John Oliver's Show covered what's happening with X/Twitter.
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@hpod16 That seems so elementary. But it's probably difficult for the same reasons that quitting smoking is.
@Eetschrijver
Unless you have *work* that forces you to stay connected to things using Twitter for infodumps it shouldn't be.Journalists, I see being there for follows and auto-posts, then being active on other spaces.
Everyone else is ling past the GTFO stage of Twitter.
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@Eetschrijver @hpod16 yeah, I got into twitter by using text messages for it. I was proud of what it became. When that dude took over I ran like hell and started screaming that "they bought the community center and they are tearing it down like we lost a 1980s underdog comedy!"
@Montaagge
The old community center is taken over by right-wing extremist. I stopped hanging out there over two years ago. Will actually have to look up when it was I deleted my account.Unless you feel comfortable hanging out with Nazis one should not be on the dead bird site anymore.
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@Eetschrijver
Unless you have *work* that forces you to stay connected to things using Twitter for infodumps it shouldn't be.Journalists, I see being there for follows and auto-posts, then being active on other spaces.
Everyone else is ling past the GTFO stage of Twitter.
@hpod16@Hakuso
Even for professionals I can't think of any good reason to keep posting on the dead bird site. Unless Nazis are your target audience, in that case it is exactly the place where you need to be.
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@hpod16 Anyone using X has made their choice. "Oh, you can't blame people for that, that's not nice, it's not their fault, etc."
Nonsense. Does it suck what happened to it? Yep. Is there Any excuse for still being there? Of course not. The nazis took over the bar; you can't drink there and pretend you're not in a nazi bar.
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@ianto_jones @hpod16
Choice is exactly the problem. People don't "choose" to use X or Insta or Windows. It's the "de facto standard" you never have to think about.
Moving to ethical alternatives is a choice, that involves effort and taking responsibility for that choice. Nobody wants that.@jkn
Not taking responsibility is probably key here.
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@hpod16 video has not been made available in (at least) Oz. You'll need a VPN.
Why do people do that?
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John Oliver's Show covered what's happening with X/Twitter. How it's algorithms are designed to push right-wing content, and how people don't just get away with, but get paid for inciting violence and hate speech. His advice? Leave X.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ZG_xWYLzI@hpod16 or was the video a lesson in how to get rich by betraying your principles? Saw most of it. Fascinating that people would by the bullshit so easily.
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John Oliver's Show covered what's happening with X/Twitter. How it's algorithms are designed to push right-wing content, and how people don't just get away with, but get paid for inciting violence and hate speech. His advice? Leave X.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ZG_xWYLzI@hpod16
I have long thought that Huxley's Soma from A Brave New World, in our world, would be the dopamine addiction to social media. I guess in some ways it is more useful than a simple chemical high because someone like Musk can dial it up situationally. -
@alterelefant @hpod16 Australia
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John Oliver's Show covered what's happening with X/Twitter. How it's algorithms are designed to push right-wing content, and how people don't just get away with, but get paid for inciting violence and hate speech. His advice? Leave X.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ZG_xWYLzI@hpod16 having watched the piece I think his advice is actually we need to do something about this, leaving is not enough. Propaganda hurts you and your society even if you don't read it. X is the factory polluting the water supply, it's not enough to boycott it's products, they need to pay damages and fix it.
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@alterelefant @hpod16 Australia
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John Oliver's Show covered what's happening with X/Twitter. How it's algorithms are designed to push right-wing content, and how people don't just get away with, but get paid for inciting violence and hate speech. His advice? Leave X.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ZG_xWYLzI@hpod16 wow, welcome to 3 years ago.
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John Oliver's Show covered what's happening with X/Twitter. How it's algorithms are designed to push right-wing content, and how people don't just get away with, but get paid for inciting violence and hate speech. His advice? Leave X.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ZG_xWYLzI@hpod16 I've been on Twitter almost since the beginning and when Musk took over and showed his real face I pulled the plug. No amount of nostalgia and network effect can justify being there IMO. I still use Meta for work related posts but for personal things I'm only here. And maybe one day I will delete even this account and will have a normal life: we can have social media but we don't need it.
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John Oliver's Show covered what's happening with X/Twitter. How it's algorithms are designed to push right-wing content, and how people don't just get away with, but get paid for inciting violence and hate speech. His advice? Leave X.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7ZG_xWYLzIPlease use content warning for this kind of post. Parts of the video contains pictures of a very disturbed individual. It can cause nightmares.
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Please use content warning for this kind of post. Parts of the video contains pictures of a very disturbed individual. It can cause nightmares.
@leffe that’s fair! I’m sorry you had to see this man on your feed
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Please use content warning for this kind of post. Parts of the video contains pictures of a very disturbed individual. It can cause nightmares.
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@hpod16 people still use txwitter? News to me.
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@Eetschrijver I think people are still there because they love to watch the drama? Or perhaps they are attached to what twitter user to be?
Personally I can't bring myself to delete my account, it was a huge part of my life. I'm just inactive & linking to Mastodon on there.
The people I know who still prefer Twitter as a news outlet are pretty unhappy characters, I wonder if there is a link?@hpod16 @Eetschrijver it's rather stunning how many news media and politicians are still *very* active there. And then you get effects like news articles with videos embedded which are all hosted on Twitter because they are in large numbers *still* putting their statements and evidence there, instead of an alternative or their own sites...
