this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2024
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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] [email protected] 123 points 1 month ago (4 children)

JUST. FUCKING. LEAVE. THESITE!

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago

Yeah, people are dumb for sticking around

[–] TehWorld 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don’t just leave, stop clicking any links from Twitter.

[–] Glitterbomb 7 points 1 month ago

Don't just stop clicking, verbally berate anyone still sharing Twitter links.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Remember when MySpace died without a whimper? No one was saying I've fostered a community here!

Influences and news media ate the worst.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

What's thesite? Is that a new mineral?

[–] MyPornViewingAccount 123 points 1 month ago (4 children)

To be fair, he owns the company. He can do with it what he wants.

You should stop using his shitty platform and take his power away.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It's his platform, sure, but the handle was also someone else's.
I don't care what some sign up agreement says, this feels immoral.

[–] takeda 74 points 1 month ago

It is immoral, nearly everything Muskow does is immoral and anyone who still uses xitter should be ashamed of themselves.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

You don't become one of history's wealthiest humans by having any kind of moral compass.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Morals? In my capitalism? Surely you jest

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey 35 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I wish I had ever used Twitter so I could leave it. Kinda awkward when you want to boycott something, but you weren't consuming it in the first place. Same thing happened with Chick-Fil-A.

[–] Viking_Hippie 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Kinda awkward when you want to boycott something, but you weren't consuming it in the first place. Same thing happened with Chick-Fil-A.

You think THAT'S bad? I wanted to boycott them too, but can't even flip off the building as I pass it, owing to the nearest one being on the other side of the Atlantic ocean!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You think the Atlantic is a long way away? Drag's nearest chickafill is on the other side of the Pacific. It's so far away that drag never learned how to spell the name!

[–] Viking_Hippie 0 points 1 month ago

Well at least you have some dragons to fuck 🤷

[–] InternetCitizen2 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Make an account and abandon it. Still wasting their resources.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 2 points 1 month ago

make the account with a ten minute email or something so it just fills a databaste

[–] ZILtoid1991 10 points 1 month ago

It basically just signals "We don't care about your user handles, we will strip them away from you eventually".

[–] barnaclebutt 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not sure you are correct. The @america handle is probably quite valuable. Did he steal it or buy it from the owner?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

If it's his website he can do whatever he wants no matter the perceived value as long as it doesn't clash with existing laws. Even if it's illegal he can probably do it and figure something out.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This would be like if someone bought out everyone's favorite restaurant and totally ruined it. The food is worse, the staff are rude, and the only people who still hang out there are a bunch of jerks. And now you're telling me the owner sometimes shows up and kicks you out of your seat because you're in "his" spot?

The obvious remedy is to stop fucking going. And yet, people keep fucking going.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

In this scenario, there is no comparable restaurant, unfortunately

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

I had to double-check that I was still on Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Unpopular opinion (at least in the Fediverse): while mastodon exists and is nice (if a little harder to grasp), Threads actually has a sufficient user base to be considered a substitute for Xitter. I was watching it during the debates and there was lively enough conversation to be interesting and still unable to read every comment that tagged the debate in real time.

Down with centralized social media and all that, but just a suggestion if you miss the volume of posts and the centralized interface that Xitter dumps out.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Drag would like to introduce you to a wonderful website called Mastodon. https://mastodon.social

Drag respects the fact that Mastodon exists, but drag also doesn't use it because the Twitter format is very boring. Drag tried using Twitter before Musk bought it, and it was no fun at all. Drag was just screaming into the void.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 2 points 1 month ago

yasss queen

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 2 points 1 month ago

my favorite restaurant, the one with the crab enchiladas? it closed seven years ago. two before the pandemic. I lived for those enchiladas.

[–] Iheartcheese 37 points 1 month ago

This is like the 5th time he's done this. I know he took X and Music as well off the top of my head. I swear there were others.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Matt Binder shouldn't be using Twitter. It's a Nazi website.

[–] postmateDumbass 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That is the new america. Take it and shoot who objects. Yay, democracy!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That was the old way too. Manifest Destiny!

[–] postmateDumbass 1 points 1 month ago

< 2 spacemen enter space, 1 spaceman leaves >

[–] njm1314 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Kind of hard to feel sympathy for them, they stuck around on a site that promotes an endorses actual Nazis and pedophiles. If you choose to be on that site I assume you approve of that.

[–] s1ndr0m3 2 points 1 month ago

According to the article Matt Binder wrote (https://www.disruptionist.com/p/elon-musk-takes-america-x-handle), the @america handle hadn't posted since May of 2020. So, they didn't stick around. They just never deleted the account.