When my politicians are confronted with using xitter as their official messaging outlet for the media while itās a nazi pedo platform:
Not just that, but my countryās official, tax-funded news quote Xitter in their news. What random politician wrote, or in the slow days, what some prick wrote to get attention. I have my browser settings so I only see the empty Xitter box, but I try to write to them, and honestly, few other news sources I use, to stop that and that itās not a reliable source or New Event or significant in any way.
Of course they also use Trumpās Truth Social, when they do those ālook at what the orange satan saidā-news they do three times a day. I try to complain about those too, but itās just easy pickings for the journalists to get āclicksā. (But again, as itās the official, tax-money news source, they donāt have ads so they donāt need the click eitherā¦) Fucking gross, would be easier to quit reading news in my mother tongue.
The fact that anyone who matters still uses that site just highlights abject failure of other companies to produce a satisfactory replacement. Theyāve had years. With all their money and experience with social media, how has Meta failed to make Threads comparable to the old Twitter?
is it really that all the alternatives are worse than twitter? i never used twitter but mastodon/miskey seem pretty feature rich, especially with the right client. i assumed that the reason so many people did not switch is network effect and unwillingness to change habits
And bluesky, donāt forget about New Twitter, crypto-funded twitter
precision calibrated to be juuuuust decentralized enough that you have to begrudgingly admit that it is technically decentralized, but not enough that it actually matters in any practical manner.
Change habits? In this economy?
That is indeed the case. If youāre considering Mastodon try Wafrn. Its an open source social network that interacts with all Mastodon peeps like normal as well as bridging to and from Bluesky if you want. So you can interact with BSky and Fediverse accounts all from one place. Good shit.
Plus its one of the few social media platforms (even on the Fediverse) that has a STRICT no AI policy because fuck that shit.
Iāve heard that for people who used Twitter as a news feed, Threadsā and Bueskyās algorithms just arenāt as good.
Iām sure inertia also has a lot to do with it, as you said.
I used it for that
Are Threads or Bluesky as good as the old Twitter for this?
Market pressures are very different than they were when social media first took off. People want to be where their friends already are now. Back then, they would bring their friends to platforms.
Friends?
Meta and X are predatory, they buy up the start ups and close them so no one will ever compete.
why would pedophiles go on twitter?
Because itās a website that caters to nazis and pedophiles and they can ask grok to generate child porn for them.
hmmā i mean - the second one applys to kinda everything and - - yea oki ur right o n the first one ;(
Because all their friends are there
so its just a ā¦ platform wit people on it. i think that just happens.
maybe im missing something, but groups are bound to happen on sites where everyone can go to and yap.
Letās say you own a bar. Itās definitely not a nazi bar, but you also donāt ask nazis to leave if they show up. The nazis who get kicked out of other bars naturally end up at your bar. Normal customers stop going to your bar because the nazis make them uncomfortable, meanwhile the nazis invite their friends and word gets out that nazis are welcome there. Congratulations, you now own a nazi bar.
Youāll notice blahaj Lemmy doesnāt have a nazi problem because, unlike Twitter, they donāt tolerate nazi bullshit.
ooooh oki yes that makes much more sense. thank u for clearing it up! <3
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Musk has an AI that will digitally undress pictures of children you upload to it
ye fair, thats image gen for u-
preddy awful.
Happy I joined Lemmy after my X got hacked and they refused to help.
At this point itās not even an hyperbole
What is the origin of this gif lmao
Iāve seen it for years and still donāt know
going to get on my soapbox about X for a moment for two things
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people who say ātwitter is the only time iāll deadname somethingā, like itās a statement that fucking matters at anyone at all, when i donāt want deadnaming to EVER be something weāre treating as OK
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calling X ātwitterā is just cope for people who canāt move off the fucking app and want to pretend like musk didnāt successfully take it over, ruin it, and turn it into a nazi child porn site. call it the shit garbage app that it is, the thing you liked called ātwitterā is dead
not directed at anyone in particular or you, OP, just wanted to get this off my chest
If a trans person says or does something morally wrong I do not ever attempt to āpunishā them with deadnaming or misgendering. However, I consider Twitter.com neither transgender nor person. Iām not causing any harm whatsoever. Sorry to offend you, but Elon Musk didnāt invent anything, āXā is just him buying Twitter and loading it up with Nazi Pedophiles., and to further twist the knife, he didnāt invent electric cars, he didnāt perfect space travel, he hasnāt āsolved trafficā, heās not even earned his own video game achievements.
i feel like weāre in agreement, except for the conclusion we arrived at about it
i just donāt like it when people act like saying (literally) āi will deadname twitterā will hurt twitter more than the trans people who might have actually been deadnamed. i think itās a waste to trigger them to act like calling x ātwitterā is a slur or smth
I mean thatās only true for people who actually see it as deadnaming, which it isnāt. As I said before the point isnāt actually āDeadnaming is okay in this instanceā but āThis app is literally just Twitter.ā Elon and supporters have called that deadnaming as some sort of gotcha and nobody argues that it isnāt because itās not like heās actually opposing deadnaming he dislikes the observation that he hasnāt built anything.
okay, sure, but i am a trans person and i have independently concluded that i donāt think itās cool. sure āitās only deadnaming if you think itās literally is the thing weāre calling itā, but the human brain doesnāt work like that; if someone has a strong enough response to it (e.g. they suffered trauma from being deadnamed), then theyāre going to have that response before they go āoh actually they donāt mean it because itās directed at a corpā. i donāt think ādunking on elon musk, who has plenty of other shit to dunk onā is really worth doing that to somebody
(idk why you keep bringing up he didnāt build anything? i know? you donāt need to use the word ādeadnameā to make that point?)
and iām too lazy to check every room iām in and be like, āhey, is casually pretending like weāre doing this evil shitty thing (thatās actually justified bc weāre dunking on a shithead!!) going to be a trigger for you?ā (which, honestly, would still be better than just assuming itās fine)
(if itās not clear, my issue is more with people who literally use the phrase āiām going to deadname twitterā or āthe only time itās OK to deadname something is twitterā or whatever)
itās likeā¦ look, thereās a reason we put actual deadnaming content behind a content warning. iām basically treating it the same way, because even if it is not the literal act of deadnaming a real person, itās still pretending that something traumatic and evil is a cool and normal thing to do, which i do not fuck with, even in jest
- people who say ātwitter is the only time iāll deadname somethingā
This is definitely a ridiculous statement from the jump, but thereās no relation to deadnaming at all. Trying to make a comparison between Chicagoans calling it the Sears Tower with the harm deadnaming a person causes is insane. Despite what Mitt Romney and a large portion of US law says, corporations arenāt people.
iām not equating the two, i just donāt think itās worth triggering trans people who have actually been hurt by deadnaming, just to flex on a faceless piece of shit corporation that does not care and is not hurt by it
(to be clear, this is more about using the literal phrase āi will deadname twitterā than calling x ātwitterā itself; for that, see my second point)
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