Also, don’t leave your account unused, delete it. User and follower numbers count.
And least as important, reply (if necessary to another corporate mail address) every email with Twitter/X in the footer, with a kind request to stop promoting and facilitating X.
Run by a literal Nazi
In case someone thinks "Oh, he's just an alt-right troll, he doesn't actually believe in that stuff", meet Elon's grandfather:
He became involved in Canadian politics, backing the technocracy movement, before moving to South Africa in 1950. Over the course of decades, Haldeman repeatedly expressed racist, antisemitic, and antidemocratic views.[1] In South Africa he was a supporter of apartheid and promoted a number of conspiracy theories.
He also supported Technocracy, Inc and the Technate of America https://bostonraremaps.com/inventory/technocracy-inc-technate-of-america-1940/
This in turn would necessitate the abandonment of democracy and the embrace of a technocracy—government by an unelected, technically skilled, empirically-driven elite with the expertise necessary to determine values and make rational resource-allocation decisions
Sounds a lot like one of Elon's beliefs, doesn't it?
Strange how people who think this way never assume they'll be one of the people on the outside, letting others make the important decisions. Whenever there's an elite, they imagine they'll be part of that elite.
It's a good day as any to move to Mastodon.
That's true, but Bluesky is also 100 times better than X and probably a more feasible/realistic alternative for all kinds of companies/sports clubs/government agencies/etc. Although I prefer Mastodon in principle, I am quite sceptical about the chance that it will be seen (by the general public) as such a good alternative to X that they will actually consider themselfs being able to leave X.
The problem with Bluesky is that it's essentially centralized, with all the related drawbacks.
And its funding is pretty suspect.
Even if you trust the current leadership team, there's no reason to believe they'll remain in charge.
Bluesky will turn to shit, just give it time.
Repeating mistakes, taking years to drop a platform owned by a nazi to just run into the next US platform ready to be bought by some other billionaire Nazi.. nothing was learnt, was it?
For those of us with the knowledge, it's our responsibility to both sell the idea of Mastodon and help onboard people. On top of that, there's many guides, at this point, about how to get involved, choose an instance, set up your feeds, etc.
It's true that Bluesky is a much more seamless experience, because many options are hardcoded or pre-chosen for people, but if we can get people over the hump of making those choices for themselves, they'll find it a much better place long term. Also, it's strongly resistant to the antics of bad actors, so it's a much better choice for governments and other groups. Bluesky does not enjoy the same natural defenses.
The problem with Bluesky is that it has exactly the same kind of legal structure (for-profit company) with the same kind of objective (make lots of money for founders and early investors) as Twitter, thus is just as likely to be bought by a Nazi billionaire.
If you're leaving X because it turned into a Nazi bar after being bought by a Nazi, going to Bluesky is just setting yourself up for being in a similar situation again in a couple of years.
Who? A lot of people apparently. And basically all companies. And more or less all government institutions in all countries in the world.
Since few weeks I’m replying to all mails with X in the footer (newsletters as well as email signature of corporate mails) to tell them it would be great if they stop promoting this crappy outlet. Concise, polite and motivated.
From roughly half of them I didn’t get a reply yet. From the other half, a MAJORITY reacts positive. We all should know, the MAIN reason most organizations are still there, is because someone decided so in 2010 (!). They never thought about it afterward, because their audience / customer ‘never asks for that’.
Be. That. Customer / Reader. Who. DOES. Ask. For. That.
That's a very good idea. I'll also ask them to get off Facebook as well.
I wouldn’t. Not because I don’t think it’s a good idea, but I want to let them see that specifically X became a disgusting fascist deepfake childporn abyss. Adding fb as well, increases the risk they don’t quit any of them, because it might give them the illusion my message says more about me ‘being anti social media’ rather than about X in particular.
I see your point. I'm not certain that I agree with you, but I understand what you're saying.
If nobody was doing it, it would be a strange thing to pay money to put in an advertising space.
It is a strange thing to put money into it, considering not even csam is enough to make at least eu institutions to go away from x.
Seems like musk can do anything he wants. What's worse than this?
The best moment to delete your Twitter account was ten years ago. The second best is now.
"Won't somebody think of the children?!" "Wait, no! Not like that!"
Be me: never had account, never saw why would one want to have it
You don't like screaming your opinion out into the void?
Like
I declare bankruptcy!
If you haven't already quit then a whole lot of people have already made a whole lot of assumptions about your character.
I forgot if I still had an account. Yep but haven't used it since covid probably. Deactivated it just now, guess it will delete in 30days.
Maybe the world could stop doing any business at all with this apartheid Nazi welfare queen? He’s trying to destroy your countries with Nazism and grift your tax dollars while selling out your privacy too
Already did. Years ago.
Never had one, because it always sucked.
Idk why not using hell sites is so hard for people.
Never had one.
Samezies
I think I made an account years ago (before it was acquired), never used it, and proceeded to forget the login details 🤦♀️ I don't even think I still have access to the email address that I used.
I'm not sure how to delete that one :(
What if we start referring to 𝕏 as "that child porn site" in a mainly neutral tone? Would that normalize it? I'd hope it would make people look inwards, but idk if 𝕏philes in 2026 have that capacity.
Deleted my twitter account a decade ago when I commented on a Canada Proud twitter post that resulted in months of non-stop harassment. It's always been this, they've just been turning up the heat year on year, and now people realize it's boiling.
If your user name is closely tied to your online identity, I am hesitant to delete if they recycle the usernames and some total nut job takes your old handle and people think you've gone off the deep end - just a thought.
What X account? Or Bluesky for that matter...
Hadn't used my account in years. But deleted it now. It seems unlikely that the old Twitter will ever return.
I never had one, but I can see one single reason to keep it: Help pull over people to Fediverse.
Granted, if you have a sizable following there, you could try to get them to make Mastodon/Bluesky/... accounts to follow you off the platform first.
Of course, you should have done that years ago, but better late than never.
But if you have less than ... idk, 100 to 1000 followers? You should just switch.
I Canada we still have "left" parties publishing on X. I wrote to them I wont be voting for a party that use a platform run by and for nazis. Just for fun, I actually ask a LLM if using X was indirectly supporting the white supremacists and it agreed that it was lol. Someone should ask Grok.
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