Let’s review what Elon Musk has done just in 2023:

  1. Changed Twitter to X.
  2. Plans to implement a small monthly payment for everyone using the X system.
  3. Plans to collect user biometric information, job, and education history for “safety, security, and identification purposes.”
  4. Brings back shadowbanning.
  5. Uses user data to train AI models.
  6. Limits replies to verified users only.

Elon has made so many terrible changes to Twitter that I can’t remember what the breaking point was for me.

Fortunately, there’s a lot more competition in Twitter-like social media platforms. Mastodon may currently hold the position as the most established platform, but there are numerous other services competing to become the next preferred place for online users.

  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.spaceEnglish
    611·
    11 months ago

    Great news if you’ve ever looked at your replies and thought “you know what? there are too many non-Nazis here”

    • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
      151·
      11 months ago

      People are were the content is, but using this platform after all that’s happened to it… Yeah no, I don’t get it either

      • loki@lemmy.mlEnglish
        31·
        11 months ago

        These people existed before lemmy, reddit or digg. just annoying to be around.

      • Wisely@lemm.ee
        2·
        11 months ago

        I don’t know anyone in real life who uses it. Even before Musk bought it out. I’m getting older so checked with gen z in my family and they don’t use it either.

        • Toribor@corndog.socialEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          It’s popular among journalists and media types so it gets talked about as if it’s a huge public forum for everyone but it’s not.

      • jsdz@lemmy.ml
        31·
        11 months ago

        I have frequently found myself surrounded by Twitter and Instagram users, and they seem just as deluded as they do from here.

    • SSUPII@sopuli.xyz
      91·
      11 months ago

      Way too many massively good artists I follow are still on Twitter with no intention of leaving. Some are on Pixiv or DeviantArt, but most not.

            • naught@sh.itjust.works
              51·
              11 months ago

              Shitty but hardly surprising. Twitter has a global reach, a decade+ of experience and momentum and critical mass etc. A twitter exodus isn’t going to happen over night.

        • loki@lemmy.mlEnglish
          51·
          11 months ago

          Artists want their art to be seen by as many people as possible. Their livelihood probably depends on it.

          • devfuuu@lemmy.world
            1·
            11 months ago

            It’s as if it’s a big problem to manage one more platform between all the ones they already do. Lot’s of apps and options to just automatically cross post content to multiple platforms too or just mirror mastodon to Twitter or vice versa.

            At this point, ignoring or avoiding another platform where so many people already are is just laziness.

  • GenEcon@lemm.ee
    9·
    11 months ago

    Otherway round would be a lot more useful. Block idiots who pay Elon for his new ‘X’.

  • morras@links.hackliberty.org
    6·
    11 months ago

    Humanity will make huge progress once it stop commenting every sh*t originating from E. Misk.

    Seriously, there is now way to block all that noise?

  • harmonea@kbin.social
    5·
    11 months ago

    Can’t believe you forgot the usage limits on how many tweets you can view and how many DMs you can send. I think some of those might have been walked back, but I know people who were holding back from discord because twitter DMs were enough that now rarely go there.

    Also all sorts of API functionality has been killed off - embeds, RSS, bots, etc

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
    11·
    11 months ago

    What I need for Mastodon is a database of verified users organized by subject matter expertise or your of content.