Elon Musk's X, formerly Twitter, has played an important role in allowing Russian propaganda about Ukraine to reach more people than before the full-scale war, according to a study by the European Commission.
Twitter has more users than Mastodon, that's a fact. But it's also a fact that Russian propaganda was highly prevalent on Mastodon in the early days of Musk's intentions to purchase Twitter, from my own perspective.
So on reddit the first thing you saw was always negativity. Like “oh i don’t think that’s safe, i’d never do something this stupid myself”. Lemmy is slowly starting to have a similar trend. Most posts that you open will have a comment like the one above “well duh” " who would have seen that one coming" “wasn’t that obvois” so on and so on. I’d really like it if comments actually had some discusssion or opinion behind them istead of “well duh” or “this” or “i don’t think that’s safe”.
I wish there as some way to block the word Musk from KBIN. The man is fascist trash, I don't need to read about every fascist fucking trash thing he's done, or is doing.
I feel that, which is why I forked a tampermonkey script to replace his name globally. This is nice because it covers every site, which makes reading articles on WaPo and NYT much less irritating. Here's what this thread looks like on my end, for instance:
And the script itself:
// ==UserScript==
// @name Text Replace
// @version 0.1
// @description Text Replace
// @author SiameseDream
// @include *
// @grant none
// @namespace beepboop
// ==/UserScript==
(function() {
'use strict';
var replaceArry = [
[/ Elon Musk/gi,' the biggest twat on the planet'],
[/Elon Musk/gi,'The biggest twat on the planet'],
[/ Mr. Musk/gi,' this dipshit'],
[/ Musk/gi,' this dipshit'],
[/Mr. Musk/gi,'This dipshit'],
[/Musk/gi,'This dipshit'],
// etc.
];
var numTerms = replaceArry.length;
var txtWalker = document.createTreeWalker (
document.body,
NodeFilter.SHOW_TEXT,
{ acceptNode: function (node) {
//-- Skip whitespace-only nodes
if (node.nodeValue.trim() )
return NodeFilter.FILTER_ACCEPT;
return NodeFilter.FILTER_SKIP;
}
},
false
);
var txtNode = null;
while (txtNode = txtWalker.nextNode () ) {
var oldTxt = txtNode.nodeValue;
for (var J = 0; J < numTerms; J++) {
oldTxt = oldTxt.replace (replaceArry[J][0], replaceArry[J][1]);
}
txtNode.nodeValue = oldTxt;
}
})();
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