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Why do people still use Twitter?
It drives me insane. Most of the top so called leftists are fully addicted to it and treat it like it’s an essential medium.
To an extent. In a know your enemies sense it's useful. In a useful communication sense it's becoming more and more ineffective. There's software that will post to both twitter and mastodon. If your audience is on twitter but you make no effort to change that. Then you support it to your own determent. Part of it is a publicity thing.
More need to be like hey, if you follow me but want less fascism popping up in your feed. You can now follow on mastodon etc. If enough people did that, we'd see some changes. Probably banning mention of mastodon on twitter. But still better than passive inertia.
Edit And hello again.
I love how when I point out it's owned by a nazi, people rush in to defend their use of twitter and most usually it's some form of "it's the best for what it is/it has a huge user base" and me responding with a picture of musk doing the ol' Hitler Salute saying "okay but you're supporting this guy, and if you sit at a table with 10 nazis..." usually results in being blocked, people simply ignoring me, or saying something dismissive.
Most people don't want to actually change anything. They want everyone else to change things, and keep living their happy little lives.
They want to complain but not make even the smallest actual effort.
The EU were being hypocritical just having an ad account with Twitter.
How?
Because people still use twitter, and other people go to where people are.
Lol. It's as dumb as it sounds. Weren't we in grade school when they taught us that just because everyone is jumping off a cliff, we needn't be like everyone?
And because they're fine enabling Nazis.
Where else are Nazis supposed to hang out?
Twatters
Because you can sell things to neo-nazis.
The same way elon musk didn't become the richest man in the world by working hard, twitter didn't magically become the platform used by every politician in the world. One of the reason peoples still use twitter is because the representatives of their country use (and are told to use) it.