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 .
Vixen said:
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. ...snip...
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It was because SMSs were limited to 160 characters.
 
One thing to keep in mind is, after the inauguration, The Administration is going to be hunting you like dogs and they're going to be using Chinese technology to keep track of everything you say and do. Before deleting social media, I'd suggest loading it with pro-Trump propaganda in the hopes that "they" won't go back to far in your (now deleted) history when they start building a profile on you.

To skirt all this Nazi/Gilead heavy surveillance world move your online activity offshore. An encrypted email service (not Cockdotli due to recent events), an email aliasing service, an obfuscated VPN, Tor.

At least try turning the GPS on your phone off so they can't track you easily and consider ditching that smartphone for an old school flip phone burner to reduce your chances of getting black bagged by government agents in a dark coloured van while you're heading to the grocery store.

Air gap your laptop and keep a clay pot of thermite handy should you hear some suspicious activity on your home surveillance system. Always keep the hood up on your hoodie and wear a medical mask, learn and practice counter surveillance techniques keeping in mind that, at any second, a reaper drone can land a hellfire missile on your head.

Stay safe out there people.

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I's stuck between a rock and a hard place with Twitter.

As an advantage gambler I use information gleaned there to beat market moves. As much as I would absolutely love to leave the platform because of how toxic and disgusting it has become under Musk (a few weeks ago I was unexpectedly treated to a video of a naked man masturbating straight at the camera), it would cost me some serious income. All the persons whos info I profit from are there so I have to be too unless I want to forfeit several thousand dollars a year.

The best middle ground I have found is to continue using it but I also watch the ads that come up in my feed. When I see a business that I patronize I make sure to contact them and let them know I will no longer be giving them business due to their choice to advertise on twitter. It probably doesn't amount to much in the end but I'm not sure what else I can do without serious personal sacrifice.
 
BlueSky seems nice, however I sometimes get a whiff of Atheism Plus there. Some people may be trying too hard to make it "not Twitter".
 
You can still monitor the fascists on Twitter using nitterdotpoastdotorg and Musk will never even know you're there.
 
Hevneren said:
BlueSky seems nice, however I sometimes get a whiff of Atheism Plus there. Some people may be trying too hard to make it "not Twitter".
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Yes, that is what you want, an A+ type of environment to root out the trolls and people with wrongthink. You know they're going to try and infiltrate, right? They'll slip up eventually, use an ableist slur like "lame" or spell Muslim as Moslem, then you'll know their true character.
 
One other thing to keep in mind. Done EVER use the same username across multiple platforms. If it's a unique username a bored Trumper may be able to track your online activity form something like this forum to your Goodreads or Amazon reviews leading them to eventually park Google Earth right outside your house especially if you've done something dumb like made a portmanteau out of your first and last names, or linked to images hosted on your personal website.
 
The idea that people are leaving Twitter because Elon Musk won't censor people (except for the people he does censor) is just delusionally self-important.

They're leaving because it's a joyless cesspit.

Like I'm going to spend my time blocking trolls so some anti-Semitic douchebag can lose money a little slower, when all I ever used it for in the first place was testing out one-liners and talking to friends.
 
I'm just not seeing the problems you're describing. I follow the people I'm interested in and only look at the "following" feed. Although I sometimes encounter posters who are a pain in the neck, they're accounts that are engaging on the topics I'm interested in, not "random trolls". Yes I will block a blinkered EV-hater or someone who perpetually insists that TWAW and the holy trans are the most oppressed creatures on the face of the globe, but that's not random trolling.

I guess I'm just using it for talking to friends, and that's still what I'm doing, with the occasional block when someone gets too annoying. I just don't see what the problem is.
 
mumblethrax said:
The idea that people are leaving Twitter because Elon Musk won't censor people (except for the people he does censor) is just delusionally self-important.

They're leaving because it's a joyless cesspit.

Like I'm going to spend my time blocking trolls so some anti-Semitic douchebag can lose money a little slower, when all I ever used it for in the first place was testing out one-liners and talking to friends.
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there's also an element that the hyprocrite manchild billionaire who owns it leveraged it to influence the election, which is in and of itself against the reason he said he bought it in the first place. there's a lot not to like about twitter.

but i definitely agree that getting sick of a growing number of annoying ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ is a perfectly reasonable reason to leave a website. it's not a free speech platform and never was and really shouldn't be. it's more any other public place, people go there to have a nice time and maybe spend a little money and that's why the keep all the pants ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ loons from hanging around in them.
 
dirtywick said:
there's also an element that the hyprocrite manchild billionaire who owns it leveraged it to influence the election, which is in and of itself against the reason he said he bought it in the first place. there's a lot not to like about twitter.
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Yeah, that doesn't help anything.

I deleted my account shortly after that reckless idiot used his army of sycophants to harass one of Twitter's in-house lawyers (I think?), exposing him to a litany of death threats. There's no reason to stick around for that nonsense.
 
I'm not seeing any more annoying ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ (are we allowed to say that here?) than previously. I haven't even blocked Dick Winchester yet, and he's as annoying as they come.
 
I signed up for Bluesky (I always mentally read it as rhyming with "brewski") but have not seen any Trending or For You subjects come up. I suppose it may be a while for the algorithm to activate it. At least I hope they do. I don't want to just scroll page after page looking at random posts.
 
Rolfe said:
I'm not seeing any more annoying ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ (are we allowed to say that here?) than previously. I haven't even blocked Dick Winchester yet, and he's as annoying as they come.
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yeah i think we're allowed to say that

i mean, i'm glad you're having fun. it's really more about seeing some other perspectives that aren't yours as to why they're making different decisions than you though, isn't it?
 
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