I almost want to have used x, so I could quit using it and improve this statistic.
But I never did
I never used twitter but I deleted my account right after muskrat bought it.
Just sign up for bluesky and mastodon then. Become a statistic on that side.
Im on Mastodon. Rarely use it because I’m no fan of the format (same reason I never got into Twitter). I do jump on and follow causes that I support that switch to it.
That’s not how it works. They already didn’t use Twitter because it’s not useful to them, why would they use a similar service now?
Maybe they just never bothered to try.
Also while the platforms are similar, the users and thus the content are not just a smaller version of Twitter.
It went down hill fast. The amount of right-wing propaganda skyrocketed … weird
I wonder if the right-wing content actually has increased, or if it’s just the ratio of it compared to left-wing content as much of the left has seemingly abandoned the platform.
My feed was almost entirely non-political to begin with, and personally, I’ve hardly noticed any difference, though the little politics that do get thru tend to indeed lean right.
Maybe. I only use it to troll them now, so maybe I stepped on my own foot.
I post gay porn. The number or right-wing rednecks that follow me with their public profiles is… confusing.
I see equally amount both sides of I go looking. But I don’t go looking so I just see my industry related stuff and nothing political. I swear the level of fear momgering and exaggeration is wild.
Weird how right wing content and popularity has an inverse square power law. Sooooo weird.
Anyone still on Twitter now is actively part of the problem
What’s the problem?
Exactly. Don’t use it, let others live.
What? Using twitter causes people to die now?
Don’t use it (if you don’t wanna). Let others live (let others use it if they want to).
Ah, I see. Live and let live.
The right-wing extremism and misinformation if you were actually wondering
Right, but I don’t see how simply being on the platform makes one part of the problem.
Something something lie down with dogs get, up with fleas something something.
Uh, woah there. Why the extremeist view? I’m on there pretty actively for industry chatter. What’s the problem I’m a part of?
September 25, 2024
Oof, that explains why I had a feeling that I read it before
Exactly as intended.
I don’t think I’m tall enough for this ride, can I get off?
X-actly as intended.
FTFY
Any day now, Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, will go down in flames. This will prove once and for all that Elon Musk is worthy of derision!
Great. Why are people still linking to x?
ARTISTS, JOURNALISTS, POLITICIANS, LEAVE TWITTER NOW, YOU IDIOTS
You’ll find that these professions have a vested interest in maintaining network effects, and as such will view Mast/Blue as threats to their networking infrastructure. They don’t want to dilute the importance of the platform their patronage systems rely on (let alone destroy it) - in fact its centrality is why they leverage it to advance their careers. Artists I can see understanding platform agnosticism to some extent, but for the other two groups, it’s simply not in their DNA. The gatekeeping is a feature for them.
‘The medium is the message’ as a Canadian theorist once said.
TAYLOR SWIFT WE NEED YOU! WHERE ARE YOU? DON’T LEAVE US WE NEED HELP!
This is obviously tounge in check but it feels closer to real than it should be.
Taylor Swift moving to another platform would absolutely cause a massive crowd to follow. Maybe we’ll see it happen one day.
Sports journalists in particular — so annoying that all breaking NFL news goes through Xitter.
They’re still banning or driving away anyone outside of Musk’s echo chamber.
The vast majority of users are not big time contributors to the site’s quality content. But the content creators had the biggest targets on their back for retaliation. After so many bans over such a long period, there’s just less and less people to post quality content for the majority to consume.
Cracking down on narrative control doesn’t force the public to see things your way. It just drives them to other, more relevant platforms. Not sure how many times we need to go through this cycle for them to understand how futile this is.
Do you have evidence of this mass banning wave you’re referring to?
Anyone else that cannot read this article? When I try to scroll it just don’t move…
No issues on android Firefox with ad blocker
Always a good throw in to promote Firefox and adblockers. 😎
oh no!
anyway,
Concerning.
