Nobody was fleeing Twitter because people were calling for lower taxes. It was for the rise in unrestrained hate speech culminating in the unleashing of MechaHitler by the guy who cancelled the world's biggest AIDS prevention program after buying an election. That should be an intolerable state for any rational person.
While there is some utility to platforms where "everyone" is, that a) never was actually true of any of them, as much as journalists loved to pretend Twitter reflected "everyone" and b) just not what most people need.
But cannot accept it's own.
Bluesky and Mastadon supply a place, separate from the toxicity of "attempted narrative control"
Labeling Bluesky as toxic, is an irony beyond the pale, but... it'll float with that ecosystem, where everything is transactional and a "better crafted lie" is the endless goal.
Is there a way to get what I want without using X directly unless I interact? Notice that I need to be able to easily "follow" new people if someone I already follow retweets/likes someone new and interesting to me. Or also navigate through chain of retweets and references
The majority of my actual activity is on Mastodon, though. I just wish it was possible to share identity between other fediverse platforms like Pixelfed. Although that isn't something you can do on the mainstream web either, it feels like it should be a thing between platforms sharing a common standard.
The only draw to being a Twitter replacement is not being like Twitter, which means not being a safe space for Nazi and Nazi-adjacent content.
Also the word "cisgender" is banned
> If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all. —Noam Chomsky
Nazis are also finding safe spaces on Reddit, Wikipedia, Telegram, Tinder and virtually all other large social sites if you care to look. Nazi safe space isn't exclusive to X.
When the Nazis show up to your bar and you don't kick them out, you have a Nazi bar. Elon didn't just not kick them out, he put up a big sign that said "Nazis drink free." Let's not pretend the site formerly known as Twitter is a politically or culturally neutral space in this regard.
do you know even Nazi is, how can people be "Nazi" according to you??
> Grok doing the user request
> people call Grok nazi/racist etc
It literally debunked
Israelis can say whatever they like, I'm not obligated to listen to them.
From what I’ve heard, Elon deletes a lot of stuff he disagrees with.
muglug•7mo ago