L4sBotThe EU says X is the worst platform for disinformation | Just as it removes a way to report election misinformation
reddig33The election misinformation seems to be the point. Why else would someone bankroll Twitter/X at this point?
Granbo's Holy HotrodThis has been my thought the whole time. In general just to put down the effective communication ofbthe masses in real time that is scaryvtonabcertaim small group of people.
Surely it can’t be worse than Truth Social or Rumble… I’m assuming they main mainstream platforms
(they’re not)
Not sure if this is the right place but I need to get off Twitter/X, I would love to use Mastodon but the hurdle feels bigger than Reddit to Lemmy. The Mastodon client feels uncomfortable to me for some reason, and I guess unlike reddit/lemmy where you have a group of people talking about specific topics, I am interested in following specific people on Twitter - a fraction of whom are on Mastodon. I don’t want to support Musk or his platform but I’m struggling to find a replacement.
I guess if he starts charging for it the decision will be made for me 😅
rubikcuberI haven’t used Twitter much in years really. But after switching to Lemmy during the reddit API debacle I thought I’d give it a go and am really enjoying it. I’ve set up a ton of filters to block out stuff I don’t want to see, and joined a couple of instances for two different personas. I’m not using the official mobile client. On Android I use Tusky and Megalodon. Tusky is my daily driver and feels like how I remember the Twitter app from 7 or 8 years ago. Megalodon is nice for cross instance discovery, but has a couple of UI quirks that prevent me from using fully. My SO uses Ice Cubes on iOS and that looks pretty sweet. Personally I found the switch comparable to Lemmy. It took me a month or two to build up a good number of active people to follow to get to the stage of having an interesting feed. It also seems to have got a lot more active in the last week. When I have dropped into Twitter it’s a dumpster fire on top of a cesspit. I don’t think I could go back. I’d absolutely recommend giving Mastodon a go.
You could also use Ivory, it’s basically tweetbot but for mastodon.
People say that picking a server for Mastodon isn’t that important, but really I think it is. Because just a with Lemmy where you can view your Communities, Local and All it’s the same on Mastodon - your server is the Local feed made up of all the people on that server. So you can just read the whole feed of everyone that way, and is it’s a server based around a topic you like then it’s a great place. But if you pick a server based around Crypto or Dance or Sport then you’re going to have a dull time.
Yes you can find individual people, but it’s a lot more fiddly to find people that aren’t on your server. You kind of have to know who and where they are already.
That’s why the fediverse works better for Lemmy than Mastodon IMO - because it’s about whole topics than people.
People told me that I could pick any server and it wouldn’t matter, but I noticed that not all the content in the communities I follow from other servers appear to me. It’s confusing.
Come to Mastodon. Welcome 😁
Tusky is pretty damn good for Mastodon. Better than any Lemmy client I’ve tried.
Tusky is my by far favorite social media app of all time, if you got a Android phone you should definitely try that! There are some truly cool people still stuck with Twitter but once you get into Mastodon you start to realize how much better the over all environment is, turns out social media doesn’t actually have to make you mad or sad! :)
It already was prior to Musk’s takeover.
It’s just always been a cesspool. A complete waste of human energy and time. And it never once turned a profit. An abject failure by every metric.
And it never once turned a profit.
Not true.
Twitter was profitable at the time when that Elon guy bought it (and before, and some time after).
Also you could follow actual people like artists and niche hobby groups. It had a purpose. I mean, a passable one. Not anymore
‘Undermining democracy’ is still a purpose
He’s absolutely fine with that. If anything, he represents the other side of tech billionaires, the illuminated technocrat. He thinks he’s above the other social parts at a certain extent, so he’s fine with anti-democracy arguments as long as they support his view of the world, including the idea that he’s that saviour of us all, through technology, of course.
It already was prior to Musk’s takeover.
It’s crazy how media pretends Twitter wasn’t the biggest contributor to Trump’s MAGA movement, being the most followed user on the site up until his fanatic followers stormed the US capitol. I mean did people already forget these dreadful years of “Trump tweeted” every single day??? Twitter has been an enemy to democracy for many years.
