Gregory's ServerI just deleted my Twitter account.
I saw a viral pro-H*tler tweet on my timeline with 66,000 likes and 9.5 million views. That was enough for me to ensure my posts donโt contribute any value to that garbage dump.
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  @carnage4life good to hear it. I like seeing your posts here where they contribute to advancing the fediverse. @carnage4life  @Kadsenchaos @carnage4life Yeah, it's like 65996 of Elon's bots, plus Elon, the OP liking his own post, and his 2 friends. ๐คช  @dalias @Kadsenchaos @carnage4life "Engagement!" but it's shouted like "The Aristocrats!" @emma @dalias @Kadsenchaos @carnage4life RIP to a real one!   @carnage4life That's disgusting. I am glad that you left. If more people would get the guts to abandon that horrible site, we might be able to recreate the communities that we lost elsewhere.  @alcinoe @carnage4life Preferably on the #fediverse, because of the federated nature no single company or single person has the power to control everything.  Good for you! It is hard to walk away from something that you have devoted so much time and energy to build. But the old Twitter is no more. You are doing the right thing. Thank you. @JoCzechowska @carnage4life Not anymore. Twitter was killed, migrate to #mastodon. #ClickXToLeaveThePlatform @carnage4life It won't be deleted for 30 days. If you log back in until then, it'll be restored. Hopefully you can resist the urge, you don't go back. I know it took me a couple of deactivates then it stuck. I've been free of X since 7.21.24  @carnage4life Welcome! I do miss what Twitter used to be, but I too realized I did not want to be in that space anymore. Mass user action is powerful and it matters where we spend our time and attention. @carnage4life well done. I just protected my tweets this week in anticipation on deleting the account tbh.  @carnage4life I've deliberately not deleted my account because I don't want anyone reusing my identity, but I've not posted anything there in the past three years, and I also don't read it. I mean, why would you? Pls understand my slow hand clap. It took you 3 years & Shitler praise to finally move you, despite everything else. You donโt even qualify for the bronze medal @carnage4life Good for you. Henry Wallace's April 9, 1946 op-ed on American fascism was pretty spot on. If you want a good read on what the British did before WWII to counter it, read A Man Called Intrepid. Here is link to Wallace's grandson's op-ed American Fascism, in 1944 and Today https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/opinion/american-fascism-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Qk4.xnhX.qhHYiKA4P48f @carnage4life and a link to a copy of the original op-ed (which is oddly not available through NYT) https://truthout.org/articles/the-dangers-of-american-fascism/  @carnage4life Only reason I'm staying are a very few LGBT sexworkers which don't use other social media.   @carnage4life @mekkaokereke I switched my Twitter account to read-only a few months ago. In my case the immediate trigger was Twitter arbitrarily changing the content of people's posts because Elon Musk does not want people to write twitter.com . But it was already quite bad over there then and it is worse now.  @carnage4life You did the right thing. With turning to X, Twitter has become a fascist and racist sh*thole. You're better off here, with us, normal people.   Join the Fediverse today! (*Does not apply if you join freespeechextremist servers) @carnage4life More accounts leaving X is always a good thing even if it's admittedly a bit late, let's hope this viral pro-Hitler stuff will ve the last straw for many others And people need to stop the 'I stay because accounts I like are still there' and go on the offense by convincing these accounts to open accounts on Threads / Mastodon  @carnage4life Twitter was a community, with all its flaws. X is a dump. It needs engagement to function, and best to take engagement elsewhere (glad you engage here!).  @carnage4life @mastodonmigration I wish I could be surprised by something like that anymore. ๐ฎโ๐จ I know the Fediverse isnโt exactly immune to hate groups, but at least we have ways to do something about it before it grows and festers and poisons everything around it.  @carnage4life the direction of travel was clear from the get goโฆ not sure how to feel about the people that remain there.  |
@carnage4life Congrats on not letting the steadily warming water dull your senses completely.
We know where it is going to end.