Except for the nuking of 3rd party apps none of these other changes has affected me personally so the answer to why am I still there is the same why I joined to begin with.
Does that last friend not understand that just because you don’t post personal info doesn’t mean it can’t be easily found by crazy people? Like it’s pretty easy to find peoples info even when they use fake names nowadays
It’s amazing how people convinced themselves they need all these platforms in their lives. Meta, X, TikTok, YouTube - they can do whatever they want to their users, and the users just take it.
I’ve learned to drop social media platforms as soon as they pull shit I’m uncomfortable with and live a happy life, somehow.
Um, E-mail has been doing that since the dawn of the Internet.
I always see people saying “but I have some friends across the world and Facebook is the only way we can keep in contact because they don’t have a phone 😭😭😭”
Like… my guy. You both have email addresses and used them to create FB accounts. Cut out the middle man.
But where else can I post a picture of my dinner and have millions of random strangers see it, thereby validating my personal fragile ego, before I even take the first bite?
I can only speak for myself but I’m not on Twitter because I deem it essential for my life and I can’t leave. The reason I’m not leaving is that these changes have had almost zero affect on me and quite frankly I just don’t care. Only change I had to make was to move from the Flamingo app to using it via browser which doesn’t really matter since I almost exclusively use it on my laptop anyways.
Absolutely, I only had FB and I was late to the game on that as well compared to others. I gave it up completely in 2016 thankfully right before the crazy political crap took over and never looked back. I did reddit which was fine because I didn’t know anyone and it let me actually follow everything I loved no matter how small it was. Now I am here because of what they pulled. Wonder how longer this place will last…
After being on fediverse it’s been great how refreshing and natural real decentralized social media is rather than the astroturfed, money and soul sucking dreck that is the big corporate socials are.
I almost wish there was a way that we could encourage growth and somehow let it scale to critical mass through grants and donations. But eventually if the fediverse got to that size then there would be grifters and corporations to ruin our fun.
Right! The fediverse is 100% a happier place. I love Lemmy and Firefish and Pixelfed. I’m deleting Facebook as soon as I collect enough email addresses.
Thats not how any of this works though. Corpos and governments are free to spin up their own instances of any federated service right now. It is the future, but the future is small bubbles that communicate with each other. So we don’t have to be on Meta’s instance, or Wal-Mart’s, or even the US’s national instance. We can stay where we are and keep it like this.
He’s the only user I have blocked, because of the bug he caused where every post was from him. I suspect that one incident made him the most blocked person on Twitter.
So far I kept my account but basically made it deprecated, no more posting and I barely open it anymore. But now might be the time to delete it. If I start seeing content from all the trash accounts I blocked, I will have zero reasons to browse twitter
Oh, so now we have to see the mysterious new “opposing party tweets” that have started showing up no matter what, huh? That should really make the destruction complete.
What a brilliant use of 44 billion. There could not have been anything better done with that money…
Lol you may have been one of the people making Twitter slower
"LeGate
@williamlegate
Elon Musk has said large block lists have been a resource drain for Twitter, because they – for some reason – significantly increase their server costs.
Elon has asked that you don’t block people in an effort to save Twitter expenses. If you block lots of ppl, it costs Musk $$$
7:48 AM · Mar 10, 2023"
I get that many people don’t like it and has left but I still haven’t figured out why non-twitter users are urging the rest of us to leave the platform. What do you care? Really
Because it’s not even Twitter anymore. It is called X, a MLM platform for neo-nazis. By stubbornly using the platform you are keeping their dream alive.
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I left Twitter. why must I keep hearing about Twitter?
Why is anyone still using Twitter at this point?
My Twitter account exists exclusively for posting links to mastodon.
Except for the nuking of 3rd party apps none of these other changes has affected me personally so the answer to why am I still there is the same why I joined to begin with.
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Does that last friend not understand that just because you don’t post personal info doesn’t mean it can’t be easily found by crazy people? Like it’s pretty easy to find peoples info even when they use fake names nowadays
It’s amazing how people convinced themselves they need all these platforms in their lives. Meta, X, TikTok, YouTube - they can do whatever they want to their users, and the users just take it.
