What is the origin of this gif lmao
I've seen it for years and still don't know
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When my politicians are confronted with using xitter as their official messaging outlet for the media while it's a nazi pedo platform:
Not just that, but my country's official, tax-funded news quote Xitter in their news. What random politician wrote, or in the slow days, what some prick wrote to get attention. I have my browser settings so I only see the empty Xitter box, but I try to write to them, and honestly, few other news sources I use, to stop that and that it's not a reliable source or New Event or significant in any way.
Of course they also use Trump's Truth Social, when they do those "look at what the orange satan said"-news they do three times a day. I try to complain about those too, but it's just easy pickings for the journalists to get "clicks". (But again, as it's the official, tax-money news source, they don't have ads so they don't need the click either..) Fucking gross, would be easier to quit reading news in my mother tongue.
Happy I joined Lemmy after my X got hacked and they refused to help.
The fact that anyone who matters still uses that site just highlights abject failure of other companies to produce a satisfactory replacement. They’ve had years. With all their money and experience with social media, how has Meta failed to make Threads comparable to the old Twitter?
Meta and X are predatory, they buy up the start ups and close them so no one will ever compete.
is it really that all the alternatives are worse than twitter? i never used twitter but mastodon/miskey seem pretty feature rich, especially with the right client. i assumed that the reason so many people did not switch is network effect and unwillingness to change habits
That is indeed the case. If you're considering Mastodon try Wafrn. Its an open source social network that interacts with all Mastodon peeps like normal as well as bridging to and from Bluesky if you want. So you can interact with BSky and Fediverse accounts all from one place. Good shit.
Plus its one of the few social media platforms (even on the Fediverse) that has a STRICT no AI policy because fuck that shit.
Change habits? In this economy?
I’ve heard that for people who used Twitter as a news feed, Threads’ and Buesky’s algorithms just aren’t as good.
I’m sure inertia also has a lot to do with it, as you said.
I used it for that
Are Threads or Bluesky as good as the old Twitter for this?
And bluesky, don't forget about New Twitter, crypto-funded twitter
Market pressures are very different than they were when social media first took off. People want to be where their friends already are now. Back then, they would bring their friends to platforms.
Friends?
why would pedophiles go on twitter?
Because it's a website that caters to nazis and pedophiles and they can ask grok to generate child porn for them.
hmm--- i mean - the second one applys to kinda everything and - - yea oki ur right o n the first one ;(
Because all their friends are there
so its just a ... platform wit people on it. i think that just happens.
maybe im missing something, but groups are bound to happen on sites where everyone can go to and yap.
Let's say you own a bar. It's definitely not a nazi bar, but you also don't ask nazis to leave if they show up. The nazis who get kicked out of other bars naturally end up at your bar. Normal customers stop going to your bar because the nazis make them uncomfortable, meanwhile the nazis invite their friends and word gets out that nazis are welcome there. Congratulations, you now own a nazi bar.
You'll notice blahaj Lemmy doesn't have a nazi problem because, unlike Twitter, they don't tolerate nazi bullshit.
ooooh oki yes that makes much more sense. thank u for clearing it up! <3
Musk has an AI that will digitally undress pictures of children you upload to it
ye fair, thats image gen for u-
preddy awful.
At this point it's not even an hyperbole
going to get on my soapbox about X for a moment for two things
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people who say "twitter is the only time i'll deadname something", like it's a statement that fucking matters at anyone at all, when i don't want deadnaming to EVER be something we're treating as OK
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calling X "twitter" is just cope for people who can't move off the fucking app and want to pretend like musk didn't successfully take it over, ruin it, and turn it into a nazi child porn site. call it the shit garbage app that it is, the thing you liked called "twitter" is dead
not directed at anyone in particular or you, OP, just wanted to get this off my chest
If a trans person says or does something morally wrong I do not ever attempt to "punish" them with deadnaming or misgendering. However, I consider Twitter.com neither transgender nor person. I'm not causing any harm whatsoever. Sorry to offend you, but Elon Musk didn't invent anything, "X" is just him buying Twitter and loading it up with Nazi Pedophiles., and to further twist the knife, he didn't invent electric cars, he didn't perfect space travel, he hasn't "solved traffic", he's not even earned his own video game achievements.
i feel like we're in agreement, except for the conclusion we arrived at about it
I mean that's only true for people who actually see it as deadnaming, which it isn't. As I said before the point isn't actually "Deadnaming is okay in this instance" but "This app is literally just Twitter." Elon and supporters have called that deadnaming as some sort of gotcha and nobody argues that it isn't because it's not like he's actually opposing deadnaming he dislikes the observation that he hasn't built anything.
okay, sure, but i am a trans person and i have independently concluded that i don't think it's cool. sure "it's only deadnaming if you think it's literally is the thing we're calling it", but the human brain doesn't work like that; if someone has a strong enough response to it (e.g. they suffered trauma from being deadnamed), then they're going to have that response before they go "oh actually they don't mean it because it's directed at a corp". i don't think "dunking on elon musk, who has plenty of other shit to dunk on" is really worth doing that to somebody
(idk why you keep bringing up he didn't build anything? i know? you don't need to use the word "deadname" to make that point?)
and i'm too lazy to check every room i'm in and be like, "hey, is casually pretending like we're doing this evil shitty thing (that's actually justified bc we're dunking on a shithead!!) going to be a trigger for you?" (which, honestly, would still be better than just assuming it's fine)
(if it's not clear, my issue is more with people who literally use the phrase "i'm going to deadname twitter" or "the only time it's OK to deadname something is twitter" or whatever)
it's like... look, there's a reason we put actual deadnaming content behind a content warning. i'm basically treating it the same way, because even if it is not the literal act of deadnaming a real person, it's still pretending that something traumatic and evil is a cool and normal thing to do, which i do not fuck with, even in jest
- people who say "twitter is the only time i'll deadname something"
This is definitely a ridiculous statement from the jump, but there's no relation to deadnaming at all. Trying to make a comparison between Chicagoans calling it the Sears Tower with the harm deadnaming a person causes is insane. Despite what Mitt Romney and a large portion of US law says, corporations aren't people.
i'm not equating the two, i just don't think it's worth triggering trans people who have actually been hurt by deadnaming, just to flex on a faceless piece of shit corporation that does not care and is not hurt by it
(to be clear, this is more about using the literal phrase "i will deadname twitter" than calling x "twitter" itself; for that, see my second point)