Inb4 fifty comments all saying “I’m not on twitter/x.”
Hey, I’m not either, but we aren’t who this thread is for, please and thank you
Please upvote this so people see it and think before making a shitty throwaway comment that adds absolutely zero to discussion.
Edit: fucking called it
Jokes on you, I’m not in this thread
Similarly to Snot Flickerman, I also believe that this thread will be filled with comments about not being on twitter, as that seems to be a common demographic of lemmy.
And also similarly to Snot Flickerman, I’ll make use of this opportunity to become the very thing I resent in this thread by mentioning that I’m also not on twitter.
Ah I see the pedantic asses are out in force today!
Much like the “I’m not on twitter” folks, you’re not nearly as clever or original as you think you are! Ta-ta!
This… Also, what a loaded and opinionated question. It implies that you shouldn’t be on X because of Elon Musk, if OP was genuinely curious about why someone uses X, they could have asked a neutral question: “Are you using X? Why or why not?” or “If you are using X, why and how?”. This currently just reflects the OP’s opinion for validation I guess?
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Its 2024 and this isn’t an unpopular opinion that OP holds
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Its AskLemmy, not a fucking serious news organization or something. Who cares if its loaded and opinionated? Validate OP’s opinion away!
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I like how those people didn’t appreciate you taking away their circlejerk opportunity, so just downvoted you instead 😂
I swear half of Lemmy is just people talking about how they don’t use Twitter or Reddit.
I feel like my comment is the only one that even attempts to answer the question.
Pretty predictable though. Lemmy is even less mainstream than Mastodon so I would expect most people here to be way outside mainstream social media’s target audience.
Nothing but upvotes on kbin
Well, la dee da.
I’m blue la buh dee la dee dah
One third Trekkies, one third talking about how shit twitter and Reddit are, one third content.
Then why didn’t OP say “For those of you still on X/Twitter, “?
because it’s clearly implied by the title and they said as much elsewhere in the comments
but don’t let that get in the way of you being a pedantic ass
The way I read it was “of course you use Twitter, everyone does” as is the general assumption.
I mean, you’re the one who actually commented saying you’re not on it. Admittedly, you did say that it was a shitty comment right after making it.
Good job on taking my advice and keep staying pedantic!
Your advice isn’t directed at me, because I’m on Twitter. Look, I agree with you that those comments are shitty, but OP should know that if you ask shitty questions, you’ll get shitty answers.
Lmao you don’t know what pedantic means, do you? woooooosh
I literally don’t give a single fuck what people are involved with producing the software I use
Because Wayland is a hot mess.
Laughs in i3
Sir this is lemmy
It’s the NSFW Content. TBH.
The artists who draw the art/topics/proportions I’m into, and the IRL models with those proportions, don’t exist on Mastodon. If they do I haven’t found them. So Twitter still gets my horny clicks cause that content doesn’t exist elsewhere.
Well now I’m curious what kind of proportions you talking. Got a sample?
Thanks for the honest reply 😅 That sure is a very specific type of body. Not my type but to each their own.
Here’s hoping you’ll meet someone like that IRL, bud! 🤞 All the best!
No worries; you asked a genuine question and got a genuine answer haha… My wife is awesome and the best partner i could ever ask for, so I’m ahead of the game in that regard
Knowing what you know about USA, why are you still living there? /s
To be fair, deleting an optional account and not using it is far easier than emigrating to another country.
So not really a great example for your point.
That would actually be a really interesting topic in it’s own thread. I’d be curious what people have to say.
If you can tell me how to move to a better country with no skills and little money, I’d move next week.
Because I don’t care about how the owner of the service is.
I never had an account to start with.
Never really knew what it was for, and given the number of multi part parts and screenshots where you read bottom to top, no fucker else knows how it’s supposed to work either.
It’s just a shit blog with an arbitrary character limit.
Yeah I could never get into everything being spread around and jumbled up, I have my own rapid and jumbled stream of intrusive and inane thoughts, I don’t need to see everyone else’s.
Really though I just hope the people who enjoy it find a good replacement, because if those idiots start shitting up the rest of my internets I’ll be pissed.
Research. Many people I’m interested in still use Twitter. And I hate how Nitter instances globally have started to become rate limited or outright obliterated by Twitter API weirdness/
Because my city deems it is still a good idea to post important announcements about roadworks and water interruptions/boil advisory there exclusively :/
You don’t need an account to see those posts, right?
These days, you functionally do.
You can only view a single tweet at a time when not logged in, which can be a struggle if youre trying to just see updates in general and aren’t seeking a specific post.
I know because I have a friend who still sends me links to make them useful I have to put them in Nitter.
To view a specific tweet you don’t, but as soon as you want to see more tweets by that same account without a direct link you get to a login page.
Wonder if there’s a proxy tool to view an account and feed fully.
I wish my city works like this. But noooo our local government uses FACEBOOK. ONLY. Twitter is still the lesser of two evils
Ugh same here in the NL with WhatsApp. People act as if it’s public infrastructure.
With the small carve out exception of people who are fine with the antisocial behavior and management style of the owner, Inertia is the only reason. Governments, influencers, corporations- they all have a following and an established channel which involves minimum expense to maintain.
I’d say that the vast majority of people on Twitter couldn’t care less about Elon Musk himself. However, Twitter is actually going downhill now and the only ads I see anymore are either hardcore porn or scams. That’s what’s going to drive people off Twitter.
I am still “on X” because my account was banned and I literally cannot delete the account… because it’s banned.
But since I know that’s probably not the type of use you were referring to, I know others that still use it for scientific communications (e.g. announcing publications from their group and following those from others) and generally don’t care much or think about the fact that Elon is heading the platform.
I like low-end advertising
I only have an account to bitch at my ISP whenever I have network issues. It’s the only place where they actually do customer support for some reason.
They stopped showing their phone number on their website. The only other option is a piece of shit whatsapp bot that just tells you to restart your router.
Luckily I only run into problems I can’t fix by myself like once per year at most. Don’t have the app installed. Just go through Firefox.
Porn. Also there’s no ads usually around porn posts. So really it just costs them more
Porn is everywhere though? I recommend noodlemagazine for free full porn videos. Or are you talking about amateur content? It’s what I sort of miss from Reddit, but then again, most of it was just teasers for their shitty OF.
I stopped posting but keep the account active because a lot of the Japanese artists I follow have stopped using other sites that were once pretty standard and never moved away from Twitter. There are also some people I don’t want to lose touch with that never moved away.
