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[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

That would require me to have X on my phone. I do not. Because I deleted Twitter when dipshit took over.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 38 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 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.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 15 points 13 hours ago

Agreed, but still do it

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 14 points 14 hours 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?

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 48 points 18 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!"

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours 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 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🫤

[–] Hikermick@lemmy.world 16 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 6 points 13 hours ago

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

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 21 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Deleted mine two years ago.

Kinda surprised it took everyone this long, TBH.

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 13 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I never even had an account...

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 7 points 17 hours ago

Make one just to delete it.

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[–] Cordinel@lemmy.sdf.org 41 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Lemme guess, this site still has a Xitter account

[–] xilophor@lemmy.world 42 points 21 hours ago (2 children)
[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 17 hours ago

At least they are still calling it Twitter

[–] trespasser69@lemmy.world 12 points 19 hours ago
[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 44 points 23 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.

[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 14 points 21 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.

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 82 points 1 day 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.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

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

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[–] VerPoilu@sopuli.xyz 128 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Very important distinction. I’ve deleted the apps long before, thinking i’d keep the account to occasionally look at someone’s feed. When they publicly reinstated neonazi accounts, it was the last drop in the ocean

[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 17 points 1 day ago

If you merely abandon your account, the change can be seen in the MAU statistics. If you delete it instead, you’ll make sure you won’t slip in the future. Either way, investors care about the active users, because the total number of accounts isn’t a very useful number to them.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 22 hours ago

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

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago

Leave a negative review on the app stores

[–] john117@lemmy.jmsquared.net 5 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] john117@lemmy.jmsquared.net 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

as someone who made their own instance, talk about it to family and friends and try to convince them to jump on mine, I definitely have not given up. your completely valid talking points are null and void unfortuntately, my social circles are unable to get people they interact with to jump ship as well. they just want their family and friends to see their posts and don't really care what's going on behind the scenes..

Its me trying to convert people to use signal all over again, but i won over many of my colleagues and family by telling them to jump on signal as my birthday gift years ago..... maybe I'll have people sign up as a Christmas gift for me this year lol

[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (3 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.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 23 points 23 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.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

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

[–] Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io 66 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] trespasser69@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Agreed

l never used *Xitter anyway

*It's pronounced as Shitter

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Better late than never I guess.

[–] Oha@lemmy.ohaa.xyz 14 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

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

[–] wildflower@lemmy.world 48 points 1 day ago (41 children)

At this point in time, anyone left on the platform formerly known as Twitter, is either a fascist, or at least think that fascism isn't that big a deal.

[–] Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I know a lot of people still on twitter who ate firmly against fascism. I don't know why they're still on there though.

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[–] Zier@fedia.io 20 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 16 points 1 day 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.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago

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

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Cant delete xitter if I never had it

taps head

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

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

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