• Kronusdark@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    We’ve attempted this twice now… too many people are addicted to twitter and won’t quit, they are addicted to the twitter drama, no matter how bad the disinformation and hate speech get.

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      3 months ago

      I think there will (or could) come a time. There has to be a limit. “Elon Musk sucks and Twitter is full of Nazis” doesn’t seem to be the limit, though.

    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 months ago

      i wouldnt be using twitter but if i want to see don trump jr say that tim walz drinks horse cum, i need to be using twitter with an account unfortunately.

      • Communist_Synthesizer@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        I mean, I’ve never had a twitter account but I’ve heard it plenty. Just peek over at /r/conservative once a week or so.

        I finally got around to deleting Facebook this year too when I found out they’ll cross post your Instagram stuff to Facebook if you don’t click a box somewhere.

        I get a lot more stuff done without the doomscrolling.

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          3 months ago

          Just peek over at /r/conservative

          is that somewhere on lemmy?

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            3 months ago

            Fair, but if the excuse is that you can’t get the information elsewhere, that’s just not true. I’d rather give reddit the page views and clicks over Facebook or Twitter.

            At least over there, Nazi content actually earns you a ban.

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          3 months ago

          yeah idk i find i dont really have a problem with doomscrolling, it’s easy enough to just hit the close button and do something else for me, other than that i like to see the stupid shit people are posting.

          also its nice to verify certain posts as “real”

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        3 months ago

        I don’t have a X/Twitter account anymore but can still read tweets or whatever they’re called these days

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          3 months ago

          you can still read some tweets of some accounts, it blocks most of the new tweets and visible replies, plus if you wanna see anything spicy, you literally need an account.

          technically the web archive gets around this but then you need a direct tweet link, and finding that shit is too much effort.