submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
 

Also, donโ€™t leave your account unused, delete it. User and follower numbers count.

And least as important, reply (if necessary to another corporate mail address) every email with Twitter/X in the footer, with a kind request to stop promoting and facilitating X.

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[โ€“] 118 points 9 months ago (3 children)
  • [โ€“] 33 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    In case someone thinks "Oh, he's just an alt-right troll, he doesn't actually believe in that stuff", meet Elon's grandfather:

    He became involved in Canadian politics, backing the technocracy movement, before moving to South Africa in 1950. Over the course of decades, Haldeman repeatedly expressed racist, antisemitic, and antidemocratic views.[1] In South Africa he was a supporter of apartheid and promoted a number of conspiracy theories.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_N._Haldeman

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  • [โ€“] 14 points 9 months ago (1 child)
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    This in turn would necessitate the abandonment of democracy and the embrace of a technocracyโ€”government by an unelected, technically skilled, empirically-driven elite with the expertise necessary to determine values and make rational resource-allocation decisions

    Sounds a lot like one of Elon's beliefs, doesn't it?

    Strange how people who think this way never assume they'll be one of the people on the outside, letting others make the important decisions. Whenever there's an elite, they imagine they'll be part of that elite.

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  • [โ€“] 68 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    It's a good day as any to move to Mastodon.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 4 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    That's true, but Bluesky is also 100 times better than X and probably a more feasible/realistic alternative for all kinds of companies/sports clubs/government agencies/etc. Although I prefer Mastodon in principle, I am quite sceptical about the chance that it will be seen (by the general public) as such a good alternative to X that they will actually consider themselfs being able to leave X.

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  • [โ€“] 16 points 9 months ago

    For those of us with the knowledge, it's our responsibility to both sell the idea of Mastodon and help onboard people. On top of that, there's many guides, at this point, about how to get involved, choose an instance, set up your feeds, etc.

    It's true that Bluesky is a much more seamless experience, because many options are hardcoded or pre-chosen for people, but if we can get people over the hump of making those choices for themselves, they'll find it a much better place long term. Also, it's strongly resistant to the antics of bad actors, so it's a much better choice for governments and other groups. Bluesky does not enjoy the same natural defenses.

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 9 months ago*

    The problem with Bluesky is that it has exactly the same kind of legal structure (for-profit company) with the same kind of objective (make lots of money for founders and early investors) as Twitter, thus is just as likely to be bought by a Nazi billionaire.

    If you're leaving X because it turned into a Nazi bar after being bought by a Nazi, going to Bluesky is just setting yourself up for being in a similar situation again in a couple of years.

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  • [โ€“] 29 points 9 months ago (11 children)

    Who? A lot of people apparently. And basically all companies. And more or less all government institutions in all countries in the world.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 28 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    Since few weeks Iโ€™m replying to all mails with X in the footer (newsletters as well as email signature of corporate mails) to tell them it would be great if they stop promoting this crappy outlet. Concise, polite and motivated.

    From roughly half of them I didnโ€™t get a reply yet. From the other half, a MAJORITY reacts positive. We all should know, the MAIN reason most organizations are still there, is because someone decided so in 2010 (!). They never thought about it afterward, because their audience / customer โ€˜never asks for thatโ€™.

    Be. That. Customer / Reader. Who. DOES. Ask. For. That.

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    That's a very good idea. I'll also ask them to get off Facebook as well.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 10 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I wouldnโ€™t. Not because I donโ€™t think itโ€™s a good idea, but I want to let them see that specifically X became a disgusting fascist deepfake childporn abyss. Adding fb as well, increases the risk they donโ€™t quit any of them, because it might give them the illusion my message says more about me โ€˜being anti social mediaโ€™ rather than about X in particular.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    If nobody was doing it, it would be a strange thing to pay money to put in an advertising space.

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  • [โ€“] 21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    The best moment to delete your Twitter account was ten years ago. The second best is now.

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    [โ€“] 19 points 9 months ago*

    "Won't somebody think of the children?!" "Wait, no! Not like that!"

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  • [โ€“] 15 points 9 months ago* (4 children)

    The lack of account deletions just shows how much child abuse means to them.

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  • [โ€“] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Be me: never had account, never saw why would one want to have it

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    [โ€“] 12 points 9 months ago (1 child)
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  • [โ€“] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

    If you haven't already quit then a whole lot of people have already made a whole lot of assumptions about your character.

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    [โ€“] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    Maybe the world could stop doing any business at all with this apartheid Nazi welfare queen? Heโ€™s trying to destroy your countries with Nazism and grift your tax dollars while selling out your privacy too

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 9 months ago

    I forgot if I still had an account. Yep but haven't used it since covid probably. Deactivated it just now, guess it will delete in 30days.

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Why dont companies and governments switch to Mastodon instead?

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    [โ€“] 6 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    I think I made an account years ago (before it was acquired), never used it, and proceeded to forget the login details ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™€๏ธ I don't even think I still have access to the email address that I used.

    I'm not sure how to delete that one :(

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    [โ€“] 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Did it once that loser bought the platform. I use Bluesky.

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    [โ€“] 6 points 9 months ago (9 children)

    What if we start referring to ๐• as "that child porn site" in a mainly neutral tone? Would that normalize it? I'd hope it would make people look inwards, but idk if ๐•philes in 2026 have that capacity.

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    [โ€“] 5 points 9 months ago

    I Canada we still have "left" parties publishing on X. I wrote to them I wont be voting for a party that use a platform run by and for nazis. Just for fun, I actually ask a LLM if using X was indirectly supporting the white supremacists and it agreed that it was lol. Someone should ask Grok.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    If your user name is closely tied to your online identity, I am hesitant to delete if they recycle the usernames and some total nut job takes your old handle and people think you've gone off the deep end - just a thought.

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    Deleted my twitter account a decade ago when I commented on a Canada Proud twitter post that resulted in months of non-stop harassment. It's always been this, they've just been turning up the heat year on year, and now people realize it's boiling.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    not me looking to my left and seeing my dad using it ๐Ÿ˜ญ

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    [โ€“] 4 points 9 months ago

    What X account? Or Bluesky for that matter...

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 9 months ago

    Hadn't used my account in years. But deleted it now. It seems unlikely that the old Twitter will ever return.

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