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    Dumbasses continue to use the platform then bitch about it. Either stop using it, or shut the fuck up.

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      This. Twitter is now under ownership and control of a spoiled fascist richboy and this is absolutely 100% transparently clear. This is how the platform is now and it is not going to change. Twitter as we knew it is gone. It’s dead and not coming back. Move the hell on, people, please. Stop supporting this absolutely wretched waste of oxygen.

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        I’ve never used twitter in my life, still have a vague interest in what Musk is doing to it though.

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      It’s never that simple. Politicians use it, businesses use it, world news has been made on it. Regardless of whether you use Twitter or not, it has been and is used to sway public opinion. You can NOT use it all you want, but it can still have an effect on your life.

      That is, unless you can convince literally everyone else to stop using it.

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    he wasn’t complaining about shadow bans in a philosophical sense, he was complaining about them being used against the “wrong” people the whole time. the sooner we realize that right wingers make self-serving complaints and dress them up as matters of fairness or civility, the less likely we are to fall for them in the first place.

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      Conservatives operate on the principle that there’s an in group and an out group. The in group is protected by law and the out group is bound by it.

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      I haven’t seen any of the anti cancel culture people complain about anti-war groups being targeted currently. It was never about the principle, they just want to be able to say the n-word in public again.

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    Elon, complaining about all the “crimes” other people are committing and he’s going to come in and “save” us all.
    AKA, all his “complaints” are the crimes he intends to commit against us all.
    Conservatives worship hypocrisy.

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    Breaking news: Elon is a hypocrite. In other news, snow found to be cold.

    I mean, it’s not like this is new. He ranted about free speech for months, then as soon as he bought twitter, he started removing journalists that spoke out against him. He’s scum, plain and simple.

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    amazing how elon went from that nerdy guy in pop culture on big bang theory to complete edge lord loser who is desperate for affection from 14 year old 4channers who communicate through meme

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      Once again I am reminded of Hank Green saying “A lot of people who say they want “free speech” actually just want to be the one in charge of which speech is free.”

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      He bought it because he couldn’t stop being an arrogant edgelord keyboard shit-talker, and he accidentally made himself personally legally liable doing so. The Twitter board called his bluff, seeing the most amazing opportunity to rid themselves of an expensive and slowly dying company, and Musk had already pissed off the SEC (or one of the other financial government services) enough that he was at risk of having his finances in other companies audited.

      So he was forced to buy it because he’s an impulsive troll. Everything else since then is pretty incidental, and unsurprisingly dripping with hypocrisy like this.

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    It doesn’t matter. I’m not a Twitter user anymore. The site has lost both its value and influence… I really don’t give a damn what the man-baby does with his toy.

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      The problem is finding a viable alternative. Mastodon and Firefish are too much trouble for most people, BlueSky is a walled garden and Threads is… Well, Threads is Threads, enough said.

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        Why is mastodon too much trouble though?

        I really don’t see the difference. In fact the one difference I do see is that it’s a whole lot less toxic than Twitter.

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          Most people don’t understand and are put off by the concept of federation and the difficulties that can come with it.

          You have to find a suitable instance. Many instances are specialized, require applications, or simply don’t allow new users at all. I myself have yet to find a well-suited instance, and instead, I’m on an instance where discovery of my content is impossible.

          With Twitter, if someone shares their profile, it’s two clicks to follow them. With the fediverse, you have to get their profile, then manually search for it on your own instance. In some cases, this doesn’t work reliably due to federation errors.

          Its possible you’ll find yourself in the off-putting position of being unable to follow some people you’d like due to instances being defederated. This can make the process of finding an instance harder, or for people who are unfamiliar with the concept, result in them declaring the whole thing broken and moving away.