Over a million people joined Bluesky after the election and seem to be using it. Also a lot of news & media companies have moved over too. So I would assume that at least that many users have disappeared from X or their activity has diminished. On top of that all the bots have gone home now the election is over so the amount of activity must have suffered. And Bluesky is basically old Twitter so people are settling into it and liking it.
I would advise anyone who still using X to give it a try. And if they want to use X for whatever reason - uninstall the app, install Control Panel for Twitter into their mobile browser and browse that for a relatively bullshit free experience - no ads, no algorithmic lists, just what you subscribe to.
Should I try Bluesky even if I barely have used Xitter recently?
If you don’t use Twitter then I don’t see any reason to try Bluesky since it could basically be described as classic Twitter. But if you liked Twitter until it because a cesspit of far right shitheads, crypto bros, bots, and ads then give Bluesky a go.
No, no, I think you don’t understand. /lh
What I meant by that is that I don’t use it so often like most people do (2 hours a day or so), I mean like, opening once or twice every 1 or 2 weeks.
My personal suggestion? Stop using Twatter.
Whether you move on to some other microblogging platform (like Bluesky or Mastodon) or just drop it entirely is a different question and depends on what content you care about. When you do check it, what do you check it for? Would you really miss that?
If it’s specific accounts or personalities you care about, you could check if they have opened alternative accounts on those other platforms and let that inform your decision. If it’s topics, I don’t know enough about Bluesky’s userbase to recommend it, but I know Mastodon’s @FediFollows@social.growyourown.services has a bunch of topic-oriented curated lists.
Sure. There’s not a lot of “bulk content” trash farms yet so it feels more real than even twitter did before the enXhittification.
I’m loving it so far!!
Wasn’t adding engagement numbers to each tweet one of the first things he added? I remember thinking “who the fuck wants to see that?” But I guess to people like him that was important at the time? Huh.
Drumpf is obsessed with rally size, skuM is obsessed with twitter engagement. Rotten tomatoh, decomposing tomahto.
I never really understood twitter. Feels to me like it’s all about following personalities in a poor format that doesn’t cater to discussion. I’ve had an account since early, mostly for testing twitter integrations for work. I haven’t even bothered to log in for a couple of years.
I logged in yesterday just to deactivate my account.
I think it really only made sense to me when it was SMS social media.
Can’t remember which phone I had but for something like this it was neat.
The last time I used Twitter was when I had ubertwitter for blackberry.
I made a Twitter account in the early days when I was a teenager. The sole reason I made it was because one of my favorite bands had an account. Their posts would be sent in an SMS to my phone, and the cool thing about that was how it felt like they were texting me personally.
I have no idea when I last logged in, let alone when I last posted. When the SMS feature was dropped, so did my interest.
It scans if you look at it like short form blogging. Even YouTube runs under about the same operating theater. The comments are there but they have to beg / trick the viewers into engaging.
Trump won the election, this gereatric nepo baby will be well paid for his services
Twitters is a just a pokemon card for him and he used it well.
Who is the geriatric one?
Both is them but based on context of the above. Comment, telsa tubby is who I was referring to
Hardly a geriatric. They are as GenX as it gets.
Boomers are the ones currently in the Geriatric territory.
Don’t take it personally… But for people under 30, people above 30 are gereatric
Also genX post covid has been booming extra hard lol
If over 30 is considered geriatric to you and assuming 21 is graduating from child to adult, you’re telling me that in your mind that people are only normal adults for 9 years?
OP is unaware Logan’s Run was just a shitty movie - except for that open-sided dress, of course. Renew!
My point being it is matter of perspective but y’all got worked up pver it…
30 maybe too low but over 50 is pretty safe bet. I don’t see anything controversial with that this take.
Bold words coming from a toddler.
And it’ll happen to you one day too
I am already old… WTF is u talking about.
You feel better now?
That’s bs. Speak for yourself only. This is not the first time I see geriatric being misused for this piece of shit.
Old enough to be a gereatric but with maturity of 25 yo?
I’m 47 and my 14-year-old daughter gets upset when I call myself an old man, so I’m not sure I’m in agreement with you.
LOL… is he hiding cause of an exodus, or because of the bot farm he ran for the elections?
