STOP USING TWITTER. It's a stinking, steaming storm drain with a rich guy's RV speeding away from it.
I can't believe people still need to be told this.
And the public policy director of Threads wrote a chapter of project 2024, so one would have to be pretty ignorant to consider that an alternative as well.
At least Mastodon is genuinely great. I guess I'm in a minority that never liked Twitter (despite having an account since 2008), but I do enjoy Mastodon a lot these days.
Fuck Instagram
Fuck Threads
Fuck Facebook
Fuck Meta
In addition to every other known problem, Meta treats artists like absolute shit. Yet we're forced to use it because no other platform has as many people. It's hell.
That's not helpful. Twitter being a dumpster fire has exactly nothing to do with whether things that take place there are newsworthy.
The fact that the top-voted response to a news story is someone berating us for our presumed Twitter usage is one of the really fucking annoying things about Lemmy. It's like if the top comment on every thread about the Ukraine war was "STOP JOINING THE RUSSIAN ARMY!"
I'm a white dude for Harris. These numbskulls wouldn't get a penny from me over this very obvious poor choice.
In some countries, it's unfortunately the main source of customer interaction. In Japan, it's been trending more towards Instagram lately, but that's basically just as bad. Still, it's often the only way to know if a business.is open that day, hours, etc. at least it's not Facebook anymore.
How to get average Japanese to adopt something like Mastodon is a whole other thing.
Edit: mobile hates me (and spelling, apparently).
How to get average Japanese to adopt something like Mastodon is a whole other thing.
The largest Mastodon instance on Earth is Pawoo...
Enough already!
If I could give an award for this, I would. Instead, have an internet high five.
There is always Lemmy Gold.
Although that's a nice looking image, I think it's referencing something that is going over my head. I usually use this.
Edit: Duh, it's Lemmy from Motörhead. Shame on me.
we have to go back to our roots
Now that's just over the top. What did OP do, cure cancer?
Let's make new roots and establish an entirely different form of currency for our appreciation.
Smart people reply below with good ideas.
Yeah I say nationalize his shit and send him packing. Musk should not be welcome in the US or allowed to access it's customer base. He's a full blown national security threat.
He already made a absolute fortune off of our subsidies for Tesla, it's only right we take what is ours.
If they claim a business is theirs to reap all the benefits from because they paid for it then we should 100% be following the same rules.
But no. This is America, socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for everyone else...
Considering Musk's steps into the conflict in Ukraine with SpaceX satellite internet Musk's scope and capacity for threats is much larger than just the USA.
Yeah, is there some way to use or misuse the Defense Production Act? The courts have ruled the courts can be ignored, so it doesn't have to hold legal water, even.
Let's not forget that it is equally important to VOTE!
The FTC needs to step in.
It falls to the FTC only because the FEC is toothless from corrupt (Repub, obviously) appointees.
Fuck Twitter and fuck Mysk.
Misk? Mask? Some loser.
“This is the real election interference.”
As opposed to what?
I see. I thought it was a reference to the accusations of election interference against Trump, which didn't make sense in this context.
Maybe all the bullshit the republikkklowns claim?
Fake election interference. Duh.
I have nothing constructive to add.
Seriously, besides slow and non-tech-savvy institutions (and the scum of the earth), who is still using twitter? Or whatever it is now.
Basically people who still needs an easily accessible audience. Mastodon has been proven hard to use and hard to advertise to the people around me, so what else can you do.
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