Those ads don't even look like they're useful to anyone, they're like the "He figured out how to download a car. Doctors hate him!" ads from a decade ago
just why
this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2023
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But Elon hates bots! That’s why he bought twitter in the first place!
He hates bots*
*that don't agree with his fascism, or don't make him money
Downloading a car is relatively easy. It's printing that's a bitch.
Three only people who will pay to advertise to neo-nazis.
The thing is, neo-Nazis are ignorant, so they're exactly the people to advertise your scam to.
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Instead of renaming it to "X," Elon magically renamed his platform to "X, formerly known as Twitter."
It annoys me more than it should every time I read that. Like one person gets to sit down every day and make some proclamation, and now everyone else has to go along with it.
I'm not sure what is better, but even something like "X/Twitter" might be easier than repeatedly saying "X, formerly known as Twitter"
“X/Twitter”
for short, how about
ex-twitter
?
I love the /-style of writing it, precisely because of the way it would be pronounced.
Reminds me of the artist formally known as Prince
The difference being that Prince did that change to screw his record label intentionally.
Other differences include the facts that Prince had talent, and that some people liked him.
I did not know that (the label part)
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Hahahahhahah why are there still users there?!
Because of the network effect.
For some people, it's because not enough of a particular community has moved... somehow
Some academic / research / medical communities for example. For others it's the journalists that have yet to move
Because all the nazi Influences are still there
And still too many artists instead of pages like deviantart, artstation or pixiv.
vTubers of various agencies and indied also using it as a main communication platform. Youtube communities usually as a 2nd platform.
Can't speak for the rest but deviantart turned into a free speech absolutist shithole that caters to racists and bigots, no different to twitter.
~~deviantart~~, artstation, pixiv
Because there's no viable replacement.
Before you or someone else mentions Mastodon (and probably compare it to the Reddit migration to Lemmy; I've been through this conversation before): Both Twitter and Mastodon are built on the concept of following people. If those people don't migrate to another platform, then the people following them won't migrate, either.
But Reddit and Lemmy are built on the concept of following ideas. It doesn't matter if one person who, for example, enjoys anime, only stays on Reddit. Others who who enjoy anime may move to Lemmy and become part of one or more of the anime communities on Lemmy instead.
Basically, the comparison isn't 1-to-1.
I can't speak for all, but: porn. I have a bunch of people I follow, it's literally the only reason I still have an account. Waiting on a bluesky invite but not all have signaled migration to another platform so... I just want to see twinks in kink gear sigh
DM me for a Bsky invite*
Hoping the cross-platform messaging has been fixed.
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I figure most don't know where else to shit post. I personally can't think of a Twitter alternative of the top of my head. Note I'm a hermit.
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To be honest, the only reasonable question is: what are these people still doing on this crappy thing?
...if they're reporting the unreportable, how is it unreportable?
i guess they report outside of twitter that there is no "report" function on Twitter itself.
How can they report the unreportable?
My solution works fine on Android
- Delete the Twitter app.
- Open the site in Firefox Mobile
- Open the Firefox menu and choose Install
- Install uBlock Origin into Firefox
Now you have a launcher icon for Twitter that opens in Firefox and has all the ads stripped out. I believe there is even a "Twitter Control Panel" add on that will remove a lot of the remaining clickbait from the page too - what's trending etc.
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I almost feel sorry for the mindless twits still using that platform.
Why? They've seen what we've seen and deemed it acceptable. Let them suffer the consequences. They've earned it.
Good. Now stop using the platform. Simple as.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Mashable reports that users on X, formerly known as Twitter, have seen unlabeled ads in their feeds while scrolling through the company’s mobile apps.
When users tap them, they’re taken to other websites, with no way to block or report them.
Unlike normal ads that are just posts from company X accounts and have an “Ad” label, these new ones have no account associated with them.
If you’re just scrolling, the embedded image and clickbait-style text might make you think it’s just another post.
A “profile” picture made from the embedded image completes the illusion.
Neither I nor my colleagues at The Verge have seen the new ads in our own feeds.
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Downvote Musk spam.
The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring him and his businesses stay in the headlines every day. Don’t be a useful idiot.
I only kept the app on my phone for the rare occasion I wanted to read a full post from one linked here. Those have evaporated so it lost its last little bit of usefulness.
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