Can’t. Even when it was Dorsey’s Twitter, it was too toxic.
This is a simple and satisfying way to fight Trump and Musk | It's time to delete X
Submitted 1 year ago by trespasser69@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 year ago
aceshigh@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This should have been advised many months ago. Now it’s too late. Shithead won.
Etterra@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That would require me to have X on my phone. I do not. Because I deleted Twitter when dipshit took over.
aceshigh@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Dipshit is my 2024 favourite word.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lol, nothing like waiting until the last possible moment to do a minor thing that won’t even accomplish anything at this point and then writing an article about it.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 year ago
Agreed, but still do it
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Yup. Here’s what I did:
- recommend others not vote for him in 2016
- didn’t vote for him in 2016
- avoided TruthSocial and other nonsense during his first term
- encouraged friends and family to not vote for him in 2020
- didn’t vote for him in 2020
- continued to avoid TruthSocial
- encouraged friends and family to not vote for him in 2024
- didn’t vote for him in 2024
See a pattern?
dukethorion@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Truth Social wasn’t launched until 2022 during the Biden presidency.
Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
You did vote though? Right? Right?
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Never signed up for Twitter and definitely not X. Leon can give to his pals in Moscow.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Dude it was time to do that long ago.
Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I never used X. I did half-assedly make an account in 2013 but I have long since deleted it. I have no real use for twitter.
Hikermick@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If you are still on X yet couldn’t bring yourself to vote for Kamala because of Palestine then WTF?
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Because you hate Palestine?
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 year ago
Haha and as a reward you get Trump. Watch how that works out for Palestine. Idiots
john117@lemmy.jmsquared.net 1 year ago
give up social media? nah that’s too hard for people lol.
GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Go federated or find a small community of like-minded friends to hang with online.
Hell, I only visit Reddit for the big news for a few minutes before heading off to check discord and matrix chats and everywhere else I go.
Branch out.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I just tried that…went searching for a room and amongst some software package rooms the two I stumbled upon that made me nope the fuck out are “COVID-19 truth” or similar, and some pro-trump mafia thing that had the n-word in its description. I tried to search for something even in the state of california and the closest I got was a gay hookup channel.
Thanks, I fucking hate the Internet now.
irotsoma@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not give up. Just move away from corporate owned social media which generally has biases baked in and allows for easy manipulation by the company. The one we’re on right now is not one of those and there are lots of other alternatives. Not that they’re perfect, just that money and especially wealthy individuals aren’t able to easily and singlehandedly manipulate millions of people by purging factual but dissenting information.
john117@lemmy.jmsquared.net 1 year ago
as someone who made their own instance, talk about it to family and friends and try to convince them to jump on mine, I definitely have not given up. your completely valid talking points are null and void unfortuntately, my social circles are unable to get people they interact with to jump ship as well. they just want their family and friends to see their posts and don’t really care what’s going on behind the scenes…
Its me trying to convert people to use signal all over again, but i won over many of my colleagues and family by telling them to jump on signal as my birthday gift years… maybe I’ll have people sign up as a Christmas gift for me this year lol
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s past time to delete X. The platform is just as bad as it was a year ago. People couldn’t be bothered to do the simplest fucking thing until they realize, “Whoops! I was supporting fascism!”
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
To be fair, I’ve been on there calling the fascists and Trump apologists out. The pennies they get from ads pale in comparison to the fact I bought a Tesla years ago womp womp 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🫤
nutsack@lemmy.world 1 year ago
that’s the stupidest shit ive heard in 2 days
TseseJuer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
wow you must’ve not read any of your comments out loud then
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Deleted mine two years ago.
Kinda surprised it took everyone this long, TBH.
Cyber@feddit.uk 1 year ago
I never even had an account…
kazerniel@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I only have one to read stuff locked behind a login wall. But even for that I seldom use it.
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Make one just to delete it.
surph_ninja@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s nice. But you should get a gun. Much more effective fighting method than deleting an app.
TseseJuer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
more lame extremist nonsense. you aren’t going to shoot anyone but some loads into a sock. pipe down
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
vance first, then trump!
