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Re: Bye, Twitter

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Post by victor22 »

progrus wrote: post #17

The same people who lost their marbles over COVID/fear of death are now losing their marbles again over a private platform being raided & turned into a public square. I stopped listening to these people years ago. Good riddance.

Right on, but I don't even think most are leaving, it's just MSM again making "people should leave stupid twitter" talk points and some random people here and there taking the bait and writing online (or mainly tweeting) that they will leave twitter. It's beautiful to see how they are losing power. Like how stupid MSM is looking RIGHT NOW as they try to buff the FTX scam while people can see exactly what went on if they just go to twitter.

Re: Bye, Twitter

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Post by suzzer99 »

A very vocal subset of Elon's followers went from "free speech absolutists" to organized mass reporting their enemies in a matter of days. That has to be some kind of record.

Their enemies list: https://twitter.com/elmforkJBGC/status/1596041824573198336

Python script to mass report: https://twitter.com/WhiteRoseAFA/status/1596236817858056192

Re: Bye, Twitter

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Post by davidmurdoch »

The way people carefully curate their own little filter bubbles on purpose is insane to me.

As an adult, why would you never want to be exposed to viewpoints that differ from your own? That's not healthy.

Edit: I'm mostly referring to those that also regularly publish their opinions assuming for others to read them.

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Post by Pxtl »

cplusplusfellow wrote: post #13
EricE wrote: post #2

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Similar to my commentary in other threads today. You basically won’t ever hear someone refer to a person as “center right” anymore. We can only hear that they are “far right” and that your average communist is “center left”. Just absurd.

Because so much of the modern right has hitched its wagon to COVID conspiracy theories, climate change denial, transphobia, election denial, etc.

"Centre right", to my mind is "cut taxes and solve policy problems with the free market", not "everybody involved in supporting trans children is secretly pedophiles".

And there just aren't a lot of those in media discourse anymore.

Re: Bye, Twitter

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Post by phpisthebest »

branon wrote: post #15

Nice. I've always been a firm believer that you haven't _really_ left a platform unless you first make a blog post loudly proclaiming that you're _definitely leaving_ but this guy takes it a few steps further by: - keeping his account active, poised to return immediately (but still, definitely leaving) - maybe posting on Twitter occasionally to point people to ongoing resources (but still, definitely leaving) - highl…

I am increasingly shocked that how mainstream traditional mainstreet political views are now viewed as "alt-right" online by the perpetual online class

If Elon is alt-right then 85% of the US population is "alt-right"

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Post by rgbrenner »

You can tell when the Elon fanboys feel threatened by how much they object to someone freely making a choice about where to spend their time.

How dare this person make an announcement on their own website about their own decision about what websites they like?!

Re: Bye, Twitter

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Post by mjmsmith »

People will migrate to where they feel comfortable. When all the tiresome "woke" "butthurt" "non-serious thinkers" leave, Twitter can finally achieve its true form of being yet another Gab/Gettr/Parler/TruthSocial, unique only in being saddled with billions in debt.

Re: Bye, Twitter

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Post by websap »

phpisthebest wrote: post #25
branon wrote: post #15

Nice. I've always been a firm believer that you haven't _really_ left a platform unless you first make a blog post loudly proclaiming that you're _definitely leaving_ but this guy takes it a few steps further by: - keeping his account active, poised to return immediately (but still, definitely leaving) - maybe posting on Twitter occasionally to point people to ongoing resources (but still, definitely leaving) - highl…

I am increasingly shocked that how mainstream traditional mainstreet political views are now viewed as "alt-right" online by the perpetual online class If Elon is alt-right then 85% of the US population is "alt-right"

Curious how you got to 85%?

Re: Bye, Twitter

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Post by phpisthebest »

threatofrain wrote: post #18
skymast wrote: post #14

Twitter 2.0 = Free Speech Free Speech = Woke + Non-woke Non-woke = hate speech Therefore Twitter is pro-hate speech.

I was hoping with Elon granting "amnesty" that my account would get unbanned, but unfortunately my accounts remain banned for no obvious reason despite just about never being used and the appeal option being broken. Now I've just given up hope. Kind of frustrating because some of my favorite streamers use Twitter to announce their impromptu streaming. Anyways, all platforms ban people, even Hacker News. If free speec…

Pretty sure the mass amnesty does not start until next week.

Re: Bye, Twitter

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Post by 1attice »

phpisthebest wrote: post #25
branon wrote: post #15

Nice. I've always been a firm believer that you haven't _really_ left a platform unless you first make a blog post loudly proclaiming that you're _definitely leaving_ but this guy takes it a few steps further by: - keeping his account active, poised to return immediately (but still, definitely leaving) - maybe posting on Twitter occasionally to point people to ongoing resources (but still, definitely leaving) - highl…

I am increasingly shocked that how mainstream traditional mainstreet political views are now viewed as "alt-right" online by the perpetual online class If Elon is alt-right then 85% of the US population is "alt-right"

The man literally promoted the idea that Nancy Pelosi's husband was attacked because he visits gay bars, or something.

How is that not alt-right?

Yet, I fear you may be correct about that 85% statistic, nevertheless.

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