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Inciting rioters in Britain was a test run for Elon Musk. Just see what he plans for America
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A disturbing thing about the UK riots to me is that it seems that, between the crypto scams and the porn bots that are mixed together with Musk's incoherent ramblings on Twitter, there is still real humans in between the bullshit.
I have a Twitter account that's been dormant for 16 years or so (and never really active at all). I signed in to it today for the first time in a few months - the last time it was just to delete what was left of personal information and change my user name to something offensive to fascists.
Anyway, the content on my feed was:
- Musk tweets about Kamala losing ground
- A bunch of tweets with the same optical illusion, "can you read this number". One had a picture of a panda. Three of them were from Musk parody accounts using his profile picture, promising a million dollars or whatever to whoever could see it.
- X bitching about Brazil. Musk bitching about Brazil.
- Porn. So much porn. Hardcore porn, amateur porn, only fans promotions or what looked like it. Generally not marked NSFW, just people being pounded directly in the feed.
- Barack Obama for some reason
- A video of a young woman farting
- Video of Trump and a black woman who didn't look like anyone in particular AI'd into a sunset together
- A bunch of bitcoin spam
- One guy plotting up his master plan for how people could go about to leave Twitter, despite it being so irreplaceable and all. Obviously an ageing white man who considers himself some sort of public intellectual.
Why are there still people left in this mess? Do they not realize there is porn available elsewhere?
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I guess so. Or at least for a long time - back when I signed up it was sold as a way of broadcasting SMS messages, and nobody really knew what it was good for. At least now we know it's good for nothing.
The worst thing we've done as a species is connected all of the stupidest people to each other.
I remember signing up right at the start, having been there from the start of all this internet stuff.
I sign up, then... "Now what?" This is just an endless streamed 140 character crap-fest.
Sure, I could have filtered and followed someone (s) with something important to say... awful lot of work though.
I personally stopped using Twitter for the most part, I locked my account, and instead I advertise my game engine on the Fediverse (@PixelPerfectEngine@peoplemaking.games, currently I'm in the process of fixing a borked release due to not having proper power in my room), since my reach on Twitter with it was nonexistent, and I don't want to associate my brand with nazis, fascists, or the "we swear we're just moderate christian-conservative democrats, we just think secularism should be completely abolished and we should control the media" types of the far-right.
As for porn, it's already available on more specialized sites, or even the Fediverse itself.