Let’s review what Elon Musk has done just in 2023:
- Changed Twitter to X.
- Plans to implement a small monthly payment for everyone using the X system.
- Plans to collect user biometric information, job, and education history for “safety, security, and identification purposes.”
- Brings back shadowbanning.
- Uses user data to train AI models.
- Limits replies to verified users only.
Elon has made so many terrible changes to Twitter that I can’t remember what the breaking point was for me.
Fortunately, there’s a lot more competition in Twitter-like social media platforms. Mastodon may currently hold the position as the most established platform, but there are numerous other services competing to become the next preferred place for online users.
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You realize if you weren’t surrounded by lemmy zealots how seriously ignorant you folks sound right?
I don’t know anyone in real life who uses it. Even before Musk bought it out. I’m getting older so checked with gen z in my family and they don’t use it either.
It’s popular among journalists and media types so it gets talked about as if it’s a huge public forum for everyone but it’s not.
I have frequently found myself surrounded by Twitter and Instagram users, and they seem just as deluded as they do from here.
Why are you here exactly?
To read and comment on content?
These people existed before lemmy, reddit or digg. just annoying to be around.