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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI lost my shit and got myself banned from Twitter
Good riddance, I was already planning to leave for good after the election anyways... May the bridges I burn light the way!
And now after being gone for ten years, I'm back to where it all started!

Archae
(47,116 posts)Not to mention the incels, anti-Semites and other nutcases.
Blue_Tires
(57,596 posts)Elmo promised to clean them up but they've increased by a factor of 100 since he took over... I never anticipated that he'd be able to hijack an entire social media platform and make it an extension of the angry orange idiot's Nazi campaign...
okaawhatever
(9,560 posts)duncang
(3,767 posts)Recently show up on blue sky.
okaawhatever
(9,560 posts)duncang
(3,767 posts)proud patriot
(101,839 posts)and deactivated my twit account
orwell
(8,003 posts)...fuck Xitter!
BOSSHOG
(42,154 posts)lastlib
(25,779 posts)
(IDK if the song has anything to do with the site's name, but WTH, right?)
okaawhatever
(9,560 posts)Bristlecone
(10,689 posts)Solid through and through.
misanthrope
(8,683 posts)Details, please
Blue_Tires
(57,596 posts)But I was trying to get banned, otherwise I never would have left...
Mark.b2
(545 posts)It’s much harder to get banned nowadays than it used to be.
I’m on my fourth userid on Twitter. I’ve managed to keep my current one for over two years.
I think they used to be more responsibe to tattletales than they are now.
Once I was banned for commenting on Sarah Huckabee’s weight…multiple times. Another time, I recieved repeated warnings over posting a contrarian opinion based on personal experience regarding a particular COVID topic. Admittedly, I got pissed after a warning, and I kept pushing the envelope. I dont recall specifically what I did, but it had to do with COVID, too.
Now, I dont think tattletales carry as much sway. Also, I think there are fewer people on X who are compelled to police others.
choie
(5,362 posts)N/t
Maru Kitteh
(30,092 posts)Wish it were all under better circumstances. But welcome home.
Blue_Tires
(57,596 posts)For starters I already realized how much I missed being able to edit my posts, and I don't have to limit myself to 280 characters!
markodochartaigh
(2,707 posts)the bridges I burn light the way!"
I love this. Thank you!
msongs
(71,128 posts)Blue_Tires
(57,596 posts)was because I thought I had a duty to try to fight the tsunami of disinformation leading up to the election... But as it turns out, Elmo had stacked the deck all along, by throttling liberal accounts and promoting Trumper ones in the algorithm.
The funny part is the day after the election, I instantly lost 1600 followers... That's how many bots were following me.
SupportSanity
(1,400 posts)Amazing the stacking of all the decks.
Speechless........
littlemissmartypants
(27,276 posts)Tips for moving to bluesky from Xitter*...
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219699595
❤️
Blue_Tires
(57,596 posts)
littlemissmartypants
(27,276 posts)Just xitter. ❤️
applegrove
(125,766 posts)Last edited Mon Nov 11, 2024, 01:49 AM - Edit history (1)
renders for me if I am looking at a video. None of my email addresses work to log in. Bugs me. I did try and get off it two years ago when Musk bought Twitter. I got out of the forum but not the videos. Maybe they want to be like YouTube and make it hard to block the videos on their site so they can keep market share. I don't like it when I can't control a website and when it controls me. I find that upsetting too.
yobrault1
(173 posts)I like it.
johnnyfins
(1,991 posts)Volksempfänger since day one. Now it's Untruth Social. Fucking nazi garbage...
Blue_Tires
(57,596 posts)But the election showed there's millions more than I ever anticipated...
PoindexterOglethorpe
(27,771 posts)cheerfully use Twitter.
Sort of like shopping at WalMart. If I want to contribute to Republicans, I'll do so directly.
Shermann
(8,914 posts)Musk is the guy to watch out for.
Blue_Tires
(57,596 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(27,771 posts)But it's hardly breaking news that Twitter and Musk are not very good.
womanofthehills
(9,680 posts)Mostly between 18 & 45. Why is it a good idea for Dems to leave and have one hundred million Americans influenced by Republicans???
EnergizedLib
(2,496 posts)You’re better off without that place.
Iggo
(48,800 posts)usonian
(17,253 posts)The air is cleaner and skies are brighter away from there.
Aaeia
(137 posts)Been off twitster for a while. A lot of people are using Zuckerberg's "threads". .. so far, a kinder twitster.
SoFlaBro
(3,428 posts)liberal N proud
(61,107 posts)Scrivener7
(55,494 posts)drray23
(8,208 posts)Those of you who are as well please follow me and I will do likewise.
Schlocko
(53 posts). . that it is as impossible to function in the modern world without Twitter as it is without indoor plumbing. But I’m living a happy, Elmo-free life.