- cross-posted to:
- fuck_ai@lemmy.world
- eu@piefed.social
- cross-posted to:
- fuck_ai@lemmy.world
- eu@piefed.social
Also, don’t leave your account unused, delete it. User and follower numbers count.
And least as important, reply (if necessary to another corporate mail address) every email with Twitter/X in the footer, with a kind request to stop promoting and facilitating X.
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It is very silly question. Pedophiles would.
The best moment to delete your Twitter account was ten years ago. The second best is now.
“Moment” has multiple meanings, but one meaning is a synonym of a literal second.
Every moment, then, is the (Now.InSeconds() - BestMoment.InSeconds()).ToString() + “th” best time to delete your Twitter account.
Run by a literal Nazi
In case someone thinks “Oh, he’s just an alt-right troll, he doesn’t actually believe in that stuff”, meet Elon’s grandfather:
He became involved in Canadian politics, backing the technocracy movement, before moving to South Africa in 1950. Over the course of decades, Haldeman repeatedly expressed racist, antisemitic, and antidemocratic views.[1] In South Africa he was a supporter of apartheid and promoted a number of conspiracy theories.
He also supported Technocracy, Inc and the Technate of America https://bostonraremaps.com/inventory/technocracy-inc-technate-of-america-1940/
This in turn would necessitate the abandonment of democracy and the embrace of a technocracy—government by an unelected, technically skilled, empirically-driven elite with the expertise necessary to determine values and make rational resource-allocation decisions
Sounds a lot like one of Elon’s beliefs, doesn’t it?
Strange how people who think this way never assume they’ll be one of the people on the outside, letting others make the important decisions. Whenever there’s an elite, they imagine they’ll be part of that elite.
It’s a good day as any to move to Mastodon.
That’s true, but Bluesky is also 100 times better than X and probably a more feasible/realistic alternative for all kinds of companies/sports clubs/government agencies/etc. Although I prefer Mastodon in principle, I am quite sceptical about the chance that it will be seen (by the general public) as such a good alternative to X that they will actually consider themselfs being able to leave X.
The problem with Bluesky is that it’s essentially centralized, with all the related drawbacks.
And its funding is pretty suspect.
Even if you trust the current leadership team, there’s no reason to believe they’ll remain in charge.
Bluesky will turn to shit, just give it time.
Repeating mistakes, taking years to drop a platform owned by a nazi to just run into the next US platform ready to be bought by some other billionaire Nazi… nothing was learnt, was it?
No, Mastodon. Bluesky is repeating the same mistakes
The problem with Bluesky is that it has exactly the same kind of legal structure (for-profit company) with the same kind of objective (make lots of money for founders and early investors) as Twitter, thus is just as likely to be bought by a Nazi billionaire.
If you’re leaving X because it turned into a Nazi bar after being bought by a Nazi, going to Bluesky is just setting yourself up for being in a similar situation again in a couple of years.
For those of us with the knowledge, it’s our responsibility to both sell the idea of Mastodon and help onboard people. On top of that, there’s many guides, at this point, about how to get involved, choose an instance, set up your feeds, etc.
It’s true that Bluesky is a much more seamless experience, because many options are hardcoded or pre-chosen for people, but if we can get people over the hump of making those choices for themselves, they’ll find it a much better place long term. Also, it’s strongly resistant to the antics of bad actors, so it’s a much better choice for governments and other groups. Bluesky does not enjoy the same natural defenses.
If you haven’t already quit then a whole lot of people have already made a whole lot of assumptions about your character.
And those people are morons so why should I care
Anyone saying that still being on X means you’re a nazi is a lunatic and should not be allowed in a debate
And then there’s others who have been judging you all, the entire time, for ever using Twitter. It was always garbage, I never understood why it took off.
Maybe the world could stop doing any business at all with this apartheid Nazi welfare queen? He’s trying to destroy your countries with Nazism and grift your tax dollars while selling out your privacy too
Why dont companies and governments switch to Mastodon instead?
