That's because everyone who's in their right mind is leaving, and there's nothing left but the cult, and they're basically trying to out douchebag each other 🤣🤣🤣
Funk gets funkier when it's concentrated. The more rational people leave the platform, the more concentrated the hate and stupidity will be. Problem is, even conservatives can't stand to be around eachother 100% of the time, and when the "libs" are gone, they've got nobody to own.
They won't like it here, though. Between content moderation and the ability to mass block a troll and their horde, they'll have to work harder to find their "joy" here.
That's what I hated about twitter- you have to basically moderate your own content or else you were blasted with the most obscene and hateful shit on the regs. Like anything liberal or left-wing was suppressed and you had to go through and block literally anyone you didn't want to see cause 1/
They'd just clog your feed with even more hateful shit. Most of the users there were propaganda bots, or angry men who had an issue with women who actually wanted to be treated as people, or the most angry and homophobic clowns 2/
Who were so angry and hateful that it would have been funny if they weren't dead serious about wanting to mutilate queer folks, or angry wyt women who don’t understand why disabled immigrant children need the same accommodations as disabled white children... it's so sad what that site has become 3/
And it's just gonna get worse as time goes on and all the people who have their toes in the reality pool continue to leave while the bots spew propaganda and the crazies ride their hate-fuelled rockets into the clouds, not realizing what oxygen is and why it'll eventually lead to their downfall. 4/4
If MAGA morons are involved in anyway, it can always get worse. Even if they get what they want the find 12 other things to hate and threaten people over. Their entire bit is being a bully to compensate for their golf pencil size manhood and their cheap plastic surgery that always ending going bad.
I left that joint when there were rumours of it being sold.
I figured Musk would let Trump back in and it would devolve to become Truth Social.
Is that it?
It’s all controlled. Choosing who gets visibility or not dependent on ‘their’ decision. That’s not free speech. No guaranteed reach even if you pay the sub fee. Let’s face it free speech & reach goes hand in hand & it’s not free for most!
That led me to "adverse selection", which featured this gem:
"Sometimes the seller is the uninformed party instead, when consumers with undisclosed attributes purchase goods or contracts that are priced for other demographics."
It's bad when you sidestep discrimination in the market. Lol lol lol.
What's sad is that some people on the left coming here are so used to fighting with the right that they feel the need to hurl slurs & attacks at someone's opinion who's basically on their side. It's going to take time to get back to civil conversations & listening to understand, not just reply.
TS kind of sucks as an application. It was always clunky, and designed purely to broadcast Trumpism. It's the gallbladder of online communities, only existing to inject bile into Twitter's intestines.
The Democrats who stayed were attacking each other at an increasing rate, too. I have never seen alleged democratic voters behaving so viciously towards one another than during the months I spent in Twitter Spaces. I was afraid to speak. I lost all hope. I think it's a *huge* factor in why we lost.
I wouldn’t know.
I deactivated my twitter account shortly after I deactivated my Facebook which was shortly after I deactivated my myspace.
Be Brave, deactivate your Twitter. You will not miss it.
I'm about to leave at the end of the year. It was fun while it lasted. But since you-know-who had bought it and changed it from Twitter to X, I decided enough's enough. So at the end of 2024, I'm leaving X.
the Twitter algorithm seems to thrive off of negativity and hate posts. It's all the same "Can we talk about how (insert thing here) is actually not deserving of any love and if you enjoy (insert thing) then you're a wrong and stupid idiot."
The crazies are contagious. 1 starts and it multiples by the thousands. Maybe it's brain worms or the fake, orange bronzer they're putting on to be like their daddy.
I must tell you, I don’t even remember Twitter. Bluesky has become big enough to keep me entertained and informed, and its design is so similar to Twitter that it feels like old, good Twitter to me.
It's an Elon thing. And there's hardly anyone for the leftovers to pick a fight with, so now it's all info mining and ads (including one for the new X Store which advertised a bill cap with a big X on it. Really? That's it? I laughed till tears.)
I've never been able to find it since, but some years ago I read a French(?) saying that went something like, when all the disgusted people leave, all that's left behind is disgusting people.
Basically, Twitter's shittiness is accelerating as more & more people become tired of it & leave.
Yes, completely true. My fear is that they’re whipping themselves in to a frenzy. I’ve been keeping track and the disinformation and lies are getting bigger and more bold. They’re just becoming more angry even though they’re getting everything they’ve been wanting for the last few years.
That's the problem with people like that: they're perpetually miserable. Even when they get what they want, they'll find something else to get angry about. It's a way of life for them.
Engagement will fall...harder than it has in the 2 years since Elmo took over Twitter.
Advertisers rely on engagement to get their marketing ROI.
No engagement - no ad views - no interest/consideration and sales. So, ad dollars will dry up - beyond their low level now.
Good!!!
This is not a surprise. I knew from the moment Elon bought it, that it would slowly transform into truth social, as the trash from there moved over. They are like cockroaches. They just HAVE to be everywhere to shout out their "truths and opinions".
They suspended my account for tweeting Senators who met with Hegseth how unqualified he is and linking to the New Yorker article. It’s an echo chamber for Elon Musk and MAGA
I sneak a look back there from time to time.
Almost every climate science post of note is met with a barrage of insults and denial.
It's the same on FB too, even posts relating to paleontology or space travel draw flat earthers, conspiracy nuts and religious fruit cakes by the thousand.
I learned this in a gardening group on FB. The kind lady complementing your tomatoes one day turns into an unhinged lunatic when climate change is mentioned.
There's a flood of accounts trying to drown the field in doubt. X is a doubt engine know. Nothing real is allowed to exist without thousands of accounts questioning it. It's designed to sow widespread doubt in institutions, government, fellow citizens, everything...
I just completely deactivated my account after the election. I truly feel bad for you well-known media folks who have to maintain that platform for your activity profile. Hopefully the interaction here will improve for you all.
A fresh pot of coffee is great. A pot that’s sat unattended in the break room until it’s all thick, concentrated, and burned to the bottom isn’t so great. That’s Twitter.
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It was gradually, yet inevitably, morphing into something akin to Truth Social. There's a reason people avoided that platform to begin with.
#6'Elon
Sadly, BlueSky has not really gotten up to Twitter's pace for breaking events and news yet
I figured Musk would let Trump back in and it would devolve to become Truth Social.
Is that it?
flood of sloop i.a contest is coming
"Sometimes the seller is the uninformed party instead, when consumers with undisclosed attributes purchase goods or contracts that are priced for other demographics."
It's bad when you sidestep discrimination in the market. Lol lol lol.
*Highly Distilled Assholism
#6'Elon
I deactivated my twitter account shortly after I deactivated my Facebook which was shortly after I deactivated my myspace.
Be Brave, deactivate your Twitter. You will not miss it.
Over time, more sane voices leave and the more insane voices become more loud.
Basically, Twitter's shittiness is accelerating as more & more people become tired of it & leave.
Advertisers rely on engagement to get their marketing ROI.
No engagement - no ad views - no interest/consideration and sales. So, ad dollars will dry up - beyond their low level now.
Good!!!
a$$holes.
Almost every climate science post of note is met with a barrage of insults and denial.
It's the same on FB too, even posts relating to paleontology or space travel draw flat earthers, conspiracy nuts and religious fruit cakes by the thousand.
And not even with just political stuff. I just sense a lot of anger in general on any topic.