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Summary

Stephen King announced his departure from X (formerly Twitter), calling the platform “too toxic” and urging followers to join him on Threads.

King has frequently clashed with X owner Elon Musk over verification charges and political disputes, including Musk’s support for Donald Trump.

Other entities, including The Guardian, German football club St Pauli, and actor Jamie Lee Curtis, have also left the platform, citing concerns over toxic content, misinformation, and hate speech.

Rival platforms like Threads and Bluesky are gaining traction, with Bluesky reporting nearly 15 million users globally.

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

Also, good guy St. Pauli. They are also currently transforming into a co-op which is unique in German soccer. TRAILBLAZERS!

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

Sai King has left Twitter, so he has.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

I've been calling it the Roman numeral for ten site formerly known as twitter. Are people just abbreviating this to 'X' now?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I've just been calling it twitter

I'll never deadname a person, but I'll deadname the shit out of a bigoted transphobic crybaby billionaire's shitty website.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Just make "X" catch on as a popular Euphemism for "Trans."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

Please don’t, thanks

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago

Formerly known as? It's still twitter.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

I've been calling it Xitter, the X is pronounced sh

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

Xitter! It’s poppin’!

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

Yep, and each post is a Xit, still pronounced with the mandarin X.

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

Each post that goes viral is poppin’.

If it really blows up it’s BACKNE and it’s POPPIN’!

But the best xits are all BLOWING THE FUCK UP!

Whole place was covered in pus! means EVERYONE popped it. To pop a xit is to share a post.

Gah. Hep me loard.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Twitter to Threads is like leaving Derry for Jerusalem's Lot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Glad I wasn't the only one who noticed. Good for him, though, he's trying.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago

Hey, I get these references!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

So it's like moving from Salem's Lot to a house near the town of Ludlow, along a busy highway with a pet cemetery nearby?

[–] [email protected] 100 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Better late than never for all of these people, I guess.

Sunk cost fallacy hits people hard.

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

Sunk cost fallacy hits people hard.

It's true. I never deleted my reddit posts and comments because I spent like 13 years with that account. A part of my brain says "don't delete those, you might need them later." It's like a natural hording instinct.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

I wish people would have left earlier as well, but it's not just sunk cost fallacy. Network effects are a rational reason to stay, and that's the issue. If he has a community, he loses the community. I get it.

That's why I wish celebrities would coordinate and all leave at once - it's far more likely their network will follow them in that case, both hurting X more and helping themselves more, and accelerating people leaving as the network effects disappear on X.

The physics metaphor applies pretty directly here: They need to create momentum to counteract inertia.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

Big celebrities won't really be hurt by moving. It's the small and medium names.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

That’s why I wish celebrities would coordinate and all leave at once

I think that's a herding cats issue. Especially when you're dealing with a bunch of people with big egos. But it would be nice.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Yeah, for sure. But there's been trends set off without explicit coordination in the past, especially where there's an unspoken, unacknowledged pressure built up over time.

I suspect many both celebs and normies are ready to leave, and they're waiting for an excuse, a signal that they won't be leaving alone and losing those networks. If Taylor Swift does it, and then some movie star follows, and so on, it can organically cascade.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

SAG making a push for union members to leave it would definitely help.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 8 hours ago (5 children)

Anything but Mastodon/Activitypub, eh? These fellas rlly love sucking on corporate dicks, don't they

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

Mastodon is a far worse experience than Twitter and Bluesky, it's not a 1:1 transition.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Attitudes like yours certainly isn't attracting any new users...

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

Sure, but he's not wrong. I'll never get why people love to rail again corporations and enshittification while using those sites.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

Why wouldn't they want to join this place and be called bootlickers for moderate policy take by some screaming communist from a .ml? Sounds like a great time to me! Getting yelled at by flying squid twice a day is a joy!

This place is primarily made up of a ton anarchist and communists screaming and spreading their own bullshit. Centrist and and less progressive folks are commonly shouted at, called bootlickers, or Nazis for relatively centrrist views.

Mods and admins are far less balanced than reddit or pre x Twitter as well. LWis about to as close to center as you can get and it's quite obvious.

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

StarTrek.website recently defederated from hexbear and we got called names too. I'd say our instance is pretty well balanced and small.

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

I'll check it out!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

What do you mean when you say "this place"? Because Lemmy is decentralized, and it can vary wildly by instance and community.

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

LW. The only instance really even close to supporting commercial needs. I may be missing a few snale ones but LWis the most "normal" for lack of a better description.

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

It's still small, so the whole platform still feels like one of the larger reddit subs. The same people show up everywhere, and if you want to create a niche community, you'll go months without seeing any posts.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 8 hours ago (10 children)

It really boggles my mind the cognitive dissonance of everybody constantly complaining about corporations screwing them over, then refusing to use the obvious solution to their problems.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 8 hours ago (5 children)

I can absolutely believe that an old guy like Stephen King has never even heard of Mastodon. It's not like there's a big Mastodon PR team being paid to advertise its existence.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Good point. Does anyone know an animator? I'll write some promotional material.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

Lemmy is definitely its own little bubble. People here really misestimate the average person’s exposure to tech news or how much they can understand or care about operating systems and distributed protocols.

You’re all in here shouting about this to eachother and nobody hears you.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

Yeah like the average person has never heard of enshitification. It's not even an established concept in their mind.

They may have a vague sense that things are getting shittier on the big platforms, but probably don't even consider smaller platforms or decentralization as solutions

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I can totally believe that he didn't know about mastodon, but even Bluesky is like a reasonable platform. Threads... I see literally no upside to using threads. It's on a timer from the beginning to turn into another X. Just look at how long Facebook has been a cesspool of Nazi propaganda.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

He has a Bluesky account already, and has posted...some.

Everyone I've seen (mostly in the tech space) seems to say that Threads feels soulless. I follow a few people there from my Masto account (yay, federation), and that's all fine and dandy. But I don't know if I'd trust Zuck in the long run since he already seems to be kissing the ring.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, kissing the ring for sure. I knew Zuck was gone as soon as he called Trump "badass" and that he "couldn't vote for a democrat" after the first assassination attempt.

Dude stood there and by his luck the bullet missed. This wasn't some courageous action, this was "standing there until the secret service tackled me." What exactly was "badass" about it?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

But you see raising his fist for applause was totally not narcissistic and was actually retroactive courage!!

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