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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Nov 14, 2024

Want to quit X? Guide to alternatives
https://popular.info/p/want-to-quit-x-heres-your-guide-to

* Oct 2022: Elon Musk bought Twitter (X) for $44B
* transformed X into megaphone for far-right disinformation
* alternatives: Mastodon | Bluesky | Threads | SubstackNotes

#Twitter #X #Xcorp #disinformation #ToxSocMedia #HateSpeech #misogyny #antiLGBT #homophobia #transphobia
#Trump2 #fascism #extremism #Trumpism
alternatives: #Mastodon #Bluesky #Threads #SubstackNotes
#ElonMusk #billionaires #plutocracy #meritocracy #oligarchy

Want to quit X? Here's your guide to the alternatives

In the wake of the 2024 presidential election, many people are reconsidering how they follow the news.

Popular Information

Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾Dec 1, 2023

Tonight, I watched a big-name writer bully another writer with a smaller presence. Basically, threaten to sue said writer.
I’m done with #Substack Notes. Watching this happen was the last straw for me. If this is how the “best” of Substack behaves, I want out.
I do not want to be somewhere where I’ll be subject to this toxicity or see others being subjected to it.
So, I will no longer be using Notes.
Am actually relieved cos I can now focus on what matters.

#SocialMedia #SubstackNotes

Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾Oct 22, 2023

I have more fun on #Mastodon than #Substack Notes. Why is that? 🤔 It's probably personal - I just feel a lot of pressure on #SubstackNotes, an air of competitiveness and lots of "look at me" posts.
Over here on Mastodon I have so carefully cultivated my feed and friends that I am only exposed to people who are laid back and just love to share their passion on various topics. I don't feel as pressured here. Hmm.

Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾Sep 27, 2023

I have over 80 #Substack subscriptions. I realise that I can't keep up. :( Am going to narrow down the list to those that I'll want to build a relationship with & who talk back ;P
#SubstackNotes is interesting but it is a LOT OF WORK to get noticed!
I need to be realistic and remind myself that I can't do it all,. Also a frustration - currently the ecosystem lacks diversity.Reading about US issues all the time was wearing me down.
#SocialMedia

Scott 🏴😷Sep 24, 2023

Just unbelievable. I genuinely thought this was a joke at first...then it just kept going, and there are articles confirming? How hard is it to #JustSayNo to #Racists?

#substack #racism #substackNotes #contentModeration #moderation

David Guilbault Aug 8, 2023

Snap went the wire machines. Snap went the script pages. Snap went the camera shutter.

https://davidguilbault.substack.com/p/snap-nixon-resigns?sd=pf

#nixon #nixonresigns #nixonpresidency #abcnews #howardksmith #richardmnison #deskassistant #copyboy #wireservices #associatedpress #unitedpressinternational #reuters #ap #upi #substack #substacknewsletter #substacknotes

SNAP: NIXON RESIGNS

MEMOIR: Richard M. Nixon, Howard K. Smith & David H. Guilbault.

The Well Said

David Guilbault Aug 7, 2023

"The Regardless Defense"

https://davidguilbault.substack.com/p/the-regardless-defense?sd=pf

#trumpdefense #trumpconspiracy #trumpindictment #trumpindicted #trump #maga #republicans #jacksmith #johnlauro #trumpattorneys #trumplawyers #substack #thewellsaid #substacknewsletter #substacknotes

'The Regardless Defense'

REPORT: Donald Trump’s defense will be that he had no “corrupt or criminal intent.” Everything he 'did' to contest the 2020 election was core, protected, political First Amendment speech.

The Well Said

David Guilbault Jul 21, 2023

FAITH IN THE U.S. & US

https://davidguilbault.substack.com/p/faith-in-the-us-and-us?sd=pf

#politics #government #democracy #publicgood #leadership #presidency #congress #democraticrepublic #republic #leaders #president #voting #elections #ballotbox #substack #substacknewsletter #substacknotes #america #unitedstates #usa #unitedstatesofamerica

Faith in the U.S. & Us

ESSAY: Political ambition is not a negative trait. We are self-governed. We need people who want to serve the public good. We need to restore faith in ourselves, our leaders & our government.

The Well Said

David Guilbault Jul 21, 2023

TOO HOT

https://davidguilbault.substack.com/p/long-way-down-by-david-guilbault?r=1nufdl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#heat #heatwave #recordheat #globalwarming #climatechange #existentialthreat #existentialcrisis #toohot #substack #substacknewsletter #substacknotes #singersongwriter #originalsong #originalmusic

"Long Way Down" by David Guilbault

SONG: Warnings upon warnings. Signs upon signs. Warmings upon warmings. When will we heed them? When it gets too hot to breath or too cold to survive?

The Well Said

David Guilbault Jul 7, 2023

MORALITY & WEAPONRY

https://davidguilbault.substack.com/p/morality-and-weaponry?sd=pf

#clusterbombs #weaponsofmassdestruction #massdestruction #weaponsofwar #weapons #weaponry #UkraineWar #clustermunitions #chemicalweapons #nuclearweapons #atombomb #substack #substacknewsletter #substacknotes

Morality & Weaponry

OPINION: Does it make any difference in warfare if you kill with an artillery shell, a sniper's bullet, a drone, lethal gas, a tactical nuke or cluster bombs? A weapon is a weapon. And dead is dead.

The Well Said