• Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      I don’t think I’ve ever said the phrase “Go back to Africa” unironically (as in outside of making fun of racists) in my life, but here we are.

      Go back to Africa Elon…

      At least I said it to a white guy.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 months ago

    People big enough to have a staffed social media team will stilk have an Xitter account just because it is a viable vector to get news out. They may also have Truth Social account, just because it’s there.

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      It’s funny (scary) how the police and fire department never post to thir own websites about important timely information and updates.

      It’s in twitter and Facebook. I use neither anymore. Because obvious reasons.

      This week, I could only find reference to the smell of natural gas covering half our city via a news site that quoted the FD’s twitter.

      Great work, guys!

    • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
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      I agree with you and I will not let them off the hook. They have no legitimate excuse to be using racist, misogynist, transphobic, homophobic, bigoted right-wing platforms.

      Do they also have a stormfront account? Fuck anyone who contributes to fascist owned platforms just because they are there.

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    Why is anyone still on, “The Social Media Platform Formerly Known As Twitter” ?

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    This might be one of Twitter’s automatic security features I’d heard about a while back (prior to the Musk takeover). Supposedly, Twitter stops accounts from getting a large amount of followers in a short amount of time to try to limit botting. Sometimes, rarely, it can trigger when a large amount of real people follow a real account.

    I think I heard about it when I ran into the issue myself, but I don’t remember what account it was that I was trying to follow.

  • Trikami@lemmy.world
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    Trump is always trending, Kamala randomly dropping from 4m posts to 8k, then a new “tag” is up full of magatards. Once the discource changes to mostly positive, repeat. Also, ruzzian propaganda is being boosted so…

    • Manmoth@lemmy.ml
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      …so it’s like it was during the hunter biden laptop story and covid?

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      Is it? It’s where most people still post publicly, and until someone unseats Twitter on that throne (which I hope is really soon) no other network is going to compete in terms of having the users people want to follow…

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        The bigger shocker to me is that the platform still exists at all… didn’t the largest advertisers pull out? I thought it was hemeraging money. I keep waiting for them to pull the plug on it, or at least sell it at a huge discounted price.

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        Shitter is just one website. If I post to mastodon, people on hundreds of websites can see my content. Why on earth would I post to shitter if I wanted visibility???

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          What if you want visibility with the idiots on Twitter? A place built by idiots, for idiots.

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          Because one website with millions of users is more reach than 100 websites with few users. Doesn’t mean you should use Ex-Twitter but it makes it understandable why lots still do

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            Millions of users is a bit of a misleading term. You mean millions of Nazis. I don’t care to talk to Nazis.

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              I do. Because some of them might be able to be brought to reason. I still don’t use Ex-Twitter anymore though, since they’ve blocked third party apps.

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      Anybody still using it at this point deserves all the brain damage it causes. No excuses.

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    Musk made 151 tweets on Sunday

    Assuming he’s awake for 16 hours, that’s over 9 tweets an hour. Someone is definitely scared.

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    prolly fake news but i would not be surprised.

    telsatubby could be trying to make up his losses on a bad trade, we’ve all been there.

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    I agree this is of questionable veracity, but could you imagine if for example fb users had trouble following Trump? There would be a whole news cycle culminating in a congressional hearing. When people talk about the asymmetrical standards that conservatives are held to vs liberals in the media this is a prime example.