This Is a Simple and Satisfying Way to Fight Trump and Musk
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With Trump headed back to the White House, there’s no better time to delete your X account.

At this point in time, anyone left on the platform formerly known as Twitter, is either a fascist, or at least think that fascism isn’t that big a deal.

NoiseColor
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19d

That’s complete and utter nonsense.

There are groups of people using it that have no contact with politics or anything out of their sphere of interest. I am in a couple of such groups.

I would love to go somewhere else and I am on lemmy, mastodon even bluesky, but there are no such communities there.

@wildflower@lemmy.world
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49d

…but there are no such communities there

“Be the change you want to see in the world.” ;-)

NoiseColor
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09d

Yes, that’s why I wrote that I’m here. But it’s not happening. Maybe something will change in the future, but at this moment there is nothing anyone can to do, to move these communities.

@Buffalox@lemmy.world
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that have no contact with politics

Ergo they are not against fascism. Which means they are OK with it, because they don’t care either way.
Good job, you just helped prove the point.

NoiseColor
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29d

I understand you are hurt and angry.

But you have to understand there are people out there from all around the world, that have no desire to observe the grotesque circus of american politics. You are in your own bubble of people that think the world has ended, but most people in the world have different worries and concerns.

@Buffalox@lemmy.world
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I understand you are hurt and angry.

That’s ad hominem.

But you have to understand there are people out there from all around the world

That doesn’t change anything, whatever country you are from, using Xitter means you are using and thereby supporting a fascist platform.

You are in your own bubble

OK, and which bubble is that?
Seems to me that the ones in a bubble are those that continue to use Xitter, oblivious to it supporting fascism, or accepting that it does. Now THAT’s being in a bubble.

NoiseColor
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I see that the emotional level is too great for any discussion. Good luck to you, I hope you get a moment for yourself and have a nice rest of the day.

Good bye.

@Buffalox@lemmy.world
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I see you are unable to actually argue your point, and instead choose to continue with the ad hominem.
I’m still interested to hear what bubble it is you consider me to be in?

I’m just gonna go ahead and say it:

You need to touch grass as in pronto

bufalo1973
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Except everything is related to politics. The price of the bread is politics. The roads made, politics too. Having to pay the doctor or not, politics.

Politics is not “what the politicians do”. It’s “affairs of the cities”, from Ancient Greek πολιτικά (politiká). And everything that affects more than one person is an “affair of the cities”.

NebLem
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If you are a major contributor in a niche community, you can publicize your move with info of how to keep following you and syndicate links to your content on your desired platform for a set time then leave. On your desired platform let followers from Xitter know how to follow you (email, rss, bridgy, etc) if they don’t want to join your desired platform.

If you are mostly a content consumer or have FOMO, use a bridge not an account. DM all the friends you want to keep of where to find you then leave. Bird.makeup is a great Xitter bridge for the fedi.

In either case, there isn’t a reason to keep am account there.

@IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world
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29d

I love seeing these comments firmly showing how out of touch some/most of Lemmy is.

That is just not true. I hate twitter but i still use it. I am autistic and follow very specific things on it and while i also use mastodon and bluesky, there is barely anyone that has the same current interests as i do.

I don’t like it but i also don’t completely want to alienate myself from people i enjoy talking to and seeing their stuff. I try to follow them all on mastodon and bluesky if they have an account there, but not everyone has that.

I have all ads blocked and purely use it for my hobbies. So suggesting that makes me a fascist is absolutely ridiculous. We are trying to move to another platform but its not as easy as you make it out to be.

Same as Lemmy. I love Lemmy. BUT there are things that just so not exist here yet that do exist on reddit. And i have no interest in making a community for it either as i don’t want to moderate anything.

@Buffalox@lemmy.world
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So because there aren’t other options that are as good for your personal interests, you are OK with using a fascist supporting platform. But somehow you think it’s unfair to say you are sort of OK with fascism, since you are using a clearly fascist supporting platform.

You know, that’s called compromising your ideals for convenience. And if you are American you got what you deserve with Trump.

@IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world
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So you’re okay with violence for communisms sake? Just want to be clear because the developers and most admins here are.

@Buffalox@lemmy.world
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39d

False equivalence.

Nope. Same exact shit. Just your team running it.

@Buffalox@lemmy.world
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I think you are confused, this is not lemmy.ml, and lemmy is open source, which is the part where it definitely becomes a false equivalence.
Because just because the developers may be communists, that has zero bearing on the content of lemmy.world.
The developers do not own lemmy. And do not claim control of the platform.
Musk is a fascist who owns and control twitter, and has used it to push his fascist agenda, spending $40 billion to be able to do that!

Lemmy is by the people for the people.
Xitter is owned and controlled by the worlds richest narcissist, who has claimed total control, and is using it to push fascism.

