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[–] [email protected] 15 points 22 hours ago

oh no!

anyway,

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

Great. Why are people still linking to x?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

They’re still banning or driving away anyone outside of Musk’s echo chamber.

The vast majority of users are not big time contributors to the site’s quality content. But the content creators had the biggest targets on their back for retaliation. After so many bans over such a long period, there’s just less and less people to post quality content for the majority to consume.

Cracking down on narrative control doesn’t force the public to see things your way. It just drives them to other, more relevant platforms. Not sure how many times we need to go through this cycle for them to understand how futile this is.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago

And in Mexico, Nicaragua, Honduras, Panama, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, and Buenos Aires, no es possible, nadie Vuela mas barato!

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I almost want to have used x, so I could quit using it and improve this statistic.

But I never did

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I never used twitter but I deleted my account right after muskrat bought it.

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

damn you beat me to it

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Just sign up for bluesky and mastodon then. Become a statistic on that side.

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

Im on Mastodon. Rarely use it because I'm no fan of the format (same reason I never got into Twitter). I do jump on and follow causes that I support that switch to it.

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

That's not how it works. They already didn't use Twitter because it's not useful to them, why would they use a similar service now?

[–] zqps 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Maybe they just never bothered to try.

Also while the platforms are similar, the users and thus the content are not just a smaller version of Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

ARTISTS, JOURNALISTS, POLITICIANS, LEAVE TWITTER NOW, YOU IDIOTS

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Sports journalists in particular — so annoying that all breaking NFL news goes through Xitter.

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

TAYLOR SWIFT WE NEED YOU! WHERE ARE YOU? DON'T LEAVE US WE NEED HELP!

This is obviously tounge in check but it feels closer to real than it should be.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Taylor Swift moving to another platform would absolutely cause a massive crowd to follow. Maybe we'll see it happen one day.

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

Woe to the fediverse instance that experiences a Swiftie Tsunami

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

It would instantly become the swiftyverse and the rest of the fediverse would defederate. But still would be a positive change overall.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 day ago (13 children)

Anyone still on Twitter now is actively part of the problem

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 day ago (6 children)

In X's EU user base report consisting of data from February to July 2023, Musk's social media platform had 112.2 million monthly active users in the EU. In the following six month period from August 2023 to January 2024, that number dropped to 111.4 million users.

That's a minuscule drop % wise

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

X's most recent report, covering February to July 2024, showed that its user base in the EU fell once more to 105.9 million.

And these are datapoints they release themselves, 3rd party data points hint at bigger losses.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

You only need to hop on for 30s or so to realize why people wouldn't feel inclined to spend time there unless it to quickly bathe one's self in fascism and misinformation.

Sort of what America will feel like if Elon gets his scummy hands on political power.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You are a MAU if you use the platform once a month by opening the app by mistake, and also if you doom scroll for 10 hours a day.

You continue to be one if you go from one to the other. Musk has been cherry picking stats before, so what they release will be the nicest numbers they can find.

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

Well, Elmo thought it was going to exceed 1 billion after 12-18 months.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1596751751532937217

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

I'd click on the link, but then I'd be contributing to the stats.

I do remember seeing this tweet quoted on the Elon missed prediction tracker: https://elonmusk.today/

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

True, but we live in an economy that only rewards growth...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (3 children)

You're assuming he gives a shit about how much profit it's making.

It's not a public company, it's now his private playground to try to get millions of people to see only the "free speech" he wants them to see, and exert political influence.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

It's even worse in social media, because most users that sign up stop using it at some point.

So the product can die pretty quick if they don't generate new users, especially when they alienate old ones.

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[–] [email protected] 104 points 2 days ago (6 children)

It went down hill fast. The amount of right-wing propaganda skyrocketed ... weird

[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 day ago (3 children)

When I logged in about six weeks after the ownership change my feed included Elon Musk, Andrew Tate and 2-3 other right wing influencers. I follow none of these people, I have zero interest in what they have to say and I find them reprehensible. I deleted my account and haven't used the platform since.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I stopped in today after months because my friend is launching a game and I wanted to give them a like and a comment. When I left Twitter my feed was just nerd shit and makers.

When I logged in today it was several right wing advertisements at the top. When I went to search it was more Trump shit. I just wanted to support my indie friend. That's it for me.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've just had to look out a morbid curiosity and yeah it's all Trump. I am being encouraged to vote for Donald Trump. This is a man who is to anathema pretty much all of my beliefs, of course I'm not going to vote for him he seriously wants to be a dictator.

Also, I'm not American so I can't vote for him anyway.

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

The only person I had blocked on Twitter before I deleted my account was Elon.

I swear I couldn't be that annoying if I tried.

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[–] jaemo 6 points 1 day ago

Weird how right wing content and popularity has an inverse square power law. Sooooo weird.

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[–] lurch 96 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago

X-actly as intended.

FTFY

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He's burning it to the ground to try to get Trump elected.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm hoping he can burn both to the ground

[–] booly 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's been some reporting that Musk's Super PAC has been paying its workers so well that it's poached a bunch of the volunteers from the official campaign, and is so poorly run/audited that a lot of the workers are entering false data into the canvassing reports to qualify for bonuses. If that turns out to be true, then it will have been the case that Musk is burning his own money while hurting the Trump campaign.

I'm not ready to call the race, but stories like this at least reassure me that for Republicans, they're not sending their best.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Who cares about users when Nazi ceo is high on Russian bot army

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

These billionaire special snowflakes sure go through a lot of effort to build safe spaces for themselves

[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 days ago

September 25, 2024

Oof, that explains why I had a feeling that I read it before

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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