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.
This is a simple and satisfying way to fight Trump and Musk | It's time to delete X
Submitted 5 months ago by trespasser69@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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seaQueue@lemmy.world 5 months ago
roofuskit@lemmy.world 5 months ago
People who weren’t ready to listen before are now.
wildflower@lemmy.world 5 months ago
At this point in time, anyone left on the platform formerly known as Twitter, is either a fascist, or at least think that fascism isn’t that big a deal.
Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
I know a lot of people still on twitter who ate firmly against fascism. I don’t know why they’re still on there though.
nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 5 months ago
Because, as an example, some very important services communicate solely through Zitter. Emergency alerts, fire depart, governmental bodies, etc. Do I despise that? Yes. Do I ask them to move? Yes. Are they? Hell no.
missphant@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
For a lot of marginalized people Twitter was a place to escape to and find like-minded people, I can see how it’s hard to make a new place feel as homely. Most of us here left another site because we didn’t agree with the leadership so it’s a very biased group, “just do the same thing we did”. Not everyone is in as privileged of a position though and it might be way harder for them to leave than you can imagine.
noodlejetski@lemm.ee 5 months ago
“I can fix him”
Engywuck@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Bullshit. I have an account on X since it was Twitter. No post, no followed people, no follower. I don’t use my timeline. I just use it because many dealers use it as a channel to communicate with customers through DM. I’m a a fascist?
itsathursday@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Stats don’t care if you are or aren’t, you are +1 to the equity that Twitter uses to get money through advertisers, which gets funnelled to Elon and his interests, and now Trump. This leads to reducing your overall opportunities through fascism that contribute to you finding comfort in what your dealer is supplying you. Quit hitting yourself.
wildflower@lemmy.world 5 months ago
No but apparently you don’t think that it is that big of a deal?
neblem@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You really should encourage your contacts to use more secure channels than Twitter dms, especially for illicit behavior.
RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That is just not true. I hate twitter but i still use it. I am autistic and follow very specific things on it and while i also use mastodon and bluesky, there is barely anyone that has the same current interests as i do.
I don’t like it but i also don’t completely want to alienate myself from people i enjoy talking to and seeing their stuff. I try to follow them all on mastodon and bluesky if they have an account there, but not everyone has that.
I have all ads blocked and purely use it for my hobbies. So suggesting that makes me a fascist is absolutely ridiculous. We are trying to move to another platform but its not as easy as you make it out to be.
Same as Lemmy. I love Lemmy. BUT there are things that just so not exist here yet that do exist on reddit. And i have no interest in making a community for it either as i don’t want to moderate anything.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 5 months ago
So because there aren’t other options that are as good for your personal use, you are OK with using a fascist supporting platform. But somehow you think it’s unfair to say you are sort of OK with fascism, since you are using a clearly fascist supporting platform.
helios@social.ggbox.fr 5 months ago
That’s just not true. My mate uses it to follow music bands they like. The problem we have with X is that everybody uses it so you have to use it you wanna stay in the loop. I don’t use I myself but i can understand why people still do.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Ooohh if it’s for MUSIC I guess it’s OK to be a fascist.
But you know the bands go where teir followers are right? Also he is supporting bands that ALSO don’t have a problem with fascism.
It goes both ways.droporain@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
What if a band had very vocal Nazi beliefs even lyrically, would you still like them because the music was good? Lol that is you.
PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s complete and utter nonsense.
There are groups of people using it that have no contact with politics or anything out of their sphere of interest. I am in a couple of such groups.
I would love to go somewhere else and I am on lemmy, mastodon even bluesky, but there are no such communities there.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 5 months ago
that have no contact with politics
Ergo they are not against fascism.
You just helped prove the point.wildflower@lemmy.world 5 months ago
…but there are no such communities there
“Be the change you want to see in the world.” ;-)
neblem@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If you are a major contributor in a niche community, you can publicize your move with info of how to keep following you and syndicate links to your content on your desired platform for a set time then leave. On your desired platform let followers from Xitter know how to follow you (email, rss, bridgy, etc) if they don’t want to join your desired platform.
If you are mostly a content consumer or have FOMO, use a bridge not an account. DM all the friends you want to keep of where to find you then leave. Bird.makeup is a great Xitter bridge for the fedi.
