• empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    12 hours ago

    Leave. It sucks since so much info and live news is often stuck there but people need to realize ot is a dying platform, the less traction any of its content gets, the better.

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      12 hours ago

      That’s not an option because I’m not on X in the first place. I used xcancel to access information from government agencies and some brands since you cannot browse X without an account, and I deleted mine after Elon Musk bought it.

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      12 hours ago

      Well, that also means you can’t verify if a post was actually made or not there. I stay the fuck away from twitter except through nitter if I’m checking a “source”. So now that’s gone I guess

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        12 hours ago

        Honestly, genuinely, and 100% seriously, if it is a twitter screenshot, it is probably better to simply disregard its veracity. Twitter screenshots are 80% dunking on random vermin, 30% bot posts, and 20% faked. (Percentages reflect the vent diagram of fuck that is twitter) I used to verify, until I realized that the people there are simply not worth knowing.

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          11 hours ago

          Well, the thing is like say you see someone share something outrageous that makes you ask “wait is this real? Did they really say that?” Being able to check veracity is important in the age of disinformation.

          Also since I post a lot of comics I typically try to share the source. Now most artists have moved to other platforms, but their backlog might still be on that shithole. I don’t want to provide a link to that place, so being able to link to a proxy is preferred

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      11 hours ago

      Is there actual evidence it’s dying? For a while it seemed like the momentum was there but now I don’t hear much about mastodon or even bluesky from normies.

      • harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        9 hours ago

        Mastodon and Bluesky will probably get another boost with this, then it’ll go back to how it’s been.

        There are far too many bots for human account deletions to really make a dent in Xitter’s numbers.

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        12 hours ago

        The people using this service are the ones who already left Twitter.

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          11 hours ago

          Or never had one, and are just checking one thing. Then twitter says you need an account to view. So you use these alternate viewing sites. I did that a few times.

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      11 hours ago

      Sadly my state representative pretty much only posts on there and I feel like I can better tailor my complaints and insults towards him when he fucks up by reading his drivel

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        8 hours ago

        Could someone create a bridge account that reposts their tweets to mastodon?