What the fuck is the other 70%'s problem?
this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2024
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They're bots
Or right-wing fascists
Or people with morbid curiousity like me who hop on to see the dumpster fire occasionally. Can't say I recommend it.
He kept the 70% he wanted, it'll be a propaganda engine and communications platform for the right wing.
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I have a lot of friends that won’t quit because of sports updates and all the shitposts
There are a lot of quasi-celebrity types with a big following that don’t want to give up their follower base.
You’re telling me the company that once had ads for T-Mobile and Volkswagen and now almost exclusively has ads where random bots with NFT photos advertise ChatGPT ‘services’ isn’t doing well financially??
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The 2022 and 2023 usage data was gathered through a national telephone survey of about 1,500 people aged 12 and older—further details and methodology for the 2024 usage data will be released on March 28, according to Edison.
What an interesting choice for collection method when you're assessing a social media website in 2024.
How much did human usage drop? Because there are a shitload more bots on twitter nowadays than there were in the years before he took over.
Any time something gets too big it gets bots. Lemmy will be the same. We will see instances getting defederated who cannot manage the spam.
Fuck Elon though
Any time something gets too big it gets bots
Dead internet theory, summed up in a sentence
If people set up their own instances with 100% LLM bots how would we even know they are bots to defederate? The AIs are too realistic. Only giveaway would be the ones dumb enough to make accounts post/comment 24/7 with seconds between each comment.
I imagine the content would be bad, which is the whole reason an instance would become defederated.
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Oh you mean Twitter?
Yeah, ‘X’ is never gonna happen.
Needing to log in to view someones tweets means now I wont even visit the site when linked. Kinda the number 1 rule of platforms is to make them accessible to those that don't already use it, so as to convert them later. Musk, and everyone around him letting these decisions run through, are idiots
ran into this last night.
I hate twitter, but there was something I was trying to see and the only way to get the info was from a twitter post. Couldnt view the goddamn twitter post without creating an account and logging in.
My immediate thought was "This isnt important enough for this bullshit" and immediately gave up.
I'm convinced this login to view shit is to hide the explosion of right wing white supremacy/racism/etc posts and the bots echoing and amplifying it from people before they commit themselves to an account.
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I wrote this right as the first elon buying Twitter mentions were popping up...
Notably, Twitter facilitated communication during the arab spring, where the people organized to stand against and even overthrow several broken and corrupt government regimes throughout the middle east - including some participation in places like Saudi Arabia, for example.
Twitter's second largest investor after a musk takeover... the kingdom of Saudi Arabia and it's de facto leader who, among other things, killed and dismembered an American journalist without consequence somewhat recently.
And now Twitter is about to be killed... and dismembered.
Yep, Saudi Arabia bought that service and the price, giving a man child a toy that it would probably ruin quickly, looked rather attractive.
Doesn't surprise me. Musk has cultivated and emboldened racists, homophobes, cryptobros, misogynists, and the far right and the platform has turned into a cesspit. Meanwhile scammers & bots run rampant and the blueticks stink up every thread with cretinous remarks and trolling.
I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people have just given up with it, or moved to another social media that isn't so toxic.
good
I'm part of the 70%.
I use it exclusively for gay furry porn.
Disgusting.
I expected better from a gay furry porn aficionado
The fact that the platform is used by right wing extremists and for gay furry porn is kinda remarkable.
If you think right wing extremists can't be into gay furry porn...
No, I thought they’d use another platform it.
I'm back to calling it Twitter. (Not that I'm ever on it though.)
It's such a stupid name! Everytime it's mentioned, it has to be prepend or suffixed with something so people actually understand the "X" context.
And more importantly - If you visit x.com, it redirects to twitter.com! So what's the fucking point of the rebrand?
Xitter, but the X makes a ‘sh’ sound.
Xwitter (zwitter)
To the Mayan people X makes a 'sh' sound. That's the way I pronounce it. Now and forever.
Xitter, I mean Shitter. I still pronounce the letter X normally.
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Well If you take in account how hard has "The Chief Xit" tried to destroy Twitter and piss off anyone using it, this is actually unexpectadly good result! More Powah to the Man Child 😂 . Also - there is no longer the $1 payment for account creation - I guess bot traffic is better than no traffic 😂.
Ever since Musk's control of the company, Twitter (I refused to call it X) showed me multiple hate and racists posts. Basically, Twitter is showing me garbage. I now use Mastadon instead.
Mastodon has been great.
Are there enough using it?
I was never active in terms of posting but I followed several news outlets, local government agencies, and a few friends. Shortly after Musk took over I saw nothing but right wing nutjobs and a lot of posts from Musk. I tried unfollowing but nothing worked so I quit logging in. I need to cancel my account but haven't taken the time.
Facebook does that for me too, alongside flat earthers, anti EV crap and the occasional funny picture. It's depressing.
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