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60k people deactivated their X accounts on average each day in one week alone

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Re: 60k people deactivated their X accounts on average each day in one week alone

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Post by yyuugg »

mrangle wrote: post #33
rsynnott wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Low quality responses aren't a part of a discussion: they're simply to be ignored. This is part and parcel for the internet, everywhere and for everyone. Cool. Twitter has made this much more difficult, by (a) embracing a pay-for-attention model, where bluetick replies, which are rarely worth looking at, are artificially promoted and (b) by making mass-blocking far more difficult (through the death of the API). So,…

It's not difficult to ignore people. There are still a lot of (bluecheck) Leftists on X, and people successfully practice ignoring their version of terrible posting just as much as can be done in the other direction. Looking forward to monitoring the "death of twitter" and the victory of bluesky.

I'd be shocked to see a leftist still on Twitter, tbh. I'm sure there are plenty of Liberals, but I doubt there are many Leftists.

Re: 60k people deactivated their X accounts on average each day in one week alone

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Post by toomuchtodo »

r3r00t3d wrote: post #6

There's not much more a person can do for freedom than to cowardly run once people, who don't agree with you, get to open their mouth without being banned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Re: 60k people deactivated their X accounts on average each day in one week alone

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Post by rsynnott »

mrangle wrote: post #33
rsynnott wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Low quality responses aren't a part of a discussion: they're simply to be ignored. This is part and parcel for the internet, everywhere and for everyone. Cool. Twitter has made this much more difficult, by (a) embracing a pay-for-attention model, where bluetick replies, which are rarely worth looking at, are artificially promoted and (b) by making mass-blocking far more difficult (through the death of the API). So,…

It's not difficult to ignore people. There are still a lot of (bluecheck) Leftists on X, and people successfully practice ignoring their version of terrible posting just as much as can be done in the other direction. Looking forward to monitoring the "death of twitter" and the victory of bluesky.

The way that Twitter currently ranks replies, all the top replies will be from blueticks, and thus generally low-quality nonsense or outright spam (a lot of people seem to be using it for self-promotion, which is perhaps unsurprising given the nature of pay-for-attention). For a post with any significant engagement, this makes ignoring them a lot of work. Many people may find a platform where this isn't a thing attractive.

Like, Twitter is clearly _worse_ with promotion of bluetick replies than it was without it; I don't think that's really controversial. That gives platforms which do not do that an advantage. Do I think Twitter is outright unusable in its current state? No, though it's getting there. But it's certainly way more _unpleasant_ to use than it used to be, and increasingly viable alternatives exist, so it's unclear to me why you'd expect people to bother using Twitter.

Re: 60k people deactivated their X accounts on average each day in one week alone

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Post by sandy_coyote »

Twitter, Mastodon, Bluesky - I left them all after deciding that doom scrolling through any infinite app makes me feel like I'm stewing in someone else's kettle of advertainment slop.

I read HN only because the content doesn't refresh too quickly and the comment threads are generally higher quality than tech posts on Reddit. Otherwise, substacks and email lists are doing it for me lately.

Re: 60k people deactivated their X accounts on average each day in one week alone

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Post by lofenfew »

onedognight wrote: post #19
londons_explore wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

X does seem to report stats like this to the public. https://x.com/XData/ Obviously there is probably a decent amount of cherry picking of the stats to report.

It looks like the posting stopped in 2019, so Twitter posted stats. X never has.

If you aren't logged in, the other of posts on someone's profile is randomized. That account shows posts from today for me.

Re: 60k people deactivated their X accounts on average each day in one week alone

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Post by itbeho »

bediger4000 wrote: post #16
r3r00t3d wrote: post #6

There's not much more a person can do for freedom than to cowardly run once people, who don't agree with you, get to open their mouth without being banned.

I deleted my account to avoid my valuable "intellectual property" residing in the hands of a single, apparently quite capricious, person.

I hate to break it to you, but your "intellectual property", in terms of social media has always been in the hands of capricious people.

Re: 60k people deactivated their X accounts on average each day in one week alone

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Post by becquerel »

r3r00t3d wrote: post #6

There's not much more a person can do for freedom than to cowardly run once people, who don't agree with you, get to open their mouth without being banned.

I am not sharing a platform with people who want me dead.

Re: 60k people deactivated their X accounts on average each day in one week alone

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Post by subsection1h »

jokethrowaway wrote: post #25

I always hated twitter, but I have to say I started using it in the last month or so. It's the only social network that feels unfiltered and not the typical politically correct crap. I can understand left wing people leaving the platform and they account for half of the population so the numbers make sense.

I saw your comment and was interested in understanding why someone would want to create a Twitter/X account nowadays. Thanks for helping me understand.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=woke+author:jokethrowaway&type...

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=abortion+author:jokethrowaway&...

Re: 60k people deactivated their X accounts on average each day in one week alone

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Post by JSchmoe »

mrangle wrote: post #35
yyuugg wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Then it's a good opportunity for you to reflect on why it doesn't make sense, go and educate yourself a little. Congrats, you learned you need to learn a little today!

[flagged]

You make no sense at all.

Re: 60k people deactivated their X accounts on average each day in one week alone

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Post by thiht »

capitol_ wrote: post #3

I wonder what the ratio of people actively deactivating to people silently never returning to the website/app is. At least 1 to 10 is my guess.

I would have deactivated my Twitter account long ago if it didn’t make the username free to use. I don’t want someone to impersonate me on Twitter.
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