It's past time to delete X. The platform is just as bad as it was a year ago. People couldn't be bothered to do the simplest fucking thing until they realize, "Whoops! I was supporting fascism!"
this post was submitted on 14 Nov 2024
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Better late than never I guess.
give up social media? nah that's too hard for people lol.
Not give up. Just move away from corporate owned social media which generally has biases baked in and allows for easy manipulation by the company. The one we're on right now is not one of those and there are lots of other alternatives. Not that they're perfect, just that money and especially wealthy individuals aren't able to easily and singlehandedly manipulate millions of people by purging factual but dissenting information.
If you are still on X yet couldn't bring yourself to vote for Kamala because of Palestine then WTF?
Deleted mine two years ago.
Kinda surprised it took everyone this long, TBH.
I never even had an account...
I only have one to read stuff locked behind a login wall. But even for that I seldom use it.
Make one just to delete it.
I never used X. I did half-assedly make an account in 2013 but I have long since deleted it. I have no real use for twitter.
Lemme guess, this site still has a Xitter account
It does indeed.
At least they are still calling it Twitter
LMAO 😂
Way too late to "fight" them this way, it's already served it's purpose for them. Everyone needed to have done this like a year ago, dummies. But yeah, still delete it anyway.
Yeah. It served it's purpose, he bought a mass social media outlet, let it run wild, influenced elections, spread hate and normalized even more extreme views to fuck with all the world. The damage is done. Claiming doing something good at this point when it should have been done at the early signs but everyone would call you paranoid is just non sense. Crying wolf and all that bullshit.
I deleted Threads five days ago.
It was a cesspool of (Russian? Troll Farm?) propaganda attacking Harris for not having any accomplishments for the last four years, complaining about housing, grocery, egg, and gas prices, “fixing” America, a crapton of pro-jesus stuff, pro-Elon comments and reposts, government money going to “illegals” instead of hurricane victims, and a ton of made up lies. …
All of which were as transparent as fuck why they were wrong. VP’s don’t make policy, so what accomplishments should she have? Housing has been going up for a decade+, it’s not new, egg prices were normal while the pics were of organic egg prices and expensive grocery carts had hidden high cost items or just straight up lied about the cost, gas prices are the lowest they’ve been for years. Jesus stuff praised trump, America, tons of AI generated “holy” trump pics, bashed atheists, posted Elon’s BS pseudo-wisdom, Ignored the $20Bn spent on hurricane relief in favor of a few hundred million housing the undocumented workers living in the affected area…
It was infuriating. Because they were so obviously wrong…blatantly, in-your-face, completely fucking wrong. It was a constant flood of lies. Eight out of nine posts were BS.
But as soon as the election swung in Trump’s favor…poof…it went quiet. Hardly a peep. Gone.
And I realize that Threads was captured completely by troll farm bots spewing right-wing propaganda. And it was a waste of time. So my account will be deleted.
You didn't do that a couple of years ago when Musk decided to push his own posts and right wing content to the top of everyone's feed? I dropped twatter that same day.
Mastodon works well, tell your twatter refugee friends.
People who weren't ready to listen before are now.
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That’s nice. But you should get a gun. Much more effective fighting method than deleting an app.
vance first, then trump!
more lame extremist nonsense. you aren't going to shoot anyone but some loads into a sock. pipe down
Just remembered I still had one..
Anyway, Goodbye fuckers
Don't just "delete" Twitter as in deleting the app. Please also close your account.
Link your account to some bot posting gibberish every 10 minutes. For maximum damage.
Leave a negative review on the app stores
Very important distinction. I’ve deleted the apps long before, thinking i’d keep the account to occasionally look at someone’s feed. When they publicly reinstated neonazi accounts, it was the last drop in the ocean
If you merely abandon your account, the change can be seen in the MAU statistics. If you delete it instead, you’ll make sure you won’t slip in the future. Either way, investors care about the active users, because the total number of accounts isn’t a very useful number to them.
...the only way this would have fought them was before the election, now they're in the walls, that is palliative care.
But what if I'm an outsider and I was completeky insctive during these days?
That doesn't mean leaving now isn't better than staying.
Twitter (I will always call it that-fuck you melon head musk), is just fox news for the internet, a fascist hate app.
It's time to delete X? 🧑🚀🔫🧑🚀 Always has been.
Agreed
l never used *Xitter anyway
*It's pronounced as Shitter
Used it from 2009 until around 2013. It was so much better before it was super huge.
Cant delete xitter if I never had it
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At this point in time, anyone left on the platform formerly known as Twitter, is either a fascist, or at least think that fascism isn't that big a deal.
this is an UNHINGED leap.. so by that logic anyone living in america supports killing "foreign" civilians, bombing cities etc etc???!?!?
Seriously? It's a social media site that openly support and spread right-wing misinformation, how is that comparable? People have no say in where they where born, and not all have the luxury of packing everything and move to another country, supporting a social media site is a choice.
I know a lot of people still on twitter who ate firmly against fascism. I don't know why they're still on there though.
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