• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 months ago

    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

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      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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        9 months ago
        1. Its 2024 and this isn’t an unpopular opinion that OP holds

        2. 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.

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      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.

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        9 months ago

        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

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          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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Unfortunately Twitter/X is still the fastest way to find Japanese fan bases for almost everything. For example Baldur’s Gate 3 just got its Japanese launch last month, and it’s been fun to see their thoughts since they are not familiar with DND settings or CRPG all together. Many Japanese users I follow don’t like what Musk’s doing to Twitter as well, but they are also not sure about other platforms so it’s kind of it is what it is situation now.

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        They basically weren’t aware of the game before it got GotY and some even got sour that it won more awards than Zelda. (There was even a forum thread named something like “[sad news] a game that no Japanese has heard of has won GotY” which was quite hilarious.)
        Then after the launch many players are surprised of how much freedom the game provides, and enjoy multiplayer sessions, classic big explosions, Talk with Animals, Scratchy the dog and Grease + fire combo, etc. There were some players that dropped the game with weird reasons tho, from “not anime enough” to “I thought this was an action RPG??” and even “I like RPGs but not TRPGs (??)” I’d say BG3 seems to be more like 50/50 in Japan because how its structure is different from JRPG’s, but those who enjoy the game are really fond of it.

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          That’s understandable, a lot of games that were really popular in Japan back in the day hardly got any play in the USA, definitely different vibes in the gaming communities.

          “not anime enough”

          That’s kind of hilarious since 20 years ago, western gamers were rejecting games for being “too anime.”

          Very cool, though, and I’m glad a lot of folks over there are enjoying it!

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            That’s kind of hilarious since 20 years ago, western gamers were rejecting games for being “too anime.”

            Today too! I’m still not really interested in the anime art style. I’m glad the enjoyers do have lots to choose from though.

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    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.

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      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.

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    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/

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      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.

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    Because my city deems it is still a good idea to post important announcements about roadworks and water interruptions/boil advisory there exclusively :/

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      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.

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        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.

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      I wish my city works like this. But noooo our local government uses FACEBOOK. ONLY. Twitter is still the lesser of two evils

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      Ugh same here in the NL with WhatsApp. People act as if it’s public infrastructure.

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        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.

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        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.

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    My entire fandoms are there. Also twitter is ok if you follow the right people, you don’t depend on the trending list and you dgaf about follower count.

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      Thus pisses me off. The big fandoms and influencers could move. But all the people are on X. The users couldove, but all the fandoms and influencers are on X. It’s a fucking loop where no one wants to make the first move

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    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.