Cordinel@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Lemme guess, this site still has a Xitter account
xilophor@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It does indeed. slate follow links - includes twitter link
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
At least they are still calling it Twitter
trespasser69@lemmy.world 1 year ago
LMAO 😂
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Way too late to “fight” them this way, it’s already served it’s purpose for them. Everyone needed to have done this like a year ago, dummies. But yeah, still delete it anyway.
devfuuu@lemmy.world [bot] 1 year ago
Yeah. It served it’s purpose, he bought a mass social media outlet, let it run wild, influenced elections, spread hate and normalized even more extreme views to fuck with all the world. The damage is done. Claiming doing something good at this point when it should have been done at the early signs but everyone would call you paranoid is just non sense. Crying wolf and all that bullshit.
Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 1 year ago
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I deleted Threads five days ago.
It was a cesspool of (Russian? Troll Farm?) propaganda attacking Harris for not having any accomplishments for the last four years, complaining about housing, grocery, egg, and gas prices, “fixing” America, a crapton of pro-jesus stuff, pro-Elon comments and reposts, government money going to “illegals” instead of hurricane victims, and a ton of made up lies. …
All of which were as transparent as fuck why they were wrong. VP’s don’t make policy, so what accomplishments should she have? Housing has been going up for a decade+, it’s not new, egg prices were normal while the pics were of organic egg prices and expensive grocery carts had hidden high cost items or just straight up lied about the cost, gas prices are the lowest they’ve been for years. Jesus stuff praised trump, America, tons of AI generated “holy” trump pics, bashed atheists, posted Elon’s BS pseudo-wisdom, Ignored the $20Bn spent on hurricane relief in favor of a few hundred million housing the undocumented workers living in the affected area…
It was infuriating. Because they were so obviously wrong…blatantly, in-your-face, completely fucking wrong. It was a constant flood of lies. Eight out of nine posts were BS.
But as soon as the election swung in Trump’s favor…poof…it went quiet. Hardly a peep. Gone.
And I realize that Threads was captured completely by troll farm bots spewing right-wing propaganda. And it was a waste of time. So my account will be deleted.
mrfriki@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If you didn’t deleted it like 5 years ago chances are that you won’t be deleting it now or in the future.
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Used it from 2009 until around 2013. It was so much better before it was super huge.
Gsus4@mander.xyz 1 year ago
…the only way this would have fought them was before the election, now they’re in the walls, that is palliative care.
P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 1 year ago
But what if I’m an outsider and I was completeky insctive during these days?
taladar@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
That doesn’t mean leaving now isn’t better than staying.
Toneswirly@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lol
seaQueue@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You didn’t do that a couple of years ago when Musk decided to push his own posts and right wing content to the top of everyone’s feed? I dropped twatter that same day.
Mastodon works well, tell your twatter refugee friends.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 1 year ago
People who weren’t ready to listen before are now.
ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I have never used the app anyway. I used Flamingo and when they killed 3rd party apps I’ve just been using browser instead. Lets me block ads that way too.
seeyouatthepartyrichter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve never used it because it’s worthless.
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Cant delete xitter if I never had it
taps head
kokesh@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Deleted Twitter when muskRat bought it
4grams@awful.systems 1 year ago
the very same day…
Petter1@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Don’t just delete the app, delete the whole account!
VerPoilu@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Don’t just “delete” Twitter as in deleting the app. Please also close your account.
FenrirIII@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Leave a negative review on the app stores
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Link your account to some bot posting gibberish every 10 minutes. For maximum damage.
dinckelman@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Very important distinction. I’ve deleted the apps long before, thinking i’d keep the account to occasionally look at someone’s feed. When they publicly reinstated neonazi accounts, it was the last drop in the ocean
chaosCruiser@futurology.today 1 year ago
If you merely abandon your account, the change can be seen in the MAU statistics. If you delete it instead, you’ll make sure you won’t slip in the future. Either way, investors care about the active users, because the total number of accounts isn’t a very useful number to them.
ms_lane@lemmy.world 1 year ago
People were on Twitter in the first place?
0x0@programming.dev 1 year ago
Apparently so… couldn’t be bothered with an account to go check…
don@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Sure, do it for your mental health, but it won’t do anything else now. That ship has sailed, been torpedoed, and is now chilling at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.