It is time for everyone who doesn't support Trump to leave X (Twitter)

[edhopper]

All Dems, celebs, influencers and common folk should leave vow. There will be a short period of adjustment, but it will be worth it in the scheme of things.
Since Twitter is about to become an arm of the Trump Administration, there is no excuse not to.

We just need Barack, Taylor and Katy to start the ball rolling and it will snowball.

[Ocelot II]

1. Just did. I had opened an account years ago, posted maybe once or twice

and kind of forgot about it. But even though I didn't use it I didn't want Elmo to have the head count. Ditched it and went to Bluesky.

[DemMedic]

2. Logged out on election night and have not gone bac!

I'm on Bluesky now.

[edhopper]

3. Time to delete the account

[CentralMass]

6. You cant really delete it. I believd you cant let it expire.

[chowder66]

13. You can deactivate it and it will be deleted permanently after 30 days if you don't log in again.

[CentralMass]

15. Thanks. I meant to type can, not can't. Back when Lord Elmo

bought Twitter I started the process but read an article that suggested that keeping it might be safer. The worry was that your account could be somehow hijacked after the fact. So I rescued it before it got deleted. I do occaisonly read tweets, or xscheets of interest to me but would not miss having it.

[chowder66]

17. I figured you may have made a typo but wanted to clarify the process for others who may be considering

leaving. You bring up a good point about the hijacking.

I deactivated mine and have decided to leave social media all together, at least for now.

[ariadne0614]

4. I suggest BlueSkySocial. It's growing fast. n/t

[Trueblue1968]

47. I left twitter after A-Hole bought it and started blue sky today.

[Initech]

5. I created an account on Bluesky yesterday.,

I'm going to start moving over once most of the accounts I follow start showing up.

[Dennis Donovan]

7. Not leaving Twitter yet. Still a few liberals there, plus I can't get Bluesky posts to render here yet

...so videos will play on DU instead of having to go to Bluesky to watch them. EarlG is working on it.

[Omnipresent]

8. Short and long answer is the same...

YES!

[CentralMass]

9. I created a bluesky account yesterday. Although I still have a twitter account

I have a very small number of tweets over many years. I may leave my account active. I will hiwever try to use Bluesky mote actively. For now I am just starting fresh with it and am not going to migrate anything to it.

[NEOH]

10. I opened my Bluesky account yesterday! nt

[MineralMan]

11. I did that the day Leon walked in with the kitchen sink.

Since accounts never get deleted there, I deliberately scrambled my password.

Poof! No more Twitter.

[DeepWinter]

12. No thanks

Still a lot of Democratic leadership, elected Dem officials, and good guy Dems on there I follow.

[edhopper]

18. They should all leave

Or they are helping Musk and Trump.

[ancianita]

28. What harm can come to them by staying on X? There is

much to be gained by our side in lurking and learning when they all think the largely republican users think they're communicating on a safe platform. Same for the lurkers, hopefully. I doubt it's going to be some intelligence gathering platform.

Unless you know for a fact that Elon's people have, in fact, been told that they can and should literally change the content of tweets, or their legal teams can use tweets as probable cause for investigations of users.

[jmbar2]

19. I agree - too much good stuff.

Not gonna cede the platform to morons.

[AkFemDem]

30. No there isnt too much good stuff and the platform already belongs to THEM

You're just supporting those morons, period.

[AkFemDem]

29. Who?

Because I'll show you the alternative sites those EXACT SAME tweets get reposted on by those exact same staffers (its not actually Obama, et al making those posts) The way it works is the social media team hits all the main socials with the exact same content.

[jmbar2]

41. You do you...

[AkFemDem]

42. Me doing me, means me pointing out the damage of your actions

Because I'm saying your continued patronage of X is dangerous to American democracy- it's supporting Musk and Trump by propping up their agenda and giving them a louder microphone. Whether you choose to read their tweets is moot in the big picture, it's your actual clicks that matter.

[SidDithers]

14. Deactivated mine last week...

Don't miss it a bit. Came back here

Sid

[DiamondShark]

48. Welcome back Sid!

[LexVegas]

16. Nah, but I am fully supportive of those that do. Its their choice. nt

[Dem2theMax]

20. Done two months ago. Bluesky is wonderful!

Very welcoming there. You can block MAGA with one button. Many members are setting up what they call packets, which makes it easy for you to follow a whole group of people at one time. You just have to pick what you want to follow. Media? Adoptees? Book lovers? Gardening?

https://blueskydirectory.com/starter-packs/all

That link is the directory to the starter packs that are going on right now. It will probably triple in a week.

[FarPoint]

21. The word is that all of us Liberals....

We are gong to Bluesky.

[Skittles]

32. only the ones who care about democracy

some people do the fighting, others just watch

[oldmanlynn]

22. Do we feel like?

Perhaps being on Twitter, and responding to all the misinformation is helpful to some degree or better to just let them push their propaganda unchecked

I feel like if we just all got up and left and went to a big cave and hung out there as Dems nothing would change out there in the country

[NewEnglandAutumn]

23. I can't close

I keep contacting them to close any accounts and they won’t

[Jarqui]

24. I got off X when Musk bought it

Then, I figured it was a good place to counter their misinformation.

After a while, in spite of increased 'followers' (many of them bogus), there were fewer and fewer reads of my posts - even in popular threads/discussions. They had developed a way to muzzle/censor those countering MAGA views.

So my tweets became pointless as did my account. I deleted my account.

I've checked out the alternatives.

I'm partial to Bluesky but wonder about the fruits of effort from preaching to the converted.

[orwell]

25. We're all over there...

...it's much better than Xitter.

[Karasu]

26. About to become an ally of Trump?

It's been an ally of Trump since the day Elon bought the damn thing.

[PragmaticLiberal]

27. Make the move.

Mark Cuban has joined as well.

[AkFemDem]

31. Every X user is a Musk/Trump supporter, every single one.

[Skittles]

33. especially when it merges with Truth Social

what a fucking disgrace

[SCantiGOP]

34. Yes, whether they want to be or not

Any X member is supporting and facilitating Musk-Trump.

[BigmanPigman]

35. I never had it or Fakebook

From what I've read on DU I'm glad I made that choice.

[Skittles]

39. same

it is all trash

[highplainsdem]

36. That won't happen in the near future, as far as I can tell. I suggest you email them about your wishes.

[edhopper]

43. Probably not

Let's just let Trump and Musk to become more powerful.

[highplainsdem]

44. You really think you're correct and Obama, Harris, Biden and every other Dem and liberal is

foolish compared to you, and just too dumb to have figured out yet that they shouldn't be on Twitter?

[edhopper]

45. How'd we do last election?

[highplainsdem]

46. Why do you think the results would've been different if all the Dems had left Twitter?

[Bonx]

38. I don't like being told what to do.

I can take care of myself, thanks.

[evilhime]

40. been gone for years

But i do like Bluesky so far .