Because my city deems it is still a good idea to post important announcements about roadworks and water interruptions/boil advisory there exclusively :/
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.
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 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.
What it does is it creates a divide between everyone in the country and just splits it down the middle. It makes one side willing to put people in camps for not taking a vaccine, or the other side putting people in prison for abortions. Things are just getting worse and very likely could end in violence because we cant get along.
During covid I think a majority of democrats wanted to have house arrests for the unvaxed. And do you not recall how they had passports for the vaccine, and how the president tried to make everyone in big companies get teh vaccine or lose their jobs?
Why does it need to be every product? Why can’t people just do what they can where they can?
I don’t shop at Walmart because I am privileged enough to be able to shop elsewhere so I can forego the convenience and pricing. I also don’t get Chick-fil-A. So if I don’t participate in literally every single boycott, then what? I’m just virtue signaling/a hypocrite? What are you going accuse me of lol I see it over and over. Let’s apply whatever logic you land on to some parts of your life.
I mean really think through the logic through. You have basically said that every boycott or protest is completely meaningless because people aren’t boycotting and protesting everything they can and should.
Also, it’s completely ridiculous to expect people to know everything about every product they buy and make an informed, holistic decision every time.
So which is it for you personally: you know everything about every product you eat, wear, use, etc. OR you never discern between products or otherwise use/not use things based on what you know or heard about them?
Then I’m not sure what you were objecting to above. You just said it is valid to not support a company for a reason you determined. Just because you don’t agree with other people’s determination doesn’t mean it’s any less valid. That’s a pretty arrogant mentality if you prescribe to it.
So you are claiming that X/twitter is taking a political side? If so, I would disagree, they are either being consistent with how they judge or following the first ammendment. I understand how there are probably random examples where they have failed, but overall it is now by far the most fair mainstream social media site.
Porn is the best and possibly only reason to stay on twitter. In fact I wish everyone who deleted their account goes and makes a porn following account until the app stores hands are forced to delisting it and even less advertisers pay for spots. Plus there’s some good ass porn there. Or at least there was last I checked, admittedly it’s been a while.
I had a throwaway account. I dont use Reddit for porn because it doesnt have as much content as twitter. Also the content it does have is pretty vanilla.
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.
People commenting on things that are not aimed at them, or complaining about it.
Like seeing an advert for guitar lessons with a phone number attached, calling the number and telling them how much you really don’t want guitar lessons, when all you had to do was ignore it.
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?
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.
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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