Resistance Twitter 2.0

Where will the resistance end up posting, mostly?

  • Bluesky

    Votes: 16 72.7%

  • Threads

    Votes: 1 4.5%

  • Mastodon

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other (please specify in comments)

    Votes: 2 9.1%

  • On Planet X, we resist telepathically

    Votes: 3 13.6%
  • Total voters
    22
  • Poll closed .

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Back in 2016-2020 there used to be this thing called "resistance Twitter" which you'd mostly see referenced on Twitter itself but occasionally in online media outlets like Salon or Vice. I think we can safely assume that the folks who want to resist Trump would prefer not to do it on a platform owned and controlled by one of his cronies, so the question arises, where will these folks post their resistance this time around?

Possible contenders are Bluesky, Threads, Fediverse, etc. but I haven't seen a real coalescence yet. I suppose a recently upgraded but still basically 20th century bulletin board system isn't the best place to ask, but if I ask on Facebook, I'm pretty sure that would bias the sample towards Threads.
 
I've seen a lot of references to BlueSky on TwiX but haven't been enticed to go there yet. TwiX is mostly a cesspool of idiocy, but I don't need to go to a completely oppositely biased site, either. I would like to see a popular one where people can talk about issues or events without getting nasty, but things are so compartmentalized now I don't know if that's possible.
 
First time hearing of BlueSky. Is it another replacement for Xitter?

As for location, Resistance 2.0 shouldn't advertise where it meets. It should be a secret place you get tipped off about once you've proven yourself worthy. Then you get an address and a secret knock code and handshake.
 
most people are just going to go on with their lives. i expect trump will still be quite unpopular on twitter, but people will still use it.

personally i think these bulletin board were the best. attaching a bunch of personal information and algorithms hasn't made the internet more fun imo
 
dirtywick said:
most people are just going to go on with their lives.
i expect trump will still be quite unpopular on twitter, but people will still use it.

personally i think these bulletin board were the best. attaching a bunch of personal information and algorithms hasn't made the internet more fun imo
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Have you actually seen in in the last several weeks? Although there are some vehement objections, the overwhelming majority is pro-Trump.
 
alfaniner said:
Have you actually seen in in the last several weeks? Although there are some vehement objections, the overwhelming majority is pro-Trump.
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almost everything i see on twitter is second hand. but i think there's tons of people on twitter that won't stop using it regardless of who owns it
 
It may just be my feeds there because I sometimes click on unbelievable opinions and that makes it think I like them. I just signed up on Bluesky. I don't want a place that's going to agree with me all the time, but I would like to see sensible dissension and discussion. I don't know if that will fill the bill yet. ISF mostly has that but the traffic is pretty low here. Still, here I can state an opinion and get a response. I don't get or expect much on those massive sites.
 
dirtywick said:
personally i think these bulletin board were the best. attaching a bunch of personal information and algorithms hasn't made the internet more fun imo
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I do miss the time when the Internet was moslty independent web sites, blogs and forums. Possibly a case of rose-tinted glasses, and I admit that having 'town squares' like Facebook where everybody congregate can be useful in its own way, but I still miss the old days, for so many reasons. The networks of blogs felt so much more personal than the neverending wall of content on sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
 
Shouldn't X be used as a falsifiable proposition that it is the town square for all comers?
Then when the proof is in, that it is not, create a town square in competition.
 
Samson said:
Shouldn't X be used as a falsifiable proposition that it is the town square for all comers?
Then when the proof is in, that it is not, create a town square in competition.
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An X by design doesn't have corners. You only fit in at a very narrow intersection of thought.
 
I always liked Twitter from its early days, when there was a 140-letter limit, [ETA corrected from 240] which was quite sufficient to impart a 'tweet', a tidbit of news or opinion. Now it has gone the way of premier league football: no longer local lads with local fans, but heavily sponsored and clubs owned by wealthy overseas investors, together with heavy advertising. Twitter's blue tick is no longer about verifying the person is of sufficient public interest and verification to be worthy of such, the blue ticks are now bought up by organisations and individuals much like Cambridge Analytica, people and organisations with a political agenda to manipulate the voter and subvert the rules of democracy. It is now being claimed that Elon Musk only bought Twitter for that very reason: to position Trump and himself to advantage in the US elections, and it's paid off. Problem is, it is almost certain Trump has had some dodgy dealings with Putin (cf the Helsinki summit, where the pair were in a room alone together completely unchaperoned by an official fellow agent as would be normal).

So yes, Twitter/X has taken a sinister turn as has been apparent ever since deeply divisive and unpleasant trolls with hidden agendas, such as Trump himself, 'Tommy Robinson', Katie Hopkins and all kinds of neo-fascists and anti-social types, reinstated by Elon Musk, having been rightfully banned for breaking Twitter's codes of conduct (circulating hate material or other offensive stuff).

It is no surprise that given the success of Space Karen's agenda in reinstalling a convicted felon adulterer and hate merchant back into the White House people are leaving in droves as a matter of principle.
 
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