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tomorrowusa · 5 months

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Is anybody starting a pool on when Twitter X collapses?

#elon musk #twitter #x #social media #poor business decisions #hate speech #qanon #antisemitism #lack of moderation #the far right #leave twitter #delete twitter #quit twitter #get out of twitter #dave whamond

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inzaghisgirlfriend · 5 months

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It's been a good 50 days since I abandoned my twitter account.

On the one hand, I'm not getting a timeline engineered to feed me hate or propaganda, which is a positive.

On the other, I've lost a lot of contact with people whose posts I enjoyed, which is a negative.

As is knowing I'll never hear from them again and that being tacit evidence of the superficiality of those connections, in retrospect - that if contact with me has to be sought out, few will bother.

But.

I've also lost a lot of the negativity that wasn't twitter itself but the way people use and wield it, even (especially?) people I thought were friends. And that's a good thing.

Good enough that I'll leave my account frozen and untouched, disappointing nearly a half dozen people, I'm sure.

Anyhow.

'Tis apropos of nothing but the wet snow, of course, and so back I go to the underground...

#quit twitter #hot sexy obscure Dostoevsky quotes qualify this as technically on topic because that's Vin-friendly

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my-fave-tiktoks · 1 year

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Shes right!

#courtney love #tiktok #hot celebs #celebrity #celeb news #celebs #grunge #90s icons #00s nostalgia #love #social media #quit twitter #quit tiktok #quit facebook

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teddyroo12 · 9 months

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#ozzy and drix #quit Twitter

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earthwormjimnocontext · 9 months

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Preservation chain since I quit Twitter officially.

Here is the Discord server for all the Jim fans out there

https://discord.gg/GAf6HCRH

The VK concept art archive.

https://vk.com/earthwormjim_club

And my YouTube channel where I post things.

https://youtube.com/@teddyroo12

#earthworm jim #media preservation #quit Twitter

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ufs1 · 1 year

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I finally decided to quit Twitter today, mainly due to the recent news of the upcoming changes to Twitter's security features/privileges. The thing is that: They're trying to further force people into paying for Twitter Blue, by making it so that you can only use two factor authentication if you pay for Twitter Blue. And even then, that only gives you about 50% security to your account. Otherwise, you have nothing to keep your account protected.

So yeah, I decided at this point that I was done. I deleted my account, and I have no intention of going back on there. It sucks that it had to come to this, but I'm not risking having my personal info exposed for everyone to see. I don't need shit like that stressing me out. So yeah, goodbye Twitter! 🖤

#goodbye twitter #fuck you elon musk #tally ho #quit twitter #i quit #fuck this shit #fuck twitter

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rachelkolar · 1 year

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I am a total newb explaining Mastodon to my fellow newbs

I FINALLY got into Mastodon after six weeks of trying, and so far I like it. It’s definitely not for everyone--there’s a lot of scrounging around and curating your feed, which is WORK--but since one of the things I liked best about Twitter was how well I’d managed to curate my feed to avoid the hellsite experience, it’s fun for me. If it’s not fun for you, yeah, it’s going to be a drag.

A lot of the stuff about how to make Mastodon work for you is being written by people who have already been there for ages and don’t realize how overwhelming it is for the rest of us, so I wanted to give a total newbie’s-eye view for fellow newbies who are thinking about taking the plunge but don’t know how. Mastodon veterans, please feel free to chime in if I’m getting stuff totally wrong.

One thing that’s a pleasant surprise for me: I thought that the “instances” (servers, essentially) were completely separate like they are in Discord. They’re not; some of them are private, but from I’ve seen, it basically just affects what’s trending on your timeline. I’m on mindly.social (whose guiding ethos is basically “what if people on social media were nice?”), so when I click the various search tabs, I get the hashtags, news articles, etc. that are trending on mindly.social as well as among my friends. I can also pull up either a feed that’s just people on mindly.social or a feed that’s just people I’m following. I do wish I were in an instance like writing.exchange that were more geared toward my specific interests, but a lot of those are full right now.

1. Go to a site like Debirdify (https://debirdify.pruvisto.org/) to see if any of your mutuals are already on Mastodon. I wish I’d done this before signing up, because a great thing with Debirdify is that it tells you which instance most of your friends are on. I think most of them are full anyway, but if any of yours aren’t, it would be nice to have my friends’ interests having more weight on my news and hashtags or having them show up on my community feed as well as my homepage.

2. Pick an instance when you register. Once again, while it’s nice to get one where all your friends are so you get a water cooler right off the bat, this isn’t a huge deal. You can follow whoever you want and change your instance later. If you have no clue where to start, try googling “Mastodon instance for [insert an interest of yours here].”

