Bro why the fuck is anyone still on Twitter this is ridiculous at this point. Just go use fucking Bluesky or something do you not understand that Twitter is dead? It’s done. It’s gone. It has ceased to be.
this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2024
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Some people have their ego tied to their follower count and it's sad.
Mastodon is the obvious choice for people already using Lemmy. They're both part of the Fediverse. 
Not just an ego thing - some people have livelihoods that depend on their follower count. Twitter is very important to update Youtube subscribers, Twitch followers etc. on things. Remember, we are in the early stages of the Technological Adoption Life Cycle (assuming the Fediverse actually catches on) so most people don't use the Fediverse. As a content creator, you have to adapt to what people currently use.
Let’s face it, everyone is still on Twitter, even those who were the loudest about boycotting it back then.
This is not the early 2000s when social media platforms were still carving out their own turfs. This is the terminal stage where a handful of social media companies have already captured the entire market.
The idea that decentralization can somehow topple the central authority is a myth, just like how Bitcoiners continue to believe that their fake currency can somehow topple the central banks.
There is a reason why Marxists talk about seizing the means of production, not creating alternative structures around it.
Actually the CPC was so successful because it did create alternatives to the warlord institutions that folks could rely on, Marxists have always been creating alternative structures around the current order to bypass them.
Also my sibling in sinai, you are posting on the federated alternative to reddit
Land reform was instrumental to unleashing the revolutionary potential of the peasantry, but in the end, the race between the CPC and the KMT to capture the Japanese industries in the Northeast as the Soviets began to withdraw became the most crucial moment that defined the future of the Chinese communist movement.
Mao was famous for saying that he is willing to give up all their existing bases in China, so long as they can capture the Northeast (where the most developed heavy industries built by the Japanese stood), the revolutionary movement would survive. There simply wasn’t enough heavy industries in all the other regions of China combined at the time to sustain an ongoing war with the KMT. Mao was very aware of this fact and was supremely adaptable to the dynamic and changing conditions of the time.
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The idea that decentralization can somehow topple the central authority is a myth, just like how Bitcoiners continue to believe that their fake currency can somehow topple the central banks.
Equating free & open equivalents, which just need adoption, to cryptocurrency which has significant flaws doesn't make sense to me... It costs nothing to switch, there's no inherent risks involved. It remains to be seen what happens long term with Twitter financially too. Maybe Musk gets another State/DOD bailout or it's too valuable as propaganda/data collection to some present shareholder, but that's not decided.
I don't use any Twitter or equivalents, but I do see screenshots and archive/proxy links to it.
It’s the same reason why Linux is the free and even superior alternative to Windows and Mac, but most people will never use it. There are, of course, adoption, but it will never achieve the critical mass needed to displace the dominant systems. Most people will just follow whatever everyone is using, and the platforms that have already penetrated the entire depth of the market, and have the most capital, will always have a very strong head start against their competitors.
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I mean I'm not
There is a reason why Marxists talk about seizing the means of production, not creating alternative structures around it.
Yeah, so unlike utopians like Lenin, who had crazy delusions about somehow creating institutions that operated in parallel to existing power structures in order to smash the state machinery and retain a mostly-functional society.
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If we reply with a thumbs up emoji to Elon tweeting about Jewish people drinking white people's blood from skulls he'll give me my account back, you'll see.
It isn't though no matter how much you tell yourself that. It's still an actually good place and relatively uncensored (despite this random shit) compared to say reddit or insta. You can find a lot of good material on there.
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lol, didn't TrueAnon just get called far-right by NYT or WaPo or something? Why is it that "both sides" hate the podcast about the elite pedophilia cabal 
: "MEIN GOTT! ZE UNTERSMENCH FIGURED OUT IT'S NOT THE JEWS!"
: "Well, just ban them lol and frame it as owning the libs."
because brace fought for a foreign army. Got to be that
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that shit is legit hilariously sad. the liberal media has quite literally fully surrendered the entire realm of “questioning the official narrative,” something the MEDIA should be doing, to “the right wing.” Everything from Epstein’s “suicide” to JFK being killed by the CIA to vaccine doubts the origins of COVID-19. It does’t matter anymore if it’s actually way off in coocoo far right conspiracy land or has tons of evidence behind it. if the state dept doesn’t endorse it then it’s just right wing bullshit and you should ignore it
what a fucking country
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I've never been a twitter user but I have read that the easiest way to get your account back is to tell them you're a right wing account being canceled for your speech and they'll just re-activate it without checking
That's so fucking funny.
Not sure if you're joking or not but that seems about right based on what I remember of Twitter post-buyout
I've heard it referenced by two comedians who claim it worked for them, but with this new purge list you might not be able to get past without somebody noticing
Worked for Badempanada. Also, he hasn't been banned since he bought blue check.
@zei_squirrel, a cartoon squirrel that tweets media criticism of figures like Glenn Greenwald.
lol
Their old account was suspended like 5 years ago. Honestly I'm a bit surprised they lasted that long.
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Oh man this is going to make for a great bit
: "MEIN GOTT, ZE UNTERSMENCH KNOW! SHUT IT DOWN!"
time to start my communist twitter competitor, the only problem is i don't have a catchy name for it ...
Something like Hexursine or Hexpanda
Hexpanda goes hard
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They are back
Biggest white supremacist account on twitter asks Elon Musk why all accounts got roasted and he reinstates them.
I can't believe I have to actually feel concerned about Hinkle. I miss when he was just a rando. Now he is a white supremacist grifting off Palestine and putting Jews in danger
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stalin shouldn't have stopped at berlin
It all happens on x. Except for the happenings of those accounts.
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Is this an Israel related purge or something else? I can't really figure out the common feature of all these accounts getting simultaneously nuked. Obviously they're on a list together for having something in common.
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