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    Why are people still on there? Twitter has been sold; the old management is never coming back. X is, almost explicitly at this point, a platform meant for crypto scammers and white supremacists, and that is not going to change. If you aren’t part of or adjacent to those groups, fucking leave it.

    • @BonesOfTheMoonOP
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      181 year ago

      I deleted two weeks ago. I hadn’t tweeted in years but I used it to read other people, but I’m done.

      • @ashok36
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        111 year ago

        Why? What could you possibly be missing at this point if you just stopped using it?

        • @[email protected]
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          There are a lot of informative artists and educators that are otherwise scattered to the four winds (or worse, only on Facebook/TikTok/Instagram). I’ve learned a lot from people posting about field work they’re actively doing, people certified to do all kinds of jobs I’d never otherwise get to hear from, etc. There’s not as many as there used to be, but there’s enough that I’d rather see what they have to say while I’m waiting for my Bluesky invite.

        • @ikidd
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          21 year ago

          People just like to Twitterbate. Can’t say I get it, but then again I don’t like to be pooped on during sex either. Different strokes, I guess.

    • @[email protected]
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      Niche communities that took years to built up and that I can’t find anywhere else. For example Esperanto speakers are quite active on Twitter. They also have their own Mastodon instance, but it is not the same. (I use both now)

  • panCat
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    401 year ago

    Not exactly a twitter user , what is tweetdeck?

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      The only thing that made twitter useable. No ads. You put your lists of people into columns, so you only saw exactly what you wanted to see. No algos trying to shove “you may like” stuff down your throat.

      I use it for work reasons but I’m not paying for it, I’ll deal without and start digging into what needs can be fulfilled with mastodon. I stopped using it the first time it broke for a week due to elon and I thought it was over then.

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        No algo is the big one for me. Don’t have to worry about that with Mastodon. And the advanced interface of Mastodon is also pretty nice.

      • @[email protected]
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        I’ve never used TweetDeck but there is the Control Panel for Twitter, which makes it usable. It can auto-block all the bluechecks with under a million followers, hide the “For You” tab, block ads, and restore the old Twitter branding.

        Unfortunately the main reason I use Twitter is not the platform itself, but the public figures that are on it. Mastodon (mostly) doesn’t have that, though there is a trickle of some coming over.

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          Yeah same for the content. I use it for economic news primarily and while I’m starting to cultivate it with other means most of it is still on twitter.

          Now that I think about it, since I don’t interact on twitter I could make do with cross platform posting bots. Will need to spend some more time digging into mastodon this week.

      • @Saneless
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        I used regular lists on Twitter till I stopped using it a few months ago. No ads, chronological order. It was good

        But people I followed, I started seeing only replies from shitstain bluetlickers so I dropped it for good

    • @[email protected]
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      It was a very popular 3rd party Twitter client that Twitter actually bought way back when.

    • @SulaymanF
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      151 year ago

      A desktop Twitter client, meant for power and business users. You could have multiple accounts open at the same time, search for mentions, etc.

    • @Got_Bent
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      51 year ago

      The album cover for the 1980 X album Los Angeles would be a perfect logo for Elon’s little sandbox.

    • PopShark
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      Good old methylenedioxymethamphetamine, where science said “why not” instead of “why” and took methamphetamine and then tweaked it to also dump hella serotonin on top of already having amphetamine properties of stimulating dopamine, norepinephrine, androgens. It’s no wonder people who abuse it can get seriously depressed from burning out literally every pleasure and stimulation neurotransmitter humans have all with one drug. Ain’t your granny’s pep pills

      • subversive_dev
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        Certain substances can change your life from a single “trip”

        With MDMA the promise and peril is… absolutely no interpersonal walls AT ALL. No masks and no fear. Be careful who you trip with.

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    If he means being on X as in the party drug, and being back in his days i think he means the drugs (x=Ecstasy) were more fun than that shit post paradise that is robbing the the porno and hamster industries favorite letter, then I agree wholeheartedly.

    Or he just means was on xhamster, or xporn or so forth, still agree.

    Now, back to today’s X

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        And nothing of value is lost.

        The project is cool and worked fine, but the Twitter isn’t worth the hassle

          • @22dobbeltskudhul
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            51 year ago

            No dude, you have to hate these platforms with a religiously burning passion.

    • @BonesOfTheMoonOP
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      41 year ago

      I definitely gave it up. Not giving dingdong Musk any engagement.

  • Big Nuts 700
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    Tweetdeck was so good for getting deal notifications within less than a minute, they crippled the old tweetdeck after the api changes and the new tweetdeck doesnt have sound notifications

  • mommykink
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    61 year ago

    And yet you’re still using it.

  • King
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    31 year ago

    Rent free jesus

  • @demlet
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    21 year ago

    I have no idea what that is, and I’m very thankful for it.

    • @BonesOfTheMoonOP
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      41 year ago

      Never go on Twitter. Try Firefish, it’s the fediverse too and it’s adorable.

      • @demlet
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        21 year ago

        Meh, I’m not one for hot takes and gotchas. To me the whole concept of deliberately short, unnuanced posts from everyone and their mom always seemed quite problematic, and I think my instinct on that was correct given what we’ve seen Twitter become over the past decade especially.

        • @BonesOfTheMoonOP
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          21 year ago

          I miss long form blogging SO much. Firefish is sweet though, I normally wouldn’t bother but it’s very nice.

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        Nah. X is usually short for XTC which is short Ecstacy which usually is MDMA (which is short for 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine)

      • @demlet
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        11 year ago

        No thanks, I don’t really know what that is either…