.

            I remember the old Internet. Honestly, lemmy is the only thing I’ve encountered that feels even like the newer part of the old Internet.

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    I never used X. I did half-assedly make an account in 2013 but I have long since deleted it. I have no real use for twitter.

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    that’s the stupidest shit ive heard in 2 days

    edit: im on bluesky and mastodon and I don’t like twitter. I have to specify it because this website is reddit.

    the idea that deleting one of your social media accounts will have any effect on donald trump or elon musk is some starship troopers “I did my part!” meme gif garbage. you did nothing for your country by doing this. it’s not a civil deed. you didn’t fucking vote. it isn’t a protest.

    you imagine you have politics while you jerk yourself off into a toilet.

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    Don’t just “delete” Twitter as in deleting the app. Please also close your account.

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      Very important distinction. I’ve deleted the apps long before, thinking i’d keep the account to occasionally look at someone’s feed. When they publicly reinstated neonazi accounts, it was the last drop in the ocean

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        If you merely abandon your account, the change can be seen in the MAU statistics. If you delete it instead, you’ll make sure you won’t slip in the future. Either way, investors care about the active users, because the total number of accounts isn’t a very useful number to them.

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    You didn’t do that a couple of years ago when Musk decided to push his own posts and right wing content to the top of everyone’s feed? I dropped twatter that same day.

    Mastodon works well, tell your twatter refugee friends.