Comment on “Yeah, they’re gone”: Musk confirms cuts to X’s election integrity team — “‘Election Integrity’ Team.. was undermining election integrity,” Musk writes

• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I walked past an ambulance the other day and noticed that my city’s ambulances have the little bird logo along with the local EMS twitter handle (I live somewhere with publicly funded healthcare). I found myself wondering, “are they going to switch their fleet to use the X logo?” It’s funny how much we allowed this private company’s little bird logo to worm its way into every aspect of our world. People took for granted that it would always exist and always be something people had a positive association with.

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  • doctorn@r.nf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The only good thing about it being renamed to X is that at least we can now keep a bit respect for this ‘loved’ little bird and link it to “remember when it was called Twitter and still functional?” 😅

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    • IHaveTwoCows@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Type x.com into your browser and see what the url is.

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      • doctorn@r.nf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        My God. A 1-letter dot-com address! That must have cost so much…

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  • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “Public Squares” should never be privately owned.

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• Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve heard about this bizarre behavior. I have decided to not cut slack to users.

  It is inappropriate to conduct business with bigots and fascists. It is perfectly reasonable for me to label those who use fascist-owned platforms as fascists.

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  • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I have decided to not cut slack to users.

    Life is analog, not digital.

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    • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And the “owned by a fascist” dial is all the way to 10.

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      • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It is perfectly reasonable for me to label those who use fascist-owned platforms as fascists.

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• JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My wife used it because she has s community of friends she has made there and knows in real life. The same way we both still use Facebook.

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  • daemoz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Is this the reason people still go to church? What will it take for people to migrate? I personally wouldn’t use a bridge that rots my brain to save 10 min on my commute. I wouldnt regularly going to and supporting a toxic infastructure to see freinds, id be inviting them to better locals. Not judging you, just wondering why be a frog in a boiling pot of water… then again you are here so maybe I just need my bubble or something to feel safe idk…

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    • zbyte64@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ehhh, church is more practical cuz it tends to provide sunday daycare for a couple hours

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I totally get what you’re saying and for what it’s worth I don’t feel judged by your statements. For platforms where I didn’t have that sort of personal connection with “real life” people I am more willing to swap. Here I am on Lemmy, after all lol.

      There’s just no way I can convince the friends I have on Facebook that I still keep up with there to jump ship with me to join a different platform. Sure, I might convince some, and I might even be the seed of doubt that convinces another person to leave months or years later but by then I’d be gone and they couldn’t find me if they even remembered me. Because once you’re gone you’re just gone. There are a handful of people I know that I think deleted their accounts or otherwise just don’t have a presence on social media at all. I have no way to contact them. If they don’t want to be contacted that’s fine, I’m not saying people have some obligation to be found lol. But the idea of old friends reaching out to me is an appealing feeling and also being able to watch them from a distance and be seen from a distance is an appealing one. Facebook has a level of critical mass (at least in my friend group and I guess age group) that other social media platforms don’t have. I think for folks a little younger than me Instagram has that.

      And what if I stay? I know I’m getting data mined. Do I like it? No. But I’m not really getting mined so hard that it’s really a bad thing. Leaving would be more of an idealogical thing to do than a practical one. Short of some massive boycott it wouldn’t change anything.

      In short, the negatives of my specific usage of Facebook is extremely minor and the benefits are too much for me to give up.

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• CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Convenience and habit are a hell of a drug…

  Twitter, Reddit, World of Warcraft, etc., etc.

  If people could just put in the minimal amount of effort to affect positive change, the World would be such a different place.

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• IHaveTwoCows@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And that’s why conservatives are violent, both physically and rhetorically: what are you ever gonna do about it?

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