“We do sweeps for spam/scam accounts and sometimes real accounts get caught up in them,” Elon Musk wrote on X, responding to the temporary ban of at least 8 accounts, including those of a handful of journalists.
But all these journalists will continue to use Shitter as their main platform
Yeah I’m sick of them feeding into it
I wish everyone else would just quit. It’s so much easier than people think to switch platforms for anything
Seriously. Just as many people don’t listen to my ravings on firefish/mastodon as they did on Twitter.
Ex fucking actly.
Xitter is a shit show. It’s terrible. Silencing journalists shouldn’t happen.
That said, just abandon it already.
Only the most gullible rubes have alarms raised. Every sensible person has already moved on and is ignoring the clown show. Stop using that shit.
X is Truth Social 2.0. At this point, anybody who doesn’t delete their account is a motherfucking Nazi.
I don’t think this kind of broad generalization is helpful (FWIW, I deleted my account the day the sale was finalized)
I don’t use Twitter any more, but I haven’t deleted my account because I don’t want some nazi to swoop in and take my name. I’m just squatting on it at this point.
i use it exclusively for porn and to occasionally get updates about Fairphone. guess i’m a nazi.
There are other sources for both.
yes of course, fairphone also has an instagram page. but shitter’s algorithm is really good at recommending artists to me. most of them pretty much exclusively use shitter or patreon to post their art.
Let’s say there’s a restaurant in town. It has the best burger (or veggie burger, whatever you might eat) you’ve ever tasted in your life. You can’t wait to go back. Then you see on the menu that they have an item called the n----r sandwich.
Do you keep going?
Because that’s basically your argument here.
This is the worst analogy I’ve seen lol. I understand your desire for decentralized open source whatever, but most average people don’t care, especially when the creators they follow aren’t on Mastodon.
It’s more complicated than that. In your hypothetical, everyone else in town is still going to the burger joint, they just signed a huge franchising deal, are getting national attention, and are showing no signs of a decline in business.
Your choice is not “collapse them || keep them in business”. It’s “miss out on the burger while doing them no measurable harm || eat the delicious burger while providing them negligible benefit”
In that scenario I may as well have the burger.
I’m not sure why it being national matters or not. My wife and I don’t go to Hobby Lobby because of all of their Christian dominionist bullshit. They’re a national company and my wife does tons of crafting. She could go there all the time. I could go there to buy things for her. We don’t, because they’re an evil company that can be avoided. It can be avoided even if the other options aren’t quite as good. It’s really not hard to not spend money or to not go to a website when it isn’t a necessity. “Everyone is doing it so I might as well” is also a terrible argument. It’s what people use to excuse all sorts of atrocious behavior.
In this scenario, it’s less about the damage you can do to the company and more about the damage you avoid doing to yourself.
Integrity is something only you can define for yourself. If you’re fine with it, do what you want and live with the consequences (or lack thereof).
To your example, I don’t eat Chick-fil-A, and I don’t shop at hobby lobby. There’s something to be said for “there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism” but those two companies in particular, I find repulsive, even though they remain incredibly popular. I know my boycott doesn’t impact them, nor does it stop anyone else from supporting them, but I feel dirty when I shop there, so I do not.
i too, would eat the delicious burger. they do still benefit from me eating it, but i can deliberately stay away from all of the racism.
yes i do support twitter by watching ads on their 1st party app, but the platform is dying already. one lurker looking up porn from their mother’s basement isn’t a huge revenue source.
Sorry you had to find out this way
Fucking migrate to Mastodon already!!!
What about “I want twitter to be a bastion of free speech?” And all of his cronies screeching “Musk is just preserving the first ammendment!!1!¡”
Looks like the quiet part is now being said out loud: “for Nazis and fascists”
For fucks sake just switch to mastodon already
Most unhelpful comment. I’m here for news, not advice that doesn’t even apply to me.
This wasnt really advice i was just saying that a lotnof people complain about twitter ON TWITTER. And when you just mention the possibility of using mastodon they have a nervous breakdown.
