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This has been my thought the whole time. In general, just to put down the effective communication of the masses in real time, that is scary to a certain small group of people.

Twitter*

I refuse to let companies take ownership of letters. They already have everything else.

We should all keep calling it Twitter and let Elon get pissed at getting dead-named.

I sometimes wonder how much it would take to get people to leave X en masse. Maybe if Elon was posting Nazi propaganda?

It already was prior to Musk’s takeover.

It's crazy how media pretends Twitter wasn't the biggest contributor to Trump's MAGA movement, being the most followed user on the site up until his fanatic followers stormed the US capitol. I mean did people already forget these dreadful years of "Trump tweeted" headlines every single day??? Twitter has been an enemy to democracy for many years.

And it never once turned a profit.

Not true.

Twitter was profitable at the time when that Elon guy bought it (and before, and some time after).

One of my coworkers swears he's just the biggest troll and this is all some part of his masterplan.

Its just very weirdly written

English professor: It's impossible for a double positive to be negative.

Random student: Yeeeah, riiight..

Should be "worst platform at handling disinformation"

When we decided that freedom of speech was a core freedom, and the wealthiest people own the biggest megaphones. Musk's Twitter is just a reflection of the same system that protects the Murdochs, Chatham Asset Management, etc. The bar for "this speech is illegal" is extremely high in most first-world countries, at least unless your disinformation can be shown to harm important corporations (fraud) or rich people with really really good lawyers (defamation) or the justice system itself (perjury, filing false reports), it's basically impossible to fight. This weakness of the justice system was why everybody was happy to see amoral corporations like Twitter taking up the project pre-Musk.

Remember, the only people who managed to extract consequences for The Big Lie from the above organizations is Dominion Voting Systems, a huge corporation that could show damages.

As long as the facts of our shared reality are considered beneath protection unless they coincide with the financial interests of VIPs, shitty people with big megaphones will lie with impunity.

When we decided to gather in their websites in large masses and ignore our common sense

Come to Mastodon. Welcome 😁

You could also use Ivory, it’s basically tweetbot but for mastodon.

Tusky is pretty damn good for Mastodon. Better than any Lemmy client I've tried.

People say that picking a server for Mastodon isn't that important, but really I think it is. Because just a with Lemmy where you can view your Communities, Local and All it's the same on Mastodon - your server is the Local feed made up of all the people on that server. So you can just read the whole feed of everyone that way, and is it's a server based around a topic you like then it's a great place. But if you pick a server based around Crypto or Dance or Sport then you're going to have a dull time.

Yes you can find individual people, but it's a lot more fiddly to find people that aren't on your server. You kind of have to know who and where they are already.

That's why the fediverse works better for Lemmy than Mastodon IMO - because it's about whole topics than people.

I haven't used Twitter much in years really. But after switching to Lemmy during the reddit API debacle I thought I'd give it a go and am really enjoying it. I've set up a ton of filters to block out stuff I don't want to see, and joined a couple of instances for two different personas. I'm not using the official mobile client. On Android I use Tusky and Megalodon. Tusky is my daily driver and feels like how I remember the Twitter app from 7 or 8 years ago. Megalodon is nice for cross instance discovery, but has a couple of UI quirks that prevent me from using fully. My SO uses Ice Cubes on iOS and that looks pretty sweet. Personally I found the switch comparable to Lemmy. It took me a month or two to build up a good number of active people to follow to get to the stage of having an interesting feed. It also seems to have got a lot more active in the last week. When I have dropped into Twitter it's a dumpster fire on top of a cesspit. I don't think I could go back. I'd absolutely recommend giving Mastodon a go.

"Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech" Noam Chomsky