Yea, if you tolled me that shithole could get any worse two years ago I would have laughed but damn was I ever wrong!
If it’s the worst for disinformation then it’s the best for information, right? Right?
lemmusIt’s a (re)public(an) town square.
We watching how daft Elon is in real time, and his fan boys and girls are still trying to tell us he’s smart…
One of my coworkers swears he’s just the biggest troll and this is all some part of his masterplan.
Masterplan to accomplish what, exactly?
No idea, he can never give me an answer about that.
Default_DefectHe thinks this will somehow get Grimes to come back to him.
A 42 billion troll. He’s King Clown in a hateful circus. Masterful.
It’s because he’s wanted to make X a thing since 2000. Even if he was being a troll, it’s not a joke if he’s just making everyone miserable. That’s not humour, it’s an anti-social weirdo and his dipshit followers thinking that hurting other people is funny.
EU should block X. See how Lonnie responds to that.
Future headline: Lonboy threatens to sue EU
ilickfrogsTwitter*
I fucking refuse to let companies take ownership of letters. They already have everything else.
I simply call it Ex-Twitter - acknowledging the name change, but not simply adopting it
Twatter
Twitter - between twat and shitter
Xitter - pronounced shitter!
We should all keep calling it Twitter and let Elon get pissed at getting dead-named.
Who, Lonnie? That’s what I call him.
I read this as “X is the platform that shares all the information that doesn’t follow our authoritarian agendas”.
Good. That means X is serving its purpose: informing people of all available opinions in a crazy, leftist, authoritarian world that’s indicting speech.
Noooo we need unelected bureaucrats to tell us what the truth is.
Go back to Reddit, your delusional world view suites that shithole a lot better!
Go fuck yourself. No one cares what you think.
Maybe fuck yourself right towards Explodingheads, that seems like a nice place for ahit like you too!
Cool. I’m blocking you, and then you can get yourself fucked again.
Damn, what a sad life must someone have?!
TheSaneWriterThis is completely unsurprising. Under the new "free speech" regime, X has been completely deluged with antisemitic, pro-Russia, and anti-democracy propaganda. It's no wonder that advertisers don't want to be associated with that type of content.
You can’t drive away the Russian bots, then people would see how bad Musk truly fucked up!
“Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech” Noam Chomsky
WuTang I think, you miss: LGBT-Z phobic, pro-oil and even babies eaters.
if you think you’re going to get actual real information off any disconnected, internet based website in the modern world…i guess…grow up? all the regulation in the world won’t change it. the vast majority of internet traffic is porn and substanceless meming and shit posting. humans being human. and most of them believe they are involved in deep, important, change-producing activity while they are doing it. as they sit in their shitty apartment consuming electricity and oxygen, changing exactly nothing and helping no one.
Melllvarthe vast majority of internet traffic is porn and substanceless meming and shit posting
Don’t confuse your personal experience with the general case.
“Remember, Free Speech is when I, and only I, can say whatever the hell I want!” - Elon Musk
How is twitter still standing? Mastodon is the way of the future
seitanicI sometimes wonder how much it would take to get people to leave X en masse. Maybe if Elon was posting Nazi propaganda?
Nope. I sent this article to my trumper friend and he said “yeah the eu is a horribly corrupt organization”. If Elon promoted Nazi propaganda they would be excited and embrace that too.
Maybe if something else big came along and everyone was like “you’re still using Xitter? Lol okay boomer” they might consider moving over. Maybe.
to be fair I don’t think that there is anyone who wants these kind of people to move to mastodon
Honestly I’m surprised it didn’t become a ghost town like Tumblr did after they banned porn.
asudoxLots of them surely will migrate to Mastodon when Elon releases that fee bs. Honestly, we should thank Elon for that. Thanks to him, Mastodon will become mainstream soon.
I’m sure that’s only for blue checks.
If lemmy didn’t take over the world after the Reddit schism then I don’t think twitter will ever die either. Twitter users have been given every reason to leave yet there’s already lots of people paying money to the person they hate the most in the world just to use it.
nik0Not even. Remember he was funding people like Andrew Tate thousands of dollars. Nothing is gonna get these people out unless they get charged to use twitter