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Inb4 fifty comments all saying "I'm not on twitter/x."
Hey, I'm not either, but we aren't who this thread is for, please and thank you
Please upvote this so people see it and think before making a shitty throwaway comment that adds absolutely zero to discussion.
Edit: fucking called it
Jokes on you, I'm not in this thread
I like how those people didn’t appreciate you taking away their circlejerk opportunity, so just downvoted you instead 😂
I swear half of Lemmy is just people talking about how they don’t use Twitter or Reddit.
I feel like my comment is the only one that even attempts to answer the question.
Pretty predictable though. Lemmy is even less mainstream than Mastodon so I would expect most people here to be way outside mainstream social media's target audience.
Because Wayland is a hot mess.
Laughs in i3
gay furry porn
Porn is the best and possibly only reason to stay on twitter. In fact I wish everyone who deleted their account goes and makes a porn following account until the app stores hands are forced to delisting it and even less advertisers pay for spots. Plus there's some good ass porn there. Or at least there was last I checked, admittedly it's been a while.
I wish I had something more significant to contribute, but... yeah. Mood.
The only reason I still use reddit is because of its huge NSFW communities.
That's one of the biggest reasons why I don't. I was angry I had to start logging in to visit those.
You can get around that by using old.reddit as you can click past the NSFW filter without signing in.
The furry porn community is still licking their wounds over losing Tumblr, and a lot of the big artists just don’t want to have to rebuild their community for the second time, so that’s where they are. I don’t like that I have to go to such a cesspool, but damnit, that’s where the furry porn is.
Thank you for your honest answer.
Sir this is lemmy
Darn it, all this time I thought I was on Lemmy!
Unfortunately Twitter/X is still the fastest way to find Japanese fan bases for almost everything. For example Baldur's Gate 3 just got its Japanese launch last month, and it's been fun to see their thoughts since they are not familiar with DND settings or CRPG all together. Many Japanese users I follow don't like what Musk's doing to Twitter as well, but they are also not sure about other platforms so it's kind of it is what it is situation now.
Can you summarize their reaction to BG3? You got me intrigued.
They basically weren't aware of the game before it got GotY and some even got sour that it won more awards than Zelda. (There was even a forum thread named something like "[sad news] a game that no Japanese has heard of has won GotY" which was quite hilarious.)
Then after the launch many players are surprised of how much freedom the game provides, and enjoy multiplayer sessions, classic big explosions, Talk with Animals, Scratchy the dog and Grease + fire combo, etc. There were some players that dropped the game with weird reasons tho, from "not anime enough" to "I thought this was an action RPG??" and even "I like RPGs but not TRPGs (??)" I'd say BG3 seems to be more like 50/50 in Japan because how its structure is different from JRPG's, but those who enjoy the game are really fond of it.
I haven't been active on Twitter / X for years. My last proper tweet was in November 2022 when I asked people to follow me on Mastodon instead.
I still have my account though. Mostly because friends occasionally send me links to news tweets that X won't show me without being logged in. And because customer support for some service providers (especially DHL, GLS and some other logistics companies) suddenly gets a lot more helpful when you complain in public instead of calling them and they don't have Mastodon accounts.
For several reasons:
It's where people are. It's the whole fucking point of social networks! If the user base drops to a point where people are no longer there, I'll go to the next network.
If I were to boycott everything owned by a cunt, I'd probably live in a mud hut, naked in a park somewhere.
The self-gratification on here doesn't make me want to use Twitter any less.
For all it's faults, there isn't a legitimate competitor. Mastodon has no users and has a less intuitive interface than Twitter. BlueSky is...I couldn't even tell you what the fuck it is. Threads is basically a meme project by Zuck (another billionaire cunt) to toy with Musk, and it'll be dead within a year.
FWIW, I fucking hate Musk. I'm a software engineer, and one of the few big tech companies I wanted to work for was Twitter. Their branding was cool, they worked on cool tech problems, and I heard great things about their workplace culture back in around 2010-2012. Musk fucked up a company I liked.
I've long considered Musk to be a fraud, and to be honest Twitter is the least of his problems. He's clearly a very sick man that probably needs professional help above everything else.
If he were a normal person, someone would've cornered him and coerced him into medical detainment. If people thought I had a coke problem that affected my ability to conduct meetings and think clearly, I'd be out on my ass. Musk can get away with it because he owns his companies, and no one cares enough about him to help him. He's a dancing monkey that doesn't realise that people are laughing at him, not with him...
