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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
(46,929 posts)Not to mention the incels, anti-Semites and other nutcases.
Blue_Tires
(57,247 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
(3,757 posts)Recently show up on blue sky.
okaawhatever
(9,560 posts)duncang
(3,757 posts)proud patriot
(101,241 posts)and deactivated my twit account
orwell
(8,002 posts)...fuck Xitter!
BOSSHOG
(40,507 posts)lastlib
(25,056 posts)(IDK if the song has anything to do with the site's name, but WTH, right?)
okaawhatever
(9,560 posts)Bristlecone
(10,543 posts)Solid through and through.
misanthrope
(8,311 posts)Details, please
Blue_Tires
(57,247 posts)But I was trying to get banned, otherwise I never would have left...
Mark.b2
(513 posts)Its much harder to get banned nowadays than it used to be.
Im on my fourth userid on Twitter. Ive 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 Huckabees 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
(4,760 posts)N/t
Maru Kitteh
(29,306 posts)Wish it were all under better circumstances. But welcome home.
Blue_Tires
(57,247 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
(2,221 posts)the bridges I burn light the way!"
I love this. Thank you!
msongs
(70,363 posts)Blue_Tires
(57,247 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
(1,214 posts)Amazing the stacking of all the decks.
Speechless........
littlemissmartypants
(26,076 posts)Tips for moving to bluesky from Xitter*...
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219699595
❤️
Blue_Tires
(57,247 posts)littlemissmartypants
(26,076 posts)Just xitter. ❤️
applegrove
(123,870 posts)Last edited Mon Nov 11, 2024, 12:49 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
(160 posts)I like it.
johnnyfins
(1,536 posts)Volksempfänger since day one. Now it's Untruth Social. Fucking nazi garbage...
Blue_Tires
(57,247 posts)But the election showed there's millions more than I ever anticipated...
PoindexterOglethorpe
(26,921 posts)cheerfully use Twitter.
Sort of like shopping at WalMart. If I want to contribute to Republicans, I'll do so directly.
Shermann
(8,749 posts)Musk is the guy to watch out for.
Blue_Tires
(57,247 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(26,921 posts)But it's hardly breaking news that Twitter and Musk are not very good.
womanofthehills
(9,384 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
(2,283 posts)Youre better off without that place.
Iggo
(48,644 posts)usonian
(15,094 posts)The air is cleaner and skies are brighter away from there.
Aaeia
(101 posts)Been off twitster for a while. A lot of people are using Zuckerberg's "threads". .. so far, a kinder twitster.
SoFlaBro
(3,367 posts)liberal N proud
(61,000 posts)Scrivener7
(53,448 posts)drray23
(8,043 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 Im living a happy, Elmo-free life.