• F/15/Cali@threads.net@sh.itjust.works
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    40 million per month? For check marks? Shit, coming together with a unified move to mastodon to save money and society is the most painless of obligations for those in the limelight. I judge all who remain on that hell plane made manifest.

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      It would still take 6075 twitter mass subs cancellations to deplete Musk’s wealth though.

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    We’ve attempted this twice now… too many people are addicted to twitter and won’t quit, they are addicted to the twitter drama, no matter how bad the disinformation and hate speech get.

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      I think there will (or could) come a time. There has to be a limit. “Elon Musk sucks and Twitter is full of Nazis” doesn’t seem to be the limit, though.

    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comBanned
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      i wouldnt be using twitter but if i want to see don trump jr say that tim walz drinks horse cum, i need to be using twitter with an account unfortunately.

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        I don’t have a X/Twitter account anymore but can still read tweets or whatever they’re called these days

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          you can still read some tweets of some accounts, it blocks most of the new tweets and visible replies, plus if you wanna see anything spicy, you literally need an account.

          technically the web archive gets around this but then you need a direct tweet link, and finding that shit is too much effort.

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        I mean, I’ve never had a twitter account but I’ve heard it plenty. Just peek over at /r/conservative once a week or so.

        I finally got around to deleting Facebook this year too when I found out they’ll cross post your Instagram stuff to Facebook if you don’t click a box somewhere.

        I get a lot more stuff done without the doomscrolling.

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          Just peek over at /r/conservative

          is that somewhere on lemmy?

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          yeah idk i find i dont really have a problem with doomscrolling, it’s easy enough to just hit the close button and do something else for me, other than that i like to see the stupid shit people are posting.

          also its nice to verify certain posts as “real”

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      Facebook and Instagram by Zuckerberg? Tik Tok by the Chinese government? Reddit by Spez? Everything is a terrible option.

      I don’t use Twitter/x or anything but Lemmy, but the social media world is owned by terrible corporations and terrible people.

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          But, for several reasons is a much worse experience for people with a large number of followers, especially if they are from a marginalized group.

          Everyone should get off X, but I find it hard to recommend any replacement. Threads and Bluesky have problems, but they might work better than Mastodon for some people or organizations.

    • FatCat@lemmy.world
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      I use adblock so I am doing this planet a service by adding load to their shitty serveris 👍

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    How do I delete X? I’d love to, but I don’t think I have the access or permissions to delete an entire company.

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        I guessed that from context and was just making fun of it. Writing it that way is definitely confusing and shouldn’t be done. “mm” is internationally recognized as “millimeters”. In financial papers, sometimes, Roman numerals “MM” are used to indicate millions, but then it should strictly be capitalized. In my opinion, for general use, number followed by a single “m” conveys the idea best ($40m), and followed by “k” for thousand ($40k). Use capitals for more formal settings ($40M and $40K).

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          For sure! I hate the ambiguity that it adds. MM in upper or lowercase is something I’ve seen for millions in financial and business contexts, along with a single m for thousand. To avoid ambiguity I ended up using K for thousands and MM for millions back in the day.

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          Where did that K in thousand come from after all, anyway? M for million makes sense. K for thousand doesn’t.

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              That makes perfect sense, I can’t believe I didn’t make that connection - and, yeah, I’ve definitely outed myself as an American. Fair enough.

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        Yes, that is generally true. But Elon has shown time and time again that he is an inherently malicious individual.

        Is it implausible that a jackass like Elon would spend a small fraction of his wealth to destroy a company that hurt his wittle feelwings?

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    I’m really sort of disappointed somebody hasn’t launched some transfer service for the entire platform.

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      There was almost one but then Xitter nuked their public API which makes it almost impossible, from memory. They knew this would happen, and they did everything they could to stop it.

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        What other site do we know of that made their API a pain to use killing the app that I used to tolerate that site that a good chunk of is migrated from?

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          Ummmm . . . Hang on . . It was, uh . . man I wanna sayyyyy . . Rowdy? Rumblejunk? Dang. Oh well. Guess it’s gone.

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    I tried to enter my old twitter account the other day as I needed to check some info that was only in a tweets.

    I couldn’t see tweets without login so In. tried to login and they pop-up me with so much shit that I didn’t even tried. They didn’t trusted my login and I couldn’t be bothered to close so many pop-ups to enter the verification code they sent to the email (while of course saying that if I logged in their shitty app or with a google account it all will be easier).

    Sum up. I didn’t check the info. And for now onwards if your organization only post on twitter your organization is non-existent to me as I cannot access that info, plain as that.

    • WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world
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      Made a twitter account about 15yr ago but never really used. Tried to log in recently to delete the account. Can’t remember my username, just the email address used. Can only do a password reset if I know username. but no option to be reminded of username…