hehe

  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    156
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 day ago

    This is a net good for society.

    Side note: I installed rustfs yesterday, and it has an X link at the top of the admin page you can’t remove.

    I’ve uninstalled it. That’s bullshit.

  • U7826391786239@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    82
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    24 hours ago

    sincere question: if you’re still using twitter, what is it that’s so important to justify actively supporting a platform that enables pedophiles?

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      49
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      24 hours ago

      I don’t use twitter, but the reason people still do is the same reason people still use reddit.

      It’s where the people are. Normally this is the part where I use some big exaggerated example of what COULD be happening on twitter and they’d still use it. However, saying “They would still use use it if it catered to pedophiles and nazis” is not only true, because they are, but it’s also the most exaggerated example I can think of.

      No matter what twitter does, people will still use them, BECAUSE people use them. Twitter has something like 375million people, while Mastadon has varying reported numbers, but I’m seeing 7million, 10million or 12million depending on who’s talking. That’s still a far cry from 375million.

      The hard part is figuring out how many of those 375million are bots.

      • U7826391786239@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        11
        ·
        23 hours ago

        No matter what twitter does, people will still use them, BECAUSE people use them

        i suspected as much, and have said so. i was just hoping maybe an actual twitter user would come out and try to defend that bullshit. i know, tall order on lemmy

        • thejml@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          8
          ·
          21 hours ago

          I stopped when it became X. However it was full of racist, bigotry and hatred before then as well.

          I used it to keep up with some content creators and tech companies but I did so by getting an API key and running a cli that only pulled down messages from who I followed. Made it much more bearable and useful.

          Since the Xittification, API keys are expensive and I’ve either followed them elsewhere, or mostly just given up. Some dropped it, but when you have thousands to millions of followers on a platform, from their side, it’s hard to lose that audience.

          I used to like Twitter when it started, following people and small companies/communities was super easy and the 140char limit nice and terse for both the posters and the ones following. Then it shat the bed and then it got bought out and while some still post there because of followers, most have left or just disappeared.

          • limelight79@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            18 hours ago

            Twitter was useful for getting updates about sports during games - for example, an update on whether a player who was injured might return to the game, or sometimes, more detail on something weird that happened (you’d be shocked at how poorly informed people in the arena are, compared to those watching on TV). A lot of this depends on who is feeding the info, though, and the more recent beat reporters for our favorite hockey team haven’t been as active on Twitter, so I closed my account after Musk bought it. Haven’t really missed it.

            But even today, every article about something that happened in a game will embed a Twitter link for video. Like there’s no other possibility - just Twitter.

            I’m not defending this, just saying that sports use it extremely heavily.

          • U7826391786239@lemmy.zip
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            3
            ·
            edit-2
            21 hours ago

            when you have thousands to millions of followers on a platform, from their side, it’s hard to lose that audience.

            what does this signify? if these people are “following” you, are they really following you if they can’t be assed to follow you to a different platform? or is it possible that they’re all just bullshit and don’t actually give a flying fuck about you? is that what people are afraid of?

            out of those thousands/millions of followers, how many of them are actually engaging/sharing/memeing your shit?

            • Pika@sh.itjust.works
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              edit-2
              18 hours ago

              In the case of content creators, you go where your audience goes. Almost all of the content creators I watch went back to twitter and almost exclusively post only live notices and social updates. I don’t have one that has a good opinion of the platform but, there’s a much larger audience there so therefore they stay.

              Visibility is everything, and there are many steps between following you off the platform and not engaging with your stuff. Many will not follow a creator to an alternative platform if it means having to juggle an additional network, they will just let that creator fall out of their interest group.

              I know for a fact I wouldn’t be on lemmy if I still used reddit, so any content creator I followed there I dropped. It is too annoying having to juggle multiple social media platforms.

                • Pika@sh.itjust.works
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  2
                  ·
                  edit-2
                  17 hours ago

                  I don’t use twitter either, its blocked by choice on my DNS blocker but, the majority on the platform are not a pedo, regardless of the owners of it. It’s still really the only valid mainstream option for content creators. Do you have a better option? Because I know bsky or lemmy sure as hell aint going to get the job done for them (they have already tried that and went back due to lack of usage.)

                  its a circle, creators aren’t going to leave the platform because consumers are there, consumers aren’t going to leave because creators are there. The only real hope of that changing is either twitter screwing up so hard that they can’t stay, or a superior alternative being made that allows both the creator and the viewer to leave at once, so far bsky has come to be the closest but has still fallen short.

                  edit: changed tone and wording to be less aggressive.

    • hactar42@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      8
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      22 hours ago

      I kept mine active but haven’t used it since Musk took over. I just changed my name and bio to my Mastodon account so people could find me. I used it for work and had a lot of people find my content through it, so I didn’t want to just kill it. I also didn’t want someone claiming my username because I use the same one on pretty much all of my work socials. It got to the point last week that I’d rather not be associated with the site, even if people know it’s just to point you to my Mastodon. Hitting that delete button felt good, but I wish I had done it back in 2022.

    • ThePantser@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      8
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      24 hours ago

      They are pedophiles and Nazis. Remember half voted for the guy so there is at least that many that don’t care.

    • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      20 hours ago

      I use it to promote my pron site. No offense to lemmy users but we’re not the type of people that pay for such content.

          • U7826391786239@lemmy.zip
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            arrow-down
            2
            ·
            edit-2
            17 hours ago

            Imgonnatrythis @sh.itjust.works

            Perhaps it’s that kind of pron site? What better place to draw customers.

            what? “that kind of pron site”? are you sitting there and talking to me about child sexual abuse material like it’s normal day-to-day kind of stuff?

        • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          14 hours ago

          Nope. Not that I’ve seen any myself.

          Fact is, every other platform has been consored to oblivion.

          You can post free content on reddit if you enjoy giving your work away for free. But if you’re linked to a pay site you’ll eventually be banned.

          X is basically the only option left.

    • sepi@piefed.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      23 hours ago

      Different people like different things. Some people are lame and like things that are lame.

    • bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      23 hours ago

      I still have 2 twitter accounts. My first one I am actively deleting all old content, likes, retweets, ect from. The second one is purely porn

    • TehWorld@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      12 hours ago

      Money isn’t a thing. I saw that Musk is at 700B now. He can spend a million dollars a DAY for nearly two thousand YEARS.