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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Can't. Even when it was Dorsey's Twitter, it was too toxic.

[–] john117@lemmy.jmsquared.net 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

give up social media? nah that's too hard for people lol.

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not give up. Just move away from corporate owned social media which generally has biases baked in and allows for easy manipulation by the company. The one we're on right now is not one of those and there are lots of other alternatives. Not that they're perfect, just that money and especially wealthy individuals aren't able to easily and singlehandedly manipulate millions of people by purging factual but dissenting information.

[–] john117@lemmy.jmsquared.net 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

as someone who made their own instance, talk about it to family and friends and try to convince them to jump on mine, I definitely have not given up. your completely valid talking points are null and void unfortuntately, my social circles are unable to get people they interact with to jump ship as well. they just want their family and friends to see their posts and don't really care what's going on behind the scenes..

Its me trying to convert people to use signal all over again, but i won over many of my colleagues and family by telling them to jump on signal as my birthday gift years ago..... maybe I'll have people sign up as a Christmas gift for me this year lol

[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Find a small community of like-minded friends to hang with online.

Hell, I only visit Reddit and Lemmy for the big news for a few minutes before heading off to check discord and matrix chats and everywhere else I go.

Branch out.

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[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

Don’t just delete the app, delete the whole account!

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Better late than never I guess.

[–] surph_ninja@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That’s nice. But you should get a gun. Much more effective fighting method than deleting an app.

vance first, then trump!

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Never signed up for Twitter and definitely not X. Leon can give to his pals in Moscow.

[–] don@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Sure, do it for your mental health, but it won’t do anything else now. That ship has sailed, been torpedoed, and is now chilling at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

I’ve never used it because it’s worthless.

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Deleted Twitter when muskRat bought it

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 1 points 1 month ago

the very same day..

[–] ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

I have never used the app anyway. I used Flamingo and when they killed 3rd party apps I've just been using browser instead. Lets me block ads that way too.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

I never used X. I did half-assedly make an account in 2013 but I have long since deleted it. I have no real use for twitter.

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