Get out, now.
It’s amazing how people convinced themselves they need all these platforms in their lives. Meta, X, TikTok, YouTube - they can do whatever they want to their users, and the users just take it.
I’ve learned to drop social media platforms as soon as they pull shit I’m uncomfortable with and live a happy life, somehow.
“They make communicating with your friends and family easier!”
Um, E-mail has been doing that since the dawn of the Internet. There is absolutely nothing at all that has made communicating any easier since even instant messaging. All that social media has turned into, is nothing but megaphones for the idiot masses.
They literally don’t. X pushing things to the top of ur feed, Facebook polluting your timeline with random video shares, it all makes it harder to see the content you actually care about
Facebook before the algorithm was awesome. It was just the most recent stuff your friends did in that literal order. There was nothing wrong with it lol. Or at least I didn’t think so.
It didn’t make as much money from sponsored videos until they forced it to be in your face via the algorithm 😀
OG Facebook was honestly great.
When I visit Facebook, it’s about 8:1 “recommended for you” vs people I actually know.
I see exactly one post on Instagram from anyone I follow before it’s all ads and random algorithm shit I’m not interested in
I’ve just started going through and telling it not show me any of the recommended stuff.
It’s kind of fun watching the algorithm cycle through waves of guessing. “Ok it’s going to be all wrestling for the next two days. Hmm, that didn’t work, let’s try MMA for a couple days. No, alright, how about a bunch of memes about being a mechanic…”
On the other hand the clicking “don’t show me this” doesn’t seem to actually do anything. I’ve told it not to show me Pixie and Brutus at least three times.
Um, E-mail has been doing that since the dawn of the Internet.
I always see people saying “but I have some friends across the world and Facebook is the only way we can keep in contact because they don’t have a phone 😭😭😭”
Like… my guy. You both have email addresses and used them to create FB accounts. Cut out the middle man.
Facebook as taught them that they can be lazy and reduce their effort to remain in contact with a like or emoji reaction.
Ironically, I upvoted your comment.
AIM was a game-changer tho
It was.
What was better than e-mail? Instant messaging and AIM gave us that.
What was better than just instant messaging on your PC? Doing it on the go, on your phone. Great!
What was better than just instant messaging on the go and on PC? Being able to share content like video and pictures. Being able to make group chats and all.
Did it all without the need of social media.
I’m not trying to defend what it has become but social media can be good to keep updated or in contact with people. You’re not gonna email everyone pictures of your vacation or whatever. Or to keep up with people you don’t see nearly as often as you’d like because of, well, life. People do take it way to far and either post way too much info or take everything too serious.
But where else can I post a picture of my dinner and have millions of random strangers see it, thereby validating my personal fragile ego, before I even take the first bite?
My preferred method of communication is a good ol’ phone call, or an SMS to say things like “be there in 5.” I don’t really get the hype with a slew of different text based messaging platforms.
I’m pretty close but I prefer signal just because SMS doesn’t do group messaging very well.
I was all about Signal until they dropped SMS support (totally understand why). None of the people in my life use signal except for the select few that enjoy their ahem extracurricular activities, so it’s kinda moot. And I just don’t have the energy to crusade for people to give a rats ass about their privacy. If I need to have a combo that requires a degree of discretion, I just do it in person.
i use the phone (ya know… for its original and intended purpose) for nearly all ‘not face to face’ communication. i don’t even have data on my mobile and sms is disabled at the carrier.
After being on fediverse it’s been great how refreshing and natural real decentralized social media is rather than the astroturfed, money and soul sucking dreck that is the big corporate socials are.
I almost wish there was a way that we could encourage growth and somehow let it scale to critical mass through grants and donations. But eventually if the fediverse got to that size then there would be grifters and corporations to ruin our fun.
Yeah, I mean, Lemmy and other fediverse instances need to play their cards carefully. If they are to be the future, then they need to not cave into what has plagued the other social media platforms we’ve long used before them.
Thats not how any of this works though. Corpos and governments are free to spin up their own instances of any federated service right now. It is the future, but the future is small bubbles that communicate with each other. So we don’t have to be on Meta’s instance, or Wal-Mart’s, or even the US’s national instance. We can stay where we are and keep it like this.
Right! The fediverse is 100% a happier place. I love Lemmy and Firefish and Pixelfed. I’m deleting Facebook as soon as I collect enough email addresses.
Absolutely, I only had FB and I was late to the game on that as well compared to others. I gave it up completely in 2016 thankfully right before the crazy political crap took over and never looked back. I did reddit which was fine because I didn’t know anyone and it let me actually follow everything I loved no matter how small it was. Now I am here because of what they pulled. Wonder how longer this place will last…
Probably because he’s sad that people are blocking him.
This has to be the reason
Nah, he wants to boost ‘engagement’ for his advertisers.
At this point, any advertisers Xitter has left get what they deserve when they spend money on ads there.
My guess is people were blocking Blue users-- now they can’t!
Community Notes jumped on that tweet fast:
If the ability to block users was to be removed, X would be in violation of the policies of the App Store as well as the Google Play Store. Potentially, this could lead to X being removed from these platforms.
about time
Pfft, good. I’m sure Musk’s response will be “wah, wah, they censor me, wah, wah”. Because out of any playbook of republicunt, is to proclaim you’re being censored when you’re breaking the rules and think free speech applies to just you and your allies.
Musk is walking proof some people SHOULD be canceled!
I wonder how much “EARN MONEY FREE” spam it’d take for them to realize blocking is a very desirable and needed feature for such a big platform.
Elon: DOIT, ANYWAY!
