• EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml
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    2 hours ago

    Who tf gives a frogs fat ass?

    Fuck X (Meta and TikTok), anyone who’s still on any of these platform can fuck off anyway.

  • Jessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 hours ago

    During my first year of college, I had a writing class. The professor made us join this new micro-blog platform. I tweeted a few times, which were part of some of the assignments. I thought the idea of <140 characters to be interesting. Paying for that sounds hilarious.

    I’ll just leave this here, from The New Yorker, titled “L.P.D.: Libertarian Police Department”

  • Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works
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    It’s crazy but understandable that media outlets started calling Twitter “X”. It’s batshit bonkers that they’re calling fleeced users “verified”, as if the word didn’t have prior meaning and it isn’t still widely used to this day (and long into the future)

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      4 hours ago

      Regrettably, I accidentally implied that the linked slop generator is a media outlet. Point still stands though.

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Twitter was always about limiting yourself, originally to posts about as long as a text. That was kinda the point. They increased the post length a while ago, but as a long time fan of long form forum conversations, I never saw much point in Twitter. Then this crazy nutjob bought it and it appealed to me even less. Still, these limits seem reasonable as he paid so much for it and it hasn’t made him a profit. So yeah, I think anyone who wants to use it more than that should maybe pay… or find another service to post on.

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    Maybe this will push people to quit, finally. Or to subscribe. I don’t know, I used Twitter a tiny bit back the day, but I left and never looked back when Elon bought it. Just like when Reddit dropped their API support. Recognize when a platform is trying to enshittify and get out because you’re the product, not the customer being served.

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      57 minutes ago

      Yeah, nah. Live tooting an event it would be easy to exceed those numbers. Used to do it all the time, back in the day.

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      Back when I used Twitter, that was totally possible. Even without being totally insane. In some areas Twitter did work like a giant unorganized chat room. You were able to discuss the current soccer games. Or current events. Breaking news. The local elections. I totally did write more than 50 tweets back in 2016 in the election night when Trump was elected or during the soccer world cups

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        I totally did write more than 50 tweets back in 2016 in the election night when Trump was elected or during the soccer world cups

        That is exactly the kind of insanity I’m refering to.

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            1 hour ago

            You don’t understand! Someone doing that on some other social media platform is bad and insane! Him doing that on this social media platform is good and based! Jesus Christ, it’s a simple concept!