Also, don’t leave your account unused, delete it. User and follower numbers count.

And least as important, reply (if necessary to another corporate mail address) every email with Twitter/X in the footer, with a kind request to stop promoting and facilitating X.

https://bio.link/everyonehateselon

    • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      32·
      2 个月前

      In case someone thinks “Oh, he’s just an alt-right troll, he doesn’t actually believe in that stuff”, meet Elon’s grandfather:

      He became involved in Canadian politics, backing the technocracy movement, before moving to South Africa in 1950. Over the course of decades, Haldeman repeatedly expressed racist, antisemitic, and antidemocratic views.[1] In South Africa he was a supporter of apartheid and promoted a number of conspiracy theories.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_N._Haldeman

        • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          7·
          2 个月前

          This in turn would necessitate the abandonment of democracy and the embrace of a technocracy—government by an unelected, technically skilled, empirically-driven elite with the expertise necessary to determine values and make rational resource-allocation decisions

          Sounds a lot like one of Elon’s beliefs, doesn’t it?

          Strange how people who think this way never assume they’ll be one of the people on the outside, letting others make the important decisions. Whenever there’s an elite, they imagine they’ll be part of that elite.

    • Europellinore@europe.pubOPEnglish
      14·
      2 个月前

      That’s true, but Bluesky is also 100 times better than X and probably a more feasible/realistic alternative for all kinds of companies/sports clubs/government agencies/etc. Although I prefer Mastodon in principle, I am quite sceptical about the chance that it will be seen (by the general public) as such a good alternative to X that they will actually consider themselfs being able to leave X.

      • alfredon996@feddit.itEnglish
        48·
        2 个月前

        The problem with Bluesky is that it’s essentially centralized, with all the related drawbacks.

        • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          11·
          2 个月前

          And its funding is pretty suspect.

          Even if you trust the current leadership team, there’s no reason to believe they’ll remain in charge.

      • bossito@lemmy.worldEnglish
        35·
        2 个月前

        Repeating mistakes, taking years to drop a platform owned by a nazi to just run into the next US platform ready to be bought by some other billionaire Nazi… nothing was learnt, was it?

      • Telorand@reddthat.comEnglish
        15·
        2 个月前

        For those of us with the knowledge, it’s our responsibility to both sell the idea of Mastodon and help onboard people. On top of that, there’s many guides, at this point, about how to get involved, choose an instance, set up your feeds, etc.

        It’s true that Bluesky is a much more seamless experience, because many options are hardcoded or pre-chosen for people, but if we can get people over the hump of making those choices for themselves, they’ll find it a much better place long term. Also, it’s strongly resistant to the antics of bad actors, so it’s a much better choice for governments and other groups. Bluesky does not enjoy the same natural defenses.

      • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        7·
        2 个月前

        The problem with Bluesky is that it has exactly the same kind of legal structure (for-profit company) with the same kind of objective (make lots of money for founders and early investors) as Twitter, thus is just as likely to be bought by a Nazi billionaire.

        If you’re leaving X because it turned into a Nazi bar after being bought by a Nazi, going to Bluesky is just setting yourself up for being in a similar situation again in a couple of years.

  • NoiseColor @lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    2 个月前

    Who? A lot of people apparently. And basically all companies. And more or less all government institutions in all countries in the world.

    • Europellinore@europe.pubOPEnglish
      28·
      2 个月前

      Since few weeks I’m replying to all mails with X in the footer (newsletters as well as email signature of corporate mails) to tell them it would be great if they stop promoting this crappy outlet. Concise, polite and motivated.

      From roughly half of them I didn’t get a reply yet. From the other half, a MAJORITY reacts positive. We all should know, the MAIN reason most organizations are still there, is because someone decided so in 2010 (!). They never thought about it afterward, because their audience / customer ‘never asks for that’.

      Be. That. Customer / Reader. Who. DOES. Ask. For. That.

        • Europellinore@europe.pubOPEnglish
          9·
          2 个月前

          I wouldn’t. Not because I don’t think it’s a good idea, but I want to let them see that specifically X became a disgusting fascist deepfake childporn abyss. Adding fb as well, increases the risk they don’t quit any of them, because it might give them the illusion my message says more about me ‘being anti social media’ rather than about X in particular.