X is in violation of the App store’s naming guidelines. They still managed to shove it through.
Conversation at Twitter HQ:
- Staff: How can we increase engagement?
- crickets
- Elmu: I’ve got it! We’ll make stalking easier!
- Staff: Uhhh
- Mush (now halfway out the door): Have it done by Sunday.
Alternatively:
Staff: Uh, the blocking feature is having some issues.
Emu: Well fix it.
Staff: No one knows how that part works and you fired the guy who wrote it. And then you insulted him.
Emu: Meh, just remove the whole feature.
My guess as to how it went:
- random twitter troll: “haha Elon you’re probably the most blocked person on this site”
- Elon: “not anymore”
That’s how it went the last time he brought the subject up. During that hole period where we learned he had the engineers tweak the algorithm to 10x his visibility in the feed.
Cool, next they should remove the “log in” feature.
Stop using Twitter. Seriously, people, stop using Twitter. It’s not going to get better.
Think of this as an IQ test. Those that pass come here, those that fail get Zuck’d, Musk’d & Spez’d.
I killed my Twitter account the day after Muskrat was forced to buy it.
Fun Fact: If he does this, Twitter will get removed from both app stores.
Both app stores require a block feature?
I can’t speak for Apple but Google does. It falls under their user-generated content policy which requires you to “Provides an in-app system for blocking UGC and users”. Google is generally the more lenient of the two when it comes to policies, so I’d be highly surprised if Apple didn’t have it…
Apple too requires mechanisms to block stalkers from what I saw on Mastodon.
I killed mine the day he unbanned the orange moron. Like, I knew it was going to be a shitshow once Musk got his hands on it within weeks of having it. Soon as he did that unbanning though, I was out.
Fun Fact: If he does this, Twitter will get removed from both app stores.
Fingers crossed!
I knew the ship was sinking but I stayed around until the name change to X because official and then I bounced. Made it here after Reddit and twitter made more recent bad decisions.
From your keyboard to God’s feed
Just stop using Twitter. There’s a half-dozen alternatives by now, Jesus Christ.
Take your time and attention somewhere else. Leave.
It’s funny how corporate guys will always lie even about dumb shit like this. Of course blocking is a feature, users want to be able to block other users. It’s the owner of the website that doesn’t want anyone to be able to block him
notice that the only kind of harassment he’s likely to experience (in DMs) is the only one that gets a carveout
can’t escape the dictator
It was my instant question when I saw this. Who blocked him that upset him so. But then it occurred to me. It’s probably the number of people that blocked him.
Elmo must have found out how many people are blocking him.
Wish I had 40 billion to decimate
Get out now before he makes quitting impossible and mandates 10 Xerts a day.
Please drink verification can.
Have you performed the X Salute today?
I left and deleted my account after Elon changed the algorithm to show nothing but his posts. With this decision and the many other bad decisions he’s made since buying Twitter, I’m glad I left and I frankly don’t miss it.
This will absolutely be abused and people will be harassed, but I feel this is intentional as he continues turning Twitter into a far-right echo chamber.
I left Twitter. why must I keep hearing about Twitter?
I was never on twitter. Welcome to my world.
We all used to have to hear about it because of politics and celebrities, now we have to hear about it because of Musk antics.
Why do people even use twitter-like platforms? Like what’s so good about following users instead of communities? Like I don’t want to hear about tech from a Linus Sebastian, I want to hear about it from a community of people interested in technology.
That’s why I never even liked twitter nor the fediverse alternative, Mastodon. It doesn’t really make sense to me.
Getting attention in *communities* as a single entity or (self)claimed *authority* is probably more difficult than in *users*-based streams.
I don’t have a Twitter account but I use rss through nitter. It’s useful depending on the account like if you just want to be updated on the progress of some video game mod for instance, which can take years to complete. So it’s useful for project updates over manually going to like nexusmods or moddb.
As for why people use Twitter. That’s a easy one. It’s a good platform for self promotion and advertising. It’s less a platform for discussions, and more useful tool for getting exposure. It’s why Mastodon is not appealing as Twitter to individuals who use it, since it’s not for ideological reasons that they use something like Twitter but how many eyeballs they can get to view their content.
Agreed. It feels like a bunch of people broadcasting to the void with megaphones. Threaded forums are 100x better
Because some people are good at what they do. In online communities you often have people talking out of their ass. It’s interesting hearing what experts in certain topics have to say. Also not to mention following friends and family. Not sure what’s hard to understand there.
Some of us like staring into the dumpster fire.
Yeah I never used Twitter but God I love hearing how musk is fucking up.
Billionaires not getting their way is the only way I get hard now 😂
Why is anyone still using Twitter at this point?
Beats the fuck out of me. I’ve just warned 4 people I know who’re still on it. Two of them I expect will and have switched to alts I’ve suggested them to. One already outright deleted. The last one isn’t concerned because “long as I don’t post my personal info, things are okay!”. It’s like, dude, just being on a platform and knowing what you stand for is going to be exploited by assholes on that platform. Save yourself the headache and just hop off.
I know a couple of people who still insist on staying there. “It’s where I get the news and the fun memes and shit talk”. I presented a mastodon instance focused on brazilian portuguese, but they just “meh” at it.
Does that last friend not understand that just because you don’t post personal info doesn’t mean it can’t be easily found by crazy people? Like it’s pretty easy to find peoples info even when they use fake names nowadays
My Twitter account exists exclusively for posting links to mastodon.
Oh boy. RIP his mentions.
I almost wanna bet that he’s gonna be the only one with the feature still on
And miss every time someone talks about him? No, he definitely still has it on.
