I have never been on X, please stop assuming that everyone is on X.
I was on Twitter for a few weeks many years ago, but I can’t even remember my username now.
I mean, if that’s the case then the question isn’t meant for you :/
I know. Me me me!!!
Your question assumed that everybody reading it had an account on X.
Depends on how you read it. If you make it all about yourself, then ok.
Then OP should have posed the question like this:
“Those of you who are still on X despite Elon Musk’s antics, why?”
It’s very reasonable to implicit read that meaning into the question. Like if I am at a dinner table and ask “how is the turkey” I reasonably understand that only the people who are eating the turkey would answer. I don’t have to say, “for those of you who are eating turkey and have taken a bit, how is the turkey”. This is doubly true for social media where everything is a mass broadcast.
My entire fandoms are there. Also twitter is ok if you follow the right people.
Thus pisses me off. The big fandoms and influencers could move. But all the people are on X. The users couldove, but all the fandoms and influencers are on X. It’s a fucking loop where no one wants to make the first move
Really only to get notifications of weather stuff from my local NWS office.
Knowing what I know, I’m not. Mastodon is good, but not the same. There needs to be a publicly run version of Twitter, with same algorithms.
Mostly because I like to occasionally fuck around with the conspiracy crowd.
Conspiracy loons are wild on Facebook so I know what you mean, it’s so hard not to poke them occasionally. I like that the feed is so broken you just start getting the most insane things - block as many shitty pages as you can, like all the ones that post about how a guy with one leg drove a truck 19 hours a day to pay for his grandsons double cancer so that means poor people shouldn’t get hand outs. Then you start getting into the real weeds, oh and block the bot farm ones, you’ll recognise them they post pickles comics and no human could bring themselves to do that.
When you start seeing Indian mechanical engineering memes like ‘how to design flat roof pitch common mistake 💯 slope degree 13.5° ☑️’ you’re getting close, you’ll start seeing things like ‘today it takes us two years to build a family home but ancient people could do it in three weeks’ the comments will be full of people who know every facet of whatever conspiracies the post is somehow referencing, which is normally a lot.
‘normies don’t realize how much easier life was when we had sonic resonance construction tools, if they did they’d rotate the sixth tower of Thomas Tesla to reopen the Elizabethan Toltec free energy portal’ and you think they’re just in their own world but everyone will be replying ‘yeah, robin Williams was killed because if you watch Mrs doubtfire at the same time as eyes wide shut the dialog syncs up and they warn biden will cover up the free energy machine’
Except of course they can say it in 20,000 words if they feel like it.
This might just be the best thing I’ve ever read. This needs to be preserved so that future intelligent life may know what our lives were like.
And yes, I live poking at them. I know it sounds wrong, but it almost feels like honking at cattle along the highway.
The only time I’m ever there is because it has information or news I need. Unfortunately a lot of industry folk use it to post information even though it’s the worst fucking UI for it. I don’t think I’ve ever browsed their front page.
Post the interesting stuff back onto Lemmy
I don’t understand, why should I care about what interchangeable capitalist owns the social media I use?
This particular capitalist is having a significant impact on that platform.
If that doesn’t concern you (and it doesn’t have to) then carry on with giving no shits.
It seems like your problem is that he is vocal about his views. In reality he isn’t much different in his effect then Zuckerberg, or Larry Page, or Murdoc, Huffman or anyone else that controls large platforms and enforces policies that shape the “acceptable” discourse on the platform. To put it bluntly, in a capitalist society you are forced to engage with Capitalists. Trying to be “ethical” in your consumption is waste of your time.
You got my number on that one. And you’re right about them being cut from the same cloth and part of a bigger problem. I suppose Musk annoys me more because he’s louder.
I can’t argue against being ethical in media consumption being a waste of time in the sense that the tiny percentage of us that choose to boycott any given platform make no difference. But I think having ideals and following them is worthwhile and I will continue to do so.
But I was also sincere in my statement that I don’t think you (or anyone) has to share that concern. Those are my ideals. They don’t have to be yours and I don’t expect that of anyone.
Darn it, all this time I thought I was on Lemmy!
I haven’t been active on Twitter / X for years. My last proper tweet was in November 2022 when I asked people to follow me on Mastodon instead.
I still have my account though. Mostly because friends occasionally send me links to news tweets that X won’t show me without being logged in. And because customer support for some service providers (especially DHL, GLS and some other logistics companies) suddenly gets a lot more helpful when you complain in public instead of calling them and they don’t have Mastodon accounts.
I’m not. Never have been
Never was
Inb4 fifty comments all saying “I’m not on twitter/x.”
Hey, I’m not either, but we aren’t who this thread is for, please and thank you
Please upvote this so people see it and think before making a shitty throwaway comment that adds absolutely zero to discussion.
Edit: fucking called it
Then why didn’t OP say “For those of you still on X/Twitter, “?
because it’s clearly implied by the title and they said as much elsewhere in the comments
but don’t let that get in the way of you being a pedantic ass
I mean, you’re the one who actually commented saying you’re not on it. Admittedly, you did say that it was a shitty comment right after making it.
Good job on taking my advice and keep staying pedantic!
Your advice isn’t directed at me, because I’m on Twitter. Look, I agree with you that those comments are shitty, but OP should know that if you ask shitty questions, you’ll get shitty answers.
Lmao you don’t know what pedantic means, do you? woooooosh
This… Also, what a loaded and opinionated question. It implies that you shouldn’t be on X because of Elon Musk, if OP was genuinely curious about why someone uses X, they could have asked a neutral question: “Are you using X? Why or why not?” or “If you are using X, why and how?”. This currently just reflects the OP’s opinion for validation I guess?
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Its 2024 and this isn’t an unpopular opinion that OP holds
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Its AskLemmy, not a fucking serious news organization or something. Who cares if its loaded and opinionated? Validate OP’s opinion away!
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Jokes on you, I’m not in this thread
Similarly to Snot Flickerman, I also believe that this thread will be filled with comments about not being on twitter, as that seems to be a common demographic of lemmy.
And also similarly to Snot Flickerman, I’ll make use of this opportunity to become the very thing I resent in this thread by mentioning that I’m also not on twitter.
Ah I see the pedantic asses are out in force today!
Much like the “I’m not on twitter” folks, you’re not nearly as clever or original as you think you are! Ta-ta!
I like how those people didn’t appreciate you taking away their circlejerk opportunity, so just downvoted you instead 😂
I swear half of Lemmy is just people talking about how they don’t use Twitter or Reddit.
I feel like my comment is the only one that even attempts to answer the question.
Pretty predictable though. Lemmy is even less mainstream than Mastodon so I would expect most people here to be way outside mainstream social media’s target audience.
Nothing but upvotes on kbin
Well, la dee da.
I’m blue la buh dee la dee dah
One third Trekkies, one third talking about how shit twitter and Reddit are, one third content.
Because Wayland is a hot mess.
Laughs in i3
gay furry porn
Porn is the best and possibly only reason to stay on twitter. In fact I wish everyone who deleted their account goes and makes a porn following account until the app stores hands are forced to delisting it and even less advertisers pay for spots. Plus there’s some good ass porn there. Or at least there was last I checked, admittedly it’s been a while.
I wish I had something more significant to contribute, but… yeah. Mood.
The only reason I still use reddit is because of its huge NSFW communities.
That’s one of the biggest reasons why I don’t. I was angry I had to start logging in to visit those.
You can get around that by using old.reddit as you can click past the NSFW filter without signing in.
This might be the wrong crowd to ask as I suspect Fediverse users would favor Mastodon over X.
Question does not apply to them, only X users.
