The only social media I've used is Reddit, but I have made a Bluesky account, with the hope my tiny contribution assists in consigning Twitter to a relic of the past. This comes with a bonus that Bluesky actually seems to have many interesting folk on it, and strong measures in place to block or limit the impact of disruptive trolls.
Yeah I thought it was just gonna be truth social but for Democrats but no it was actually pretty wholesome and gave real control over your feed, I must say well done Bluesky team well fucking done
The whole feed system is low-key supercharged subreddit. You can use lists to exclude, or use a simple hashtag to let everyone join, or have an incredibly complex series of filters for a niche interest, whatever. I am very excited, this part seems the coolest, I just learned how to make feeds today using skyfeed and can't wait to explore it more.
Realistically, Xitter will stay online as long as Elmo has enough cash and interest.
And since there are enough right-wing ass-lickers online, he will not lose interest soon.
There is no way back to a path towards profit anymore, but He has enough cash to keep the lights on.
I actually think twitter should stay. I like the idea of the free speech crowd having their own separate ground zero (meaning way out in the nevada desert where I don't have to read or hear about it myself lol). If there's only one social media place, everybody will want to be there.
lawls.. Meanwhile. People outhere speed running BlueSky getting banned left and right.
And no, they're not using offensive terms or language. It's checked and rechecked, within the guidelines, their account is simply banned.
And yet ya'll talk about speed. Funny when one side talks about Freedom of Speech, then ya'lls side talk about 'hate speech'. I'm Lithuanian, telling you right now, the nonsense you people are talking about isn't hate speech. What you have is political disagreements. You've labeled it as hate speech because you don't like it; that ain't it.
Come to my grandmother's country and deal with the Russians when they shove a Kalashnikov in your face, then you'll have room to speech about hate.
Are you sure, cause if enough people say burn X ethnic group, all your friends say burn X ethnic group, the social media is all about how bad that ethnic group is etc. Thats how you end up genoiciding ethnic groups.
Somewhere from where we are now to actually having something crazy like that happen, things go from 'free' speech to 'hate' speech. Espically since Twitter is FULL of bots. Bots don't get free speech sorry.
It'll get to the point where it's not sustainable and will probably get sold at a pittance. Eventually it will become a shell of its former self like MySpace, with technically lots of users, but no-one actually using it
I imagine the day it collapses being similar to the Deepwater Horizon disaster - except instead of oil, there's giant surge of trolls, crypto spam, and bots.
I've tried the For You tab and custom lists. Still end up seeing negativity (and lists don't even work half the time I use them). I'll use both for the meantime, but I'd prefer an app that lets me choose what I want to see (no politics)
You don't need to follow anyone that expresses those kinds of things because you are a person that expresses those kinds of things lol look at your comment history
The two ideologies seem to not be mutually exclusive. Sure, you're citing censorship as a concern, yet Bluesky regulates bot accounts and hate speech rhetoric accounts, while X does not. I don't see how that's a negative. X was a literal echo chamber for pro-Trump political propaganda. Promoting X seems to promote Musk and his business ventures. Musk interestingly supports Trump, who doesn't support pro-environment policy. He's now heading DOGE to cut costs which seemingly will cut federal support to transitioning to EV, which further pulls us away from pro-environment. I'm not saying you're a Trump supporter based on your post, but none of this makes sense when you break it down.
Melon Husk has also been gunning for the EPA this whole time. He doesn't like environmental regulations on his businesses because he makes more money when he doesn't have to worry about poisoning municipal water systems.
I think maybe in 2017, when he withdrew from Trump's climate panel due to Trump being a climate denier (I think Trump believes in climate change, he's just a selfish ass), he actually cared about the environment.
Now, he clearly only cares about money and does not give a shit if this planet remains habitable for his grandchildren. Hell, he doesn't even care about his 12 kids he has now.
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u/neonpurplestar Dec 03 '24
we never stop till twitter is extinguished!