I’m just annoyed because all of the top few comments were all along the same lines. It gets old seeing people always respond to news articles with “ditch Twitter”, “ditch Chrome”, “ditch Windows”, etc. instead of addressing the specific story.
Yeah maybe but i didnt read the other comments lol
It’s called voting with your wallet. Even if said wallet is merely your engagement and user data. It will encourage the place you left to improve
Easy solution to that: Stop using it.
The problem is that we’re scattering. A handful to Bluesky. A smattering to Mastodon. A pittance to Lemmy. Building a unified community on a single platform again will take years.
Most clued-in people have moved to Mastodon as the Twitter replacement; it just hasn’t been fully noticed by the mainstream as the new platform. But a lot of the journalists etc are there. Unifying the Lemmy platform with the Mastodon platform to make them interoperable for real seems like it’d be a really good thing.
So, kbin? It can interact with both Lemmy and Mastodon at the same time. If you boost a lemmy post on kbin, you essentially retweet (retoot?) it to mastodon under the hashtags associated with the community.
I literally just installed an mbin instance for more or less exactly this purpose 😃
Don’t get me wrong it’s great the number of accounts that have moved there, but we’re not even close to where we need to be to make one platform the go-to place like Twitter was.
Hopefully what emerges will be harder to dismantle at least. Especially since it seems there’s a vested interest in killing these unified communities.
Our best bet right now is the EU at this point.
That’s how Linux happened. Microsoft got so good at eliminating competition, and so lazy about making a product that was more than barely-passable, that it created a unique combination of “we want something good” and “something good cannot be constructed” that drove a whole generation of techies to get familiar with Linux simply because there was no good alternative for certain types of serious computing. The selection pressure of “any competitor company will get destroyed” eventually produced a competitor that wasn’t a company.
I think that’s what’s happening right now in social media. For a long time ActivityPub went nowhere, and then the big players all got so godawful that you couldn’t ignore the godawfulness, and now look what’s happening. It’s not because Mastodon and Lemmy are great “products” as such; mostly, people just want something that’s not shit. Then in the longer run the selection pressure will create something that’ll be a lot harder to kill or control.
It would have been easier for Facebook and Twitter not to be shit, but apparently that’s too much to ask. I think the ultimate outcome will be way for the better this way.
Linux also only has a 15% market share if you include servers, while Twitter was the place for journalists to give up-to-the-minute updates. It’s going to be difficult to get people to get away from that, just as it’s difficult to get people to stop using Windows.
It’s about a unified message and unified ideology; it’s not about having everyone on one website.
It’s about being able to effectively spread that unified message, which having disjointed platforms impedes.
That’s really the beauty of decentralized federated platforms though. People can be scattered to multiple platforms that do their thing but can interoperate with other platforms still. Granted, we’re still in sort of the infancy and ugly part of development and growth but so long as momentum doesn’t die out, it could be the new norm sometime in this decade.
However, I fear, much like the world-wide web, something who’s potential for humanity is so great can be ruined by business strategists and marketeers after all the hard work is done by people that genuinely care and sacrificed so much effort for the benefit of everyone else.
I don’t care, do U?
Yes. Because people go where other people are. Until people start coalescing on a specific site, Twitter is still going to be relevant.
Why anyone is still giving any legitimacy to that alt-right shithole is beyond me anyway. It should be clear to any journalists by now that Twitter is a dead-end.
Why are they on there? It was obvious long ago that it’s a liability having an account on that service.
the alarm has been raised for quite some time. why are these articles written like they’re unaware of the past?
Red flag collectors are in for a great year
musk waking up in the morning should raise alarms…
Why would anyone would still be on Xitter blows my mind.
Ironically it’s probably because they feel at home, appreciated and valued in their own safe space. (There’s also probably quite a few increasingly unhappy almost technologically-illiterate legacy users who just need a helping hand to make the move.)
deleted by creator
The accounts, which were restored within hours,
Yes, they will and they did
There is no reason for anyone to still be on that website unless they’re Nazis. Full stop.
STOP.
USING.
TWITTER.
