Was Stephen King’s X departure cowardly?
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Anonymous
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There have been a lot of weird things going on lately, including the noted suppression of Democratic leaders and free rein of Republican voices. My workplace is considering dropping X. I foresee a massive exodus in the next 6 months.
Plus, it’s no longer current or relevant. |
Anonymous
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I don't understand how leaving a social media platform is ever seen as cowardly. Or brave for that matter.
Twitter has descended into a massive cess pool over the past year. It's just so horrible. I see no benefit whatsoever to any type of continued engagement. Ya'll should just be watching cute puppy videos on insta. 
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Anonymous
What's wrong with free rein of Republican voices? |
Anonymous
| Such a weird take OP |
Anonymous
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The Guardian newspapers just departed X. They are the exact opposite of cowardly in their reporting worldwide. They decided they no longer want or need any association with that platform as a way to get out word about their stories. Good for them. Stephen King was probably like other celebrities who have used Twitter/X for years: Had a large following there, established long before Musk too over, and the followers are used to the platform's look and feel. It's harder to leave X when you've built a large following there pre-Musk, I think, and have a large trove of posts and conversations archived there. I knew people for whom it was their only social media use, and who got a lot of support and help when they were on Twitter. But anyone who leaves X is doing the right thing, though it's got to be a bit tough to leave your whole archive of threads behind. I have to figure that X deletes people's whole histories at some point if not right away, thse days. |
Anonymous
| Leaving X is the only right thing to do in light of the past few months. Staying gives Musk even more power and he's already wielding it quite dangerously. |
Anonymous
How silly. He doesn't actually have any power. |
Anonymous
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Bluesky allows you them to copy in their previous Twitter posts. It will not copy over the replies or re-tweets since those are connected to other people's profiles. But it's not necessary to start from scratch on Bluesky.
There's an extension for Bluesky that also allows you to find people you already follow on Twitter and automatically add them (if they are on Bluesky). Bluesky is going to end up dominating Twitter because its open source. Developers and users love customizable extensions. |
Anonymous
Good read on how to migrate: https://www.popsci.com/diy/how-to-leave-twitter-for-bluesky/ |
Anonymous
What are the new terms of service? |
Anonymous
Odd. I left months ago. I kept my account so, hopefully, it won't turn into a p-ron account. But I stopped using it a long time ago. |
Anonymous
Musk will be able to use all your tweets, images, likeness to train X's AI bot, Grok. Unless you delete your account. There is no opt-out. Users that access more than a million Tweets in a day will be subject to damages of $15,000. This is to stifle researchers from analyzing Twitter content. The "Block" function will be disabled. You will no longer be able to block unwanted or harassing users. And all disputes over the Terms of Service must solely be adjudicated in one rural court in the 5th circuit of Texas. You can't sue X in any other jurisdiction. The judge in that court has issued a bunch of pro-Musk rulings and owns a ton of Tesla stock. https://mashable.com/article/twitter-x-terms-service |
Anonymous
| I think it’s cowardly to stay on it. No need to give it legitimacy and draw more traffic there. |
Anonymous
| No. Brave actually |
Anonymous
Surely you jest. It was much more relevant in the last few weeks than anything you were reading or watching on TV. |