▲ 692 ▼ Twitter Removes Its 'No Political Ads' Policy Ahead of the 2024 Election (gizmodo.com) submitted 2 years ago by BobTheBoozer@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world 59 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 160 points 2 years ago (3 children) It actually amazes me that people still use that cesspool. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] takeda@kbin.social 51 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yeah, also anyone who claims that they didn't switch to mastodon because it is too confusing, must have serious learning disability. I can understand that Lemmy is harder than traditional reddit, because the problem is more complex and the service still need a lot of polish, but mastodon is very simple to use. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] BertramDitore@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (2 children) Yup. People have a mental block against it. They decided Mastodon was complicated, so even when confronted with its simplicity, they’re unwilling to deal with the first few minutes of uncomfortable novelty. I’ve talked to a few super-smart people who have this particular mental block and they still talk shit about Mastodon without genuinely trying it out first, while still railing against Twitter. People are irrationally stubborn. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] Darorad@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee -2 points 2 years ago* That's the blatant hint that those people aren't down for the cause and should not be wanted on "our side" and their opinions are worthless. These are the type of people to cut out of your life because they aren't trustworthy or loyal. permalink fedilink source parent [–] relative_iterator@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 years ago (2 children) My sports news people are all still there. Wish they would join Mastodon but no luck yet 😩 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] _cerpin_taxt_@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (2 children) Who cares? Do they not have a website, or a YouTube show or something? There's still plenty of entertainers I like on there. Didn't stop me from deleting that Nazi cesspool and just getting that info elsewhere. You just have to want to actually quit and quit coming up with excuses. Sports ball is on other platforms, too. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Ado@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (1 child) How do yall feel this entitled over another persons decision to use any particular social media 😂super weird behavior permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] _cerpin_taxt_@lemmy.world -4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Who is being entitled? This guy is saying he's supporting the Nazi platform because his sports ball people are still on there. I told him that's a bullshit reason to stay on a platform. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Ado@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) The vast majority of people using twitter are not thinking “I’m supporting a nazi but it’s okay”. They are thinking “I’m using twitter because I enjoy the content/interaction”. The issue on Reddit, and Lemmy even more so, is that you frame the issue as if people are knowingly supporting a nazi. This a silly straw man argument the only gets upvotes in chronically online circles permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] _cerpin_taxt_@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Have you been on Twitter recently? I kept getting white supremacist and MAGA tweet notifications left and right. I only followed progressive pages and random bands and music festivals. I even tested it out - blocked a high profile Nazi that I kept getting tweet notifications for - sure enough, got a notification for that same Nazi. It's a Nazi platform, 100%. Are you a Muskrat apologist/dickrider or something? Because that's what you come off across as. I've seen it with my own eyes, dawg. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Ado@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Yes I have, and it’s nothing like what you describe on my end. I don’t even care for twitter, I’m just explaining to you why your views are extremist and contain zero nuance. The world is not so black and white. Go touch grass my brother. permalink fedilink source parent [–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Youtube? Talk about a cesspool… Sometimes it’s simply almost unavoidable. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] _cerpin_taxt_@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Are you one of those weirdos that actually looks at comments on YouTube? There's your problem. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 1 point 2 years ago True, I did that once upon a time. It made me feel like a pharaoh. A dead one, where the balmers are pulling the brain out through the nose. But aside from the toxic comments, YT has an algorithm that really keeps feeding you worse and worse garbage, with an increasingly ultra-rightwing bias. It really is a cesspool and a foul one at that. permalink fedilink source parent [–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago Did you try messaging them? permalink fedilink source parent [–] MajesticSloth@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) I think part of the problem is so many things have relied on it up until now. I read how at a college shooting that was the main way they had to tell people to stay where they were. Which is a problem if that is your only way to communicate in an emergency situation. So much news is passed quickly from it or other social media. If you're not on it now you're often left in the dark. Which is good for mental well being for some of us (me), but bad at other times. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] takeda@kbin.social 51 points 2 years ago (1 child) Yeah, also anyone who claims that they didn't switch to mastodon because it is too confusing, must have serious learning disability. I can understand that Lemmy is harder than traditional reddit, because the problem is more complex and the service still need a lot of polish, but mastodon is very simple to use. