I'll add on stop paying for X premium. While I understand initially that some artists and creators used it out of desperation, at this point (and for the past year really) it's clear it's funding hate and fascism. Longer posts and vids, and an edit function ain't excuses enough by a long shot.
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Darren Hupke
For real. Y’all are numbers on his platform. You don’t need it. Remove his power and audience. This is the simplest and easiest resistance you can do right now.
Delete your account, not just “pause using it,” this isn’t going to get better soon.
Delete your account, not just “pause using it,” this isn’t going to get better soon.
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Now I've just locked the account deleted the app, and focus on here and mastodon. Couldn't be happier.
In the end, as people have yelled about the hate and the anti-trans rhetoric over the past year, they've shrugged and paid for a blue tick anyway.
At least that was always my problem. tweepcred would always hide my posts because my follower to following ratio was never good enough, and IIRC that was a sale point for the blue check.
Not that I ever got one, though.
I remember vividly all the waves of peeps turning up on Bluesky grateful for feeling like they all had a fair shot.
*glances at a follower count that's never topped 100 on any platform*
Doesn't always feel like it.
If you wanna grow your funny numbers as a creator? Step number 1 is very much "be somewhere else" right now.