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    Imagine trying winning chess when the board itself plays against you. Twitter/X must be dropped immediately, it’s a censorship-propaganda machine which is now only works for those who control it.

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      Wasn’t that the case when progressives controlled it? Either way, fk X and all other social media services.

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          Dunno, but echoes of it were sounding like Tumblr 2.0

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          Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: I ‘fully admit’ our bias is ‘more left-leaning’

          Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said on Saturday that he “fully admit[s]” Twitter employees share a largely left-leaning bias after facing accusations that conservatives are discriminated against on the social media platform.

          In an interview that aired Saturday on CNN, Dorsey said his company has a responsibility to be open about its political viewpoints, but to operate without bias when applying content policies to users.

          ”We need to constantly show that we are not adding our own bias, which I fully admit is … is more left-leaning,” Dorsey says.

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            Ah.

            So you’re a “Libs of TikTok” guy. Conservatives call themselves Liberal and you believe them.

            Jack Dorsey is Libertarian, which is Republican-leaning.

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              lol… Libertarians are classical liberals. They don’t align to a specific side.

              Libertarians nominated a degenerate Democrat.

              And why the FK are we talking about Jack anyway? I said Twitter was controlled by progressives… as in the majority of the org were leftists operating biasedly against their opposition.

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                Defending the Libs of TikTok isn’t the flex you think it is.

                I’m only responding in the hopes you recognize this eventually and grow a bit of self-reflection over this situation. Good luck man.

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                  I support anyone and everyone that exposes any and all facets of evil. So should you and any other sane human being.

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    If only the federal government could implement some sort of server that would allow them to self-host social media for officials and prominent candidates. I wish there were some well-known and tested service that other governments were using and they could just implement in the USA.

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      If they build it, will anyone come? Or does private social media only work because the user base is already scrolling endlessly there?

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        This kind of event is precisely what drives things like social media adoption. If Harris and the DNC organized an actual messaging campaign and took advantage of this energy to promote Twitter alternatives, a lot of people would join.

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        Newsies will go there for the announcements. That’s the wedge that keeps growing.

        Not all growth strategies are just having the bandwagon.

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    Sigh. Not surprised… given that Musk is a hypocrite on free speech completely. It’s getting wild. I use this place now because after years of no issues… suddenly I’m shadow banned on Reddit. Instead of getting mad I just left. Screw those who would stifle others but pretend to believe the opposite.

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    What are these fucking people doing on Twitter anyway? Why they hanging out with the Nazis? You’re still on Twitter this point I have some healthy suspicions about your character.

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      People go where they think the people are. X is still the closest thing to Twitter since Elon came along. I deleted my account, but feel like I’m in the minority.

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        You know I once read this really amazing book called They Thought They Were Free. It was written by a journalist right after World War II who went to Germany and talked to normal Germans just German citizens. About how they allowed Nazis to take over how they lived in a Nazi Society how they were okay with it how they kind of joined in on it. A lot of the things they said being said in this thread. It’s all the same fucking logic.

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      I’m on Twitter because all the OSINT people who track the invasion/war in Ukraine basically only use Twitter. I like following OSINT info to get a real perspective on what’s going on.

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        Maybe it would behoove you to remind those people that they’re on a website run by someone who has a material and vested interest in the destruction of Ukraine. That they should change to another website.

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    Good. They should abandon twitter and all other racist, misogynist, transphobic, xenophobic, homophobic bigoted platforms. I hope they have a bad time there.

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      I tend to feel the same but at the same time, the shadowy figures involved there would love it to see the ratio of extremist increase. An exodus of more sane members might play straight into their hands.

      That said, I can’t understand why anyone without an official state role is still on that platform.

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    This reminds me that someone set up a donation link via actblue where donations via that link come with the message that she and her campaign should set up their own mastodon server.

    They are up to $40,000 as I type this.

    So if you were thinking of donating anyway, you can go through here to point that money to a “cause” you want her to consider. May not happen, but at least we might get it on their radar.

    https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodon-for-harris

    The originator of this started with this Masto post:

    https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/112831902073897712

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      This has the opportunity to be a great battle.

      Harris, backed by Mastodon users vs Trump, backed by Twitter bots.

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      The VP having control over the platform they announce things?

      What a novel idea /s

      So dumb how much power twitter got for politics. Fediverse for life!

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    Who would have guessed that a social media platform owned by an apartheid-loving fascist would trend conservative?

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    Because the butthurt south african shitstain wont let them. Crybaby cannot abide differing ideas

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    I’m surprised she even has one, given that Musk would shadow ban it anyway. Seems like wasted effort.

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      Yeah if I were depending on Twitter I would have been informing people of my plans to move for months now.

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      Weird right? You’d think they might check. Then they would be able to write something like this.

      An initial search for KamalaHQ on The New Republic’s X account also found that the campaign account is limited. The campaign account showed up in repeated subsequent searches, seeming to suggest the issue is being resolved.

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      Over all I upvote posts if its something I would like to know about.

      In this case its good to know that there was some limit issue that (as on the page say) is already resolved.

      If it was intentionally done or not we will never know, but its good to know if it would happen again that there is some limit.

      I upvote because:

      • even if it was some wrongly implemented limit in this case, the shadow banning/hidding posts (or like in this case blocking follow) will happen in the future on all large platforms, it’s human nature to abuse it if you can get away with it
      • I dont like big central platforms, I rather would like to have a transparent/open platform but I know it will never happen as servers costs money and people like “free” and convenient stuff so platforma will keep monetizing people activity
      • if it could be even slightly true I rather have as many (affected) people know about it that there was an issue with follow and now it is resolved so they can retry to follow
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    Hm I deleted my twitter account last year. Maybe I’ll make a new one just to follow her

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    How much can this be abused before it is overdue to treat X as a common carrier?

    Edit: why is this being downvoted? given how critical X is it should be regulated by the government(s). Yes we all moved to the fediverse but we are a minority, millions still rely on X for better or worse.

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      You had one downvote, presumably from the person who replied to you twice.

      Edit what I can’t figure out though is now why they continue to pileup for you given your question isn’t wild.

      Idk dude.

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      I’m childish and downvote anyone who refers to twitter as “x”. It’s like you’re on your knees licking Elons bum, right after he told you to call it x, you did what you were told lol.

      Also I never got on the twitter bandwagon as it just didn’t appeal to me. My social media addiction was reddit.

      Twitter sucks. X is a letter. Or a variable in algebra.

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        Oh dear. If I were I wouldn’t be advocating for the government to effectively seize Twitter. I hated the nepo apartheid baby before it was cool.

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          Oh I’ll give you that, I’d love the gov to seize it and make it a public utility. First order of business is put the name back to twitter because duh. And bring back the little blue bird cuz it reminds me of birdie sanders.

          Ain’t gonna happen though lol.