Let’s review what Elon Musk has done just in 2023:

  1. Changed Twitter to X.
  2. Plans to implement a small monthly payment for everyone using the X system.
  3. Plans to collect user biometric information, job, and education history for “safety, security, and identification purposes.”
  4. Brings back shadowbanning.
  5. Uses user data to train AI models.
  6. Limits replies to verified users only.

Elon has made so many terrible changes to Twitter that I can’t remember what the breaking point was for me.

Fortunately, there’s a lot more competition in Twitter-like social media platforms. Mastodon may currently hold the position as the most established platform, but there are numerous other services competing to become the next preferred place for online users.

  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.spaceEnglish
    611·
    1 year ago

    Great news if you’ve ever looked at your replies and thought “you know what? there are too many non-Nazis here”

    • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
      131·
      1 year ago

      People are were the content is, but using this platform after all that’s happened to it… Yeah no, I don’t get it either

      • Wisely@lemm.ee
        3·
        1 year ago

        I don’t know anyone in real life who uses it. Even before Musk bought it out. I’m getting older so checked with gen z in my family and they don’t use it either.

        • Toribor@corndog.socialEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          It’s popular among journalists and media types so it gets talked about as if it’s a huge public forum for everyone but it’s not.

      • loki@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        These people existed before lemmy, reddit or digg. just annoying to be around.

      • jsdz@lemmy.ml
        31·
        1 year ago

        I have frequently found myself surrounded by Twitter and Instagram users, and they seem just as deluded as they do from here.

        • loki@lemmy.mlEnglish
          51·
          1 year ago

          Artists want their art to be seen by as many people as possible. Their livelihood probably depends on it.

          • devfuuu@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 year ago

            It’s as if it’s a big problem to manage one more platform between all the ones they already do. Lot’s of apps and options to just automatically cross post content to multiple platforms too or just mirror mastodon to Twitter or vice versa.

            At this point, ignoring or avoiding another platform where so many people already are is just laziness.

        • glimse@lemmy.world
          41·
          1 year ago

          Braindead comment. It’s like people who say shit like this have never been part of an online community

          An asshole bought the social media site you use and you haven’t convinced dozens of friends and all the other people whose posts you like seeing to switch to a different platform???

  • GenEcon@lemm.ee
    10·
    1 year ago

    Otherway round would be a lot more useful. Block idiots who pay Elon for his new ‘X’.

  • morras@links.hackliberty.org
    7·
    1 year ago

    Humanity will make huge progress once it stop commenting every sh*t originating from E. Misk.

    Seriously, there is now way to block all that noise?

  • harmonea@kbin.social
    5·
    1 year ago

    Can’t believe you forgot the usage limits on how many tweets you can view and how many DMs you can send. I think some of those might have been walked back, but I know people who were holding back from discord because twitter DMs were enough that now rarely go there.

    Also all sorts of API functionality has been killed off - embeds, RSS, bots, etc

  • hperrin@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 year ago

    It’s funny that all the new features they’re touting over there are really simple changes. Things like a new setting that controls an if statement.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
    11·
    1 year ago

    What I need for Mastodon is a database of verified users organized by subject matter expertise or your of content.