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    if you’re still using twitter, then you deserve exactly everything you’re getting from it

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            Yes, true, but this is a lesser used form of Effect, and I thought it better not to muddy the waters for someone trying to learn the arbitrary rules we’ve assigned to one of the more difficult to understand languages in the world: English.

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          Shitting on people is a lot less effective than showing them something better.

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            “something better” in this case is getting rid of the notion that microblogging is even something that anyone needs

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      The thing that makes me nuts is people justify it by, “but it’s the only place I can find (person or service).”

      Back in my day! People posted their products and services on multiple platforms to reach a broader audience. If the creator you like is too lazy to market themselves, having gotten spoiled on “Xitter will do my marketing for me,” then that’s on them. Encourage them to post on other platforms in order to reach you.

      They are complicit and so are you.

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        The media will have to monitor it or they will get scooped by anyone that does.

        Once they are forced to live partially outside of that cesspool, they will see the value of setting up their own servers and jumping in.

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      How do you solve for example, de-federation with government owned instances ( which I imagine many would do)

      Mastodon suffers the same problem as Twitter, if the people in control of the servers don’t like it, they get to be arbitrate for their users. The solution is not for everyone to host their own instance as it’s just immensely wasteful and complex, and since de-federation is not positively communicated, one can go a very long time before realizing they are getting content filtered unwillingly.

      I just don’t see how this problem (specific content being blocked) would be solved by the Kamala Harris’s campaign team having a mastodon instance.

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    US government should immediately suspend and deactivate all their official Xitter accounts with a message asking people to stand against fascism

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    There is nothing we can do people. There is absolutely no other option, we just have to continue using Twitter :'(

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    I’m sure the respected journalist Matt Taibi is cracking the case right down as we speak… surely you’re back on the Twitter files, aren’t you Matt?

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    Musk has also attacked Harris more directly. “Democrats destroy democracy in pursuit of power,” a QAnon-linked influencer wrote with Biden’s resignation letter attached. “The Democratic elite, corporate media, and billionaire donors successfully pressured the candidate chosen by Democratic primary voters to drop out because he’s down in the polls and losing.

    Same bs “moderates” tried to frame Biden stepping down…

    They really do sound more and more like trumpets everyday

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      So land of the free but if we vote for you to run you have to even if you don’t want to anymore. I didn’t vote for Biden in my primary.