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WHY THE FUCK HAS EVERYONE NOT DELETED TWITTER
there is literally no correct answer
I just said goodbye to it today. I realised there's a bigger, unselfish choice to be made in the scheme of it all
I was only ever there to follow a wide variety of parody star trek accounts which were hilarious and thought provoking.
They're all gone, now that musk is doing his thing. Twitter was cancer, now it's terminal bullshit and I've deleted it long ago
I deleted mine years ago but, in Japan, it's still one of the main ways small shops communicate with their customers. Some use FB or insta instead. They don't have the knowledge, money, or desire to create a whole website that is far more difficult to interact with and update than the platforms that are free, people use, and are easy to update.
We need to get libraries running mastodon/lemmy/fediverse world-wide
I'm worried my library would ban me for wanting more stuff to be owned like libraries.
Looks for library in current country. Nope.
I don't disagree, but the majority of Japanese are just using whichever device is in their pocket (largely iPhones or Android, some feature phones, the occasional tablet, and much more rarely (outside of official business work), an actual full-sized computer).
I think they're suggesting that business owners create Lemmy communities with their phones, hosted on library servers.
Ah. That'd be a nightmare here, probably. Japan is pretty notorious for low tech literacy outside of a few narrow areas. I also think that this might have reliability impacts that just drive people away. Finally, no average japanese person has any idea what the fediverse is, so that's another hurdle to jump.
What can I say, I like to watch dumpster fires
There's way better hobbies
There is no one true replacement for the utility that it provides. Not with sufficient penetration of network effect, anyway.
Same reason most people don't delete Facebook (edit: or Reddit).
You may not personally find utility in either of them. But just like boner pill spam, clearly someone does, or they would just go away.
lol the comparison of useless social media to useless boner pill ads is perfect. of course someone finds it useful. just like someone finds crack cocaine useful
But boner pills aren't replaceable (like Twitter) or unnecessary (like crack). Sexuality isn't a vice.
i'm not talking about boner pills. or any pills. we're talking about the uselessness of twitter and ads
if you're making your meds decisions based on ads made by the company selling them to you, then sorry--that's dumb af
You could say the same thing about Reddit, yet a lot of us left there a year ago on principle. Sometimes taking a stand means doing without.
damn, it's already been over a year, hasn't it?
Yeah, over fifteen months since I created my account here for that reason
same. when the blackout protest changed nothing about the 3rd party apps, I decided I was done, and never went back
granted, it had been getting toxic for other reasons, but being forced to use their shitty app was the final straw for me
Same with me. Well, that in combination with the way they treated the app developers. I honestly didn't have an issue with Reddit trying to make money, or trying to prevent all the LLMs from skimming their content for free, but there was no reason to cut the app developers off at the knees.
I had already changed my relationship/view of Reddit years prior when the internet connection to Russia was severed for a day or so and so many subs (especially political ones) became fundamentally different. Hard to ignore that. But i just couldn't continue to give free content to such an awful company.
Without cake days I have no sense of time.
The two are not mutually exclusive. But OP's question was why "EVERYONE" has not deleted their account. And the objective answer is that some people obviously still use the service. But once again people are treating the downvote button as an "I don't like this" button.
Edit to add: Why? What exactly is wrong with what I said?
If it weren't for twitter, i wouldn't have even known there was another attempt on Trump. I don't sort Lemmy by new and there was nothing in the top posts about it (that I saw, at least) until HOURS after it happened. None of the other social media sites I use showed anything for a while either.
What did you gain by knowing unconfirmed information a few hours earlier? Did you need to act on that “information” that quickly?
People who view policymaking as "entertainment" are the reason we have Trump in the first place.
I would rather have my entertainment sooner, as opposed to never.
In this case it's not "never", I don't use twitter and saw this news on Lemmy this morning.
This isn’t some fucking game. Here let me make it more concrete and personal for your pea-brain:
I will find it very entertaining when your family and friends are lined up and shot to death while you watch.
You might consider reading some real news, vetted and produced by professional journalists. Twitter is not news source, neither is Reddit.
I typically do, twitter happened to be the first place I saw any information about it, nothing else tipped me off about it happening until then.
You could simply open a news site a couple times a day. They all had the assassination attempt up pretty quickly.
I didn't know it happened. Why would I have thought to go looking for something I don't know about?
I didn't know it happened either, but I check the news a couple times a day to see if anything happened.
It seems like you're being disingenuous. You said you need Twitter to find out about things like the assassination attempt, so obviously you check Twitter, but the concept of checking the news is apparently strange to you.
He didn't mean to check if there had been an attempt to eradicate Trump specifically, he meant open a news app occasionally, as one does a social media app.
“Don’t believe initial reporting about any dramatic event. The rush to be first often overrides the responsibility to try to be correct. As with any event like this, some of this information is likely to change as more information becomes available.”
https://youtu.be/sgpYzFTtJug?feature=shared
In any case, I heard about the attempt shortly after I started scrolling through lemmy last night, so from my pov the information had gotten to me in a timely manner.
in other words, since it can be assumed that you're checking multiple social medias often enough for "HOURS" to make such a huge difference, then basically your life is driven by FOMO, and you see no problem with that.
kudos for the honesty at least. you do you and keep supporting that nazi safespace
Pretty glad that all of these responses are assumptions about my character just because I somehow managed to not see that someone tried to merc trump again for the whole day.
you're trying to defend twitter with "i need it for news"
that says a lot about your character. no assuming needed
I knew here within 30 minutes. Also on Bluesky. Also on any major news source.
If you're not finding the stuff I think that's on your
The ap app notified me so you can't be trying that hard to replace twitter
It's such a non-event that even the Conservative lemmy didn't post about it until yesterday.
Its so funny that lemmy thinks its better than reddit with all these reddit ass responses.
Biggest bunch of self righteous blowhards I've ever seen.
Go complain about it on Twitter.