Comment on Blue-Checked, ‘Verified’ Users on X Produce 74 Percent of the Platform’s Most Viral False or Unsubstantiated Claims Relating to the Israel-Hamas War

• glimse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s easy to switch platforms. It’s a lot harder to get all your contacts to switch platforms.

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  • snooggums@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If my contacts want to meet at the bar that used to be fun, but is now full of racists and nazis instead of just have one or two wander in occasionall before getting kicked out, they can meet there without me.

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    • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well one new bar that I heard is really good is invite-only and the other is confusing for less bar-savvy friends to get to and use

      I’m not an active Twitter user, I’m just imagining the transition pains when the discord servers I use slowly start to migrate somewhere else

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  • ubermeisters@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Harder than dealing with being a tool for elon?

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    • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If everyone stopped using services run by greedy assholes, we wouldn’t use technology at all lol

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  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s not particularly difficult to get rid of a contact.

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• xkforce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Full 360 degree panoramic view of the dumpster fire

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• MysticKetchup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It doesn’t matter how good the new platforms are if the people you follow aren’t there. I do all my posting on Mastodon now but when it comes to people I follow on Twitter virtually none of them have moved their stuff over so I run out of interesting things to check out quickly

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