          • Crackhappy@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            2 个月前

            I see your point. I’m not certain that I agree with you, but I understand what you’re saying.

      • PostaL@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 个月前

        You’re basically asking them to give up on a promotion avenue and hence a revenue source in favor of morals. Corporations will never do this unless leaving X somehow financially outweighs staying there.

        • Europellinore@europe.pubOPEnglish
          1·
          2 个月前

          Financially, or when their customers require so, or when damaging to their image. At least the latter two are quite influenceable.

    • J92@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 个月前

      If nobody was doing it, it would be a strange thing to pay money to put in an advertising space.

      • NoiseColor @lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 个月前

        It is a strange thing to put money into it, considering not even csam is enough to make at least eu institutions to go away from x.

        Seems like musk can do anything he wants. What’s worse than this?

        • J92@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 个月前

          I’d argue putting it into people’s field of view could sway an individual, and if one person can be moved, more could follow.

          That side already proved that boycotting works, in their disgust of a trans-indivual advertising beer, and certain groups being mortally offended that folk could suggest BDS actions towards Israel.

  • Randelung@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    2 个月前

    The best moment to delete your Twitter account was ten years ago. The second best is now.

    • Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      2 个月前

      I deleted mine the day after Musk took it over, which is somewhere in the middle I think lol

    • SCmSTREnglish
      2·
      2 个月前

      “Moment” has multiple meanings, but one meaning is a synonym of a literal second.

      Every moment, then, is the (Now.InSeconds() - BestMoment.InSeconds()).ToString() + “th” best time to delete your Twitter account.

  • Zozano@aussie.zoneEnglish
    17·
    2 个月前

    “Won’t somebody think of the children?!” “Wait, no! Not like that!”

    • foo@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      2 个月前

      I signed up years ago when quite a few TV programs I watched would make announcements on Twitter, like when new series were starting and that type of thing. I also liked the idea of following certain institutions and celebs to keep up with their announcements. I was quite disappointed when I noticed a lot of info passing me by - I had encountered the algorithm.

      I hadn’t logged in for years, and thought I had deleted my account, until just now when I tried it and found it still active. So, I just deactivated it and in 30 days it will be gone for good.

  • Rooster326@programming.devEnglish
    12·
    2 个月前

    If you haven’t already quit then a whole lot of people have already made a whole lot of assumptions about your character.

    • Electricd@lemmybefree.netEnglish
      1·
      2 个月前

      And those people are morons so why should I care

      Anyone saying that still being on X means you’re a nazi is a lunatic and should not be allowed in a debate

  • Niquarl@lemmy.mlEnglish
    9·
    2 个月前

    I forgot if I still had an account. Yep but haven’t used it since covid probably. Deactivated it just now, guess it will delete in 30days.

  • Formfiller@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 个月前

    Maybe the world could stop doing any business at all with this apartheid Nazi welfare queen? He’s trying to destroy your countries with Nazism and grift your tax dollars while selling out your privacy too

    • zalgotext@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      9·
      2 个月前

      Yeah see that’s cool, everyone’s entitled to their opinion. My opinion is that anything that normalizes the sexualization of children should be shamed and shunned.

        • zalgotext@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          2 个月前

          Ok so your position is just based on semantics then, because someone used the term “built in child abuse tool” instead of “built in child pornography generator”? Is that really a leg you wanna stand on?

            • zalgotext@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              2·
              2 个月前

              So you really were arguing that Twitter providing a built-in child porn generator isn’t a valid reason to leave it?

                • zalgotext@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  1·
                  2 个月前

                  Ok let’s start over. Ignore the context in the previous comments, pretend I’m asking you this for the first time, with no lead up:

                  Do you think it’s reasonable to leave Twitter because they provide a tool that can be used to generate child porn?

    • iglou@programming.devEnglish
      8·
      2 个月前

      What the fuck?

      Fictional child pornography is still child pornography. This is not just about abuse.

      Twitter having a tool to create child pornography is an excellent of reason to quit Twitter.

