• ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      23 days ago

      There are still a lot of major commercial and political and media presences there, which is going to mean a lot of people who report on and follow those entities have to maintain their accounts, and all the people who follow those people are still going to be there.

      It’s still a huge platform, it’s still used by the majority of the world for all manner of applications. We easily get stuck in weird perspectives of the world and current events because a lot of algorithms push “satisfaction porn” on us, making it look like the current political administration is getting “DESTROYED” by this and that… it’s as false of a worldview as what they consume, it makes us all think that people like Musk are hurting and suffering as consequence of backlash.

      If you browse around the fetid hangouts of the conservatives and Techbros who idolize these people, they’re in exactly the same black-hole where perspective cannot escape. “Why would anyone use Bluesky at this point? It’s failing every day!” they will proclaim while laughing at how unphased Musk is, and how much success they’ve been having.

      Not making a both-sides argument, just a warning that the algorithm distorts your perspectives - it’s designed to make everyone feel validated and that can be incredibly damaging when you’re trying to affect change on the world.

      • Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works
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        23 days ago

        It’s still owned by a nazi and put forwards nazi ideas. Staying on this platform just mean you accept to be a nazi-enabler because you think it provides you a personal benefit. AFAIC, people on X are selfish and spineless, fuck every single one of them.

        • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          23 days ago

          fuck every single one of them.

          Okay but as I said, it’s still a huge platform, it’s still used by the majority of the world for all manner of applications. Millions of people using it don’t even know or care who Elon Musk is. I don’t disagree that the nazis are a rising problem that will eventually sink the application, I’m just saying absolutism like this is kind of… conservativish and cartoonish.

          This is absolutely 100% the exact kind of perspective bubble I am warning us all about.

          • Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works
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            23 days ago

            This is absolutely 100% the exact kind of perspective bubble I am warning us all about.

            And I’m warning all of us about the exact kind of perspective you have : convenience and indifference.

            That’s exactly what brought us to the point we are, were an un-elected billionaire can do a nazi salute at the potus inauguration without facing any consequence.

              • Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works
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                22 days ago

                Lol, what does that even mean?

                I am coherent with my beliefs, I don’t support businesses owned by and promoting nazi ideology.

                You are coherent with you belief “that blablablaba insert pedantic rhetoric gonna stay on X”.

    • straightjorkin@lemmy.worldOP
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      23 days ago

      I think a lot of artists are still holding on to their following there, bluesky has a lot of the same features (more actually because it allows you to change settings to hide NSFW images), but it’s hard to migrate a following to a new site.

      • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        23 days ago

        Its actually easy.

        First, post on the alternative site.

        Then mirror the post on xitter after 24 hours with an added “Btw, follow me on Bluesky/Mastodon to be the first to see my posts”

        Bonus points if you get banned for promoting an alternative platform, that’ll make them seem like their being persecuted and the followers will follow.

    • joel_feila@lemmy.world
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      23 days ago

      Well several police department use it ro send our amber alerts. Dear God that’s a terrible idea but it true. Months ago there was a twitter outage that stop any emergency alert from going out.

      • buddascrayon@lemmy.world
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        23 days ago

        Amber Alerts have their own system that has nothing to do with Twitter. A lot of people disable it but it rings on your phone the way an emergency alert does and it’s local to your area. I’m sure they also send alerts through twitter, bluesky, and fascist-book just to cover bases but the main system is not dependent on a social media platform. That would be stupid.

  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    Is Elon still trying to prove he can fit in with the gamer crowd? It looks so sad, like Zucky learning martial arts to prive everyone how tough he is. Guys you don’t need to fuck the planet over your teenagehood traumas, just deal with them like any other reasonable person.

  • feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    Jesus Christ I’ve never cared about anything less than whatever is going on there. In fact, it’s horseshoe theory in action. It is so far from anything I care about I am actually annoyed it has reached my eyes, and I therefore do care about it. I didn’t think that was possible.

  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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    24 days ago

    heavens above how is elon so stupid and yet still alive? He should have mistaken sleeping pills for candy and OD’d by now or something.

    • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
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      24 days ago

      How can you tell ratio? I don’t use Xitter, and have no idea what those symbols mean.

      • Lyrl@lemm.eeEnglish
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        24 days ago

        I believe it’s likes (the heart icon) to replies (the chat bubble icon). Usually there are way, way more likes than replies: the ubisoft comment in the screenshot has 9,200/408 which is about 23. The middle comment has 2,400/318 which is about 8. Guessing that’s unusually low.

      • BigPotato@lemmy.world
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        24 days ago

        Musk’s tweet has about 200 retweets and 2.4k ‘hearts’ (likes), Ubisoft’s has 1.9k retweets and has 9.2k hearts. Therefore, nearly 5x the number of people have interacted with Ubisoft’s tweet. A ‘ratio’ of 5:1.

        Edit: Guess that’s closer to 4:1, regardless, ratio.

  • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    Grummz is a racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-woke pile of crap.

    He is also behind the recently released Schedule 1 game. Don’t buy it.

    EDIT: Nope, I was wrong. He is still a bigot, tons of evidence for that. But he was citing Schedule 1 sales numbers and I read that it was his game. But I can’t verify that anywhere so I was mistaken.

    • Doom@ttrpg.network
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      23 days ago

      Elon streamed Path of Exiles a Diablo-like online MMORPG pretending he plays often.

      Everyone watching knew he didn’t know a thing about the game at all showing he never played it and likely bought or paid someone to level the account for him.

      Rich folk like Elon are envious of us regular/poor people. We dress better, are actually funny and do enjoyable shit. Whenever he tries to take part he comes out looking like a big fraud and a dumbass.

