When did you stop posting on X?
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@andrewstroehlein I closed my account WAY back, the moment I heard Elon Musk express his interest in buying Twitter. I never regretted that decision.
@andrewstroehlein may I also alert you to this longer post I just put up through my fedi.at account.
It deals with major news outlets and political parties continuing to offer the option to people to follow them on "X":
Pino Carafa (@rozeboosje@fedi.at)
I just sent this to RTÉ, the Irish Times, the Irish Independent, Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin and Labour May I respectfully suggest that other people do something similar to your own news organisations and political parties? Use your own words, if you can. This is what I sent: Subject: "Your continued presence on X" Text: Dear Sir or Madam, As you will doubtlessly be aware, "X" is once again in the news for all the wrong reasons, but the latest scandal about this platform and its continued use of its AI bot "Grok", to allow people to digitally undress and create pornographic content of people, including children, without their consent must certainly be the straw that breaks the camel's back? When confronted about the problem the platform did nothing to address the problem. In fact they made it worse by making this despicable ability effectively "pay per view". This is disgusting. I therefore must alert you to the fact that you are still offering the option to people to follow your account on that platform. By doing so you are feeding into its business model, and that does nothing to add real pressure on them to stop offering users the option to do these things. It would be beyond cowardly to hide behind legislation on this matter, waiting for the government or the EU to legislate against it or to ban the platform outright. The real pressure will come from major content providers such as yourself pulling out. And in light of these recent developments there can be no moral justification for you remaining a presence there. While I am on the subject, I would like to ask you to look beyond the main players in social media. Why not add a presence on a Mastodon instance, for example? Mastodon would be an ethical alternative to X, and even if you cannot bring yourself to close your account on X, with you presenting options to follow you on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube, surely it would not be a big deal to add one more "icon" to that list? Kind regards ...
Mastodon Instanz für Österreich (fedi.at)
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When did you stop posting on X?
Person A: When its owner made nazi salutes.
Person B: When it became a production and distribution channel for images of child sexual abuse.
Government: We're still posting there.
@andrewstroehlein I still have a twitter account but haven't posted since Elon took over, so since 2023.
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When did you stop posting on X?
Person A: When its owner made nazi salutes.
Person B: When it became a production and distribution channel for images of child sexual abuse.
Government: We're still posting there.
@andrewstroehlein for me, back in June 2023, after the Twitter logo was briefly replaced by the doge icon. I had many friends leave before that, when that fascist bought it. I'd been on there 13 years. I wrote a eulogy for it here: https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2023/06/12/the-life-and-death-of-twitter
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When did you stop posting on X?
Person A: When its owner made nazi salutes.
Person B: When it became a production and distribution channel for images of child sexual abuse.
Government: We're still posting there.
@andrewstroehlein Left Twitter when he purchased it. Lost 9k followers but never looked back. Incredible seeing what it's become.
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When did you stop posting on X?
Person A: When its owner made nazi salutes.
Person B: When it became a production and distribution channel for images of child sexual abuse.
Government: We're still posting there.
@andrewstroehlein
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Before it became X. When the sale to one of the worst people in the world had just been confirmed. -
When did you stop posting on X?
Person A: When its owner made nazi salutes.
Person B: When it became a production and distribution channel for images of child sexual abuse.
Government: We're still posting there.
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When did you stop posting on X?
Person A: When its owner made nazi salutes.
Person B: When it became a production and distribution channel for images of child sexual abuse.
Government: We're still posting there.
In public organisations, no one takes responsibility for digital decision-making.
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When did you stop posting on X?
Person A: When its owner made nazi salutes.
Person B: When it became a production and distribution channel for images of child sexual abuse.
Government: We're still posting there.
@andrewstroehlein before person A
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When did you stop posting on X?
Person A: When its owner made nazi salutes.
Person B: When it became a production and distribution channel for images of child sexual abuse.
Government: We're still posting there.
@andrewstroehlein I deleted my Twitter account the day Musk took ownership.
I could read the writing on the wall.
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When did you stop posting on X?
Person A: When its owner made nazi salutes.
Person B: When it became a production and distribution channel for images of child sexual abuse.
Government: We're still posting there.
When it started to become a cesspit, which predates your options
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When did you stop posting on X?
Person A: When its owner made nazi salutes.
Person B: When it became a production and distribution channel for images of child sexual abuse.
Government: We're still posting there.
@andrewstroehlein For me, the last straw was the re-activation of Alex Jones account. I haven't posted since.
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When did you stop posting on X?
Person A: When its owner made nazi salutes.
Person B: When it became a production and distribution channel for images of child sexual abuse.
Government: We're still posting there.
@andrewstroehlein I stopped long before it was named X, back in January 2021, when I canceled my Twitter account because the atmosphere there was already going bad and fascist.
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When did you stop posting on X?
Person A: When its owner made nazi salutes.
Person B: When it became a production and distribution channel for images of child sexual abuse.
Government: We're still posting there.
@andrewstroehlein have never had a Twitter account or Facebook, Google, Microsoft, etc.
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When did you stop posting on X?
Person A: When its owner made nazi salutes.
Person B: When it became a production and distribution channel for images of child sexual abuse.
Government: We're still posting there.
@andrewstroehlein when comments with gifs of SS shooting people where no problem but my adittingly verbose answer to that was.
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I posted a lot on Twitter - but never on X. His purchase of the platform was enough for me to leave along with a sizeable number of other mastodon posters
@MatthewNewell @andrewstroehlein
When Musk bought Twitter the new policy was that calling a trans person by their dead name or misgendering them would not be considered "abuse"... and yet calling a cis person by a name other than their own to be rude, or misgendering a cis person *would* still be abuse.
With such a moderating system you basically have moderation for some but not for others. And it was obvious to me it would spread to include non-whites, non-christians, women etc.
Untenable.
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When did you stop posting on X?
Person A: When its owner made nazi salutes.
Person B: When it became a production and distribution channel for images of child sexual abuse.
Government: We're still posting there.
@andrewstroehlein Much earlier. For me the final straw was when links to Mastodon were blocked.
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When did you stop posting on X?
Person A: When its owner made nazi salutes.
Person B: When it became a production and distribution channel for images of child sexual abuse.
Government: We're still posting there.
governments have chosen fascism, whatever they say, i don't care, it's what they do that matters
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When did you stop posting on X?
Person A: When its owner made nazi salutes.
Person B: When it became a production and distribution channel for images of child sexual abuse.
Government: We're still posting there.
@andrewstroehlein @erik *Why I left ‘shitter’ entirely
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When did you stop posting on X?
Person A: When its owner made nazi salutes.
Person B: When it became a production and distribution channel for images of child sexual abuse.
Government: We're still posting there.
@andrewstroehlein it's been long all look like competition
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I posted a lot on Twitter - but never on X. His purchase of the platform was enough for me to leave along with a sizeable number of other mastodon posters
@MatthewNewell @andrewstroehlein that's for sure
