• @aceshigh
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    216 days ago

    This should have been advised many months ago. Now it’s too late. Shithead won.

  • @aesthelete
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    7 days ago

    Lol, nothing like waiting until the last possible moment to do the tiniest thing that won’t even accomplish anything at this point and then writing an article about it.

    • @[email protected]
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      197 days ago

      Yup. Here’s what I did:

      1. recommend others not vote for him in 2016
      2. didn’t vote for him in 2016
      3. avoided TruthSocial and other nonsense during his first term
      4. encouraged friends and family to not vote for him in 2020
      5. didn’t vote for him in 2020
      6. continued to avoid TruthSocial
      7. encouraged friends and family to not vote for him in 2024
      8. didn’t vote for him in 2024

      See a pattern?

        • @[email protected]
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          36 days ago

          Yup, voted each time. Didn’t matter though, my state’s elections are almost never competitive. But it only took a few minutes and I voted at home, so at least I didn’t spend all afternoon in line.

  • @BrianTheeBiscuiteer
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    607 days ago

    It’s past time to delete X. The platform is just as bad as it was a year ago. People couldn’t be bothered to do the simplest fucking thing until they realize, “Whoops! I was supporting fascism!”

    • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ
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      67 days ago

      To be fair, I’ve been on there calling the fascists and Trump apologists out. The pennies they get from ads pale in comparison to the fact I bought a Tesla years ago womp womp 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🫤

      • TuxOP
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        157 days ago

        LMAO 😂

  • @theunknownmuncher
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    477 days ago

    Way too late to “fight” them this way, it’s already served it’s purpose for them. Everyone needed to have done this like a year ago, dummies. But yeah, still delete it anyway.

    • @devfuuu
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      157 days ago

      Yeah. It served it’s purpose, he bought a mass social media outlet, let it run wild, influenced elections, spread hate and normalized even more extreme views to fuck with all the world. The damage is done. Claiming doing something good at this point when it should have been done at the early signs but everyone would call you paranoid is just non sense. Crying wolf and all that bullshit.

  • @Etterra
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    176 days ago

    That would require me to have X on my phone. I do not. Because I deleted Twitter when dipshit took over.

    • @aceshigh
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      26 days ago

      Dipshit is my 2024 favourite word.

  • FlashMobOfOne
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    257 days ago

    Deleted mine two years ago.

    Kinda surprised it took everyone this long, TBH.

  • @RememberTheApollo_
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    257 days ago

    I deleted Threads five days ago.

    It was a cesspool of (Russian? Troll Farm?) propaganda attacking Harris for not having any accomplishments for the last four years, complaining about housing, grocery, egg, and gas prices, “fixing” America, a crapton of pro-jesus stuff, pro-Elon comments and reposts, government money going to “illegals” instead of hurricane victims, and a ton of made up lies. …

    All of which were as transparent as fuck why they were wrong. VP’s don’t make policy, so what accomplishments should she have? Housing has been going up for a decade+, it’s not new, egg prices were normal while the pics were of organic egg prices and expensive grocery carts had hidden high cost items or just straight up lied about the cost, gas prices are the lowest they’ve been for years. Jesus stuff praised trump, America, tons of AI generated “holy” trump pics, bashed atheists, posted Elon’s BS pseudo-wisdom, Ignored the $20Bn spent on hurricane relief in favor of a few hundred million housing the undocumented workers living in the affected area…

    It was infuriating. Because they were so obviously wrong…blatantly, in-your-face, completely fucking wrong. It was a constant flood of lies. Eight out of nine posts were BS.

    But as soon as the election swung in Trump’s favor…poof…it went quiet. Hardly a peep. Gone.

    And I realize that Threads was captured completely by troll farm bots spewing right-wing propaganda. And it was a waste of time. So my account will be deleted.

  • @Duamerthrax
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    66 days ago

    Can’t. Even when it was Dorsey’s Twitter, it was too toxic.

  • @Hikermick
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    167 days ago

    If you are still on X yet couldn’t bring yourself to vote for Kamala because of Palestine then WTF?

  • @[email protected]
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    177 days ago

    …the only way this would have fought them was before the election, now they’re in the walls, that is palliative care.

  • ɐɥO
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    7 days ago

    Just remembered I still had one…
    Anyway, Goodbye fuckers

  • don
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    35 days ago

    Sure, do it for your mental health, but it won’t do anything else now. That ship has sailed, been torpedoed, and is now chilling at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

  • @HeyJoe
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    77 days ago

    Used it from 2009 until around 2013. It was so much better before it was super huge.

    • @irotsoma
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      47 days ago

      Not give up. Just move away from corporate owned social media which generally has biases baked in and allows for easy manipulation by the company. The one we’re on right now is not one of those and there are lots of other alternatives. Not that they’re perfect, just that money and especially wealthy individuals aren’t able to easily and singlehandedly manipulate millions of people by purging factual but dissenting information.

      • @[email protected]
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        as someone who made their own instance, talk about it to family and friends and try to convince them to jump on mine, I definitely have not given up. your completely valid talking points are null and void unfortuntately, my social circles are unable to get people they interact with to jump ship as well. they just want their family and friends to see their posts and don’t really care what’s going on behind the scenes…

        Its me trying to convert people to use signal all over again, but i won over many of my colleagues and family by telling them to jump on signal as my birthday gift years ago… maybe I’ll have people sign up as a Christmas gift for me this year lol

    • GHiLA
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      7 days ago

      Find a small community of like-minded friends to hang with online.

      Hell, I only visit Reddit and Lemmy for the big news for a few minutes before heading off to check discord and matrix chats and everywhere else I go.

      Branch out.

      • @aesthelete
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        I just tried that…went searching for a room and amongst some software package rooms the two I stumbled upon that made me nope the fuck out are “COVID-19 truth” or similar, and some pro-trump mafia thing that had the n-word in its description. I tried to search for something even in the state of california and the closest I got was a gay hookup channel.

        Thanks, I fucking hate the Internet now.

        • GHiLA
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          17 days ago

          Maybe Facebook is the right place for some people.

          • @aesthelete
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            Are you saying for me? Cuz facebook sucks ass too.

            I remember the old Internet. Honestly, lemmy is the only thing I’ve encountered that feels even like the newer part of the old Internet.