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Better watch out, Musk might sue
(/s, just in case it wasn't obvious enough)
My sincerest wish is that Elon Musk just waits until an X alternative gets big enough, buys it and destroys it in perpetuity. Save the people from their addiction to "likes" and "shares".
He would be my absolute hero!!
I don’t love it, but I don’t hate it either.
I just love how we went from naming it "Twitter" to "Elon Musk's platform, X".
Xitter. Pronounced just the way you think.
The intermediate step was “X, formerly known as Twitter”
Elon Musk's platform, X, formerly known as Twitter.
Also a good one.
I was kinda hoping it'd always stay like this.
Yes because fuck Elon. His own postings have a multiplicatior and things he does not like have the opposite. What's the point of using his shitty right wing platform?
You have to engage with them? Dumbass, these people do not play fair. I hate how legacy media foolishly embraced these idiots playing fair and now guess what.
a lot of legacy media is owned by them more or less so why would it not
I miss Tom. He was just your friend and never pushed anything on you.
If we can get all of the sports reporters to head over, that might be the final death blow to Twitter.
If athletes leave Twitter then ESPN won't post their tweets.
Just saying
Bluesky is the number one downloaded social app right now.
On my phone, it’s #1 under most downloaded of ALL apps hahaha
Tempted to join just to help boost those numbers.
I did. Lol. Never gonna use it :P
I just checked in Android and it's surprisingly #8. Friggin threads is #3 which is shocking cause I never hear or see anything about it. X is at #25 just behind mcdonalds lol. I'm not smart enough to know exactly what that means tho because pretty much everyone already has X/Twitter/whatever the fuck it's called so of course that wouldn't show up super high on there. I've also had multiple phones with it preloaded onto the OS.
Of course instagram and tik tok and Snapchat and Whatsapp are all pretty high up there so maybe it's pretty solid evidence of that dumpster fire actually burning.
Threads posts show up on Instagram and if you want to view one it redirects you to the Play Store. I feel that's why it's so high up.
Lol. Good job.
All better! Global democracy is now unfucked, yay!
/s
Better late than never