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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

Lol, nothing like waiting until the last possible moment to do the tiniest thing that won't even accomplish anything at this point and then writing an article about it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 hour ago

Agreed, but still do it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago

Yup. Here's what I did:

  1. recommend others not vote for him in 2016
  2. didn't vote for him in 2016
  3. avoided TruthSocial and other nonsense during his first term
  4. encouraged friends and family to not vote for him in 2020
  5. didn't vote for him in 2020
  6. continued to avoid TruthSocial
  7. encouraged friends and family to not vote for him in 2024
  8. didn't vote for him in 2024

See a pattern?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

To be fair, I've been on there calling the fascists and Trump apologists out. The pennies they get from ads pale in comparison to the fact I bought a Tesla years ago womp womp 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🫤

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

If you are still on X yet couldn't bring yourself to vote for Kamala because of Palestine then WTF?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

Haha and as a reward you get Trump. Watch how that works out for Palestine. Idiots

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Never signed up for Twitter and definitely not X. Leon can give to his pals in Moscow.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Deleted mine two years ago.

Kinda surprised it took everyone this long, TBH.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I never even had an account...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

Make one just to delete it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

I only have one to read stuff locked behind a login wall. But even for that I seldom use it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Better late than never I guess.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

give up social media? nah that's too hard for people lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Find a small community of like-minded friends to hang with online.

Hell, I only visit Reddit and Lemmy for the big news for a few minutes before heading off to check discord and matrix chats and everywhere else I go.

Branch out.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I just tried that...went searching for a room and amongst some software package rooms the two I stumbled upon that made me nope the fuck out are "COVID-19 truth" or similar, and some pro-trump mafia thing that had the n-word in its description. I tried to search for something even in the state of california and the closest I got was a gay hookup channel.

Thanks, I fucking hate the Internet now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Maybe Facebook is the right place for some people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Are you saying for me? Cuz facebook sucks ass too.

I remember the old Internet. Honestly, lemmy is the only thing I've encountered that feels even like the newer part of the old Internet.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Lemme guess, this site still has a Xitter account

[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago

At least they are still calling it Twitter

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 hours ago

People who weren't ready to listen before are now.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Just remembered I still had one..
Anyway, Goodbye fuckers

[–] [email protected] 122 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

Don't just "delete" Twitter as in deleting the app. Please also close your account.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago

Link your account to some bot posting gibberish every 10 minutes. For maximum damage.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

Leave a negative review on the app stores

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

That’s nice. But you should get a gun. Much more effective fighting method than deleting an app.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

vance first, then trump!

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

...the only way this would have fought them was before the election, now they're in the walls, that is palliative care.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

But what if I'm an outsider and I was completeky insctive during these days?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 hours ago

That doesn't mean leaving now isn't better than staying.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 12 hours ago

Twitter (I will always call it that-fuck you melon head musk), is just fox news for the internet, a fascist hate app.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

It's time to delete X? 🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀 Always has been.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Agreed

l never used *Xitter anyway

*It's pronounced as Shitter

[–] [email protected] 24 points 14 hours ago

Cant delete xitter if I never had it

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