X is so deserted that I can’t help wonder to what extent the majority of traffic there—at least on the political side—has been made up of networks of inauthentic accounts run by Russia and Iran (among others) and has ceased while countries recalibrate their goals.
The quiet is fascinating.
The quiet is fascinating.
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that's likely more than half of the traffic over there, with the rest being bigots, trolls, grifters, and a small number of normal people who are actively leaving.
I'm reaching out with a heavy heart and a hopeful spirit. Life has presented some challenges, and I've initiated a GoFundMe campaign to seek support during this tough period. I would be eternally grateful for any help.
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Warm regards,
James
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People call BlueSky "Twitter" and "X" is the one that now deservedly belongs to the clown.
Hell of a business model ya got there, musky. 😂
I think twitter is full of right wing bots hiding behind the Russia, Iran idea
The idea is that people obsorb what's said and reject challenges to the narrative.
X doesn't have to be a shithole. FB doesn't have to be full of profile hijackers, scammers etc. it's like that because the company actively chooses not to give a shit.
I would LOVE to clean up FB or X that would be a challenge but a good one.
I just did a search there for "cat pictures" and scrolled down the results page past a hundred posts and they were still only an hour old.
So the cat people are staying.
on Americans by assuming false identities and attempted to influence opinions. It worked on the fragile males. Which is not all in good fun, but is illegal. And Musk facilitated and harbored the spying and data collection.
Either way, the only traffic it serves is a highway for bots and to infect as many people as possible with propaganda, you and me included.
It's practically everywhere, but more on one hand than the other.
😁
After Moscow started panicking about Ukraine, suddenly entire subreddits became ghost towns for an extended period...
I wouldn't be surprised if Leon Musk was shadow banning and preventing ideas from left wing posters to be popularized
All the normal moderate civilized people are still over there ..
The good thing about it is that my addiction to the site is nearly gone.
But even setting aside my own engagement, I can practically hear tumbleweeds on my following feed.
Just some international accounts and a few official government type accounts show up.
I hope we can nurture and maintain this platform to keep it viable.
(Lots of new bot and inauthentic account network activity here since the election.)
(if musk deadnames his daughter i'm deadnaming his website)
I've tried to introduce the lottery winners to the poor folk left homeless by the horrors of war.
It seems to be all in vain. 🤷♂️😅
I'd make it a term of service that a post has to be the action of a human (or cat).
There are signs of innocuous test posts, and imposter accounts being used to acquire large follower numbers & then renamed.
What I'm curious about is this statement
"There are signs of innocuous test posts, and imposter accounts being used to acquire large follower numbers & then renamed."
The imposter accounts
Part sanity abandoning the millisecond a truly legit platform for ideas materializes!
the bots unaware they are
bots / all the way down.
Is it really low engagement ? Just blue checks talking to each other?
Some of those NPCs are humans who think they're players because Elon told them so.
Twitter: No interaction whatsoever.
Here: 1 new follower, a bunch of likes and a couple reposts.