Nazi, who inherited his generational fortune through slave labor, makes people uncomfortable. They leave. Nazi lies about being weird and/or a Nazi.
Insists being a Nazi should not influence anything and demands people and ad money returns.
How long until he sues users to return like he is with advertisers?
Probably in 2025 when he moves all government communication to X because “it’s more efficient”.
Glad I’m not from the US
And we thought ID.me was bad…
don’t look guys! I totally did not piss my pants!
– Elon Musk
That one 2 panel image of people laughing at a guy who pissed on his pants and he says: “huh. free marketing.”
Release the X files, Elon.
I used to like that show :(
At first, the air of mystery suggested hidden depths, but increasing exposure revealed that it was all just woven from thin air and would routinely come out with increasingly absurd stories that contradicted previous statements.
Also, the X-Files.
I want to believe.
We don’t talk about the fox reboot seasons. That didn’t happen
Wait are you talking about the reboot they did in like 2015ish? The were-monster episode and the Mandela effect guy were like the funniest shit ever.
I literally fell out of my chair onto my living room floor laughing at that shit. If you were a fan of the original show I must recommend at least watching those two episodes.
Okay alright you got me there
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Are you hiding your engagement metrics? 😱
musk copies feature from zuckerberg backed competitor, threads.
Elon’s lost the plot. It’s a joy to watch.
Implying he ever had it
That’s part of the joy, he bought the plot and still managed to lose the plot so quickly it’s easy to argue he never had it to begin with.
He paid billions to play himself.
He paid billions (largely of other people’s money) to influence the US election and world politics. He succeeded. He won.
I disagree that him owning Twitter causes Trump to win. I have not heard any credible source make this claim. This sounds like 4D chess nonsense. He clearly did not want to own Twitter and didn’t know what to do with it either once he did and still had no clue how to use it.
Whatever responsibility can be placed on Twitter it would be them deplatforming him, allowing voters to forget how insane he is. This occurred prior to his purchase.
Rather than attempting to lay the blame for trumps second election on platforms, we need to come to terms with accepting that this is the direction that the majority of American’s wanted. This includes those who did not vote, since their apathy allowed Trump to win.
A plurality of Americans are very very dumb. The entire world knows this. We pretend they just don’t get us, know us, etc but we cannot ignore the reality exposed by these election outcomes.
I don’t think it can be proven, just like bezos owning the Washington post can’t be proven to sway things.
A bunch of billionaires owning consolidated media, what could go wrong?!
Trust me. Whether we can prove it or not, the whole purpose of buying Twitter was to kneecap the “left” in organizing (sorry but most are actually liberals, especially the PMC echo chamber that was Twitter and is now becoming Bluesky), push nazi content, and sway the election. Supposedly he’s going after the UK election too but I’ll be honest I haven’t been paying attention to that. A whole bunch of major democracies had elections this year. He swayed the most important one.
Oh I don’t think it was a major reason. He may have regretted it at first but that may have been bullshit. Now he’s one of the most powerful people in the world, politically, until Trump turns on him.
Not to mention I’m sure his tax cuts and deregulations will offset loses for buying X. Throw in gutting NASA, he opens more contracts for his companies. He will end up making money for sure.
He could do absolutely nothing but sit on the beach for the rest of his life and he’d be making more money off interest than we make in a lifetime
Assuming he lives to 88. And gets only 5% interest on his current money. Interest puts him over 1 trillion easy (around 1.8t) So assuming there are 450,000 users on Lemmy and we all make 3,000,000 dollars in our total lives… Yeah he will make about 1.5 times what me all make.
Sidenote: average stock market growth over 10 years has been around 11% I saw. So that would put his worth around 8.9 trillion in 35 years of just sitting on investments.
Great number choice haha. The fascists love the number 88!
It really goes to show how fucking nuts these billionaires are. They could fucking relax for the rest of their lives in luxury but that’s not enough for them.
Money is just a symbol for power. There’s never enough for these ghouls.
No he hasn’t, shitter served its purpose, to sway an election.
That’s an expensive way to sway an election. If that’s the case, critical thinking abilities of the average Xitter user is pretty fucking low. Breaking News: Shepherd Herds Sheep.
The average Twitter user is a bot let’s be honest.
It’s about manufacturing consent, and to musk, it’s chump change. What you would spend on a pricey hobby is what he’s doing at his level.
