Should DU boycott Twitter?

[Sympthsical]

Now that Musk is taking control? Or is it ok to contribute to his success?

Why/why not?

[CentralMass]

1. I think if is a personal choice.

[Lucinda]

8. +1

❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️

[Ocelot II]

2. I don't use it anyhow, so I don't care, but it's up to each person to decide.

DU is made up of individuals, so DU can't boycott anything. It wouldn't break my heart to see Musk ruin it, though, since it's become a cesspool like Facebook. If TFG is allowed back in it will be exponentially worse.

[Effete Snob]

3. Should I piss in the ocean?

[Sympthsical]

6. Hey, I swim in that ocean

Knock it off.

[Effete Snob]

22. Had to quit using the toilet

Because of this asshole...

You shouldn't swim in the ocean. Fish fuck in that ocean.

[Sympthsical]

23. That man is why the upper decker was invented

I don't know if that's strictly true, but I'm going to choose to believe it.

[Effete Snob]

25. Once again, I have learned something I do not want to know

[Sympthsical]

26. I'm the Dark One

[brooklynite]

4. No reason to leave Twitter.

[vlyons]

5. Wait and see how things go with Twitter

Then decide

[TheRealNorth]

9. I don't use it much....

But if it becomes the cesspool like Fakebook, probably will avoid it.

[doc03]

7. Never had an account and if you all are so against Twitter don't link

every f---g twit that Tweets.

[JustAnotherGen]

10. This

I have a twitter account and engage daily on the platform. I only access it on my phone.

I've trash threads that link to a tweet - and nothing else.

[Magoo48]

11. The embarrassingly ridiculous, corporate censored MSM is splashed all over DU.

How about we request an MSM trigger warning in posters’ opening sentences and above posted pics and vid’s?

[multigraincracker]

12. Never signed up. Going to now

just so I can block Elon.
lol

[Marius25]

13. Yes. Already did. Deactivated my account.

Musk will allow racist, homophobic, antisemitic hate and violence to be spewed there constantly. Trump will definitely be back on the platform inciting Civil War.

I won't be part of that trash.

[Scrivener7]

14. Never joined but I really hope when the disgusting mange gets

his account back he is not linked here. Ever. We've done fine without him. Missed no news whatsoever. And as he thrives on attention my opinion is that we should give him none.

But I'm guessing this thread is a statement about the first amendment so carry on.

[Sympthsical]

15. Not really

While I don't believe tech monopolies should have the censorious powers over the public sphere that they do, my curiosity doesn't revolve around that.

I'm more interested to see if the "Fuck Facebook!" crowd has rationales for why this is different. Twitter is promoted far more ubiquitously in political spaces, and it'll be an interesting experiment in seeing how far principle goes.

It is ever thus that our indulgences are a special case.

[Scrivener7]

17. So it is to expose posters' inconsistencies.

[Sympthsical]

19. That would be terrible

If people didn't practice what they are forever preaching to others.

Hypocrisy is the worst sin the human animal is capable of.

I know, because I saw that on Twitter.

[Torchlight]

20. I saw the mote in everyone else's eyes on Twitter.

And as twitter has no built-in mirror, I easily ignored my own beam.

[Scrivener7]

24. I figured it was something like that.

[BlackSkimmer]

34. Of course, he'll be linked. No doubt many here will immediately follow him.

(just to keep an eye on him, of course.)

Everyday people post pictures of him, stories about him and his disgusting spawn, silly nicknames, ad nauseam.

[Scrivener7]

37. Because "we have to know our enemy."

And give him the biggest platform in the universe, though he absolutely has NEVER in all his worthless life ever said anything worth listening to.

[BlackSkimmer]

39. This.

x1000.

[electric_blue68]

16. I look at it after here, and fb...

... once, twice a day, or every other day or so. If the people, organizations I follow leave then maybe I will, too.


And right now the Kyiv Independent posts on there several times a day, so I definitely will be staying.

[Torchlight]

18. As in a TOS amendment forbidding its use here?

Otherwise, I doubt there's any one thing in the universe that such a large and diverse group of people (many sincere) would all agree on as its not really a collective, but rather an individual decision.

[progressoid]

21. That would mean a dramatic drop in the ubiquitous "tweet of the day" posts.

[usonian]

27. There are alternatives.

https://www.lifewire.com/best-twitter-alternatives-5114545

I block any thread remotely containing NYT. And tweets show up only as links (like the above) on one computer I use. Must be the adblocker?

Just because everyone else likes muck diving doesn't mean I have to or need to.



Musk and Muck are not for me.