Because my city deems it is still a good idea to post important announcements about roadworks and water interruptions/boil advisory there exclusively :/
It is full of content. Like Reddit.
But mastodon is not very entertaining, because it is just a "new" feed. Also the twitter app works well. So I usually use Twitter instead of mastodon.
But the Reddit app is garbage. And Lemmy is a great alternative. So there I go for the more ethical solution and pick Lemmy over Reddit.
Comparing Lemmy and Twitter. They have different content. Hence I use both.
I only have an account to bitch at my ISP whenever I have network issues. It's the only place where they actually do customer support for some reason.
They stopped showing their phone number on their website. The only other option is a piece of shit whatsapp bot that just tells you to restart your router.
Luckily I only run into problems I can't fix by myself like once per year at most. Don't have the app installed. Just go through Firefox.
Because they won't let me delete my account. It's been locked for like 3 years without any real reason. And I know people say that all the time but since 2017 I've made 4 posts, a dnd beyond giveaway and 3 gleam ones. Submitted request for deletion or unlock enough to loose track. When shit dick took over I figured itd be easier, what with all the horrible people gettin their accounts back an all, but still no.
I have an account for, eventually, marketing. It’s still widely used and so if I want my venture to be successful, I’d be foolish to avoid a place to be found, even if I find the owner to be distasteful at bare minimum.
I never had a Twitter account. I just joined mastodon a few hours ago
And Lemmy 4 days ago?
Yes. I am getting into this fediverse thingy. So far, so good
Porn. Also there's no ads usually around porn posts. So really it just costs them more
It’s one of the few places to keep track of new developments of covid mitigations, studies on long covid simplified for laymen, new open source air purifiers, safe and affordable far uvc developments, people calling out the CDC’s constant terrible job at public health, the fact both political parties in the US are pretending millions aren’t going to continue to die and become disabled the more we ignore covid and long covid.
Twitter and yes, TikTok, are the only places theres active people talking about this especially in ways laymen can understand and take action on. Theres some subreddits (some ive made) but i hate visiting reddit now.
Mastodon has a few people but discovery on mastodon is terrible. No one uses hashtags cuz hashtags kinda suck and nothing is filtered or recommended based on who you follow and what they like or who they follow so you have to wade through too much irrelevant stuff.
Off topic: I prefer chronological feeds but they should have a user customizable option to have some recommended posts in between the chronological timeline for discovery. The Mammoth app is doing this but only for the For You feed which is not what I want because its 90% news articles from big publications. I want a chronological timeline with some recommended posts based on parameters i set like “x likes by friends of friends”, “user was recently followed by x amount of people I follow”, “x number of posts by this user were liked by y amount of people i follow”.
I just really like the content of Twitter. Yes there are many stupid fights and debates but some of my favorite source of memes comes from there. To summarize, memes and pretty fast general world news.
I left the day Elon took over, but there are a lot of marginalized/unique social groups still on X that haven’t migrated to other platforms. So I know some people stay because they can’t find the same thing on mastodon, kbin, blue sky, etc.
It's been long since I deleted my reddit account, but I occasionally still open up subs that matter to me, like my local city subreddit, and a few other niche places, despite not being logged in. Why? Because that's about the only place I can find them.
It's the NSFW Content. TBH.
The artists who draw the art/topics/proportions I'm into, and the IRL models with those proportions, don't exist on Mastodon. If they do I haven't found them. So Twitter still gets my horny clicks cause that content doesn't exist elsewhere.
I stopped posting but keep the account active because a lot of the Japanese artists I follow have stopped using other sites that were once pretty standard and never moved away from Twitter. There are also some people I don't want to lose touch with that never moved away.
i use companies that still put the little X button at the end of their posts as a filter to stop visiting them. I've found it very helpful.
I am still “on X” because my account was banned and I literally cannot delete the account… because it’s banned.
But since I know that’s probably not the type of use you were referring to, I know others that still use it for scientific communications (e.g. announcing publications from their group and following those from others) and generally don’t care much or think about the fact that Elon is heading the platform.
I never had an account to start with.
Never really knew what it was for, and given the number of multi part parts and screenshots where you read bottom to top, no fucker else knows how it's supposed to work either.
It's just a shit blog with an arbitrary character limit.