@davidslifka and pin this to your profile when you leave

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I don't know but assume that advertisers pay X based on the number of accounts.

If I have that right, remaining on #twitter / X in any capacity supports #Musk financially.

@davidslifka Will X ban or suspend accounts that mention Mastodon? I thought they did that, at least in the past.

@davidslifka What about those that rely on ads? They won’t

@davidslifka I always said "For the negative me stay on Twitter, for the positive me come to Mastodon."

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That's fucking stupid. Who the fuck made you Buddha. Leave X and don't lurk. WTF are you a peeping tom.

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Been on Mastodon for almost a year now and so far I have only seen one or two Trump or MAGA Nazis, lets hope it stays this way. #Trump #MAGA #Nazi

@davidslifka i did this for awhile, but it is draining and hard on one's mental health as there is now no limit on hate speech. If you're LGBTQ it's toxic, and I'd imagine the same applies to POC and many other groups

@davidslifka Excellent advice!

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I thought they banned the use of the name Mastodon. I know for awhile, they made people remove the name Mastodon or remain suspended.

@davidslifka I’ve done 1 through 4, but haven’t logged on to X for weeks now. I have left my handle here in my profile there.

@davidslifka I also turned off notifications for Twitter. And then I removed it from my phone entirely and only used it on my desktop. In just a few weeks for me, I stopped using Twitter altogether and felt healthier for it, too.

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7. Put your Mastodon user name in your Twitter bio and/or name so that people can find you here on Mastodon with fedifinder.glitch.me.

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This is the way.

@davidslifka it works well for those who still have a major presence on that site. For me, I had only 80 followers or so, and the bulk of them gave up while it was a somewhat-functional twitter.

So rather than wasting months trying to delete tens of thousands of posts, I just deleted the account last year as soon as E.M. bought the thing.

Different strokes for different folks...

@davidslifka

How i quit Facebook: deleted my account, left all the idiots behind

How I quit Instagram: deleted my account, left a post saying: "this service has become too stupid"

How I quit twitter: just stopped using the thing

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Excellent advice! I opened my Mastodon account last fall & was using it full-time by New Years.
I left my X account open & pinned a tweet with my new Mastodon info.
Last month I deleted my X account & the app from my phone. There’s a 30-day waiting period & if you go on during that time your delete is cancelled.
Odd thing that happened a few months after ghosting X is even though I never opted in for X notifications, I started receiving X notifications anyway!

@davidslifka But there's more traffic on X, and I always try to drive wherever there's more traffic.

@davidslifka why would anyone do any of this?

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I dunno. I often find myself returning to this thought:

"If you’re still on Twitter/X does that mean you’re a fascist?
No, of course not.
It just means fascism isn’t a deal breaker for you."
- Aral Balkan
@aral

#twitter
#x
#fascism
#fuckelonmusk

@davidslifka not entirely sold on this site either.

@davidslifka I’ll tell you how to do it faster. Tweet that ‪tRUmp‬ should get the 440v hot seat for all the Americans he killed because of his botched job of handling the Covid-19 pandemic, piss off Elon and his army of AI Bot minions, and have your account permanently suspended. See how easy that was? Next issue!
And stop calling it X. That’s the polite name Elon wants you to use. Call it Xitter because that’s what it has become since Elon bought it and threw it into the Xitter.

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And make use of an #adblocker.

@davidslifka I spend most of my time on x blocking ads. That should be one of your steps.

@davidslifka 7. Don't bring the lame-os and bots that are plauging twitter over here, let them go to threadz or whatever instead or just stay on the x