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[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 172 points 1 month ago (6 children)

WHY THE FUCK HAS EVERYONE NOT DELETED TWITTER

there is literally no correct answer

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

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

[–] anton2492@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 month ago

I just said goodbye to it today. I realised there's a bigger, unselfish choice to be made in the scheme of it all

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

there is literally no correct answer

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.

[–] lefaucet@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

We need to get libraries running mastodon/lemmy/fediverse world-wide

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

I'm worried my library would ban me for wanting more stuff to be owned like libraries.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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).

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think they're suggesting that business owners create Lemmy communities with their phones, hosted on library servers.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] Bananigans@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Looks for library in current country. Nope.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world -4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What can I say, I like to watch dumpster fires

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

There's way better hobbies