Let’s review what Elon Musk has done just in 2023:
- Changed Twitter to X.
- Plans to implement a small monthly payment for everyone using the X system.
- Plans to collect user biometric information, job, and education history for “safety, security, and identification purposes.”
- Brings back shadowbanning.
- Uses user data to train AI models.
- Limits replies to verified users only.
Elon has made so many terrible changes to Twitter that I can’t remember what the breaking point was for me.
Fortunately, there’s a lot more competition in Twitter-like social media platforms. Mastodon may currently hold the position as the most established platform, but there are numerous other services competing to become the next preferred place for online users.
People still use Twitter?
People are were the content is, but using this platform after all that’s happened to it… Yeah no, I don’t get it either
You realize if you weren’t surrounded by lemmy zealots how seriously ignorant you folks sound right?
These people existed before lemmy, reddit or digg. just annoying to be around.
I don’t know anyone in real life who uses it. Even before Musk bought it out. I’m getting older so checked with gen z in my family and they don’t use it either.
Why are you here exactly?
To read and comment on content?
I have frequently found myself surrounded by Twitter and Instagram users, and they seem just as deluded as they do from here.
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Artists want their art to be seen by as many people as possible. Their livelihood probably depends on it.
It’s as if it’s a big problem to manage one more platform between all the ones they already do. Lot’s of apps and options to just automatically cross post content to multiple platforms too or just mirror mastodon to Twitter or vice versa.
At this point, ignoring or avoiding another platform where so many people already are is just laziness.
Braindead comment. It’s like people who say shit like this have never been part of an online community
An asshole bought the social media site you use and you haven’t convinced dozens of friends and all the other people whose posts you like seeing to switch to a different platform???
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Damus (or Nostr) seem like just a firehose of crap. Maybe I just couldn’t find the right people to follow, but it just seemed like 50 cryptobros and 1000 bots.
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Otherway round would be a lot more useful. Block idiots who pay Elon for his new ‘X’.
That already exists by leaving Twitter. 👽
It’s funny that all the new features they’re touting over there are really simple changes. Things like a new setting that controls an if statement.
Free block list
What I need for Mastodon is a database of verified users organized by subject matter expertise or your of content.
There are a few attempts things like this. Here is one… https://fedi.directory
