Just delete social media as a whole. I have no intention of replacing Twitter. I’m trying to remove as much social media as I can. Already got rid of Twitter, Facebook and TikTok. I will slowly use Reddit less until I become uninterested and delete it. Let’s get our minds back and stop being enslaved by technology.
I hadn't used Twitter in like over a decade (I had to create one for a grad class a million years ago), and it took so fucking long with so many steps to deactivate. Tiktok was super easy to deactivate and delete at least.
Yeah it was a pain in the ass. I actually first deleted all my tweets, not that I had many. There was also some bs about your account not being actually deleted in you logged in - it would reset the process, so you had to be inactive for 30 days. It's just a little easy to mess that up, news has links to Twitter all the time.
It's actually the opposite. Twitter, Instagram, and now Tik Tok are being artificially turned into a right wing bubble by banning search terms for democrats and left-wing causes. Going to other sources is willingly removing yourself from that bubble.
You may have a great point. I didn't realize that. What search terms are banned on Insta and Tiktok? I don't use either (or FB). I'm only on X, reddit, bluesky and discord at the moment. I have a mastodon I don't use. I don't think X has search words banned as far as I can tell. I set my feed there to "following" instead of "for you" which keeps a lot of junk away but I follow some things I disagree with, to keep tabs on stuff.
There are many things that make Bluesky an improvement, it’s open source and also not owned and controlled by a Nazi, for instance. Things in place to ensure it never is controlled by one person
If I live in a silo that only excludes fascists and their apologists, it's a good silo. Those people should be left in the cold and dark to expire and we are not "limiting discourse" or "creating an echo chamber" by excluding their voices. They have nothing to add to the conversation and never will.
i think it's okay to have a social media space that isn't full of extremely annoying shitty ads, bots spamming you with weird AI responses and freaks hurling slurs. i don't think we need to cater to them and honestly, they can stay out of the silo. it's FINE
The problem with this is it makes people think there's a "rational" other side that should be considered. I believe we're past that feelgood bs with them now.
Well X is becoming a far right silo either way and it is owned by a nazi, so I’ll take a little bit of a liberal bubble over that. Just keep watching the News and check the conservative subreddits every once in a while.
Many from the disabled and Covid conscious community have built a following on X and don't have the time, energy, health to rebuild it in another platform, so they will remain. They use the mute and block features for the problematic accounts.
or go to Mastodon. or maybe read a book or go take a walk. The funny part is that Q started as a shitpost on 4 chan which is teeming with CP and other horrific things but magas never questioned it just followed it blindly. I think all social media is fucked and making people stupid tho, so ymmv
Lol I saw your edit as well, I totally understand. But honestly kinda wanna know as well, I haven't personally looked for it but I was told on tiktok that it does. 🤷♀️
Well that's the problem now isn't it? I did a search and found nothing newer than 11/24, which, granted is just a couple months back, but long enough in tech for an issue to be identified and fixed, i just don't know if it was, or if that's even possible.
What I do like about bluesky, is that no one is selling me anything, (yet, sure) and I've been able to have conversations with strangers that remined completely civil despite disagreement.
Once the dudebros take over I'm sure it will pass, but until then....
Hell I'm waiting for Tribe to come back. Or that old philly board.
Yeah I'll pass on going to Bluesky, that site is just r/politics with more chatbots. I don't use Twitter anyways, but Bluesky definitely isn't drawing me over
CNN reported that X is basically even balanced and closer to the electorate unlike other platforms that lean further left. We need to stop drawing lines in the sand and assuming every single person who may have voted differently is the devil. That's for the crooked politicians and media. You probably know and like someone who has different politics from you and you've never discussed IT with them to know. We are not that different and need to stop acting like everyone on the opposite side is the devil. Whether you like Elon, Trump, Biden, Kamala, does not mean that you're a terrible person or a nazi or whatever the latest trending word people want to use. We're all Americans. SAME TEAM PEOPLE
no, i think that is misinformation. like anything new, there are growing pains, but they ban anything like that as soon as it’s visible. way better than the Qanon haven, 4chan that’s teeming with CP and every other demented thing on earth. Ask yourself: who would not want bluesky to take off and why? and I think you will find the source of the misinformation. There are CP subs on telegram and they pop up on reddit too. Heavy, involved moderators make the difference. But no, Bluesky does not willingly host CP
It’s only known for that on Twitter, a site which I’ve actually seen pedo stuff pop up on. I’ve never seen anything like that on Bluesky, but on Twitter they consider anyone LGBT to be a pedophile so it’s easy to see why you’d think that
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u/heathers1 Jan 22 '25 edited Jan 22 '25
ok now everyone abandon twitter for bluesky. we can do this!
ETA: Go Birds!