I guess the main difference is that we aren’t in a war for our homeland we are posting on a website - ThreadSky

brendelbored.bsky.social • 105 days ago

I guess the main difference is that we aren’t in a war for our homeland we are posting on a website

So I just posted this on Twitter & asked for views on it & the BlueSky exodus? Isn’t it just ceding ground to Musk? Zelensky didn’t pack his bags & decamp to Poland. Tell me why I’m wrong.

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mattferrel.bsky.social•105 days ago

Are the people “resisting” on Twitter also on Truth Social, Parler, Gab, Rumble, and so on?

Stop feeding the trolls

gautampk.com•105 days ago

“Touch grass” etc

maluckamuck.financialflock.com•105 days ago

"Ceding ground to" someone who bought the whole place, fired everyone, rebranded, rewrote the rules? That's like saying crooked landlords win when we move out.

redicnomad.bsky.social•105 days ago

These people been on twitter too long

eddbot.bsky.social•105 days ago

Twitter is love. Twitter is life.

ricdro.bsky.social•105 days ago

Extremely wary of anyone who thinks posting is activism. Sorry folks, I love it, but this isn't meaningful. It's a game you play on your phone

olliemcclellan.bsky.social•105 days ago

"Keep up the fight" on Twitter is: (1) a hilariously self-important delusion of grandeur; and (2) a fundamental misunderstanding of what fuels Twitter.

olliemcclellan.bsky.social•105 days ago

"But if I leave who will play the necessary Colmes to an entire website full of wannabe Hannitys!? What about the swing vote!?"

darksidestraxus.bsky.social•105 days ago

"Keep up the fight."

Okay, have fun paying for engagement, getting yelled at by literal Nazis and having all your data be used to train a shitty AI.

brendelbored.bsky.social•105 days ago

Also like, isn’t having a new site be successful way more effective in fighting than just saying you don’t like where you’re at? It’s such a weird metaphor lol

darksidestraxus.bsky.social•105 days ago

The thing I've learned from all the folks who have been clamoring for a Twitter alternative during the past two years is that they don't want an actual Twitter alternative, they just want to stay miserable on Twitter and constantly complain about there being no real alternatives to Twitter.

crableg.bsky.social•105 days ago

i never thought about it in terms of if websites were countries, or in other words, "stupidly"

kba26.bsky.social•105 days ago

There's just also no fighting an algorithm. It doesn't matter how hard you post over there, you're just never going to win when he can put his entire weight on the scale.

kba26.bsky.social•105 days ago

This won't work either, but the only way I can see to save Twitter in the long run is to quit, starve it of so much traffic that he's forced to sell, and return under new, better ownership.

People should stay if there's still things there that they find valuable. But there's no more fight to have.

brendelbored.bsky.social•105 days ago

also Zelensky isn’t living in Russia and supporting Vladimir Putin’s business interests by seeing Ian Miles Cheong sweat through another shirt

mrbutterchicken.bsky.social•105 days ago

Be fair. It’s summer in Malaysia. It’s very warm.

juliuspepperw00d.bsky.social•105 days ago

Right? That is one of the worst takes ever...as if social media "ground" is the same as, you know, actual fucking land where your citizens live.

ungoliant.bsky.social•105 days ago

Also 8 years of Twitter dunking and witty retorts to their bullshit have resulted in a sweeping Republican election win so I think we can safely say none of it changed any minds & maybe the good people should leave & turn it into Truth Social 2.0

brendelbored.bsky.social•105 days ago

Like not to keep harping on this but the metaphor here is that Zelensky should fight the war in Ukraine by living in Russia but complaining about it lol

senorincognito69.bsky.social•105 days ago

a ton of pundits actually bought the "twittar is the public townsquare" lie

xelkelvos.bsky.social•105 days ago

Gonna give some extra context to her opinion that she posted elsewhere and now that on that site she had 600k+ followers

swojack.bsky.social•105 days ago

Yeah, staying on his shitty site and posting about how unhappy you are that your replies are all Nazis now isn't "resistance" it's just the equivalent of being an unhappy conscript in Russia's army but still going to fight against Ukraine.

unarmedballoon.bsky.social•105 days ago

a far better analogy

hayao.lol•105 days ago

Fighting for his homeland by generating free content for Vladimir Putin would be some truly 4d chess

orangejay.bsky.social•105 days ago

And at every speech he invites 50 Russians to sit in the front row and call him a cuck globalist.

otherjimdonahue.bsky.social•105 days ago

If Nazis are increasingly patronizing your favorite bar and you refuse to cede your ground, pretty soon you are also patronizing a Nazi bar.

huddersfieldian.bsky.social•105 days ago

Particularly when the bar owner is the one inviting them in

pablumopus.bsky.social•105 days ago

Cadwalladr seems to be having a crisis of bad faith today

https://bsky.app/profile/proptermalone.bsky.social/post/3lavlwi2g7s2c

mgearsolidarity.bsky.social•105 days ago

This right here is why I hate the term "twitter refugee".

ogoftheskye.bsky.social•105 days ago

I'd suggest her take here, and that of others moving over, demonstrates twitter brain is real and bad.

brightestpear.bsky.social•105 days ago

"Isn't leaving a house party because it's decorated with nazi flag just ceding ground to the homeowner?"

amuly.bsky.social•105 days ago

"WE'rE CedEINg oUr hoMELanD!!"

it's a fucking website. that you didn't even make??????

derekboczkowski.bsky.social•105 days ago

The delusion of some of the folks in the replies who think they’re somehow making a difference by posting in Twitter is a crotch-knee to the soul.

elsabirch.bsky.social•105 days ago

And that it’s not physical ground, you can just make a new darn website that covers the same area *mind blown gif*

onisillos.bsky.social•104 days ago

Exactly. The hyperbole around BirdChan is ridiculous. It’s literally a rich man-child’s plaything.

meatballstreudal.bsky.social•105 days ago

His website. He is making money off of you being abused. Wtf.

reyturner.bsky.social•105 days ago

People say: "Don't wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty and the pig enjoys it."

But isn't that exactly like Zelenskyy surrendering to Vladimir Putin????