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This is a simple and satisfying way to fight Trump and Musk | It's time to delete X

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨trespasser69@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://slate.com/technology/2024/11/delete-your-x-twitter-account-threads-elon-musk-donald-trump.html

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  • wildflower@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • TseseJuer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      this is an UNHINGED leap… so by that logic anyone living in america supports killing “foreign” civilians, bombing cities etc etc???

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      • wildflower@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I love seeing these comments firmly showing how out of touch some/most of Lemmy is.

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    • RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • bufalo1973@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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”.

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      • neblem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        that have no contact with politics

        Ergo they are not against fascism.
        You just helped prove the point.

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      • wildflower@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        …but there are no such communities there

        “Be the change you want to see in the world.” ;-)

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    • helios@social.ggbox.fr ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • droporain@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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    • oce@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There are a lot of people and organizations that are just slow to move and don’t really know where to go.

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    • Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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?

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      • neblem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You really should encourage your contacts to use more secure channels than Twitter dms, especially for illicit behavior.

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      • wildflower@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        No but apparently you don’t think that it is that big of a deal?

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      • itsathursday@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • trespasser69@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Not really

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    • Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Eat the rich. 😋

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      • noodlejetski@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        “I can fix him”

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      • missphant@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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      • nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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