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Imagine trying winning chess when the board itself plays against you. Twitter/X must be dropped immediately, it's a censorship-propaganda machine which is now only works for those who control it.
Free speech and so on.
If only the federal government could implement some sort of server that would allow them to self-host social media for officials and prominent candidates. I wish there were some well-known and tested service that other governments were using and they could just implement in the USA.
Sounds impossible! Does this technology even exist?????
Oh noooo....
Stop using fucking Twitter
Can't believe Biden let the world know his decision first on Twitter, even before the White house Press office.
Sigh. Not surprised.. given that Musk is a hypocrite on free speech completely. It's getting wild. I use this place now because after years of no issues.. suddenly I'm shadow banned on Reddit. Instead of getting mad I just left. Screw those who would stifle others but pretend to believe the opposite.
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Reddit is far-right garbage run by radicals. Some instances on Lemmy are far-left garbage run by radicals, but you can route around them.
Yet another reason to ditch that platform.
do the entire world a favor and delete twitter already
What are these fucking people doing on Twitter anyway? Why they hanging out with the Nazis? You're still on Twitter this point I have some healthy suspicions about your character.
People go where they think the people are. X is still the closest thing to Twitter since Elon came along. I deleted my account, but feel like I’m in the minority.
They are on Twitter because nothing has displaced Twitter for what it is. That's tricky because people follow the content, so the content generators, the heavy hitters, have to choose en masse to go somewhere else.
Good. They should abandon twitter and all other racist, misogynist, transphobic, xenophobic, homophobic bigoted platforms. I hope they have a bad time there.
This reminds me that someone set up a donation link via actblue where donations via that link come with the message that she and her campaign should set up their own mastodon server.
They are up to $40,000 as I type this.
So if you were thinking of donating anyway, you can go through here to point that money to a “cause” you want her to consider. May not happen, but at least we might get it on their radar.
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodon-for-harris
The originator of this started with this Masto post:
I'm not down with the perpetual victim-blaming against X/Twitter users here on Lemmy.
Sources like campaigns, news outlets, authors, studios, engineers, actors, comedians, etc. post on there because they basically have to -- if they want to get the word out, that is.
Consumers go there to read from the sources because they basically have to. While each source may have their own separate blog or whatever, X/Twitter is pretty much the only place that unifies those feeds. (I know, I miss the heyday of RSS too.)
Expecting people to just "take the hit" and go dark on their communications so we can build up alternatives to X/Twitter is not an acceptable recommendation.
What we need to do is:
- Make it illegal to block third-party clients from interoperating with services
- Compel providers of a certain size to expose a first-party API
- Make it legal to reverse-engineer APIs so they can't just make the first-party API suck and call it a day
- Then we integrate X/Twitter into the fediverse, so you can start using something else and still keep your X/Twitter stuff
Victim blaming is a little extreme way to describe it, but yeah I don't blame politicians for using it, but I absolutely will blame them for exclusively using it and letting their media be controlled by a private entity, especially one that is no longer publicly accessible.
POSSE (publish [on your] own site, syndicate everywhere) is the way to go. Don't assume everyone is just using a platform, especially if you're providing a public or essential service.
re your points, I think the EU's gatekeeper law was pretty good.
Twitter isn't a service. It is a useful platform and should not be ignored, but it is a larger, worldwide version of r/conservative at this point. Go in expecting hostility and "untraceable account bugs that tHeY juST cANt seEm tO ResOLve!".
Yeah, I have a problem too! No, wait. It's because I don't have an X/Twitter/whatever account.
I used to think "Elon Musk" was some type of fancy French perfume. I miss those days.
Who would have guessed that a social media platform owned by an apartheid-loving fascist would trend conservative?
Because the butthurt south african shitstain wont let them. Crybaby cannot abide differing ideas
I'm surprised she even has one, given that Musk would shadow ban it anyway. Seems like wasted effort.
I can't see her facebook or instagram, either!
Yet somehow I continue on voting straight ticket Democrat without asking or telling those billionaires what I am going to do first.
Unloved, alone, and linkedout. Hardly human. I am become life not worth life.
Fuck Twitter for doing this shit. Musk should just jump in a hole with all his money as we bury him with it, Sunset Riders style.
How much can this be abused before it is overdue to treat X as a common carrier?
Edit: why is this being downvoted? given how critical X is it should be regulated by the government(s). Yes we all moved to the fediverse but we are a minority, millions still rely on X for better or worse.
I'm childish and downvote anyone who refers to twitter as "x". It's like you're on your knees licking Elons bum, right after he told you to call it x, you did what you were told lol.
Also I never got on the twitter bandwagon as it just didn't appeal to me. My social media addiction was reddit.
Twitter sucks. X is a letter. Or a variable in algebra.