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

Because there's still a strong football/soccer community there, along with Reddit

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

Yeah. Even the largest leagues and teams are basically impossible to follow on anything but Reddit and Twitter. For smaller teams? Nothing else exists…

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

I don't know why you're getting downvoted, I agree with you (at least on the Reddit part) The soccer community exists on Lemmy, but it's just not even remotely close to Reddit's

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

Any time I make a sale, there's an automatic post made on X to help promote dem titties. Aside from that, I don't use it unless I'm following a link from lemmy.

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

There is literally no other realistic alternative too it; they're simply all too small. I still follow many trusted news sources and politicians on it as well as fandoms.

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

A lot of youtubers and such only make announcements for content and streams via twitter, or their own services that kind of suck worse in terms of access. In order to stay on top of some limited access content, twitter is still "useful" in that regard.

Personally, I've never used it for that, I mostly ever checked twitter when a site I visit or game I play is down and they don't have a good way of conveying details otherwise. But I know of content creators that use it for that, so I'd understand people using it to stay abreast of content that way.

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

Your asking the wrong community. Go ask Reddit this question

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

I don't have an insta, so I'm not on threads. there's no scaled up site to even come close to challenging twitter.

I'm still there because there is pretty much nowhere else to go. once one of these places actually starts being as active and engaging as twitter I'm going there.

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

My best guess: Ignorance is bliss.

(As for me I deleted my Twitter account that moment Elon bought the platform).

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

Knowing what I know, I’m not. Mastodon is good, but not the same. There needs to be a publicly run version of Twitter, with same algorithms.

[–] JasSmith 1 points 1 year ago

I don’t care about the opinions of the CEO when I use the product their company makes. If I did, my entire house would be empty except for one jar of organic honey.

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

I never used X. I use Facebook

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

Sports. I can get a hundred tweets of highlights almost instantly on Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I literally don’t give a single fuck what people are involved with producing the software I use

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Because I like the way Molly feels.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I never used it even before he bought it.

[–] Rosco -1 points 1 year ago

I left a long time ago already, nothing of value to be found there anymore.

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

I left Twitter exactly 24 days before it was rebranded to X. Let's just say I'm glad I made that move.

[–] MomoTimeToDie -1 points 1 year ago

Because why would improving the site make me not use it?

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

I have the distinction of having made my current presence on there a literal 24 hours before Musk announced he was going through with buying Twitter. By the time he was shown to be the kind of person he was, it had already become an inseparable piece of my mind and creations. If he bans me for speaking out against him, that will be a sign. Maybe this will be my speed bump.

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

Knowing what you know about USA, why are you still living there? /s

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

UFOX and UFOTwitter hashtags. All other major social media are censoring the topic (including Reddit, which once was supposed to be open). Lately, Twitter started doing so too (it barely suggests ufo topics for me in the last month, even if that's the only reason I'm there), but the hashtags still work as expected. Unfortunately, on all the fediverse media, the topic is still laughed at (despite the various government admissions in the past year), and so there isn't any discussion about it. Twitter is where it's at, for that topic.

Edit: Proving my point, providing a truthful answer to the topic's question, and still been downvoted by the fediverse en mass.

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