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[–] [email protected] 3 points 17 minutes ago

Keep using it! That'll fix it! It's like when a company gives you shitty service you keep giving them your business and eventually they'll give you good service!

That's how it works, right?

[–] [email protected] 56 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

Yet you continue to use it…

[–] [email protected] 8 points 39 minutes ago

This is what I don't get, people not migrating from a shit platform. Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, etc.

They all just reach this critical mass where people decide the benefit of everyone else using it outweighs all the negatives of the platform being abusive to its own users

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

As soon as Musk bought it I reactivated my long-dormant account so that I could delete it properly, I can't understand why so many people are using X.

You're all patrons of the nazi bar, only in this case the nazis bought the bar. Twitter is dead. Migrate to somewhere else like you probably have multiple times before if you've been on the Internet for any amount of time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I still have an account, but I've only ever posted 6 times and haven't deleted it because I don't wanna jump through the hoops of "sign in to see this content", also because once and a while I'll see a linked tweet about a game or artist or something and give it a heart

[–] [email protected] 1 points 55 minutes ago

My advice would be to just block it in an adblocker browser plugin. Even if it only takes two extra clicks it does wonders to get you into the "do I really need to see this" mindset.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

I offered to help anyone on Facebook migrate with me to mastodon who wanted to. These are people I've known across three towns and five different jobs. I've gotten and given leads and references for jobs from and to so many of them, and hope to in the future. That's the only reason I even still have Facebook. I'm about to completely call it quits and wipe everything off the account and just leave a pinned post on my profile with a link to a mastodon profile with my real name.

I put out the first version of that post while I'm getting my data fully packed up. Not a single response. Not even a like. I mentioned it on a post by an LGBT content creator I've kept up with since I worked with her ages ago. She's been building up a portfolio of reviews of everything from beauty products to sex toys and has actually gotten some pretty interesting brand deals lately. She'd never even heard of mastodon.

These big social media sites are so ingrained in people's lives in so many different ways. Ultimately you're right but every time I see a comment like this it gives...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Meh, there are a bajillion other ways to participate in society. Not the same thing at all. I've been off Facebook for over fifteen years now and it's been great. I text or call people, and if they care about me they do the same. Sometimes I even get cards in the mail still. It's wonderful.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

Anti-black? Is that a substitute for “racist” to avoid censorship?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 31 minutes ago

No. There was racism flung both ways. Only when the black person was racist was it censored.

Anti-black

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

To be fair, it’s far more precise, being a subset of racism, especially given the context of some racist slurs being filtered while others aren’t, depending on the targeted race.

In today’s fucked up world, it wouldn’t surprise me if anti-white and anti-black slurs were filtered but anti-hispanic and anti-asian slurs weren’t, for instance, maybe to drive nationalism regardless of race. I appreciate the additional clarity.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I think there’s more straight up anti-black people than full on racist. The world hates us 😂

[–] [email protected] 1 points 25 minutes ago

It's possible that they are more vocally anti-black, but it has been my experience that hateful people are just full of hate. They go after the most convenient target, and have no problems with changing to another target if it is just as convenient.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

She’s a straight up Nazi

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

... isn't that the wrong arm?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The guy on the right is mirrored, judging by the text on his shirt. I'm guessing she is, too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 47 minutes ago

Yeah, I didn't expect them to understand that they'd have to mirror the image. That's a bit too complex.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I have a feeling she takes black cock on the down low and doesn’t tell anyone

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

Yeah but she's doing them a favor /s

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

No shit, I got that from the hard R.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

She could also just have been extremely racist.

Let's keep the distinction. So we can turn the racists against the fascists.

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

People, please stop using twitter. Stop giving your attention and money to terrible people. Some people, like that white lady, are weak-minded and they will never learn.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

This — why are people even still there? Get off it, full stop.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

We're all here commenting on it. It's part of the outrage feedback loop.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Wish people would just stop using Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 hours ago

Shit like this makes me wonder what it would actually take to convince people to stop

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

It's simply amazing though how many people don't want to admit it. I mean they're not hiding it at all but there's so many places even here on Lemmy that love to stick their head in the sand and don't want to acknowledge how bad it's gotten.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I treat people who have twitter accounts the same as I would someone who chain smokes in public areas: you're part of the mesh that prevents the substrate for nice things to exist.

Hopefully it's as much of collective social stigma as smoking is soon.

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[–] [email protected] 124 points 8 hours ago (21 children)

IDK How to tell you this, but fascist racists own everything and are planning to kill a whole bunch of people soon. I really think people are under estimating the severity of the vision these people have for the world.

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