In either case, there isn’t a reason to keep am account there.
bufalo1973@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Except everything is related to politics. The price of the bread is politics. The roads made, politics too. Having to pay the doctor or not, politics.
Politics is not “what the politicians do”. It’s “affairs of the cities”, from Ancient Greek πολιτικά (politiká). And everything that affects more than one person is an “affair of the cities”.
IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I love seeing these comments firmly showing how out of touch some/most of Lemmy is.
oce@jlai.lu 5 months ago
There are a lot of people and organizations that are just slow to move and don’t really know where to go.
TseseJuer@lemmy.world 5 months ago
this is an UNHINGED leap… so by that logic anyone living in america supports killing “foreign” civilians, bombing cities etc etc???
wildflower@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Seriously? It’s a social media site that openly support and spread right-wing misinformation, how is that comparable? People have no say in where they where born, and not all have the luxury of packing everything and move to another country, supporting a social media site is a choice.
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 5 months 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 5 months 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 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🫤
aesthelete@lemmy.world 5 months 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 5 months ago
Agreed, but still do it
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 months 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 5 months ago
Truth Social wasn’t launched until 2022 during the Biden presidency.
Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
You did vote though? Right? Right?
Cordinel@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
Lemme guess, this site still has a Xitter account
xilophor@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It does indeed. slate follow links - includes twitter link
trespasser69@lemmy.world 5 months ago
LMAO 😂
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
At least they are still calling it Twitter
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 5 months 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] 5 months 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.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Deleted mine two years ago.
Kinda surprised it took everyone this long, TBH.
Cyber@feddit.uk 5 months ago
I never even had an account…
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Make one just to delete it.
kazerniel@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I only have one to read stuff locked behind a login wall. But even for that I seldom use it.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 months 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.
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Cant delete xitter if I never had it
taps head
aceshigh@lemmy.world 5 months ago
This should have been advised many months ago. Now it’s too late. Shithead won.
Hikermick@lemmy.world 5 months ago
If you are still on X yet couldn’t bring yourself to vote for Kamala because of Palestine then WTF?
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 5 months ago
Haha and as a reward you get Trump. Watch how that works out for Palestine. Idiots
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Because you hate Palestine?
Gsus4@mander.xyz 5 months ago
…the only way this would have fought them was before the election, now they’re in the walls, that is palliative care.
taladar@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
That doesn’t mean leaving now isn’t better than staying.
P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 5 months ago
But what if I’m an outsider and I was completeky insctive during these days?
Etterra@lemmy.world 5 months 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 5 months ago
Dipshit is my 2024 favourite word.
Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 5 months ago
surph_ninja@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s nice. But you should get a gun. Much more effective fighting method than deleting an app.
TseseJuer@lemmy.world 5 months 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 5 months ago
vance first, then trump!
ms_lane@lemmy.world 5 months ago
People were on Twitter in the first place?
0x0@programming.dev 5 months ago
Apparently so… couldn’t be bothered with an account to go check…
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Can’t. Even when it was Dorsey’s Twitter, it was too toxic.
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Used it from 2009 until around 2013. It was so much better before it was super huge.
john117@lemmy.jmsquared.net 5 months ago
give up social media? nah that’s too hard for people lol.
irotsoma@lemmy.world 5 months 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 5 months 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
GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 5 months 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 5 months 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.
Petter1@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Don’t just delete the app, delete the whole account!
don@lemm.ee 5 months 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.
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Never signed up for Twitter and definitely not X. Leon can give to his pals in Moscow.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Dude it was time to do that long ago.
seeyouatthepartyrichter@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’ve never used it because it’s worthless.
kokesh@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Deleted Twitter when muskRat bought it
4grams@awful.systems 5 months ago
the very same day…
Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 5 months 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.
nutsack@lemmy.world 5 months ago
that’s the stupidest shit ive heard in 2 days
TseseJuer@lemmy.world 5 months ago
wow you must’ve not read any of your comments out loud then
mrfriki@lemmy.world 5 months 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.
Toneswirly@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Lol
VerPoilu@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Don’t just “delete” Twitter as in deleting the app. Please also close your account.
dinckelman@lemmy.world 5 months 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 5 months 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.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Link your account to some bot posting gibberish every 10 minutes. For maximum damage.
FenrirIII@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Leave a negative review on the app stores