Purple CheckDec 3, 2022
Courtney Heard 🇨🇦

“I’m going to stay and fight”

No you’re not. It isn’t a battleground. It is owned by one man who will do what he likes as long as he can and he’s able to continue to do so because you are creating statistics he is using to sell ad space and make it look like the platform is more active than ever.

You are enabling him, even with your “fighting.” Wake up. That’s what he wants. It HELPS him. You’re literally working for the man free of charge. #birdsite #twitter #TwitterMigration

Dec 3, 2022 at 1:30amWeb
Show thread✊🏾WiseGuyEddieDec 3, 2022
@godlessmom UM... THIS!
Show threadStatmonkey 🙊Dec 3, 2022
@wiseguyeddie @godlessmom just started to post the same. Yes, this. A thousand times this.
Show thread✊🏾WiseGuyEddieDec 3, 2022
@statmonkey 🙂 👍
Show threadActivistDec 3, 2022
@wiseguyeddie @statmonkey Abandoning #Twitter is just the first big step. We also need to write to Twitter users who represent public offices (schools, Congress, gov agencies, etc) & tell them they are disserving the public by using a private walled-garden instead of a publicly accessible microblog.
Show threadActivistDec 3, 2022
@statmonkey @wiseguyeddie Public radio too. E.g. #NPR (National *Public* Radio) has a Twitter account not a #fedi account. NPR should receive a flood of complaints about that, ideally outside of #Twitter.
Show threadKayhrynTinkDec 3, 2022

@aktivismoEstasMiaLuo @wiseguyeddie @statmonkey

Yes...and where is the @ POTUS acct here...right?

Show threadActivistDec 3, 2022
@kahyrn @statmonkey @wiseguyeddie Indeed. Note that if #AndrewYang had been made #POTUS, then the POTUS would be in the #fedi :) Yang is the only political candidate I’ve seen in the fedi.
Show threadKayhrynTinkDec 3, 2022

@aktivismoEstasMiaLuo @statmonkey @wiseguyeddie

Interesting...it is an evolution (of sorts) for people

Back on BlogSpot.com in the mid 1990s one had to not only sign up but do some site configuration in HTML

These places made it blogging for dumb-ees with not much to do to get involved while also curbing the ability to *speak* with a senseless "character limit"
Popular non-the -less

It takes time to get a new evolution...am I right?

Show threadActivistDec 3, 2022
@kahyrn @wiseguyeddie @statmonkey I don’t think there is a char limit in the #fedi. Char limits are implementation specific & often just an overridable default. Some Mastodon nodes allow posts that will fill your screen. I think clients are behind the times. Clients don’t equip users for how to deal with huge toots. I hope that evolves.
Show threadKayhrynTinkDec 3, 2022

@aktivismoEstasMiaLuo @wiseguyeddie @statmonkey

This place has 500 charc limit without add a post feature as basic offer

ME is not (at this point) a Techie on *nodes* or how to over ride defaults to at least get a few more lines - should that be necessary to complete a thought

Show threadKayhrynTinkDec 3, 2022

@aktivismoEstasMiaLuo @wiseguyeddie @statmonkey

ME has re-created ME former site PERIPETIA here:

KahrynM.blogspot.com

For longer posts & inform on a topic, sometimes with book snippets for background notes of explanation.

Most readers tho' are not into more than a paragraph or 2 these days.

& Try re-watching 2001 A Space Odyssey these days. You might *scream* waiting for anything to happen as it all takes place in such painfully slow cinematic slow-de-motion compared to today.

Show threadJR 🏳️‍🌈Dec 3, 2022
@aktivismoEstasMiaLuo @kahyrn @statmonkey @wiseguyeddie Actually an odd but interesting idea that Governments could have their own federated servers for the Government accounts. Things move slow but If the people arent there to receive POTUS messaging then they will work other venues to connect to the people.
Show threadActivistDec 3, 2022
@Lucky188 @wiseguyeddie @statmonkey @kahyrn The @EU_Commission uses social.network.europa.eu, which is controlled by an EU data protection authority, IIUC. So the EU seems to be leading the way on this. Hopefully it gets traction in the US.
Show threadKayhrynTinkDec 3, 2022

@aktivismoEstasMiaLuo @Lucky188 @wiseguyeddie @statmonkey @EU_Commission

ME thinks they are "On To" Elmo as well!
A smack down of that smug twerp would be GRAND!