Also not just an election but society itself.
I wonder what thing TrumpEtAL is going to do to require people to create X accounts.
And then what thing that TrumpEtAL will do to make it so that his enemies can’t sign up and hence be in trouble with TrumpEtAL.
IRS integration requiring efiling through xitter.
OMG just no.
Guess how the suckers that want to work with Elon and Vivek have to submit resumes?
What a dipshit
So reading all the comments here:
X is far Right, conservatives - bad.
Lemmy is far Left, liberal - good.
You both sound as bad as each other.
How your comment reads to the rest of us:
"Wrong reason people don’t like twitter - bad
Wrong reason people like lemmy - good
You both sound the same to me"
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’
— Isaac Asimov
Have your fun here on the internet today, but just remember this “high” when your grandkids tell you you’re not invited to Christmas one day. The people around you see the garbage you are in full color. They see the world you didn’t care to save on their behalf. Enjoy that fucking loneliness and crawl to your forums for the only illusion of validation you’ll have left at that point, from a fucking bot.
Chud.
If we’re being honest, they’re both echo chambers, but one of decidedly more malevolent than the other.
Lemmy is definitely not an echo chamber. As a leftist there’s a ton of liberal simp vooooooote blue no matter who bullshit, followed by blaming everyone but their shitty ass candidate and even shittier ass party for the loss.
The right wing in contrast is in unison lining up to fellate trumps little mushroom.
You just become someone good when interacting with the good people 😉
No no you see once in Lemmy you can engage in the communist left vs liberal center-left battles. It’s turtles all the way down.
“So reading all the comments here:”
Already told on yourself - We all know you can’t read.
The horseshoe theory holds true in many cases. Far ends of the spectrum have more in common with eachother than they do with the people on the middle. Antisemitism is a good example of something you find in both extremes. Calls for violence is another example.
You know the Palestinians, who are currently being genocided with American weapons and money, are semites right?
How does this relate to what I said?
Seems like you were using antisemitism as shorthand for antizionism
I’m talking about the hatred of jews.
Is holding israel accountable for its genocide “hatred of Jews”?
I haven’t said a world about Israel.
False premise… not wanting Palestinian babies to be slaughtered en masse is not anti-Semitism. Fuck that.
There isn’t a far right and “far left” equivalency - one side are fascists and the other are anti fascists. Opposition of objective evil is NOT an extreme, it’s a baseline position.
Quiet propaganda, like this comment, did a lot to bring our broken society to this point.
Antisemitism is a good example of something you find in both extremes. Calls for violence is another example.
Israel is doing genocide but the Jews are real victims of US political discourse
Unless you’re referring to anti Zionist Jews. NO.
I think bombing civilians is bad and going after people because of their religion is also bad. You don’t actually need to choose either or.
Id assume they meant residents of the Jewish state who are on the side of the Jewish states government, not all Jews worldwide…but I’m just giving benefit of the doubt. Similarly I assume people saying Americans chose this or Americans support genocide mean the 51% who do.
the 51% who do
Nah, it’s more like <1%. The average citizen does have a say in who our representatives are, but we don’t get to decide what choices they make. When you vote for someone, you don’t necessarily agree with everything they do, you just think the country would go in a better direction with them vs their opponents.
For example, Biden didn’t meaningfully push back on Israel, and I doubt Trump would do anything differently. So if you are super passionate about the Israel-Gaza war, you can’t vote for either, but that means throwing your vote away with a third party candidate, which has other caveats (i.e. if you have a preference on issues other than Israel-Gaza, voting third party reduces that voice). I voted third party this past election because I knew my state would vote overwhelmingly for one of the candidates (and it did, like clockwork), so my vote had more value as a protest against the terrible candidates we had instead of throwing it to either the one that would win or the runner-up.
In a democracy, things really aren’t that binary. Just because a candidate won 51% of the vote or whatever doesn’t mean 51% of the populace agrees with their policies, they just think they’ll do a better job than the main alternative. In this case, I think it largely came down to the economy, and people thought Trump would do better than Harris on that. I personally think the Presidential Puzzle (video by Ben Felix about it here) is more convincing than an actual shift in national agreement with Trump.
every time holocaust and jews are brought up in the modern context, you are making that choice.
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