Mastodon is great for certain things, but not great as a broadcast medium. A European AT Protocol implementation is a better solution https://www.eurosky.social/
I think they want a bigger reach than both of us when they put out public statements.
Honestly they should get off all social media and just post announcements on their own websites not subject to billionaire influence & not having to deal with trolls.
Already did. Years ago.
Never had one, because it always sucked.
Idk why not using hell sites is so hard for people.
Who? A lot of people apparently. And basically all companies. And more or less all government institutions in all countries in the world.
Since few weeks I’m replying to all mails with X in the footer (newsletters as well as email signature of corporate mails) to tell them it would be great if they stop promoting this crappy outlet. Concise, polite and motivated.
From roughly half of them I didn’t get a reply yet. From the other half, a MAJORITY reacts positive. We all should know, the MAIN reason most organizations are still there, is because someone decided so in 2010 (!). They never thought about it afterward, because their audience / customer ‘never asks for that’.
Be. That. Customer / Reader. Who. DOES. Ask. For. That.
That’s a very good idea. I’ll also ask them to get off Facebook as well.
I wouldn’t. Not because I don’t think it’s a good idea, but I want to let them see that specifically X became a disgusting fascist deepfake childporn abyss. Adding fb as well, increases the risk they don’t quit any of them, because it might give them the illusion my message says more about me ‘being anti social media’ rather than about X in particular.
I see your point. I’m not certain that I agree with you, but I understand what you’re saying.
You’re basically asking them to give up on a promotion avenue and hence a revenue source in favor of morals. Corporations will never do this unless leaving X somehow financially outweighs staying there.
Right so we all start asking. All the time. Loudly.
Financially, or when their customers require so, or when damaging to their image. At least the latter two are quite influenceable.
If nobody was doing it, it would be a strange thing to pay money to put in an advertising space.
It is a strange thing to put money into it, considering not even csam is enough to make at least eu institutions to go away from x.
Seems like musk can do anything he wants. What’s worse than this?
I’d argue putting it into people’s field of view could sway an individual, and if one person can be moved, more could follow.
That side already proved that boycotting works, in their disgust of a trans-indivual advertising beer, and certain groups being mortally offended that folk could suggest BDS actions towards Israel.
Laughing in xcancel and opting for mastodon
Did it once that loser bought the platform. I use Bluesky.
@CircaV @Europellinore Personally, I’m using Mastodon over BlueSky and I wonder why it has not got the same attention as bluesky :
- It’s decentralized and you can host your own, to help with data safety
- This also prevents it from turnuing into another twitter since if that happens, you can just host an old version or fork the code and continue updating it
- It’s compatible with activitypub, so you can post and reply on Lemmy from a Mastodon account, like this one!But yeah, it’s pretty annoying to switch from one platform to another since your followers are not likely to do the same. Maybe that’s why?
I tried mastodon. I guess I didn’t try hard enough. I will revisit.
got banned before that shitshow. thankfully. only lasted a few months. Rs are so fragile.
“Won’t somebody think of the children?!” “Wait, no! Not like that!”
Deleted my twitter account a decade ago when I commented on a Canada Proud twitter post that resulted in months of non-stop harassment. It’s always been this, they’ve just been turning up the heat year on year, and now people realize it’s boiling.
If your user name is closely tied to your online identity, I am hesitant to delete if they recycle the usernames and some total nut job takes your old handle and people think you’ve gone off the deep end - just a thought.
This is definitely an aspect of social media in general. An argument can be made to register your profile and let it lie dormant just to avoid it being hijacked. Hijacking has been an issue in BlueSky during the Twitter migration bursts. Sure - the companies can use the registration for statistics, and the decision to register is somewhere between performance and personal integrity.
Understandable, especially when there might be a lot of links to the profile around the internet. However, in that particular case it’s still possible to delete all content, contacts / follows, followers, and profile images and descriptions etcetera, make the profile private, and give it some semi-permanent dead existence, or delete if a year later or so.
What X account? Or Bluesky for that matter…
