It’s beyond me that after all this people are still using Twitter
Same with Facebook, instagram, WhatsApp, etc. but the response usually boils down to “I like to communicate with people on [platform] and since they won’t leave I can’t leave”
But Twitter now has a legit alternative that many have gone to. Unfortunate that’s not mastodon, but still.
I’ve tried to get away from WhatsApp. I’ve got the majority of my friends off it (at least when they communicated with me). But some people just will not leave due to familiarity/fear of change. I’m still working on them, but I’m pretty sure it’s a lost cause.
You can only go so far. And cutting people off because they won’t move away from something like WhatsApp isn’t always feasible.
But I agree with you: I don’t understand why people still use those platforms. I think it’s because they don’t keep up on things, or just don’t care.
Twitter is different though - it’s just shouting into the void
True. Twitter is ordered of magnitude worse than the other.
“free speech absolutist”
He only means his own.
free speech
absolutistabolitionist
X is a propaganda machine for people that need to believe their bigotry and racism come from a place of “virtue.”
Well said.
It is not clear what precisely happened to the three accounts that feuded with Mr. Musk in late December.
The number of views and user accounts are fraudulent. Botnets push right wing nonsense, until you piss of the Nazi Fuckwit. Then the bots stop promoting you and you fall into obscurity. They were never really popular, just the illusion of it like a concert in a stadium with cardboard cutouts of fans. “Sold out”
He’s on the record as saying freedom of speech, not freedom of reach in regards to X.
It just means he won’t ban you (but he’ll do that too!) but he has absolutely no problem making it so it’s almost impossible to see your content.
I suggest everybody to read up on the Twitter files.
https://www.ungaway.com/p/twitter-files-1-11-downloads-pdf
Part 2 (Release 2) is where they talk about the labels, such as “Do Not Amplify”.
Musk was talking all big about how this bullshit sucks and he wants to get rid of it. But he’s just doing the same thing, on an even worse scale.
Oh, shadowbanning, or something like “Do Not Amplify”, is against the DSA in the EU and thus illegal.
Those peaches are mighty frosty
That is the kind of “free speech” fElon wanted.
Musk demands control.
Get off that site.