Show threadDavid ReinertsonDec 4, 2022
@aktivismoEstasMiaLuo @kahyrn @statmonkey @wiseguyeddie I’ll look him up.
Show threadDoug KappelerDec 3, 2022
@godlessmom Spot on!
Elno is now pleading for non-posting people on the bird site to start posting.
Don't do it - every time we post on TWTR we aid and abet that hellscape that is enabling ISIS, Nazis and Ruzzia
Show threadKayhrynTinkDec 3, 2022

@commonsensepaine @godlessmom

Well ME hadn't yet *offed* ME site allowing anyone see that sublime content there for a bit &
ME was following legal stuff -ie finishing live coverage of the first sedition trial
Even tho' many of those peeps have a dual site here...they are NOT dual posting...Grrrrrr!
Yet ME thinks it time to take this as a suitable crash & burn point to shut down ME birdsite bc it has been archived for ME (I do recommend that if U wish to save stuff)😇

Show threadj robinson ☕️ &🍸Dec 3, 2022
@godlessmom i've been scrolling along on my account but this made me log out. HOLY SHIT reading the feed like that will make you puke.
Show threadclimate voter/degrowthistDec 3, 2022
@godlessmom Yes, the way you fight is to leave. How is one going to fight staying there? Sending mean tweets to Musk which will just increase his daily user statistics.
Show threadStatmonkey 🙊Dec 3, 2022
@tmstreet @godlessmom Someone pointed me to this and I clipped it because I thought it was spot on.
Show threadLaura quigleyDec 3, 2022
@statmonkey @tmstreet @godlessmom I deleted the app on my phone and iPad last night
Show threadStatmonkey 🙊Dec 3, 2022
@lauralth Congratulations Laura. Does it feel good? I have a few more tweets to remove and I am done. One new thing I am running up against is this. Say I want Katie Porter to be on Mastodon. (I do very much, by the way). Ordinarily, I would contact her through the Blue Bird of Fascism Site. Now, I feel I don't have that direct contact anymore.
Show threadLaura quigleyDec 3, 2022
@statmonkey I went to bed last night feeling like I had been swimming in a sewer full of rats. I got up. Couldn’t remember my password to deactivate so I just deleted the app. Yes, it feels like I took a shower. I used to love it and had gotten to the point that I felt I had actual influence.
Show threadStatmonkey 🙊Dec 3, 2022
@lauralth Same. I have many people over there who became IRL friends, and I keep in contact with them outside the app. I started on there in 2008. I felt all of that, I also realize I could not stay.
Show threadShawn NelsonDec 3, 2022
@tmstreet @godlessmom the only reasonable way to “fight” is as a mole reporting on which advertisers are still there so we know who to boycott.
Show threadConcernedcitizenDec 3, 2022

@godlessmom Could not agree more!

Say it again for those in the back!!

Show threadMark W. AlexanderDec 3, 2022

@godlessmom

Considering spending time there a) blocking advertisers and b) replying with "See my reply on #mastodon" with no link because I'm not gonna talk to those people.

Show threadDon MeltonDec 3, 2022
@godlessmom This. 💯
Show threadLaurie BrunoDec 3, 2022
@godlessmom I’m so disappointed in those that chose to stay. It’s their ego and their addiction for some likes. Pathetic.
Show threadIts Not A Hoax 🤞Dec 3, 2022
@godlessmom Amen to that.
Show threadVoronDec 3, 2022
@godlessmom Twitter’s product is active accounts, that’s what Elon is selling to advertisers.
Stay & fight on Twitter is like, buy a subscription to brietbart so you can post in their comments section to fight right wing propaganda it makes no sense
Show threadSir Dr Rusty o the Isle 🖤💛❤️Dec 3, 2022
@godlessmom #DoDoLand advice. Exactly.
Show threadˈdälfən™🐬 💥 🌊Dec 3, 2022

@godlessmom

Exactly!!

People are just tweeting away over there w/ blinders on thinking they are somehow gonna "win" but it's only helping him. I tweet just to spread that word and it doesn't seem to matter ughh

Show threadᴚ uɐᗡDec 3, 2022
@godlessmom amen I mean uh ramen
Show threadElliottDec 3, 2022
@godlessmom yep, yep, and yep.
Show threadGik  | 💙➡️🇺🇦Dec 3, 2022
@godlessmom Bitter pill. So much damn truth right here.
Show threadJustin ⏚Dec 3, 2022

@godlessmom exactly! It's nota town square, it's an arena. Whoever fights, the house will profit.

https://open.substack.com/pub/staygrounded/p/its-nothing-like-a-town-square

It was never a "town square"

The logical fallacies behind staying on Twitter

Stay Grounded
Show threadBellison22Dec 3, 2022
@godlessmom I essence, I agree with you but everyone has their right and reasons.
Show threadAndres JalintonDec 3, 2022
@godlessmom So true! Totally agree and that was exactly why I closed my account there.
Show threadTrendyKittyKat Dec 3, 2022