    • straightjorkin@lemmy.worldOP
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      23 days ago

      Hasan was paid by ubisoft to play the new Assassin’s creed on stream (which he was very clear that it is a paid promotion) grummz got mad and called him a “terrorist supporter” and claimed ubisoft supports terrorism (because Hasan is middle eastern and pro-palestine). Then Elon responded to grummz with this.

      • NostraDavid@programming.dev
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        22 days ago

        (because Hasan is middle eastern and pro-palestine)

        Must be his pro-Houthi stances. That also covers ‘called him a “terrorist supporter”’, since plenty of people see the Houthi as terrorists, with them overthrowing the government, even though they do claim to want a democracy (just not one governed by a corrupt president).

      • vxx@lemmy.world
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        23 days ago

        Hasan openly glazes Hamas and Houthis. He calls them freedom fighters and showing their propaganda videos while he calls them music Videos.

        I’m not into hating vallhalla for stupid reasons, but it’s a fact to call Hasan a terrorist supporter.

        • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          22 days ago

          I don’t watch Hasan streams or anything, just sometimes catch the clips on yt afterwards, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen him “glaze” Hamas.

          Unless you’re saying that Palestinian = Hamas. Is that what you are saying?

          • vxx@lemmy.world
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            23 days ago

            Some more of that whataboutism please. Pretty low strategy to defend terrorist, rapists and murderers.

            You always stoop that low to defend evil?

            • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
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              23 days ago

              Pointing out common hypocrisy relevant to a topic isn’t a whattaboutism, and claiming it is is a pretty transparent attempt to dismiss valid criticism you clearly lack a rebuttal to.

              • vxx@lemmy.world
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                23 days ago

                I havent been a hypocrite, have I? Your defense of terrorists is by your definition though.

                • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
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                  23 days ago

                  I wasn’t calling you a hypocrite, they were, I am not them, we are not the same person. I was just pointing out that ‘whattaboutism’ isn’t a harry-potter-esque spell that when shouted properly makes valid criticism disappear.

              • ArxCyberwolf@lemmy.ca
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                23 days ago

                Chances are they heard someone else use the term “whataboutism” and are just mindlessly parroting it without understanding what it actually is.

        • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
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          23 days ago

          One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.

          The founding fathers were terrorists, according to the definition the US government uses. They were fighting an occupying force using violence. We now call them heroes and patriots. It’s a matter of perspective.

          • vxx@lemmy.world
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            23 days ago

            Did they kidnap ship workers, woman and children to torture and kill them? Was their Slogan “death to america”?

            If you support that youve sold your soul and got nothing in return.

            • atlas@sh.itjust.works
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              23 days ago

              did you learn anything about early america? they absolutely did all that except the “death to america” part was really “death to britons”.

            • barnacul@lemmy.world
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              23 days ago

              Was the slogan of the founding fathers of America “death to america”? Super hard hitting question.

              Also there was more than enough rape, murder, and genocide taking place on the part of the American revolutionaries, and it was being actively encouraged by the founding fathers.

              • vxx@lemmy.world
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                23 days ago

                This is like the seventh comment saying “but what about…” that I get.

                Is that the bar that makes you defend atrocities against civilians?

                You need a deep look into your self mate

            • Glytch@lemmy.world
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              23 days ago

              Did they kidnap ship workers

              Likely yes

              woman and children to torture, rape and kill them

              Most of the founding fathers were slave owners so that’s a yes to that as well

              Did they parade naked woman through the street?

              Americans called it a slave auction

              Was their Slogan “death to america”?

              Of course not. They were America so why would they say “death to us”? It was more like “death to England and the tyrant King George”.

              Life isn’t black and white.

                • green@feddit.nlEnglish
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                  23 days ago

                  How is this “whataboutism”? They gave instances for every one of your hypotheticals.

                  I do think that Hamas and Houthis are generally vile human-beings and that the West should not be cheering for the Shia muslim faction. But it is also true that they represent freedom fighters to some - especially those in Palestine currently being murdered (genocide) so Israel can have more living space

                • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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                  22 days ago

                  Yeah, that’s not what whataboutism is. The person was asked several questions, and they answered them. They even quoted each individual question before answering it.

            • GoodEye8@lemm.eeEnglish
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              23 days ago

              I’m sorry but if you can’t even remotely see from where Hasan (or the other commenter) is coming from then you’re literally no better than what you blame him to be. Israel has been terrorizing Palestinians probably longer than you’ve been alive and America has been supporting Israel since the beginning. Are you really surprised when the Palestinians, who have been terrorized their entire life, radicalize into Hamas and start shouting “death to America”?

          • vxx@lemmy.world
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            23 days ago

            It’s not my cup of tea. Ive been following Hasan for a long time until it became too obvious he just wants to groom the viewers to terrorists.

  • nandeEbisu@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    Oh my god, a streamer shouldn’t advertise a mediocre game to get compensation for their work? Has anyone told the Raid Shadow Legends steamers?

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
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      23 days ago

      A side comment, Ubisoft was promoted in a show on Apple, for a while, people did not like how propagandized it was

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        22 days ago

        I like Mythic Quest… Then again, I’m a normal person that lives in the real world and could not care less about Ubisoft’s involvement.

  • daepicgamerbro69@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    3 of the worst public personae feeding of each other for relevance. A real human centipede type shit, shame Musk is on the beginning end.

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      23 days ago

      How this guy still has time for games and twitter is beyond me,

      I have an easy, simple answer.

      He doesn’t actually work or play games. He spends all his time scrolling and tweeting from his many, many accounts, has people playing games for him.