Just deactivated my Twitter- alternatives?
29-Jul-23 11:10pm
#1 Feeb
Had my account since around launch. It’s terrible now. If I send a tweet with any language- ass, crap etc- my account gets banned for a day. There is so much censorship there now- the irony. Selling the blue checks for views etc- If anyone uses any similar SM services let me know. I use it mainly for quick news updates, wario 64 and news on games etc. Shame it’s melting down - how a cesspool gets worse- I dunno- it did.
Not interested in politically motivated / driven services. I know they all do it, but I also know some are born of it.
#1 Feeb
Had my account since around launch. It’s terrible now. If I send a tweet with any language- ass, crap etc- my account gets banned for a day. There is so much censorship there now- the irony. Selling the blue checks for views etc- If anyone uses any similar SM services let me know. I use it mainly for quick news updates, wario 64 and news on games etc. Shame it’s melting down - how a cesspool gets worse- I dunno- it did.
Not interested in politically motivated / driven services. I know they all do it, but I also know some are born of it.
30-Jul-23 12:31am
#2 MrBean
Well Threads is already on the decline. Guess there's Truth? Haha. Social media in general has become such a plague. Honestly, TikTok has become my favorite these days. Mindless but also educational and entertaining.
X needs to get a move on to stop the bleeding
You can clearly tell many advertisers have pulled out. I went from having relevant/targeted ads, to generalized stupid bullcrap ads. Most of which seem to revolve around AI/hot chicks or hot AI chicks. None of these are anywhere in my browsing history. They're going for lame ass generalized demographics and using whoever they have left that's paying.
Elon is a crazy bastard, but he may ultimately pull it off, who knows.
#2 MrBean
Well Threads is already on the decline. Guess there's Truth? Haha. Social media in general has become such a plague. Honestly, TikTok has become my favorite these days. Mindless but also educational and entertaining.
X needs to get a move on to stop the bleeding
You can clearly tell many advertisers have pulled out. I went from having relevant/targeted ads, to generalized stupid bullcrap ads. Most of which seem to revolve around AI/hot chicks or hot AI chicks. None of these are anywhere in my browsing history. They're going for lame ass generalized demographics and using whoever they have left that's paying.
Elon is a crazy bastard, but he may ultimately pull it off, who knows.
30-Jul-23 5:45am
#5 benstylus
bill wrote:
Don't replace it. Put your phone down. Try it for a week or two.
Real life. I think most of us could use a social media detox.
#5 benstylus
bill wrote:
Don't replace it. Put your phone down. Try it for a week or two.
Real life. I think most of us could use a social media detox.
30-Jul-23 9:15am
#7 Feeb
bill wrote:
Don't replace it. Put your phone down. Try it for a week or two.
This was my plan. To never use SM at all. Twitter was the last one I ever used. Left everything else years ago. It’s just so convenient to have- not supporting what they’re after.
#7 Feeb
bill wrote:
Don't replace it. Put your phone down. Try it for a week or two.
This was my plan. To never use SM at all. Twitter was the last one I ever used. Left everything else years ago. It’s just so convenient to have- not supporting what they’re after.
30-Jul-23 11:22am
#8 BucketofJustice
I deactivated my Twitter a few months back, and haven’t looked back. All I have is Facebook for friends and family and that’s all I plan to have. If I could get away without that and still know what was going on, I would.
#8 BucketofJustice
I deactivated my Twitter a few months back, and haven’t looked back. All I have is Facebook for friends and family and that’s all I plan to have. If I could get away without that and still know what was going on, I would.
30-Jul-23 11:36am
#9 Feeb
My phone gives me a pop up / update of my “social media” use weekly. It’s like 2-3 hrs usually. That seems low, but if I’m in downtime between office visits etc I almost always just cruise Twitter. It will be good for me to let it die. I’ve got some e books etc I’ve been reading instead. I could have taken over the world by now if I would have read more instead of playing games and Twitter etc.
#9 Feeb
My phone gives me a pop up / update of my “social media” use weekly. It’s like 2-3 hrs usually. That seems low, but if I’m in downtime between office visits etc I almost always just cruise Twitter. It will be good for me to let it die. I’ve got some e books etc I’ve been reading instead. I could have taken over the world by now if I would have read more instead of playing games and Twitter etc.
30-Jul-23 12:30pm
#10 Foxhack
I still have Twitter (fudge Elon), but got a Mastodon account at a server a friend runs. It's fine. I also got a parked bluesky account. I'm probably never using Threads because of how deep it wants to stick its fingers in your phone.
I mostly used Twitter for game searching and that idiot in charge has started to make it harder for me to find stuff there. I spend half the time blocking paid users and trolls / bots / cultists.
#10 Foxhack
I still have Twitter (fudge Elon), but got a Mastodon account at a server a friend runs. It's fine. I also got a parked bluesky account. I'm probably never using Threads because of how deep it wants to stick its fingers in your phone.
I mostly used Twitter for game searching and that idiot in charge has started to make it harder for me to find stuff there. I spend half the time blocking paid users and trolls / bots / cultists.
30-Jul-23 12:55pm
#11 Feeb
Lots of ads as someone said. And tons of hot girls tweet me now who just want sex. They’re very superficial.
#11 Feeb
Lots of ads as someone said. And tons of hot girls tweet me now who just want sex. They’re very superficial.
30-Jul-23 2:01pm
#12 Miranda
Feeb wrote:
Had my account since around launch. It’s terrible now. If I send a tweet with any language- ass, crap etc-
How are you getting timeouts for that? You should see the crap I post. I got perma-banned once, but in all fairness I deserved it. Maggoty Mags dishes it out, but she can't take it. My new account I post some pretty brutal crap. They haven't done a thing.