3. Hunt down all those folks you found on Debirdify! Start getting friends!

4. Search for hashtags that interest you. There’s a guide here for how to follow hashtags on your main page as well as people: https://screenrant.com/follow-hashtags-mastodon-how-isnt-working-why/ Or you can find people posting with those hashtags who look interesting and follow them.

5. Here’s something that I just serendipitously stumbled on: post about something you really love, hashtag it a bunch, and see who likes or boosts (retweets) it. I just read Piranesi and am geeking out about it. A couple people who follow the Bookstodon and fantasybooks hashtags found my posts and liked or boosted them. If they like Piranesi, there’s a decent chance that they’re cool, so I went back to their profiles to see if I wanted to follow them.

It’s not a replacement for Twitter yet, but I’m pleasantly surprised by how much I’m enjoying it, and I feel like it WOULD be a replacement for Twitter if my favorite people came over. It’s work, but it’s a scavenger hunt kind of work that I enjoy. If the idea of digging around for cool people sounds fun to you, come check it out! And you can find me there at [email protected] . . . until I change instances, anyway.

UPDATE: Some extra tips from Fediverse veteran [email protected]! TL;DR you can get a jump on step 5 by introducing yourself with a bunch of hashtags ("I'm Rachel, and I play Ravenloft, write picture books, and read fantasy and horror! [String of relevant hashtags]"), and there are ways to follow instances other than your own so you have access to multiple water coolers.

UPDATE TWO: Welp, switched instances. Now I’m on [email protected].

#mastodon #twitter migration #twitter exodus #quit twitter #fediverse

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pencilcat · 1 year

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#i found this on my phone and it still remains relevant #especially with Twitter quite literally going up in flames right now

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sunsestart · 5 months

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#I saw this on twitter and I just had to draw it akshsksj #“the real reason why papyrus isn't on deltarune”#sunsest-art #undertale #papyrus #art #deltarune #queen deltarune #I just think it's funny #most of us are used to Payrus being perceived as tall #but his sprite is quite small #hes just the tiny🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏🤏

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twistcmyk · 10 months

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something obvious that i only figured out a year or two ago

#i probably won't quit twitter anytime soon #it's where most of my following is #and where i've made most of my connections #but man is it easy to manage when you just #close the window after posting art

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whyissupernaturaltrending · 2 days

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April 28-30, 2024 - the CW sniper is dead.

Supernatural trends following the passing of the CW sniper. Whilst no official confirmation was published regarding their death, Misha Collins made a statement regarding destiel and since he's still alive, we can conclude that the CW sniper is no more.

The Cross Roads 8 Supernatural convention is currently taking place [x]. As usual, things have been said. There was one statement however which caused the tag to trend and it was (unsurprisingly) by Misha Collins, in response to a question asked by our bravest soldier @sunglassesmish [x].

"If the CW wasn't so homophobic, Dean and Cas would've been balls deep for sure." [x] [x] [x]

Whilst this may not be the exact quote (I haven't been able to find a video yet), this was enough to cause a destiel revival. More things have happened, and people on Twitter are posting under #CR8 in case anyone's interested. Multiple Supernatural tags are trending there as well [x].

RIP the CW sniper, you will not be missed.

#i haven't seen misha say it himself and i can't find any videos from the conferences but based on what's happening across twitter and tumblr #it's quite safe to say that the quote is genuine. i'll update this post if i find any video sources #why is supernatural trending #apparently he also said 'i fucked you hard and raised you from perdition'? but i have very few sources on this one so can't be certain #spn #supernatural #misha collins #destiel #deancas

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tomorrowusa · 29 days

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China is joining Russia as part of an axis of misinformation in trying to influence American elections.

Rachel Maddow referenced this article in her report from the nonpartisan Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD). It's worth a look.

Much Ado About ‘Somethings’

Being a democracy can be a disadvantage in the digital age. Malefactors can easily manipulate information to attempt to achieve dubious goals.

We need to retaliate against China and Russia. But spamming such populations under totalitarian rule would not have the same impact that it does in democracies. But we could try to punch holes in the firewalls such countries erect around their own information infrastructure. Let the breeze of free information occasionally flow and permit Russians to know about Putin's war crimes in Ukraine and let Chinese see Xi's genocide against the Uygurs in Xinjiang.

What people can do here is get off of Twitter/X and urge others to do the same. Under megalomaniac billionaire Elon Musk, misleading information and hate speech have grown exponentially on the platform.

Old habits die hard and some people have a preternatural attachment to tweeting. But as we see in Rachel Maddow's piece and in the FDD article, Twitter/X is responsible for an inordinate amount of misinformation. It's time to starve the beast one account at a time.