• VerPoilu@sopuli.xyz
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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.

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      Agreed

      l never used *Xitter anyway

      *It’s pronounced as Shitter

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    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.

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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.

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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.

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      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.

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        So because there aren’t other options that are as good for your personal interests, you are OK with using a fascist supporting platform. But somehow you think it’s unfair to say you are sort of OK with fascism, since you are using a clearly fascist supporting platform.

        You know, that’s called compromising your ideals for convenience. And if you are American you got what you deserve with Trump.

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          So you’re okay with violence for communisms sake? Just want to be clear because the developers and most admins here are.

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                I think you are confused, this is not lemmy.ml, and lemmy is open source, which is the part where it definitely becomes a false equivalence.
                Because just because the developers may be communists, that has zero bearing on the content of lemmy.world.
                The developers do not own lemmy. And do not claim control of the platform.
                Musk is a fascist who owns and control twitter, and has used it to push his fascist agenda, spending $40 billion to be able to do that!

                Lemmy is by the people for the people.
                Xitter is owned and controlled by the worlds richest narcissist, who has claimed total control, and is using it to push fascism.

                So very much a false equivalence.

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                  No. They federate all of their content. By publishing that content they have approved it. And we know that they have had a decision they have made and will continue to make. So yes LW does support violence.

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      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.

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        Ooohh if it’s for MUSIC I guess it’s OK to be a fascist.
        But you know the bands go where teir followers are right? And he is supporting bands that ALSO don’t have a problem with fascism.
        It goes both ways.

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          People were already on twitter before some right wing weirdo bought it. They just kept using it because the reality is normies don’t know better or don’t care. I’m not saying it’s a good thing, but saying every X user is a fascist seams an oversimplification.

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      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.

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        …but there are no such communities there

        “Be the change you want to see in the world.” ;-)

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          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.

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        that have no contact with politics

        Ergo they are not against fascism. Which means they are OK with it, because they don’t care either way.
        Good job, you just helped prove the point.

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          I understand you are hurt and angry.

          But you have to understand there are people out there from all around the world, that have no desire to observe the grotesque circus of american politics. You are in your own bubble of people that think the world has ended, but most people in the world have different worries and concerns.

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            Most people have the concern that the Trump concept is being copied to their country’s politics now.

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              No. Not at all. Most people don’t think about it. They go about their business and think about their job, their kids,spouses, friends, cars, … They think about their local politics, not in relation to American. Than if they do think about american politics, they say to themselves: what a bunch of clowns, then they think of something else.

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            I understand you are hurt and angry.

            That’s ad hominem.

            But you have to understand there are people out there from all around the world

            That doesn’t change anything, whatever country you are from, using Xitter means you are using and thereby supporting a fascist platform.

            You are in your own bubble

            OK, and which bubble is that?
            Seems to me that you are talking out your ass about things you don’t know shit about.

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              I see that the emotional level is too great for any discussion. Good luck to you, I hope you get a moment for yourself and have a nice rest of the day.

              Good bye.

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                I see you are unable to actually argue your point, and instead choose to continue with the ad hominem.
                I’m still interested to hear what bubble it is you consider me to be in?

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

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      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?

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        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.

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

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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.

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            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.

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    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.

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      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.

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    I deleted Threads five days ago.

    It was a cesspool of (Russian? Troll Farm?) propaganda attacking Harris for not having any accomplishments for the last four years, complaining about housing, grocery, egg, and gas prices, “fixing” America, a crapton of pro-jesus stuff, pro-Elon comments and reposts, government money going to “illegals” instead of hurricane victims, and a ton of made up lies. …

    All of which were as transparent as fuck why they were wrong. VP’s don’t make policy, so what accomplishments should she have? Housing has been going up for a decade+, it’s not new, egg prices were normal while the pics were of organic egg prices and expensive grocery carts had hidden high cost items or just straight up lied about the cost, gas prices are the lowest they’ve been for years. Jesus stuff praised trump, America, tons of AI generated “holy” trump pics, bashed atheists, posted Elon’s BS pseudo-wisdom, Ignored the $20Bn spent on hurricane relief in favor of a few hundred million housing the undocumented workers living in the affected area…

    It was infuriating. Because they were so obviously wrong…blatantly, in-your-face, completely fucking wrong. It was a constant flood of lies. Eight out of nine posts were BS.

    But as soon as the election swung in Trump’s favor…poof…it went quiet. Hardly a peep. Gone.

    And I realize that Threads was captured completely by troll farm bots spewing right-wing propaganda. And it was a waste of time. So my account will be deleted.

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

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

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    Used it from 2009 until around 2013. It was so much better before it was super huge.

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    That’s nice. But you should get a gun. Much more effective fighting method than deleting an app.