So what I can get from this is that the current American admin is distancing itself from X, maybe Musk altogether? Or perhaps this is just a first step before creating a more localized version mostly for American audiences, or expanding Truth Social? Both? More the latter than a Musk breakup, I think. We shall see.
this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2026
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As horrible as csam is, and let me be clear that I do not want to minimize it, but that was their [final straw/last drop/final grain of rice] to quit xitter?
On one hand there is a final straw for anyone. On the other hand WTF why didn‘t everyone turn their back on that inhumane swamp years ago? It‘s beyond me. It was absolutely awful and a net minus for society the day the orange man became the most popular user on it 10 years ago.
There's a lot of FUDposting (like actual, not just critique) of alternative platforms on Xitter, all based on lies.
Delete Twitter(and Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, TikTok, etc)
If an algorithm serves it then it is pouring poison into society through your eyes, stop letting them.
lemmy serves us by algorithm too.
That depends on your sorting preference. Several sorting options are very straightforward like top, new, etc.
Algorithms based on up/downvotes, comments, and time that are open source and visible are not the same as closed source algorithms attempting to increase engagement for shareholder profit, and you know it. Trying to conflate the two is disingenuous.
In an interview with Reuters, AFT President Randi Weingarten said that the site had already been degraded by extremists and trolls since Elon Musk's 2022 takeover, before which the platform was known as Twitter. But the recent proliferation of nonconsensual images of women and children in bikinis or underwear generated by X's artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, had made the site unusable, she said.
And here's your "you helped enable this; don't expect a pat on the back" trophy.
Why is this news? This should be the default - everyone leaves platform hosting CSAM and pervy deep fakes.