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.
Comment on X down – latest: Twitter and Grok not working in another major outage
U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
sincere question: if you’re still using twitter, what is it that’s so important to justify actively supporting a platform that enables pedophiles?
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
They are pedophiles and Nazis. Remember half voted for the guy so there is at least that many that don’t care.
hactar42@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
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.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 22 hours ago
Artists I follow post mostly either on X or Instagram, which I don’t find to be any better. All that have mastodon or bluesky accounts I’ve switched over, but many do not.
But I haven’t actually tweeted anything for something over a decade now?
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
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.
U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
and you’re cool with twitter not doing shit about the pedophilia?
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Perhaps it’s that kind of pron site? What better place to draw customers.
U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Imgonnatrythis @sh.itjust.works
Perhaps it’s that kind of pron site? What better place to draw customers.
what? “that kind of pron site”? are you sitting there and talking to me about child sexual abuse material like it’s normal day-to-day kind of stuff?
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
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.
Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I still have 2 twitter accounts. My first one I am actively deleting all old content, likes, retweets, ect from. The second one is purely porn
sepi@piefed.social 2 days ago
Different people like different things. Some people are lame and like things that are lame.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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.
U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
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
thejml@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
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.
U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
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?
limelight79@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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.