So very much a false equivalence.

No. They federate all of their content. By publishing that content they have approved it. And we know that they have had a decision they have made and will continue to make. So yes LW does support violence.

Darth_Mew
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09d

this is an UNHINGED leap… so by that logic anyone living in america supports killing “foreign” civilians, bombing cities etc etc???

@wildflower@lemmy.world
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19d

Seriously? It’s a social media site that openly support and spread right-wing misinformation, how is that comparable? People have no say in where they where born, and not all have the luxury of packing everything and move to another country, supporting a social media site is a choice.

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I didn’t say people born here I said living. so all the people that have moved here willingly support bombing and invading since they CHOSE to live here got it

@Hikermick@lemmy.world
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109d

If you are still on X yet couldn’t bring yourself to vote for Kamala because of Palestine then WTF?

FlashMobOfOne
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129d

Deleted mine two years ago.

Kinda surprised it took everyone this long, TBH.

@aceshigh@lemmy.world
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127d

This should have been advised many months ago. Now it’s too late. Shithead won.

It’s past time to delete X. The platform is just as bad as it was a year ago. People couldn’t be bothered to do the simplest fucking thing until they realize, “Whoops! I was supporting fascism!”

NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ
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48d

To be fair, I’ve been on there calling the fascists and Trump apologists out. The pennies they get from ads pale in comparison to the fact I bought a Tesla years ago womp womp 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🫤

I deleted Threads five days ago.

It was a cesspool of (Russian? Troll Farm?) propaganda attacking Harris for not having any accomplishments for the last four years, complaining about housing, grocery, egg, and gas prices, “fixing” America, a crapton of pro-jesus stuff, pro-Elon comments and reposts, government money going to “illegals” instead of hurricane victims, and a ton of made up lies. …

All of which were as transparent as fuck why they were wrong. VP’s don’t make policy, so what accomplishments should she have? Housing has been going up for a decade+, it’s not new, egg prices were normal while the pics were of organic egg prices and expensive grocery carts had hidden high cost items or just straight up lied about the cost, gas prices are the lowest they’ve been for years. Jesus stuff praised trump, America, tons of AI generated “holy” trump pics, bashed atheists, posted Elon’s BS pseudo-wisdom, Ignored the $20Bn spent on hurricane relief in favor of a few hundred million housing the undocumented workers living in the affected area…

It was infuriating. Because they were so obviously wrong…blatantly, in-your-face, completely fucking wrong. It was a constant flood of lies. Eight out of nine posts were BS.

But as soon as the election swung in Trump’s favor…poof…it went quiet. Hardly a peep. Gone.

And I realize that Threads was captured completely by troll farm bots spewing right-wing propaganda. And it was a waste of time. So my account will be deleted.

@VerPoilu@sopuli.xyz
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699d

Don’t just “delete” Twitter as in deleting the app. Please also close your account.

dinckel
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179d

Very important distinction. I’ve deleted the apps long before, thinking i’d keep the account to occasionally look at someone’s feed. When they publicly reinstated neonazi accounts, it was the last drop in the ocean

FenrirIII
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49d

Leave a negative review on the app stores

Way too late to “fight” them this way, it’s already served it’s purpose for them. Everyone needed to have done this like a year ago, dummies. But yeah, still delete it anyway.

@devfuuu@lemmy.world
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Yeah. It served it’s purpose, he bought a mass social media outlet, let it run wild, influenced elections, spread hate and normalized even more extreme views to fuck with all the world. The damage is done. Claiming doing something good at this point when it should have been done at the early signs but everyone would call you paranoid is just non sense. Crying wolf and all that bullshit.

@aesthelete@lemmy.world
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Lol, nothing like waiting until the last possible moment to do the tiniest thing that won’t even accomplish anything at this point and then writing an article about it.

@seaQueue@lemmy.world
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You didn’t do that a couple of years ago when Musk decided to push his own posts and right wing content to the top of everyone’s feed? I dropped twatter that same day.

Mastodon works well, tell your twatter refugee friends.

@roofuskit@lemmy.world
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99d

People who weren’t ready to listen before are now.

Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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19d

deleted by creator

@Etterra@lemmy.world
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108d

That would require me to have X on my phone. I do not. Because I deleted Twitter when dipshit took over.

@aceshigh@lemmy.world
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Dipshit is my 2024 favourite word.

ms.lane
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09d

People were on Twitter in the first place?

That’s nice. But you should get a gun. Much more effective fighting method than deleting an app.

Darth_Mew
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more lame extremist nonsense. you aren’t going to shoot anyone but some loads into a sock. pipe down

Can’t. Even when it was Dorsey’s Twitter, it was too toxic.

@mrfriki@lemmy.world
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If you didn’t deleted it like 5 years ago chances are that you won’t be deleting it now or in the future.

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