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[–] [email protected] 110 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Just stop using Twitter. It's easy.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I feel sympathy for the people who are required to use it for work. Most users could quit it and replace it with Mastodon, though.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I tried deleting my twitter just now.

The website is abysmally slow. I genuinely think they are throttling their deactivate account page to try stop users from leaving en masse.

That or else the site is not functioning correctly after Musk's optimizations'

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Honestly, this is a pretty clear case where federation should win out. I answered someone above, but governments using a private service like twitter for actual public announcements imo is broken. I hope that Mastodon and federated services take off and turn into a turnkey style service somewhere. Like, setting up your own Mastodon (or Lemmy!) instance I hope turns into something just about as easy as setting up an email account.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

With Twitter's dwindling user base and each, people should just jump ship and migrate to mastodon. It's honestly what Twitter used to be and better than everything Twitter is now nor what musk has turned Twitter into.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

you could also say, just block it

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

It would be a godsend if there was a way to block certain results from search engines. I do not want to have want to have any more Twitter links or reddit links propagating my results. I don't even care if I miss out on some vital piece of information to my query. I just don't want those sites in my search results.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

You can. I'm not by my desktop but I'm sure I use ublacklist in Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Have you heard of a DNS sinkhole?

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

I've legit never understood it's appeal. Like what even is the purpose of it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I wasn't a heavy poster on Twitter, but I was a heavy user. Unlike the Lemmy/Reddit model, it's much more real time. So when I wanted to see how things were going with a piece of news of any sort, basically, twitter was better at that.

Its also much more person centered - you curate specifically a list of who you want to follow rather than just topics, so there could often be crossover. Usually for me, this meant I'd listen to some podcast or something for a while, figure out I like the host and their personality or often just taste, and then follow them. The added benefit being that most people I'd follow on twitter weren't so big that if you tweet at them and you're not an asshole, you'll get a response.