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[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

It blows my mind that there are people dumb enough to remain on that shit platform. There’s no excuses. If you remain, you’re in support of that trash.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You preaching to the choir buddy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

that's lemmys specialty

the linux bros have to talk to the choir nobody else wants to talk to them

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Many people will cry about Musk ruining the only place on the internet to get news and stay current

Like give me a fucking break lol, that was never the case and it sure as hell ain’t the case now. These morons are so sure he bought it just to kill it, as if that’s some great loss.

Fucking losers, it’s a shit slice of social media, walk away ffs. Twitter is not now nor has ever been special.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Twitter was absolutely special when it came out. It was the first (or at the very least first successful) social media designed for mobile use. It also had large effects on how people thought about and used social media, and had big impacts on the ways various companies and people interact on social media.

I've never particularly cared about twitter personally, I used it a handful of times here and there, and I agree that currently and for a while it's been a pretty shit slice of social media. But saying it was never special is a stretch at best.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Where do I go for hyperlocal updates from advocates in my area in subjects I'm engaged in? How do I get the word out about the projects I'm working on in those subjects? Calling me a fucking loser for staying somewhere that's the only place to do some things is not going to accomplish anything but make me think you don't know what you're talking about.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I used to use the excuse of using Twitter to get my news, but I gave up after the rebranding. Now I just go to the news organizations' websites.

[–] Decompose 0 points 1 year ago

It doesn't matter how much you cry about it, it's the only place on the internet with true free speech and huge amount of normal non-techy people.

I understand you're dead inside because twitter now doesn't ban everyone you disagree with, but you just have to understand that you're pure evil for that demand. Humanity needs freedom of speech. Maybe try to be genuinely a good person for a change.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Literally cannot get hockey updates from any other platform. Those journalists just simply have not moved to another platform.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Google what exactly? Specific contract details or bits from interviews which are, in many cases, posted behind paywalls (The Athletic) outside of the little bits that they put on Twitter? Literally just cannot get that information otherwise.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Again, information I cannot get otherwise. Its only on Twitter, nowhere else. Like if a tweet just said "Everyone from yesterday cleared waivers", how would I even go about finding that information in such a simple format otherwise? Its just not possible and you assuming like it is just makes you look like you don't know how the situation is. These journalists just simply have not moved away from Twitter.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So your need to have real-time hockey updates is so important that you will support a piece of shit bigoted racist instead of waiting a for sports news sites to catch up and post in on their sites?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You mean I am going to keep on using the only platform these journalists are on to keep up with hockey, the only sport I keep up with? Yeah and that has nothing to do with its owner. If these journalists moved elsewhere, of course I'd switch.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sports media all around is still heavily invested in Twitter and has shown no signs of even looking at alternate platforms.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I think I saw one guy on Threads, but he had to stop posting there because simply nobody saw his posts there and there was no engagement from his colleagues.