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• Pohl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The lax restrictions on nazi speech. It’s now part of the platform. The platform tacitly endorses hatred. Your attention legitimizes the platform and the nazis. It’s time to walk away, you have a moral obligation.

  I get it you have an addiction to the website. We need to start talking about social media addiction without sneering. It’s a dopamine release machine and we are big stupid apes. I’m here on lemmy because it is like methadone to get me off Reddit.

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  • Critical_Insight@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I spend probably less than an hour a week on twitter compared to 2 to 3 hours a day on lemmy and 3 to 5 hours a day on youtube so addiction definitely, but not to twitter.

    When it comes to the nazi, or just overall right wing content, it’s only something I hear people talk about but haven’t ever experienced myself. Those things don’t appear on my feed. It’s 99% porn and 1% cat videos.

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• ilinamorato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  • it’s a failing platform run by one of the most chaotic people in existence; everything you make there will literally or figuratively go up in smoke, from the posts to the connections
  • everything you make there is currently lining the pockets of a racist, lying nationalist
  • it’s losing at an alarming rate while being beholden to the debt caused by the leveraged buyout that sold out to the aforementioned chaotic bro, meaning that they’re increasingly desperate to make money and will take more and more morally dubious deals in order to stay afloat
  • the racism is a feature, not a bug, tacitly and overtly endorsed by the current owner
  • the misinformation is a feature, not a bug, tacitly and overtly endorsed by the current owner
  • the nationalism is a feature, not a bug, tacitly and overtly endorsed by the current owner
  • they’re systematically stripping user control and transparency out of the platform, from ads and targeting to user blocking to outgoing links
  • they’re absolutely going to keep putting every useful feature behind Twitter Blue or whatever they’re calling it these days
  • uptime might be stable for now, but as soon as more bills become due it’s going to tank again
  • a venerable and respected platform has been reduced to this in a matter of months because of one man’s ego and hubris
  • the longer you delay in building a new platform and new habits only makes it harder for you to do so when all this finally does become too much for you

  These are only eleven reasons. I have many more, some personal and some universal. If at all possible, get off of Twitter.

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• q47tx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • Critical_Insight@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ll let you know when I start seeing ads

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• Pratai@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m just going to downvote you. There are TONS of compelling reasons to leave twitter. I’m not going to bother listing them as you have proven unworthy of the respect deserved of such a request.

  Now kindly and quietly go fuck off somewhere. Your bad-faith rebuttal isn’t welcome here.

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  • Critical_Insight@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Lets just take a moment to appreciate the fact, that the person I was replying to was already calling me dumb, and now you’re telling me to fuck off, and another user is calling me retarded yet somehow it’s me acting in bad faith.

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    • Pratai@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You continue to support a platform like twitter, yeah- you deserve it- and your response just proved it as well. Where there may have been a high road for you to take here, you chose not to. Now, the only difference between you and I, is I’m not patronizing a platform owned and poorly operated by a bigoted, racist Nazi sympathizer.

      You’re not a victim here kiddo.

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      • Critical_Insight@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And now you’re calling me a kiddo.

        It’s quite hilarious how ignorant you’re to your own toxic behaviour. Feel free to go thru my comment history, and try find an example of me talking to others that way. You’re the kind of person who makes social media worse for everyone.

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    • avater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It confuses me that you are using lemmy, so let me ask! do you still use Reddit?

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      • Critical_Insight@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Why does it confuse you? And no, not really. I go there to watch war videos but I no longer interact with the content or other users.

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