• katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    elon has never liked community notes; they were just a holdover from old twitter and he’s been desperate to get rid of it.

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    Eu please put up or shut up. Either hold X accountable, or just say they are big to regulate and can do whatever

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    Nobody should use that app. It is a scurge to humanity.

    Folks need to make the switch to literally anything else

  • Guidy@lemmy.world
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    If you still use twitter (no, asshole, you don’t get to own a letter of the alphabet - fuck off) then you are part of the problem.

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      It such a large network and great at blasting information out. Lots of youtuber/livestreamers still have to eXcrete on x or less they loose their audience. And it’s not just video, writers also depends on the big ole X megaphone to aunuce book releases, beta reader applications etc etc.

      Honestly furry artists are probably the freest from X since they have so many of their own social media sites.

      You X following even is part of the reason for publishers to pick up your book.

      Add to that some police departments actually use to send amber alerts.

      You just have the world’s largest public megaphone in an attention based economy. People can’t leave for anything smaller.

    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      It’s becoming like Facebook, which is were people’s parents, uncles and aunts and even grandparents (as well as technically inept organisations) are, but you yourself either moved on or are too young to have ever wanted to be there (“because nobody my age is there”), only whilst Facebook is merelly a Propaganda outlet for the Far Right, Twitter is openly Nazi.

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      1. Non-Westerner that never have or realized alternative platform exist.
      2. Artist that dependant on mainstream social media reach. (some artists already have 100K+ followers there, fedi also have limited reach due to instance blocking, e.g. you’re on Mastodon.art and want to reach Japanese audience (mainly misskey.io, but t was defederated on most of Western instance.)
      3. People with social network bubble outside Westernsphere, they only have exclusively local feed on their Twitter.
      4. People outside Westernsphere that already tried fediverse, but moving back as fediverse is still Western-centric or does not have their own community on feidverse.
      5. Community that does not have monetary power to invest on their own fedi instance.
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        1. People who need to follow various government entities that are only on twitter and facebook.
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          For those people they should all contact the government agencies that are still on Twitter and demand they switch to Bluesky.

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            When is the last time you demanded a government agency do something that wasn’t already their idea, and they did it

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            Bluesky is not a true alternative. Just recently there were news about them banning opposition accounts in Turkey.

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              Been using Mastodon for about two years now and never going back.

          • nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip
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            If people of your country is more likely to use Twitter, moving to Bluesky is not even realistic.

            Also, for a lot of countries, moving to Bluesky is like moving from American controlled platform to the same American controlled platform.

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            I agree with the sentiment, but the action doesn’t do anything to address the immediate issue

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            It’s legit applicable for people that have Twitter just for realtime earthquake warning.

            At least its applicable for Indonesian users.

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        Some friends of mine also think Twitter just has better content to consume when scrolling through. Too comfy & don’t care enough about who runs it & the issues to jump off. It gives them what they want.

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      Inertia, at least in some cases. It takes a lot of work to rebuild your audience. Leaving is accelerating, though, albeit slowly.

      • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        In other words, the so called “Networking Effects” (which have nothing to do with technical networks and are actually about how “people go were people are, so the more people are in a place the more people go there, the more people are there, the more people go there and so on”) in the business of social networking that made a handful of players dominant, are very hard to revert.

    • dinckel@lemmy.world
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      Some people continue to gaslight themselves into thinking there is something to be gained from the audience they once had

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            Since Musk took over, the censorship requests went from 50% accepted to 80% accepted.

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            Thought people would recognize this username and start ignoring them by now. Stop feeding the trolls, kids.

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              That’s not censorship. You can still post with that word and it doesn’t get deleted. It just won’t get spread as far and wide. All your followers etc will still see it.

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                It just won’t get spread as far and wide.

                It’s being blocked from being read or seen, as per the definition. They are quite literally censoring a word for political reasons in line with their political agenda. Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining.

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                  Do you think they should classify the “n word” as a slur and limit its reach? Is that censorship?

                  Cis isn’t being blocked from being seen or read.

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              It’s fucking unreal just how completely lost you magats are. Just fucking upside down in relation to any sort of reality.

              This is just too hilarious. The people that are completely out of touch with reality are people like you who say things like this.

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                Says the guy who actually believes that felon musk doesn’t censor the everliving fuck out of any sort of dissenting view on his privately owned nazi platform.

                Just. wow.

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                  But there are “dissenting views” all over X? Pro-Democrat policy and ideology views are not censored. Pro Trans/Palestine/Abortion/every-other-left-wing views are not being censored.

                  Which views are being censored on X in America? What evidence do you have to support your claim?

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                  Clearly, because even that article is bullshit and couldn’t find 10 despite naming it “Elon Musk, King of Censorship: 10 Times the ‘Free Speech Absolutist’ Silenced Twitter Users” lol

                  Government ordered takedowns are not Twitter censoring people - it’s the government.

                  As for “cis” and “cisgender” - they’re considered slurs on there, but they’re not censored. You can go on there and post “cisgender” as much as you want.

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                Yeah, he’s a really low effort bad faith troll that’s been basically just walking into conversations to sling shit everywhere for months. Not even worth interacting with.

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                  Being factually incorrect is not an opinion. It’s being factually incorrect.

                  But knock yourself out: X does not censor, Earth is flat, whatever you want to believe…

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                  I don’t understand how I’m even reading your comments… I guess the censor’s sleeping. It is pretty late.

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              Because I can be. The fact that someone being on here with differing opinions upsets so many people is just a bonus.

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    Wow, not too long after Facebook adopted the same tactic. They chose to drop their previous processes in favor of having their users take care of it.

    Sounds like this is just Twitter struggling to run their platform in the wake of a data center fire though.

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    Why would anyone with any hint of common sense “raise questions” about this. There are no questions here.

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    Oh noes: a private company that has no duty to challenge falsehoods has given up any pretense of giving a fuck.

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      They asolutely should and likely do have a duty to challenge falsehoods.

      The word private makes people feel like it isnt anyone’s business but that isnt the case.

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        I’d rather “trust” a company that cuts the bullshit with notices like

        The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood.
        Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.

        to remind the user that trusting noncredible information from unreliable sources is a ridiculous concept.