I live in an HOA. The only place they post information (like when trash pickup schedules change) is on Facebook.

No need, it's like emacs, it has a stable cult following that keeps the whole thing going even as alternatives come and go.

You can just inform your friends that you will be deleting your twitter account

Pin a post that you leave X (or any major SM): say its your last post because they have become a greedy, amoral cesspool and add links where they can find you instead.

Just do the obvious thing: stop posting there, don't view it anymore, and pin a post that you leave X (or any major SM) because they have become a greedy, amoral cesspool and links where they can find you now.

If X is so open, why do I have to register an account to see practically anything?

Why did Elon ban PaulG and many for posting a link to Mastodon?

Why did so many get suspended for sharing the location of Elon's private jet?

Why did Elon ban a journalist after reporting a dossier on JD Vance? https://www.newsweek.com/jd-vance-dossier-leak-hack-iran-ken...

Why did Elon ban a journalist who interviewed the guy who hacked a conservative activist? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/twitter-suspende...

Why did Elon ban a journalist for reporting on Tesla? https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/12/15/23512158/elon-musk-twi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_X

Thanks for the lulz.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/journalists-who-wrote-ab...

Is it really free, open and uncensored if it suspends journalists for covering the ElonJet story, and artificially bumps Elon's own tweets?

Crazy thing to write on a post about X censoring mirrors.

It is censored. They just don't tell you what they censor you for. You need to post, and then your account gets locked for bogus reason, and that's how you know what not no say. Like in Carlin's joke about words you are not supposed to say, NOBODY GIVES YOU A LIST!

Free and open until Elon Musk doesn't like what you wrote.

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This is false. What can I say more ?

If AI really is democratizing technology, it won’t be long before we get back to everyone having a personal website.

I remember blowing everyone’s mind when i wrote a php script to scrape my bands myspace to keep our website up to date with show details. It was like a magic trick.

That sort of power is in the hands of the masses now, they just don’t know it yet.

It's crazy to see the same people accusing X of being an echo-chamber suggesting Bluesky without a hint of irony or interospection.

>>Who TF wants to use Twitter? Its the worst echo chamber out there.

>>then proceed to use bluesky

lmao

> it's up to you who you follow and what exactly you read on Twitter

The Twitter experience is a highly algorithmic feed where tweets from the people you follow are not guaranteed to be in chronological order, or even shown to you at all. The default experience also mixes it other tweets "you might be interested in", that is, things they want you to see.

There's also the fact people could freely see tweets and follow discussion threads, that's now locked behind an account requirement.

I'm pretty sure the Ukraine war news on Twitter are mostly what's bubbled up from less accessible forums (like Telegram channels).

This site is a good alternative for tech news.

A half of Twitter's point for me was the trending section, that you don't have any control on now (you used to be able to disable the personalization of that section but since X you cannot, if you want the actual trends you need to go in a subsection). The whole section is full personalized ragebaits (because at some point I used to reply to those), now it just makes the experience of trends quite unbearable and I can't change that.

Twitter doesn't really work without an account. Projects like Nitter solved that.

Especially annoying when Twitter is a source for something.

Sir, you are voluntarily using a website owned by an unstable Nazi, who purchased it because his feelings were hurt and people were making fun of him there. Now his brain droppings make it into everyone’s feed by default, from what I understand.

> There are news that are circulating much faster on Twitter than anywhere else (for example about war in Ukraine).

I am certain that Twitter is not the only place where you can find these updates, if you really care for up-to-the-minute news. But I don’t.

> There are people and companies that post only on Twitter and nowhere else (especially in tech).

These people and companies are (knowingly or unknowingly) supporting a Nazi billionaire and they are not worth paying any attention to until they change their behavior.

If X is so open, why do I have to register an account to see practically anything? Why are they banning mirrors? If an open source project banned mirroring, there'd be an outrage.

Why did Elon ban PaulG and many for posting a link to Mastodon?

Why did so many get suspended for sharing the location of Elon's private jet?

Why did Elon ban a journalist after reporting a dossier on JD Vance? https://www.newsweek.com/jd-vance-dossier-leak-hack-iran-ken...

Why did Elon ban a journalist who interviewed the guy who hacked a conservative activist? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/twitter-suspende...

Why did Elon ban a journalist for reporting on Tesla? https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/12/15/23512158/elon-musk-twi...

It doesn't become more true if you claim that multiple times around here. X under Musk is well documented to censor widely. It's just that the direction of censorship has shifted under him, so your particular bubble might get more left alone now.

> hungry for the raw, real truth

Haha sure. Why not go to the original where Tweets are actually literally called Truths?

1) it absolutely isn't "uncensored"

2) absolute freedom to post whatever you like and have it shoved in people's faces by the algorithm is harmful

3) usually when people are "hungry for the raw, real truth" they're actually chasing a bunch of conspiracy theories

It is censored

Default Reddit mainpage is strictly what you subscribe to. And from a tech point of view, Reddit has old. CSS, it has tree style comments with sorting and collapsing, it has no dumb character limits, and on big screens it properly fills the screen with content instead of dumb emptiness or fluff or just infogarbage (do people remember that hashtags are literally just a useless character dumps, born out of the limitations of the SMS tech).

So no, Reddit is not worse than Xitter both on social and tech merit.

Reddit voted itself out of my attention by requiring login for old.reddit.com browsing.

Yes - community notes were a surprisingly decent alternative to more gameable authority structures.

Option A: You occasionally encounter power tripping mods on a site where you are free to create your own community and become the mod yourself.

Option B: a power tripping drug-addled Nazi billionaire owns the entire site and can change the site behavior for every user on a whim, with no recourse.

This doesn’t seem like a hard choice to make.

There are unfortunately a few times a year that I need to read something posted on Instagram, Facebook or X.

And they all require accounts that I don't want to have.

"Yes, I choose to frequent the nazi bar, out of all the bars. Yes, the one with a seig-heil'ing owner, and his friends and patrons who regularly talk about getting rid of nonwhite people and foreigners. Yes, I go a lot, and make them a lot of money to further their plans, but I do not listen to them, so we're good, right? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"

The platform compromise is a new thing. One of the reasons people used Twitter was its open nature, enabling its use as a bulletin board where anyone could post a message and being sure that the message link was free for anyone to see. This isn't the case anymore, as X forces people to make accounts to see messages.

> you have to choose between losing a source or compromise with the platform

I thought so too. But after leaving 3 years ago it turns out: Not a single source is that important.

Also, as the importance increases, the likelihood of seeing the same information outside that hellhole increases linearly.

But it’s still supporting a man who’s a toxic as they come and working hard to distort reality and undermine democracy, you won’t wash that toxic off.

I thought "reddit moments" were bad, I never thought there'd be something worse.

Whataboutisms do nothing to refute genuine criticisms.

If someone is still on twitter I'm just going to assume their morals align with those of Musk.

And then I avoid them.