• @[email protected]
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    456 months ago

    Way too late to “fight” them this way, it’s already served it’s purpose for them. Everyone needed to have done this like a year ago, dummies. But yeah, still delete it anyway.

    • @[email protected]
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      146 months ago

      Yeah. It served it’s purpose, he bought a mass social media outlet, let it run wild, influenced elections, spread hate and normalized even more extreme views to fuck with all the world. The damage is done. Claiming doing something good at this point when it should have been done at the early signs but everyone would call you paranoid is just non sense. Crying wolf and all that bullshit.

    • Darth_Mew
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      146 months ago

      wow you must’ve not read any of your comments out loud then

  • @[email protected]
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    256 months ago

    I deleted Threads five days ago.

    It was a cesspool of (Russian? Troll Farm?) propaganda attacking Harris for not having any accomplishments for the last four years, complaining about housing, grocery, egg, and gas prices, “fixing” America, a crapton of pro-jesus stuff, pro-Elon comments and reposts, government money going to “illegals” instead of hurricane victims, and a ton of made up lies. …

    All of which were as transparent as fuck why they were wrong. VP’s don’t make policy, so what accomplishments should she have? Housing has been going up for a decade+, it’s not new, egg prices were normal while the pics were of organic egg prices and expensive grocery carts had hidden high cost items or just straight up lied about the cost, gas prices are the lowest they’ve been for years. Jesus stuff praised trump, America, tons of AI generated “holy” trump pics, bashed atheists, posted Elon’s BS pseudo-wisdom, Ignored the $20Bn spent on hurricane relief in favor of a few hundred million housing the undocumented workers living in the affected area…

    It was infuriating. Because they were so obviously wrong…blatantly, in-your-face, completely fucking wrong. It was a constant flood of lies. Eight out of nine posts were BS.

    But as soon as the election swung in Trump’s favor…poof…it went quiet. Hardly a peep. Gone.

    And I realize that Threads was captured completely by troll farm bots spewing right-wing propaganda. And it was a waste of time. So my account will be deleted.

    • GHiLA
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      Find a small community of like-minded friends to hang with online.

      Hell, I only visit Reddit and Lemmy for the big news for a few minutes before heading off to check discord and matrix chats and everywhere else I go.

      Branch out.

      • @[email protected]
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        16 months ago

        I just tried that…went searching for a room and amongst some software package rooms the two I stumbled upon that made me nope the fuck out are “COVID-19 truth” or similar, and some pro-trump mafia thing that had the n-word in its description. I tried to search for something even in the state of california and the closest I got was a gay hookup channel.

        Thanks, I fucking hate the Internet now.

        • GHiLA
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          16 months ago

          Maybe Facebook is the right place for some people.

          • @[email protected]
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            Are you saying for me? Cuz facebook sucks ass too.

            I remember the old Internet. Honestly, lemmy is the only thing I’ve encountered that feels even like the newer part of the old Internet.

    • irotsoma
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      46 months ago

      Not give up. Just move away from corporate owned social media which generally has biases baked in and allows for easy manipulation by the company. The one we’re on right now is not one of those and there are lots of other alternatives. Not that they’re perfect, just that money and especially wealthy individuals aren’t able to easily and singlehandedly manipulate millions of people by purging factual but dissenting information.

      • @[email protected]
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        as someone who made their own instance, talk about it to family and friends and try to convince them to jump on mine, I definitely have not given up. your completely valid talking points are null and void unfortuntately, my social circles are unable to get people they interact with to jump ship as well. they just want their family and friends to see their posts and don’t really care what’s going on behind the scenes…

        Its me trying to convert people to use signal all over again, but i won over many of my colleagues and family by telling them to jump on signal as my birthday gift years ago… maybe I’ll have people sign up as a Christmas gift for me this year lol

  • @[email protected]
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    16 months ago

    I never used X. I did half-assedly make an account in 2013 but I have long since deleted it. I have no real use for twitter.

  • Zier
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    Twitter (I will always call it that-fuck you melon head musk), is just fox news for the internet, a fascist hate app.

    • TuxOP
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      6 months ago

      Agreed

      l never used *Xitter anyway

      *It’s pronounced as Shitter

  • @[email protected]
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    16 months ago

    If you didn’t deleted it like 5 years ago chances are that you won’t be deleting it now or in the future.

  • FlashMobOfOne
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    216 months ago

    Deleted mine two years ago.

    Kinda surprised it took everyone this long, TBH.

  • @[email protected]
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    Lol, nothing like waiting until the last possible moment to do the tiniest thing that won’t even accomplish anything at this point and then writing an article about it.

    • @[email protected]
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      166 months ago

      Yup. Here’s what I did:

      1. recommend others not vote for him in 2016
      2. didn’t vote for him in 2016
      3. avoided TruthSocial and other nonsense during his first term
      4. encouraged friends and family to not vote for him in 2020
      5. didn’t vote for him in 2020
      6. continued to avoid TruthSocial
      7. encouraged friends and family to not vote for him in 2024
      8. didn’t vote for him in 2024

      See a pattern?