#12 Miranda
Feeb wrote:
Had my account since around launch. It’s terrible now. If I send a tweet with any language- ass, crap etc-
How are you getting timeouts for that? You should see the crap I post. I got perma-banned once, but in all fairness I deserved it. Maggoty Mags dishes it out, but she can't take it. My new account I post some pretty brutal crap. They haven't done a thing.
30-Jul-23 2:06pm
#13 Feeb
It immediately locks my account from posting etc if I trigger the “most users don’t tweet this” warning. It’s never been this way before.
#13 Feeb
It immediately locks my account from posting etc if I trigger the “most users don’t tweet this” warning. It’s never been this way before.
30-Jul-23 5:46pm
#14 Miranda
I get that all the time. It provides me with the option to not tweet it or tweet it anyway. I always tweet. Never happened to me. I'm not kidding when I say I post some brutal stuff. I hate Twitter I don't care if I get banned. If I decide I need it later I'd just make a new account anyway.
That's odd.
#14 Miranda
I get that all the time. It provides me with the option to not tweet it or tweet it anyway. I always tweet. Never happened to me. I'm not kidding when I say I post some brutal stuff. I hate Twitter I don't care if I get banned. If I decide I need it later I'd just make a new account anyway.
That's odd.
30-Jul-23 5:48pm
#15 Feeb
Even if I delete the tweet I still get shut down for at least 24 hours. I must be on a crap list. Or it’s that easy to report and suspend others. I never reported anyone.
#15 Feeb
Even if I delete the tweet I still get shut down for at least 24 hours. I must be on a crap list. Or it’s that easy to report and suspend others. I never reported anyone.
30-Jul-23 6:01pm
#16 rayzor6
This post has made me fully understand the appeal of Twitter. You want to rage against everything...what better place than a site you loathe with every fiber of your being...yet you still can't stop going there.
Seriously...this is a decade long puzzle piece that just fell into place. I just didn't understand the importance of raging so hard.
#16 rayzor6
This post has made me fully understand the appeal of Twitter. You want to rage against everything...what better place than a site you loathe with every fiber of your being...yet you still can't stop going there.
Seriously...this is a decade long puzzle piece that just fell into place. I just didn't understand the importance of raging so hard.
30-Jul-23 6:25pm
#17 Feeb
It wasn’t really an angry thing. I believe the tweet that got me shut down said “why would people be butt-holes and trash this guy for being happy?”
But Twitter allows you to be anonymous and say bad things about other people without any risk of reprisal. So perhaps it appeals to that type of person.
#17 Feeb
It wasn’t really an angry thing. I believe the tweet that got me shut down said “why would people be butt-holes and trash this guy for being happy?”
But Twitter allows you to be anonymous and say bad things about other people without any risk of reprisal. So perhaps it appeals to that type of person.
30-Jul-23 7:25pm
#18 Foxhack
Really, the best way to enjoy that app was to stick to the topics you like, and block the hell outta trolls. Making accounts was so easy that folks didn't care what they posted. The moderators there - the ones left after that dumbfudge fired everyone - can't really do much, and any automated systems keep getting messed with.
The site was fine when reporting people still worked. But that butt-hole keeps making things worse. And yes, I specifically mean Elon Musk, I swear he is the stupidest millionaire ever or he just wants to kill the site.
#18 Foxhack
Really, the best way to enjoy that app was to stick to the topics you like, and block the hell outta trolls. Making accounts was so easy that folks didn't care what they posted. The moderators there - the ones left after that dumbfudge fired everyone - can't really do much, and any automated systems keep getting messed with.
The site was fine when reporting people still worked. But that butt-hole keeps making things worse. And yes, I specifically mean Elon Musk, I swear he is the stupidest millionaire ever or he just wants to kill the site.
30-Jul-23 7:46pm
#19 Feeb
I used it to network with others in my field often. The site is amazing when it works well. It’s pretty unpredictable lately. Honestly the most I usually did in the last month was send my wife and kids animal videos that got posted. I don’t really have any feelings toward musk either way. I think he made a big miscalculation in his Twitter fiasco though.
#19 Feeb
I used it to network with others in my field often. The site is amazing when it works well. It’s pretty unpredictable lately. Honestly the most I usually did in the last month was send my wife and kids animal videos that got posted. I don’t really have any feelings toward musk either way. I think he made a big miscalculation in his Twitter fiasco though.
30-Jul-23 9:08pm
#20 rayzor6
It's all a rage thing. The few posts I made on there were rage things because the garbage said there was both so freaking crazy AND just full of this confident snark for being around a bunch of other rage addicts who leaned the same way.
Yeah...bill is absolutely correct here in what the best course of action is.
#20 rayzor6
It's all a rage thing. The few posts I made on there were rage things because the garbage said there was both so freaking crazy AND just full of this confident snark for being around a bunch of other rage addicts who leaned the same way.
Yeah...bill is absolutely correct here in what the best course of action is.
30-Jul-23 9:12pm
#21 Feeb
Tribalistic behavior. I fall victim to it too. It’s so weird that you can basically choose to be in an echo chamber where everyone loves you but we choose to step out of it and try to convince others. Lots of folks just need to feel they belong etc.
#21 Feeb
Tribalistic behavior. I fall victim to it too. It’s so weird that you can basically choose to be in an echo chamber where everyone loves you but we choose to step out of it and try to convince others. Lots of folks just need to feel they belong etc.
Just deactivated my Twitter- alternatives?