John Oliver's Show covered what's happening with X/Twitter. How it's algorithms are designed to push right-wing content, and how people don't just get away with, but get paid for inciting violence and hate speech. His advice? Leave X.
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GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Hannah Grace
in reply to GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺 • • •Personally I can't bring myself to delete my account, it was a huge part of my life. I'm just inactive & linking to Mastodon on there.
The people I know who still prefer Twitter as a news outlet are pretty unhappy characters, I wonder if there is a link?
GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Renke Meuwese
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Hakuso
in reply to GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺 • • •@Eetschrijver
Unless you have *work* that forces you to stay connected to things using Twitter for infodumps it shouldn't be.
Journalists, I see being there for follows and auto-posts, then being active on other spaces.
Everyone else is ling past the GTFO stage of Twitter.
@hpod16
Frank Heijkamp
in reply to Hakuso • • •Even for professionals I can't think of any good reason to keep posting on the dead bird site. Unless Nazis are your target audience, in that case it is exactly the place where you need to be.
@Eetschrijver @hpod16
Kichae
in reply to Frank Heijkamp • • •Re: John Oliver's Show covered what's happening with X/Twitter.
Frank Heijkamp "I need to be where the audience is!" they say, oblivious to the fact that the audience is on the Internet, and if they can be found on Twitter, they can be found elsewhere.
"But there's friction elsewhere!" they cry, oblivious to the fact that friction is the force that moves people.
W6KME
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Anyone using X has made their choice. "Oh, you can't blame people for that, that's not nice, it's not their fault, etc."
Nonsense. Does it suck what happened to it? Yep. Is there Any excuse for still being there? Of course not. The nazis took over the bar; you can't drink there and pretend you're not in a nazi bar.
Maximilian Overdraft, Esq.
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Songbird
in reply to Hannah Grace • •Please, please leave Twitter, Facebook and everything alike, if you care about peace in the world. I don't care if you need it to keep in touch with people or to promote yourself, just leave and stop enabling propaganda that's tearing society apart.
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David Croyle
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Worth a watch if you somehow after all this time still need to be convinced. But like MAGA people you may be a lost cause.
Also it's really worth watching for Elon's interview meltdown where he's desperately searching for something deep-sounding to say, and just utterly fails. Like John Oliver said, "And I promise, this answer is so much worse than what you are prepared for."
Hannah Grace
in reply to David Croyle • • •mau mau
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in reply to mau mau • • •everton137
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •the Fediverse is a matter of public digital infrastructure, and its ecosystem should be duely funded by the EU
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Fabio Manganiello
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •unfortunately NGI allocated peanuts for FOSS projects.
US and China out there allocate trillions for their tech stacks, and Europe allocates just a dozen of millions for FOSS projects and thinks that it’s enough. And then they also put out their “call for evidence” for FOSS - as if all the evidence collected in all these years wasn’t enough and the ball was still in our court as developers.
The right ideas are there, but eligibility criteria should be thinner, funds much larger (at least by a 25x factor), and preferably raised through shared financial instruments (i.e. Eurobonds), so we don’t have to dig in underfunded EU departments nor end up with a situation where the member States that can invest the most get ahead of the others, and more EU institutional accounts should be active on the Fediverse and actually respond to questions (in most of the cases it looks like institutional EU accounts are mostly mirrors of X accounts).
Ianto Jones
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Joxe Rojas 🥐
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •kauer
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •video has not been made available in (at least) Oz. You'll need a VPN.
Why do people do that?
Rusty
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •penpencilbrush🇨🇦
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Jeff Atwood
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Leave X - Protect Democracy
in reply to Jeff Atwood • • •@codinghorror they do
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in reply to Jeff Atwood • • •Halfy!
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •River
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •just watched that one earlier today. Really good episode. I love John Oliver.
And yeah, Twitter seems pretty bad (although tbh I've got inclinations against pretty much any form of social media, be it racist or not).
Hannah Grace
in reply to River • • •Sir Farts Alot
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •kryten
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Why is a single platform for human collective consciousness important elon?
So painful to watch.
freeluna
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in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Leif Samuelsson
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in reply to Leif Samuelsson • • •Deb Nam-Krane
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Jo Kingly
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Fabio Manganiello
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •we’ve been repeating “leave X” so many times, and provided so much evidence of its irreversible fascistification, that by now I believe that anyone who keeps actively using it is accomplice.
Those who still want to view content on X without an account can use any Nitter instance (mine is at nitter.ocus.top), which also provide RSS feeds.
Those who want to follow X accounts on the Fediverse can use bird.makeup
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in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Dizzy
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •scheichsbeutel
in reply to Hannah Grace • • •Leave X - Protect Democracy
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