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Re: Let's Quit X

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Post by suzzer99 »

brailsafe wrote: post #92
r00fus wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This will eventually shift. There is legitimately very little reason to use X unless you're a Musk-stan. Case in point: I started using twitter regularly during the CA fires & blackouts in 2017. I was amazed at how quickly I could get a read on a situation and actual on the ground facts at near real-time speed. For the Palisades fire, I'm struggling to make X nearly as useful as it was. There is a lot of random diatr…

Is there a personal reason you have to keep with it at all at that level? Not doubting you do, but I feel like people are generally addicted to keeping up with shit that affects their emotions and really doesn't need to.

If you live in LA it's kind of important.

Re: Let's Quit X

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Post by Timshel »

Once again flagged, it's becoming an issue :(.

I see more and more post disappearing and since you can't vouch unless the post is completely dead it just gets buried.

Re: Let's Quit X

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Post by efitz »

suzzer99 wrote: post #108
efitz wrote: post #69

Site seems like it was hugged to death. My initial take on this is that it's probably just another one of a thousand "let's self-sort ourselves by political bias". BlueSky has a CP problem (enter "does BlueSky have a CP problem" into your favorite search engine). BlueSky also has a problem with moderation; the pile-ons are trying to eradicate opposing (read: non-leftist) points of view. Don't take my word for it; it'…

I googled "does BlueSky have a CP problem" and I still have no idea what this means.

child sexual abuse materials

Re: Let's Quit X

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Post by suzzer99 »

xiphias2 wrote: post #110
thrance wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

X is already a far right echo chamber, if you create a new account and navigate to the "for you" page, all you see is Elon Musk, Alex Jones, Andrew Tate and other far right "role models". It's unfortunate that X still retains a greater reach than its alternatives, but that can change in the medium term.

Then just don't navigate to For You. I wish I could just see my friends on Facebook (those are the people I care about), but I can't turn off crappy suggestions. With X I can control my own feed by using the followers tab.

This. Never ever go to For You on twitter.

Re: Let's Quit X

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Post by [deleted] »

olivierduval wrote: post #101
jsheard wrote: post #3

Anecdotal, but so many people in my circles have jumped ship to Bluesky that the transition is pretty seamless at this point. It feels more like Twitter than what became of Twitter does.

Curious :why Bluesky and not Mastodon? I would have thought that decentralization would be a better safeguard against Bluesky becoming Twitter after being successful... Honest question: I left Twitter so long ago (I guess that I never got it) and am not really using Mastodon... so I think that I'm not the right people

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Re: Let's Quit X

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Post by leotravis10 »

ColdTakes wrote: post #58
jsheard wrote: post #3

Anecdotal, but so many people in my circles have jumped ship to Bluesky that the transition is pretty seamless at this point. It feels more like Twitter than what became of Twitter does.

Please indulge in my conspiracy theory as to why Bluesky will likely end up in the same place as Twitter[0]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42623590

Eric Goldman echoed it here as well in this section: "The Implications of Trump’s Election for Section 230" in his 2024 internet year in review. [0]

[0] https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2025/01/2024-internet-...

He says Section 230 is on the chopping and extinction block in 2025 and he would be shocked if it made it to 2026.

Re: Let's Quit X

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Post by evantbyrne »

unpopularopp wrote: post #65
daft_pink wrote: post #55

The problem is that you are creating an echo chamber. My experience using let’s quit “insert company name” is that these echo chambers tend to be toxic and terrible. IE.. Gab, Truth Social, etc. It’s very difficult to do unless you can have broad consensus. I tend to use Twitter for an industry wide group and while a few individuals have moved, the Bluesky version just doesn’t have the reach or usefulness of the twit…

>The problem is that you are creating an echo chamber Yeah but it's a left wing echo chamber and that's good! /s Incognito window > bsky > discovery feed > every post is about US politics, Trump bad, rich people bad, Musk bad etc. Same shit just different colors Bsky is not the answer, the only answer is not to use social media at all. And more or less that applies to HN too.

God forbid people have standards of basic human decency. "Trump bad" posts being popular on a website is a world of a difference from a rich guy buying another platform with the specific goal of bringing back literal nazis, as proven in released court documents, doing it, and then going above and beyond by posting that kind of content himself.

Re: Let's Quit X

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Post by Timshel »

xiphias2 wrote: post #110
thrance wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

X is already a far right echo chamber, if you create a new account and navigate to the "for you" page, all you see is Elon Musk, Alex Jones, Andrew Tate and other far right "role models". It's unfortunate that X still retains a greater reach than its alternatives, but that can change in the medium term.

Then just don't navigate to For You. I wish I could just see my friends on Facebook (those are the people I care about), but I can't turn off crappy suggestions. With X I can control my own feed by using the followers tab.

Many would not open an account on truth social, since Twitter/X is turning into it seems logical to encourage/help people leaving.

Re: Let's Quit X

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Post by ezekg »

harvodex wrote: post #103
ezekg wrote: post #26

I don't understand the obsession with hating on X/Musk right now. He has his opinions, but X is still a great platform, and last I checked, Mastodon and Bluesky still feel like echo chambers (and the latter has a lot of... furry content). In the quiet, it feels like the media moved from hating Trump to hating Musk, and people are now obsessing over amplifying that message. But for what gain? It all kind of reminds me…

I am a conservative but I can't imagine how anyone is not tired of Musk at this point. Not 1984 but just standard 20th century type dangerous cult of personality with one person having way too much power.

I'm not a big fan of Musk either outside of Tesla/SpaceX/StarLink.

But if it's not Musk, it's the DNC, if it's not the DNC, it's someone else. I don't see how it detracts from X still being a good platform. You have to curate your TL, yes -- but you've always had to do that!

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