• ME5SENGER_24
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      He’s not carrying water for the facists, he IS a fascist and they’re trying to spill that water on everyone in an attempt to undermine people’s freedoms. Fuck him and fuck his kind

  • @Thirdborne@lemmy.world
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    I don’t get why people still use that platform. It’s so hostile to the users. This is an election year and we’re just going to give him all this influence? Society is a big dumb animal.

    • GladiusB
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      1910 months ago

      I have never seen the appeal to Twitter. It’s never seemed like a useful part on social media. I have never heard a change and go “well now I will check it out.”

      • @limelight79@lemm.ee
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        It was extremely useful in sports for quick in-game updates, especially from third-party groups (like the news beat reporters, versus getting info from the team).

        It’s really entrenched, though: Even with all of the chaos and controversy, it’s hard to find articles that reference something that happened in a game that don’t embed some tweets (or whatever they hell they’re called now) for the video. It’s extremely frustrating. I think, in part, that’s why the hockey community here on lemmy isn’t taking off - no one wants to link to Twitter, and there are basically no other sources.

        • GladiusB
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          110 months ago

          ESPN’s app seems to do my updates and I don’t have everyone’s opinion on it either. I mean I guess I can see the meme angle. But I think that would find it’s way anyways.

          • @limelight79@lemm.ee
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            110 months ago

            ESPN’s app doesn’t note when a player is missing off the bench or something like that. The reporters at the game notice it and X it out.

      • Herbal Gamer
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        310 months ago

        It always felt like a big void to shout into, unless you have some sort of following that listens.

    • @nevetsg@aussie.zone
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      110 months ago

      It is the only platform where I can follow specific people without a algorithm getting in the way. They all need to choose a new one to move to.

  • @lobut@lemmy.ca
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    Anyone who follows the alt-right, did Joe or anyone else go ape shit over this yet? I’m assuming that because they were going crazy over the previous Twitter about certain infractions under the old guard … so this new shit must be driving them crazy. Being free speech activists and all that.

  • Uglyhead
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    This was always going to happen.

    Muskrat bought twitter specifically to make it Parler, GAB, and Truth Social all rolled into one.

    Banning, shadow-banning, or purging any and all dissenting views or content that differs from the Far Right narrative on the sites is the norm.

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        That too.

        All the Far Right Authoritarians are just giddy about it all.

    • @bloopernova@programming.dev
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      2110 months ago

      I can see several motives for him buying twitter.

      Get trump elected, Because:

      a) less taxes for the musky chodelet

      b) less pesky safety and labour regulation for tesla/spacex/neuralink

      c) drop support for Ukraine so he gets a shot at the rare minerals underneath it when russia has full control.

      He’s a useful idiot for trump and putin. Still not sure what the saudi angle is, though.

  • @Hadriscus@lemm.ee
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    I don’t understand why people don’t collectively quit Twitter and flock to Mastodon. It’s very simple, it’s better for everyone

    • WHYAREWEALLCAPS
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      Because for the previous 15ish years before Musky got a hold of it it was actually decently regarded. Many people turned to it for up to date news and trusted it. It was a place where brands could interact with customers, celebrities with fans, etc. It had built up trust. People are having a hard time letting that go.

      • @uis@lemmy.world
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        Because for the previous 15ish years before Musky got a hold of it it was actually decently regarded.

        What? Twitter mob harassed game developer in 2019 into suicide. 3 years before american version of Rogozin bought this dumpster fire.

    • @Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world
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      3510 months ago

      Even today there are top posts on Lemmy that are screen caps of Twitter. Not even Lemmy users can stop reading Twitter and upvoting. I down vote them on principle but it’s 100 to 1.

      • @DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
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        3310 months ago

        Reddit and by extension Lemmy were designed to enable content aggregation. I dislike people having so few principles in general but the system is working as intended by users posting things they find interesting happening elsewhere.

      • @uis@lemmy.world
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        1610 months ago

        Here’s easy way to stop reading Twitter: not register there.

        Twitter itself hepled me to stop reading it when it regwalled all the posts.

  • Optional
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    7710 months ago

    Who the fuck is still on Xitter? Jesus people, get the hell out of there!

    • @set_secret@lemmy.world
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      i keep wondering this myself, so many places are still prominently presenting the xitter button to follow them on,like it’s a totally normal thing to do. it’s fucking bizzare imo.

    • ripcord
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      Lots and lots of people, apparently. And lots of those really really should know better.

      Stop supporting that shithole, people.

    • @rwhitisissle@lemmy.world
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      1210 months ago

      As opposed to what? It’s where the people they follow post. Why would they leave for somewhere that doesn’t have any content they care about? It’s like asking who the fuck is still on reddit. The answer is the enormous shitload of people who just want a steady feed of the same content they’ve always consumed.

      • @Carlo@lemmy.ca
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        410 months ago

        Sure, and when you petition the people they follow, and ask them to drop the platform, they say they have to be where their audience is. It’s an ouroboros of apathy and cowardice.

    • @moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      110 months ago

      A lot of researchers whose built a network on it. It’s not as easy as it seems for them to switch to another social media. Each connection is important to know about new articles when they come out.

    • @OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
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      I hate this little thought terminating cliche. It’s trying to make everything into hypocrisy which it isn’t. Say he banned everyone who ever said anything pro Israel…you can fairly apply that rule across all people, and have disparate impacts.

      The problem isn’t that he’s censoring others but not himself, it’s that the rule itself is bad on its face.

      • Flying Squid
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        1210 months ago

        This is hypocrisy. He called himself a “free speech absolutist” after he bought Twitter. He called it the “digital town square.” Ever since then, he’s banned anyone who says things he doesn’t like and keeps the Nazis. He’s absolutely a hypocrite and he should be called out on it.

      • @TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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        310 months ago
        1. Man calls himself as a free speech absolutist

        2. Same man buys social media platform

        3. Same man then mass bans people and removes comments when he doesn’t like their political leaning or they criticise him/his companies too much

        How is that not hypocrisy?

        • @OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
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          110 months ago

          If that is what they said, it would be hypocrisy. The cliche is “X for thee and not for me” so the claimed hypocrisy is that he is censoring others and not himself for saying the same things. That isn’t the issue, as you point out the issue is that he is censoring when he said he wouldn’t.

    • @ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      it’s funny because even Elon’s ego is a threat to capitalist interests, look how much he’s tanked their company value! Honestly I’m cheering for his self-destructive downward spiral to continue - tw*tter was always a cesspool, decent people should have left years ago.

    • @PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.world
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      710 months ago

      They’ll claim it was an accident or outage, but those accounts weren’t struck at random.

      Internally, is someone curating a list of prominent accounts by political leaning? Are those accounts the target or right wing report bombing? I want to know exactly how those accounts were landed on.

      • @PopcornTin@lemmy.world
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        Sounds just like old Twitter. Ban someone who you don’t like politically. If it’s causing to much uproar, day it was an accident/glitch. If it works, repeat. If not, repeat in a few weeks.