    • AlreadyDefederated@midwest.socialEnglish
      4·
      2 个月前

      What was it trained on, though?

      Even if what it produces is “not technically child abuse”, it was trained on how to make pretend child abuse, emulating what it has already seen. It uses previous child abuse as a guide to make stuff. It may also mix and match the real child abuse to make pretend child abuse. There might be real abused children in those images.

      That’s bad, right?

    • 0x0@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      2 个月前

      That said, drawing a sexualized image of a fictional child is not child abuse, even if a machine does it. It lack the whole, you know, child being abused part that is kinda central to child abuse.

      I get that, but the underlying detail is that for the “AI” to generate that, it most likely already saw it to begin with. Right-wing AI trained on child-porn, weird, i know, but it’s this timeline.
      Plus if users are prompting for that… perhaps as a platform you don’t want those users.

    • araneae@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      2 个月前

      A computer program trained off millions of pictures of people that the program’s parent company acquired by hook or by crook and now any photo you posted of your kids is fair game to be recycled into the most heinous shit imaginable at the press of a button by the kind of slug still using Twitter. There is abuse happening there, when they decided to build a machine that could take family photos put online by wellmeaning people and statistically morph them ship-of-Theseus style into pornography with no safeguards.

      If I were a parent and even theoretically one pixel of hair on my child’s head were used as aggregate data for this mathematic new form of abuse by proxy, I’d be old testament mad. I would liken it to a kind of theft or even rape that we have no clear word for or legal concept of yet.

      I would suggest just not defending this stuff in any way because you’re simply going to lose, or from your perspective, be dogpiled by people having what you perceive to be an extreme moral panic over this issue.

        • araneae@beehaw.orgEnglish
          1·
          2 个月前

          I understand, albeit in layman’s terms, more or less what LLMs and image generators are doing, and used the ship of Theseus as shorthand referring to the processes by which real photos are laundered into data sets.

          I am aware of the literal difference between an individual model and the data it trains on, and understand that Grok and it’s like are divorced from their output. I have even played with running a local model. This level of concern would be unwarranted if humans were decent and only trained Grok on and requested of Grok to generate puppies playing in open fields.

          That doesn’t mean any image created by it henceforth is in any meaningful way a picture of you.

          Of course not, it is a picture of hundreds of thousands or maybe millions of people who offered up varying degrees of consent* for the use of their bodies to make any kind of porn.

          *Usually 0%, as data illegally scraped is not subject to a hostile TOS agreement if it is uploaded as training data by the scraper without even the knowledge or consent of the original company hosting the data

          Like anyone who has ever seen a child or depiction of a child producing any sexually explicit illustration of any sort everafter, then? Because even human artists do not create ex nihilo, they start from a foundation of their cumulative experiences, which means anyone who has ever laid eyes on your child or a photo of your child is at some level incorporating some aspect of that experience however small into any artwork they create henceforth and should they ever draw anything explicit…

          I think this largely speaks for itself as some of the worst words ever put together in any order generally. Comparing human creativity and how we draw inspiration from our forebears to the present subject is abhorrent. Imagining human minds turning every single speck of human flesh they see into jackoff material because you assume that is how the mind works because you learned it from a robot is beyond everything.

          Die on some other hill unless you’re being paid well. This is a neo Nazi’s CSAM and propaganda machine. If they want to fix it, they’ll scrub their training data and figure out the weights and do a massive ban wave on the abusers. It is not on this world to suffer excuses for this hideous fucking bullshit.

  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    6·
    2 个月前

    I think I made an account years ago (before it was acquired), never used it, and proceeded to forget the login details 🤦‍♀️ I don’t even think I still have access to the email address that I used.

    I’m not sure how to delete that one :(

    • axh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 个月前

      I am in a similar situation, I still use that email, but resetting the password requires more attention than I am willing to give them.

  • KelvarCherry [They/Them]English
    6·
    2 个月前

    What if we start referring to 𝕏 as “that child porn site” in a mainly neutral tone? Would that normalize it? I’d hope it would make people look inwards, but idk if 𝕏philes in 2026 have that capacity.