Was Stephen King’s X departure cowardly?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who is still on Twitter besides incels and conservatives?

Stephen King, until today.

Glad he finally figured out it was best to leave. Everyone's signing up for Blue sky now.

[Anonymous]

Remember when Twitter limited a tweet to 40 characters? Oh the good ole days. I hated it then. I hate it even more now.

[Anonymous]

I had a large following in my content field and I deleted my X account a year ago. The place is insane and unusable, there’s no positive benefit to being on it or absorbing that content anymore.

[Anonymous]

“EverYoNe iS gOiNg To BlUeSKy!!” Just like threads, right. How’s that going? Yeah local services like weather, traffic - they are white supremacist incels…… what a bunch of whiny crybaby cowards

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why not go to Bluesky with everyone else?

Bluesky sucks too. A lot of good journalists and creators (musicians writers) have their paid blog/patreon? When you use a free app, it often means you are the product.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“EverYoNe iS gOiNg To BlUeSKy!!” Just like threads, right. How’s that going? Yeah local services like weather, traffic - they are white supremacist incels…… what a bunch of whiny crybaby cowards

But people really have gone to Bluesky. I was surprised. Almost everyone I followed on Twitter is there, and people are putting in the work to help people reconstitute their follow lists. It’s great and not full of trash. More importantly, Stephen King is a legend, and I’m 87 percent certain he has actually time travelled. Anyone who rants against King has lost their way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“EverYoNe iS gOiNg To BlUeSKy!!” Just like threads, right. How’s that going? Yeah local services like weather, traffic - they are white supremacist incels…… what a bunch of whiny crybaby cowards

But people really have gone to Bluesky. I was surprised. Almost everyone I followed on Twitter is there, and people are putting in the work to help people reconstitute their follow lists. It’s great and not full of trash. More importantly, Stephen King is a legend, and I’m 87 percent certain he has actually time travelled. Anyone who rants against King has lost their way.

The funny thing is Jack Dorsey, who created twitter and helped create Bluesky after musk bought twitter left the Bluesky board and told people they should use twitter.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/07/jack-dorsey-quits-bluesky-board-urges-users-stay-elon-musk-x-twitter: “Jack Dorsey quits Bluesky board and urges users to stay on Elon Musk’s X”

That being said, I think social media (all of it) is a huge net negative for society.

[Anonymous]

The fact that King’s departure from X led someone to ask the internet whether that departure made King a coward is concrete evidence of the decline of civilization.

[Anonymous]

I had to Google Stephen King to understand this thread.

So he’s a writer and wrote a lot of horror genre fiction in the 1900’s? He pretty old. I’ve never read anything he wrote, none of it sounds very interesting to me.

Why should I care about this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had to Google Stephen King to understand this thread.

So he’s a writer and wrote a lot of horror genre fiction in the 1900’s? He pretty old. I’ve never read anything he wrote, none of it sounds very interesting to me.

Why should I care about this?

I’m embarrassed for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had to Google Stephen King to understand this thread.

So he’s a writer and wrote a lot of horror genre fiction in the 1900’s? He pretty old. I’ve never read anything he wrote, none of it sounds very interesting to me.

Why should I care about this?

So you’ve basically announced you’re an idiot.

[Anonymous]

Really? Anyway, deleted Twitter/X, Facebook and Instagram. Trash, all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
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.

The Guardian is profoundly cowardly and overtly left-wing in its coverage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“EverYoNe iS gOiNg To BlUeSKy!!” Just like threads, right. How’s that going? Yeah local services like weather, traffic - they are white supremacist incels…… what a bunch of whiny crybaby cowards

But people really have gone to Bluesky. I was surprised. Almost everyone I followed on Twitter is there, and people are putting in the work to help people reconstitute their follow lists. It’s great and not full of trash. More importantly, Stephen King is a legend, and I’m 87 percent certain he has actually time travelled. Anyone who rants against King has lost their way.

The funny thing is Jack Dorsey, who created twitter and helped create Bluesky after musk bought twitter left the Bluesky board and told people they should use twitter.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/07/jack-dorsey-quits-bluesky-board-urges-users-stay-elon-musk-x-twitter: “Jack Dorsey quits Bluesky board and urges users to stay on Elon Musk’s X”

That being said, I think social media (all of it) is a huge net negative for society.

Is Blue sky really funded by Steve Bannon and early bad?
https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/113472115447080382

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had to Google Stephen King to understand this thread.

So he’s a writer and wrote a lot of horror genre fiction in the 1900’s? He pretty old. I’ve never read anything he wrote, none of it sounds very interesting to me.

Why should I care about this?

So you’ve basically announced you’re an idiot.

He’s a weird old man who wrote a bunch of weird books. It’s not the least little bit relevant to me.


Put the large print book down and outside, grams. Touch grass.