Musk should concentrate on exploding cars and running down pedestrians, things he has experience with.

[hunter]

28. I blacklisted Twitter during the Trump administration.

At most I'll see Link to tweet. If there's nothing else there I hit alt-left arrow and move on.

[CentralMass]

29. I deactivated my account yesterday. If I do nothing it will be deleted in 29 more days.

[catsudon]

30. i do not have an account

but i want to watch truth social crash first and taking all the dumb people's money with the demise of DWAC.

[W_HAMILTON]

31. I personally plan to go back to what we originally did...

Last edited Thu Oct 27, 2022, 08:00 PM - Edit history (1)

...and simply post direct links to articles rather than tweets about them.

Twitter has become so ubiquitous in our lives that I am sure it won't be possible to completely disavow it, at least not right off the bat, but there are certainly ways that we can all lessen its use in our lives. That would probably be a good thing for everyone to do while we watch and see what path this potential new Twitter takes.

[Scrivener7]

38. OMG. The posts where they link to a tweet that links to an article! Makes me feckin' nuts.

Just link the damn article!

[TheProle]

32. It's dying without our help

and will soon be nothing but a graveyard of porn and jabbering fanatics.

The report doesn’t include concrete numbers, but it describes Twitter’s English-speaking base as declining by a “devastating” percentage. According to the company report, the platform amassed more ad money from the United States than every other market combined in its last fourth quarter. Still, English-speaking users continue to abandon the app for competitors like Instagram and TikTok.

The emergency is exacerbated in a number of other ways, including shifting audience interests. Twitter has long been one of the few social media platforms to allow “Not Safe For Work” content like pornography, a medium most mainstream advertisers generally avoid. Unfortunately for the company, audience interest in this kind of explicit material has risen on the app, and now makes up about 13 percent of Twitter’s posts, according to an additional report seen by Reuters. This, coupled with a decreased interest in subjects like cryptocurrency following the market’s dramatic crash earlier this year, makes the remaining English users less ideal for advertisers—and thus less profitable for Twitter.

Friday is the last day for Musk to close a deal for the purchase of the social media platform. If he fails to do so, a November start date will be set for trial between the social media platform and the world’s wealthiest man.

https://www.popsci.com/technology/twitter-internal-documents-users/

[BlackSkimmer]

33. Lol.

Never happen.

[WarGamer]

35. Not a chance, at least for me.

Way too much good content.

And I don't see much objectionable content. You know why? Because I don't follow any RWNJ's

Twitter is what YOU make it.

Follow nothing but home gardeners and landscape photographers and you'll see nothing but flowers, trees and landscapes...

Follow bomb throwing partisan hacks and you'll have crappy content.

[liberal_mama]

36. I have a lot of smart people I follow who I depend on for the true Covid news, not the hush hush

"Pandemic is over" political BS freaks. I block the Covid deniers and "live your life" people.

My beloved father died due to Covid last week. I will never get over this. My Dad was my favorite person in the world. I bought a house on the same street, 3 houses away from my childhood home, so we could always be together. He was only in his early 70s and healthy. He had all his vaccines. Now I will never see him again. And I have to live with knowing how badly he suffered from the ravages of Covid. I feel he was murdered by the "only vaxxers," "It's just a cold," and maskless people.

I follow a lot of like minded and smart people on Twitter so I'm not planning on leaving. If this enriches Musk, I don't care. I really don't care about anything anymore, except exposing the truth about how serious Covid still is so other families are spared the hell me and my family are going through now.

[dembotoz]

40. somebody has to stay and fight the morons

If we all go away the undecided who are there will just assume the clowns are right

i do not go on twitter. i have enough time wasting with facebook

but fight the good fight

somebody has to

[867-5309.]

41. Seems like a lot of the Greatest Page is tweets

DUers will each do as they like. I wouldn't cede that territory.

[IcyPeas]

42. there is breaking news there.... as well as

fun stuff like:
arts
plants
animals
science

I will most likely keep looking at it. but we'll see.

[pecosbob]

43. Never joined...don't click on links to Tweets either.

I'm not trying to give that prick a nickel. If you want me to read your post learn to cut and paste.

[renate]

44. I follow funny accounts and dog accounts so I would really miss it as it is now

But giving up using Facebook wasn't hard. I probably won't delete my account because of all the tweets I've got bookmarked--same with saved posts on Facebook--but if it gets ugly there, as I assume it will, it won't be difficult to spend my time elsewhere.

[Marius25]

45. Yes. It will become a cesspool of hate speech and terrorism.

[Polybius]

46. No

Only if he censors us should we boycott.