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
    521·
    11 months ago

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

    • Devjavu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      310·
      11 months ago

      I get what you mean but at the same time that would mean we’d want more Nazis. I do not want more Nazis.

    • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
      111·
      11 months 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

    • SSUPII@sopuli.xyz
      81·
      11 months ago

      Way too many massively good artists I follow are still on Twitter with no intention of leaving. Some are on Pixiv, but most not.

        • danielton@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
          21·
          11 months ago

          Unfortunately, it’s still where the majority of the art community resides after the enshittification of deviantART. Fortunately, I have other ways of staying in touch with the “best of the best” among my artist friends now, but there are still many holdouts.

  • GenEcon@lemm.ee
    8·
    11 months ago

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

  • morras@links.hackliberty.org
    6·
    11 months 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?

  • hperrin@lemmy.world
    4·
    11 months 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.

  • harmonea@kbin.social
    3·
    11 months 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

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
    11·
    11 months ago

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