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[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

I left Twitter exactly 24 days before it was rebranded to X. Let's just say I'm glad I made that move.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Because too few people link Nitter therefore I need to find usernames to plug in by going to Twitter. Don't have an account and never will.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Research. Many people I'm interested in still use Twitter. And I hate how Nitter instances globally have started to become rate limited or outright obliterated by Twitter API weirdness/

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I never used X. I use Facebook

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

That's... baffling, coming from a Lemmy user. Why are you okay with Mark Zuckerberg watching everything you interact with?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I'm a bit of an exhibitionist and I'm glad that Mark is watching.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Because I don’t care about how the owner of the service is.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's the NSFW Content. TBH.

The artists who draw the art/topics/proportions I'm into, and the IRL models with those proportions, don't exist on Mastodon. If they do I haven't found them. So Twitter still gets my horny clicks cause that content doesn't exist elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well now I'm curious what kind of proportions you talking. Got a sample?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the honest reply πŸ˜… That sure is a very specific type of body. Not my type but to each their own.

Here's hoping you'll meet someone like that IRL, bud! 🀞 All the best!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

No worries; you asked a genuine question and got a genuine answer haha.. My wife is awesome and the best partner i could ever ask for, so I'm ahead of the game in that regard

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

I never used it even before he bought it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

My entire fandoms are there. Also twitter is ok if you follow the right people, you don't depend on the trending list and you dgaf about follower count.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Thus pisses me off. The big fandoms and influencers could move. But all the people are on X. The users couldove, but all the fandoms and influencers are on X. It's a fucking loop where no one wants to make the first move

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

UFOX and UFOTwitter hashtags. All other major social media are censoring the topic (including Reddit, which once was supposed to be open). Lately, Twitter started doing so too (it barely suggests ufo topics for me in the last month, even if that's the only reason I'm there), but the hashtags still work as expected. Unfortunately, on all the fediverse media, the topic is still laughed at (despite the various government admissions in the past year), and so there isn't any discussion about it. Twitter is where it's at, for that topic.

Edit: Proving my point, providing a truthful answer to the topic's question, and still been downvoted by the fediverse en mass.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

My favorites artists are still on there, I usually spend 2 minutes on there to see what they're posting and leave, I wish they had mastodon account tho

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

i use companies that still put the little X button at the end of their posts as a filter to stop visiting them. I've found it very helpful.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The only time I'm ever there is because it has information or news I need. Unfortunately a lot of industry folk use it to post information even though it's the worst fucking UI for it. I don't think I've ever browsed their front page.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Post the interesting stuff back onto Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Really only to get notifications of weather stuff from my local NWS office.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I never had a Twitter account. I just joined mastodon a few hours ago

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes. I am getting into this fediverse thingy. So far, so good

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

I was thinking of creating a friendica account but i think with mastodon, it'll be enough for all intended purposes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Not everyone has moved on to Bluesky yet

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Knowing what I know, I’m not. Mastodon is good, but not the same. There needs to be a publicly run version of Twitter, with same algorithms.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

It is full of content. Like Reddit.

But mastodon is not very entertaining, because it is just a "new" feed. Also the twitter app works well. So I usually use Twitter instead of mastodon.

But the Reddit app is garbage. And Lemmy is a great alternative. So there I go for the more ethical solution and pick Lemmy over Reddit.

Comparing Lemmy and Twitter. They have different content. Hence I use both.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

I like low-end advertising

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Mostly because I like to occasionally fuck around with the conspiracy crowd.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Conspiracy loons are wild on Facebook so I know what you mean, it's so hard not to poke them occasionally. I like that the feed is so broken you just start getting the most insane things - block as many shitty pages as you can, like all the ones that post about how a guy with one leg drove a truck 19 hours a day to pay for his grandsons double cancer so that means poor people shouldn't get hand outs. Then you start getting into the real weeds, oh and block the bot farm ones, you'll recognise them they post pickles comics and no human could bring themselves to do that.

When you start seeing Indian mechanical engineering memes like 'how to design flat roof pitch common mistake πŸ’― slope degree 13.5Β° β˜‘οΈ' you're getting close, you'll start seeing things like 'today it takes us two years to build a family home but ancient people could do it in three weeks' the comments will be full of people who know every facet of whatever conspiracies the post is somehow referencing, which is normally a lot.

'normies don't realize how much easier life was when we had sonic resonance construction tools, if they did they'd rotate the sixth tower of Thomas Tesla to reopen the Elizabethan Toltec free energy portal' and you think they're just in their own world but everyone will be replying 'yeah, robin Williams was killed because if you watch Mrs doubtfire at the same time as eyes wide shut the dialog syncs up and they warn biden will cover up the free energy machine'

Except of course they can say it in 20,000 words if they feel like it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This might just be the best thing I've ever read. This needs to be preserved so that future intelligent life may know what our lives were like.

And yes, I live poking at them. I know it sounds wrong, but it almost feels like honking at cattle along the highway.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

I'm not, but the PR guy at work still does most of his communication there. It's because that's where both news and rumors spread. If you're not active, you come back and suddenly everyone is convinced you've done, or have plans to do something horrible. You basically have to sit there and deal with the abuse, just in case you actually have done something horrible. He isn't a particularly happy guy.

I used to post amateur photography there. I do still miss the community. It was far more engaged and supportive than anywhere else I've found.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

I guess it's because a lot of local news channels and personalities still use twitter.

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