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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago (42 children)

At this point in time, anyone left on the platform formerly known as Twitter, is either a fascist, or at least think that fascism isn't that big a deal.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I know a lot of people still on twitter who ate firmly against fascism. I don't know why they're still on there though.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Because, as an example, some very important services communicate solely through Xitter. Emergency alerts, fire depart, governmental bodies, etc. Do I despise that? Yes. Do I ask them to move? Yes. Are they? Hell no.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Not while you are showing them you are still on there.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

For a lot of marginalized people Twitter was a place to escape to and find like-minded people, I can see how it's hard to make a new place feel as homely. Most of us here left another site because we didn't agree with the leadership so it's a very biased group, "just do the same thing we did". Not everyone is in as privileged of a position though and it might be way harder for them to leave than you can imagine, especially if they're addicted to it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

who ate firmly against fascism

Eat the rich. 😋

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

Don’t eat shit, mulch the rich.

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

"I can fix him"

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

I love seeing these comments firmly showing how out of touch some/most of Lemmy is.

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

That is just not true. I hate twitter but i still use it. I am autistic and follow very specific things on it and while i also use mastodon and bluesky, there is barely anyone that has the same current interests as i do.

I don't like it but i also don't completely want to alienate myself from people i enjoy talking to and seeing their stuff. I try to follow them all on mastodon and bluesky if they have an account there, but not everyone has that.

I have all ads blocked and purely use it for my hobbies. So suggesting that makes me a fascist is absolutely ridiculous. We are trying to move to another platform but its not as easy as you make it out to be.

Same as Lemmy. I love Lemmy. BUT there are things that just so not exist here yet that do exist on reddit. And i have no interest in making a community for it either as i don't want to moderate anything.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

So because there aren't other options that are as good for your personal interests, you are OK with using a fascist supporting platform. But somehow you think it's unfair to say you are sort of OK with fascism, since you are using a clearly fascist supporting platform.

You know, that's called compromising your ideals for convenience. And if you are American you got what you deserve with Trump.

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

That's just not true. My mate uses it to follow music bands they like. The problem we have with X is that everybody uses it so you have to use it you wanna stay in the loop. I don't use I myself but i can understand why people still do.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Ooohh if it's for MUSIC I guess it's OK to be a fascist.
But you know the bands go where teir followers are right? And he is supporting bands that ALSO don't have a problem with fascism.
It goes both ways.

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

People were already on twitter before some right wing weirdo bought it. They just kept using it because the reality is normies don't know better or don't care. I'm not saying it's a good thing, but saying every X user is a fascist seams an oversimplification.

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

saying every X user is a fascist seams an oversimplification.

That's a straw man, nobody I saw here claimed that. The claim is that they don't mind fascism. Which is not the same.
You can take a country with only 10%, if the remaining 90% remain passive. Staying at Xitter is remaining passive about their fascist propaganda.

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

There are a lot of people and organizations that are just slow to move and don't really know where to go.

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

this is an UNHINGED leap.. so by that logic anyone living in america supports killing "foreign" civilians, bombing cities etc etc???!?!?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Seriously? It's a social media site that openly support and spread right-wing misinformation, how is that comparable? People have no say in where they where born, and not all have the luxury of packing everything and move to another country, supporting a social media site is a choice.

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