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this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2026
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Now most world governments won't be able to have their discourse surveilled.
This is a net good for society.
Side note: I installed rustfs yesterday, and it has an X link at the top of the admin page you can’t remove.
I’ve uninstalled it. That’s bullshit.
rustfs
Was wondering what this is, but it doesnt even have a wikipedia page. Is it not open source / self hosted?
Let’s fucking GO!
sincere question: if you're still using twitter, what is it that's so important to justify actively supporting a platform that enables pedophiles?
FOMO related to the people on the platform, FUD about other platforms, people thinking if they left would make Elon even more right wing, people being shamed into being apolitical thus leaving X would mean a political stance, etc.
Artists I follow post mostly either on X or Instagram, which I don't find to be much better of an alternative. All that have mastodon or bluesky accounts I've switched over, but many do not because there aren't enough users.
But I haven't actually tweeted anything for something over a decade now?
I don't use twitter, but the reason people still do is the same reason people still use reddit.
It's where the people are. Normally this is the part where I use some big exaggerated example of what COULD be happening on twitter and they'd still use it. However, saying "They would still use use it if it catered to pedophiles and nazis" is not only true, because they are, but it's also the most exaggerated example I can think of.
No matter what twitter does, people will still use them, BECAUSE people use them. Twitter has something like 375million people, while Mastadon has varying reported numbers, but I'm seeing 7million, 10million or 12million depending on who's talking. That's still a far cry from 375million.
The hard part is figuring out how many of those 375million are bots.
No matter what twitter does, people will still use them, BECAUSE people use them
i suspected as much, and have said so. i was just hoping maybe an actual twitter user would come out and try to defend that bullshit. i know, tall order on lemmy
I stopped when it became X. However it was full of racist, bigotry and hatred before then as well.
I used it to keep up with some content creators and tech companies but I did so by getting an API key and running a cli that only pulled down messages from who I followed. Made it much more bearable and useful.
Since the Xittification, API keys are expensive and I've either followed them elsewhere, or mostly just given up. Some dropped it, but when you have thousands to millions of followers on a platform, from their side, it's hard to lose that audience.
I used to like Twitter when it started, following people and small companies/communities was super easy and the 140char limit nice and terse for both the posters and the ones following. Then it shat the bed and then it got bought out and while some still post there because of followers, most have left or just disappeared.
when you have thousands to millions of followers on a platform, from their side, it’s hard to lose that audience.
what does this signify? if these people are "following" you, are they really following you if they can't be assed to follow you to a different platform? or is it possible that they're all just bullshit and don't actually give a flying fuck about you? is that what people are afraid of?
out of those thousands/millions of followers, how many of them are actually engaging/sharing/memeing your shit?
In the case of content creators, you go where your audience goes. Almost all of the content creators I watch went back to twitter and almost exclusively post only live notices and social updates. I don't have one that has a good opinion of the platform but, there's a much larger audience there so therefore they stay.
Visibility is everything, and there are many steps between following you off the platform and not engaging with your stuff. Many will not follow a creator to an alternative platform if it means having to juggle an additional network, they will just let that creator fall out of their interest group.
I know for a fact I wouldn't be on lemmy if I still used reddit, so any content creator I followed there I dropped. It is too annoying having to juggle multiple social media platforms.
Twitter was useful for getting updates about sports during games - for example, an update on whether a player who was injured might return to the game, or sometimes, more detail on something weird that happened (you'd be shocked at how poorly informed people in the arena are, compared to those watching on TV). A lot of this depends on who is feeding the info, though, and the more recent beat reporters for our favorite hockey team haven't been as active on Twitter, so I closed my account after Musk bought it. Haven't really missed it.
But even today, every article about something that happened in a game will embed a Twitter link for video. Like there's no other possibility - just Twitter.
I'm not defending this, just saying that sports use it extremely heavily.
I kept mine active but haven't used it since Musk took over. I just changed my name and bio to my Mastodon account so people could find me. I used it for work and had a lot of people find my content through it, so I didn't want to just kill it. I also didn't want someone claiming my username because I use the same one on pretty much all of my work socials. It got to the point last week that I'd rather not be associated with the site, even if people know it's just to point you to my Mastodon. Hitting that delete button felt good, but I wish I had done it back in 2022.
They are pedophiles and Nazis. Remember half voted for the guy so there is at least that many that don't care.
I use it to promote my pron site. No offense to lemmy users but we're not the type of people that pay for such content.
and you're cool with twitter not doing shit about the pedophilia?
Perhaps it's that kind of pron site? What better place to draw customers.
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Nope. Not that I've seen any myself.
Fact is, every other platform has been consored to oblivion.
You can post free content on reddit if you enjoy giving your work away for free. But if you're linked to a pay site you'll eventually be banned.
X is basically the only option left.
Different people like different things. Some people are lame and like things that are lame.
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Good I hope it’s hackers and I hope they destroy it
Aww, I love this for them.
They went to stop it from nudifying kids and it took the whole site down lmfao
Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure
Grok has infected every file, they have lost control of MecaHitler.
Y'all don't come back now, y'hear?
Nature is healing
Oh no. /s
Anyway...
Life uh.... Finds a way?
Keep it down this time.
Bleed money please
Money isn’t a thing. I saw that Musk is at 700B now. He can spend a million dollars a DAY for nearly two thousand YEARS.
Love this! Fuck musk!
I mean, he did fire the majory of the people keeping it running.
Let this sink ~~in~~ down
Let that sink in.
doesn't work here either.. mostly because i've completely blocked it from my network
Stupid idea selling the damn thing in the first place without the consent of its userbase.
What’s that?
Oh well