I’ve learned to drop social media platforms as soon as they pull shit I’m uncomfortable with and live a happy life, somehow.
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I always see people saying “but I have some friends across the world and Facebook is the only way we can keep in contact because they don’t have a phone 😭😭😭”
Like… my guy. You both have email addresses and used them to create FB accounts. Cut out the middle man.
But where else can I post a picture of my dinner and have millions of random strangers see it, thereby validating my personal fragile ego, before I even take the first bite?
There are subs on Lemmy where you can do that. :3
I can only speak for myself but I’m not on Twitter because I deem it essential for my life and I can’t leave. The reason I’m not leaving is that these changes have had almost zero affect on me and quite frankly I just don’t care. Only change I had to make was to move from the Flamingo app to using it via browser which doesn’t really matter since I almost exclusively use it on my laptop anyways.
Welp, sounds like it’s time for you to grow up
Absolutely, I only had FB and I was late to the game on that as well compared to others. I gave it up completely in 2016 thankfully right before the crazy political crap took over and never looked back. I did reddit which was fine because I didn’t know anyone and it let me actually follow everything I loved no matter how small it was. Now I am here because of what they pulled. Wonder how longer this place will last…
After being on fediverse it’s been great how refreshing and natural real decentralized social media is rather than the astroturfed, money and soul sucking dreck that is the big corporate socials are.
I almost wish there was a way that we could encourage growth and somehow let it scale to critical mass through grants and donations. But eventually if the fediverse got to that size then there would be grifters and corporations to ruin our fun.
Right! The fediverse is 100% a happier place. I love Lemmy and Firefish and Pixelfed. I’m deleting Facebook as soon as I collect enough email addresses.
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Thats not how any of this works though. Corpos and governments are free to spin up their own instances of any federated service right now. It is the future, but the future is small bubbles that communicate with each other. So we don’t have to be on Meta’s instance, or Wal-Mart’s, or even the US’s national instance. We can stay where we are and keep it like this.
Oh boy. RIP his mentions.
Probably because he’s sad that people are blocking him.
My guess is people were blocking Blue users-- now they can’t!
So much so that he let them hide it.
He’s the only user I have blocked, because of the bug he caused where every post was from him. I suspect that one incident made him the most blocked person on Twitter.
So far I kept my account but basically made it deprecated, no more posting and I barely open it anymore. But now might be the time to delete it. If I start seeing content from all the trash accounts I blocked, I will have zero reasons to browse twitter
Oh, so now we have to see the mysterious new “opposing party tweets” that have started showing up no matter what, huh? That should really make the destruction complete.
What a brilliant use of 44 billion. There could not have been anything better done with that money…
You can just mute anyone you’re not interested hearing about
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If I hadn’t already deactivated my account this would have been a good time to do it. I had like 135,000 accounts on my block list.
Lol you may have been one of the people making Twitter slower
"LeGate @williamlegate Elon Musk has said large block lists have been a resource drain for Twitter, because they – for some reason – significantly increase their server costs.
Elon has asked that you don’t block people in an effort to save Twitter expenses. If you block lots of ppl, it costs Musk $$$ 7:48 AM · Mar 10, 2023"
Oh noooo. Anyways…
They can do what they like! I like it here better
So looks like he’s asking us to block the whole Twitter.
Just stop using Twitter. There’s a half-dozen alternatives by now, Jesus Christ.
Take your time and attention somewhere else. Leave.
What do you care if people are there or not? I don’t get this mentality of as a non-twitter user urging people to leave the platform.
Because helping others out from under the influence of things that are making them stupid is good for the world in general.
Stop using Twitter. Seriously, people, stop using Twitter. It’s not going to get better.
the moment my Japanese artists switch over to another app, I switch. I can’t live without them 😭
I get that many people don’t like it and has left but I still haven’t figured out why non-twitter users are urging the rest of us to leave the platform. What do you care? Really
Because it’s not even Twitter anymore. It is called X, a MLM platform for neo-nazis. By stubbornly using the platform you are keeping their dream alive.
Think of this as an IQ test. Those that pass come here, those that fail get Zuck’d, Musk’d & Spez’d.
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