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The Moral Case for No Longer Engaging With Elon Musk’s X::The former Twitter is incentivizing violent content, which will only become worse to stand out to users.

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[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (17 children)

I just wish the artists would leave, but no other social media allows porn too.

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[–] qwertyWarlord@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Lol, anyone who uses Twitter doesn't do it for morality. The mouth breathers are addicted to the drama and that's all there is to it

[–] Gazumi@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Ditched just over a year ago. My world is still as it should be. It's just a terrible app / organisation with gaming addiction

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I never used Twitter in the first place because I had no idea what it was for.

Still don't.

Every single one of these things seemed to be "It's Facebook, but you can only do [gimmick]"

[–] Hiccup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Better real time engagement. Think of it like your own personal news ticker or curated radio station with updates. I used it to get updates from sporting events when I didn't necessarily have access to a radio/tv and couldn't watch/ listen to a game, etc. because I was indisposed, at a function, movie, etc.I had a whole host of journalists, personalities, and people that would basically/ practically give me play by play and keep me informed of what was going on. It was actually truly great. Twitter isn't even close to what it once was.

Edit: wanted to add that you could think of Facebook as the modern rolodex at the time, still actually, while Twitter is/was more suitable for more real time engagement. Reddit sort of became the substitute for that up until they disastrously decided to shut down 3rd party apps. Now the site/subreddits are getting garbage content and it's a ghost town. Most subreddits I was on are barely getting anything orany posts anymore. Lemmy is definitely filling the void. I mean, at least it has usable apps.

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I finally left around the name change. Account is still there but I normally only check it when I'm texted a link, which rarely happens.

[–] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If your account is still there, that means it can still be hacked.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

True. I might make a throwaway and close my real account. I did the same for Instagram links.

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