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Thursday on X (Twitter), all users saw the same pinned topic under the "What's happening?" sidebar. As part of a "timeline takeover" -- which gives

Thursday on X (Twitter), all users saw the same pinned topic under the “What’s happening?” sidebar. As part of a “timeline takeover” — which gives advertisers “priority access to logged-in users’ first impression of the day” — conservative media nonprofit PragerU is promoting the hashtag “#DETRANS” to advertise its new film about “the stories of detransitioners.”

  • dynamojoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    145·
    1 year ago

    Every day I miss my twitter account less and less. I now wish there was a way I could block twitter content inside news articles and such.

  • Iwasondigg@lemmy.oneEnglish
    1042·
    1 year ago

    This is a good time to remind people one of his kids is trans. What utter garbage he’s turned out to be.

  • misterundercoat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1022·
    1 year ago

    Despite pushback from some users

    Well there’s your problem. You’re still using the fascist platform.

    Any active user who “pushes back” in an attempt to “fix” the fascist platform is either delusional or being disingenuous. There’s no fixing it, guys. Just walk away.

    • seitanic@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      141·
      1 year ago

      Boycotts can work. Leave, and let people know why you’re leaving. (The second part is important!)

    • gkd@lemmy.mlEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Yep. I could see people sticking around if there were not viable alternatives. And while those alternatives have indeed been around for a good while, they are very available now. There’s really no excuse now.

      Now, while I do think Mastodon is the better platform, I’m curious to see how BlueSky affects Twitter’s user base once it comes out of its “beta”. For all of its faults, it does have the smallest learning curve - if really any at all - when comparing it to Twitter.

  • dinckel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    997·
    1 year ago

    Can we please just stop talking about the clown in command, and his dogshit bigoted platform?

  • alienanimals@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7019·
    1 year ago

    Downvote Musk spam.

    The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring him and his businesses stay in the 24 hour news cycle. Don’t be a useful idiot.

        • subversive_dev@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          I don’t know for sure but I know their moderation is dogshit. I think they don’t want to face down the deluge of Nazis like we have had to here, they’d rather be a clique-y cool kids clubhouse of Twitter brainrot

  • magnetosphere@kbin.social
    451·
    1 year ago

    Followers and online friends are very important to some people, but at what point do remaining Twitter users give up?

    I understand there are some pathetic individuals who agree with Musk. I’m not talking about them. I mean the ones who should know better, but haven’t left yet.

    What does it take for people to realize “I’m helping an utterly wretched man keep his business alive?” Don’t they realize they’re burning their all-important reputations by staying? Is it worth it to them? Why?

        • Fades@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          1 year ago

          It absolutely is that simple. Most people just do NOT give a fuck until it directly affects them negatively. They don’t want to lose their followers and shit so musks bullshit is acceptable in that context

    • gkd@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      I wish people (especially just regular ol’ people, not big names) realized that if they started using Mastodon or BlueSky their engagement would go up tremendously. I’ve had full blown huge threads with all sorts of people on both platforms, even when I had literally just made my account.

      On Twitter you’re lucky to even get a like on a post unless it’s some hot take on a political topic.

  • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    403·
    1 year ago

    Detransition is the equivalent of people who decided they actually aren’t gay. It’s rare enough to not make policies or be an ass about it, it’s super rare for it to go all the way to straight/cis and instead is typically “actually it turns out I’m bi/nonbinary”, and there’s a group actively funded and encouraged by the right wing, many of whom later retransition. It is a real phenomenon, but so is quicksand, both of which turned out to be less common in real life than certain media would have you believe

    • andros_rex@lemmy.worldEnglish
      212·
      1 year ago

      It’s also sadly common for folks to detransition because of hostility and a lack of support. Hard to afford hormones if you can’t get a job because you’re trans.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        1 year ago

        Very true. And it’s easy to decide that physical safety is more valuable at the moment than self fulfillment.

        • Jrockwar@feddit.ukEnglish
          121·
          1 year ago

          Yeah no way that anyone who is actually center would be happy with transphobe ads. That’s only the techno-right Elon Musk praisers that believe that because they accept technology, they’re not far right even if they are unaccepting of large swathes of society. Center implies accepting points of view in both sides, which is not compatible with intolerant stances.

      • mob@lemmy.worldEnglish
        194·
        1 year ago

        Oh I hate this argument.

        With an election year next year, politics is about to get shoe horned into everything with the “(insert subject) is politics” is justification.

        I think most people think of technology as scientific based rather than social media trends and events.

        • peanutyam@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          1 year ago

          That’s only if you live in the US though….the rest of the world doesn’t care that much for your local politics….so it won’t be “shoehorned” into all posts as there are internet users outside the USA….gasp

          • mob@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Non American Internet users likely talk American politics just as much as Americans. Even if it is just to criticize Americans

        • PorkRollWobbly@lemmy.mlEnglish
          22·
          1 year ago

          I wouldn’t call the possibly intentional destruction of a social media infrastructure “social media trends and events.”

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    PragerU, which is not a university, aims to “preserve American ideals.” The organization has been criticized for doubting climate change and downplaying the realities of slavery.

    “PragerU has chosen X/Twitter specifically for this campaign, as it is one of the least censored social media platforms,” the organization wrote in a press release.

    PragerU calls the short documentary its “most important” video yet, but extensive research shows that detransitioning is incredibly uncommon.

    In spite of research indicating that these procedures are often life-saving and rarely result in regret, right-wing figures continue to drum up panic around gender-affirming care for LGBTQ+ people.

    X CEO Linda Yaccarino claims that the company will be profitable by 2024, but other evidence shows that the platform’s advertising business continues to suffer.

    As recently as this week, Musk has posted that he believes the word “cis” is a “heterosexual slur,” a personal position that reflects changes made to the company’s content moderation policies under his leadership.

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