@godlessmom

THIS

Show threadXeticusDec 3, 2022
@godlessmom Best way to fight is to vote with your feet. Get off the birdsite, don't post there and leave the place a ghost town.
Show threadEl_Jefe_PRDec 3, 2022
@godlessmom yup… we seen this before with Trump… these people are trolls that don’t care about facts “stay and fight” fight what?! Crazy delusional people?! No thanks!!
Show threadChima. 🈵Dec 3, 2022
@godlessmom this is 10000% correct — and even if advertisers are pulling out, giving Twitter attention is giving it legitimacy. And by giving it legitimacy, you are giving its content and its operations legitimacy.
Show threadSensational GusDec 3, 2022

@godlessmom

Agreed. I figured most if not all the people saying that had a business interest in keeping folks around. But the “stay and fight” bit never made much sense otherwise.

Show thread🇺🇦🇺🇦 Walter White 🇺🇸🇨🇦Dec 3, 2022

@godlessmom

Staying is exactly what he NEEDS.. the Site cannot function without users. Staying is the WORST thing to do... no matter how noble someone thinks they are.

Show threadRebecca MDec 3, 2022
@godlessmom EXACTLY why I left. It hurt to leave but I had to act on the principles and values I have. If more do the same - we make a difference. Thank you for putting this out there so well. #twittermigration
Show threadHeike NaumannDec 3, 2022
@godlessmom Exactly. That's why I left for good and even do my best to not even look at the content on the #birdsite from the outside (which is hard, because I'm curious 😊)
Show threadWhiskyWryDec 3, 2022
@godlessmom
Exactly! This is basically what my last post over there said...sticking around and playing the "ain't it awful" game is exactly what that POS wants...it has become Jerry Springer shock TV and just enables him to keep it up...
Show threadDani (She/They)Dec 3, 2022

@godlessmom The best way to win a fight is to starve your opponent so that you don't have to.

Moving away from Twitter literally takes power away from Musk and all the haters on there. We need to turn it into the new Truth Social: if it's going to be the home to nazis it should be mocked and ignored by everyone.

Show threadpaprikapinkDec 3, 2022

@godlessmom I doubt Elmu feels constrained by trivialities like actual user counts. He's going to say whatever the hell he wants about twitter's statistics. He has no shareholders & no board, the employees left are either die-hard sycophants or people who'd be deported if they quit. Who's going to contradict him?

Hundreds of millions of people globally use twitter. Most of them aren't following this drama. I check in there daily to at least boost the non-fascist voices in the crowd.

Show threadtoxtethogradyDec 3, 2022
@godlessmom I don't have a choice. Twitter booted me and I really don't care if they invite me back. I did the same thing when Facebook went Meta (but strangely enough, Instagram maintained my account)...
Show threadAbhijeet OundhakarDec 3, 2022
@godlessmom +1 to that. He may not be a genius, but he's smart enough to know that there's no such thing as bad news when you're in media.
Show threadLacesDec 3, 2022
@godlessmom So many accounts I follow are protected now. That's not even "staying to fight". What's the point?! Remember the malignant narcissist we were forced to pay attention to?? It was exhausting. This is your free time.
Show threadediepdxDec 3, 2022
@godlessmom Precisely. Twitter is and always has been a private company which generated content by IT'S USERS. That's it.
Show threadCheesecakes as a Service 👨🏾‍⚡Dec 3, 2022
@godlessmom True, but I actively encourage (or instigate?) people to bully Elon on twitter. It’s our civic duty. 😏
Show threadMy Florida Native GardenDec 3, 2022
@rsilvie @godlessmom
This is exactly what he wants.
You’re engaging, no matter if it’s a negative one.
You’re “bullying” him (not really he doesn’t give a damn) and he’s laughing all the way to the bank
Show threadMy Florida Native GardenDec 3, 2022
@godlessmom
Yea but your preaching to the choir, no?
Somebody has to go *there* and make the tweet go viral! It’s a weird situation…
Show threadcensored for “transphobia”Dec 3, 2022
@nathaliaassaad @godlessmom I wouldn’t say /preaching to the choir/ b/c a substantial number of msgs in the #fedi have argued that liberal voices are needed on Twitter. It needs to be made clear that participation is a guaranteed lose for a mission w/unlikely payoff.
Show threadSpy DoggieDec 3, 2022
@godlessmom "I'm going to StAy aNd FiGhT!!1!" as the owner of the escape room you're currently in signs it over to a psychotic serial killer
Show threadMelanieDec 3, 2022
@godlessmom could not have put this better myself.