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] BertramDitore@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (2 children) Yup. People have a mental block against it. They decided Mastodon was complicated, so even when confronted with its simplicity, they’re unwilling to deal with the first few minutes of uncomfortable novelty. I’ve talked to a few super-smart people who have this particular mental block and they still talk shit about Mastodon without genuinely trying it out first, while still railing against Twitter. People are irrationally stubborn. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] Darorad@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee -2 points 2 years ago* That's the blatant hint that those people aren't down for the cause and should not be wanted on "our side" and their opinions are worthless. These are the type of people to cut out of your life because they aren't trustworthy or loyal. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] BertramDitore@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (2 children) Yup. People have a mental block against it. They decided Mastodon was complicated, so even when confronted with its simplicity, they’re unwilling to deal with the first few minutes of uncomfortable novelty. I’ve talked to a few super-smart people who have this particular mental block and they still talk shit about Mastodon without genuinely trying it out first, while still railing against Twitter. People are irrationally stubborn. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] Darorad@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee -2 points 2 years ago* That's the blatant hint that those people aren't down for the cause and should not be wanted on "our side" and their opinions are worthless. These are the type of people to cut out of your life because they aren't trustworthy or loyal. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] Darorad@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee -2 points 2 years ago* That's the blatant hint that those people aren't down for the cause and should not be wanted on "our side" and their opinions are worthless. These are the type of people to cut out of your life because they aren't trustworthy or loyal. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] relative_iterator@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 years ago (2 children) My sports news people are all still there. Wish they would join Mastodon but no luck yet 😩 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] _cerpin_taxt_@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (2 children) Who cares? Do they not have a website, or a YouTube show or something? There's still plenty of entertainers I like on there. Didn't stop me from deleting that Nazi cesspool and just getting that info elsewhere. You just have to want to actually quit and quit coming up with excuses. Sports ball is on other platforms, too. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Ado@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (1 child) How do yall feel this entitled over another persons decision to use any particular social media 😂super weird behavior permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] _cerpin_taxt_@lemmy.world -4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Who is being entitled? This guy is saying he's supporting the Nazi platform because his sports ball people are still on there. I told him that's a bullshit reason to stay on a platform. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Ado@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) The vast majority of people using twitter are not thinking “I’m supporting a nazi but it’s okay”. They are thinking “I’m using twitter because I enjoy the content/interaction”. The issue on Reddit, and Lemmy even more so, is that you frame the issue as if people are knowingly supporting a nazi. This a silly straw man argument the only gets upvotes in chronically online circles permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] _cerpin_taxt_@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Have you been on Twitter recently? I kept getting white supremacist and MAGA tweet notifications left and right. I only followed progressive pages and random bands and music festivals. I even tested it out - blocked a high profile Nazi that I kept getting tweet notifications for - sure enough, got a notification for that same Nazi. It's a Nazi platform, 100%. Are you a Muskrat apologist/dickrider or something? Because that's what you come off across as. I've seen it with my own eyes, dawg. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Ado@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Yes I have, and it’s nothing like what you describe on my end. I don’t even care for twitter, I’m just explaining to you why your views are extremist and contain zero nuance. The world is not so black and white. Go touch grass my brother. permalink fedilink source parent [–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Youtube? Talk about a cesspool… Sometimes it’s simply almost unavoidable. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] _cerpin_taxt_@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Are you one of those weirdos that actually looks at comments on YouTube? There's your problem. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 1 point 2 years ago True, I did that once upon a time. It made me feel like a pharaoh. A dead one, where the balmers are pulling the brain out through the nose. But aside from the toxic comments, YT has an algorithm that really keeps feeding you worse and worse garbage, with an increasingly ultra-rightwing bias. It really is a cesspool and a foul one at that. permalink fedilink source parent [–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago Did you try messaging them? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] _cerpin_taxt_@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (2 children) Who cares? Do they not have a website, or a YouTube show or something? There's still plenty of entertainers I like on there. Didn't stop me from deleting that Nazi cesspool and just getting that info elsewhere. You just have to want to actually quit and quit coming up with excuses. Sports ball is on other platforms, too. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Ado@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (1 child) How do yall feel this entitled over another persons decision to use any particular social media 😂super weird behavior permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] _cerpin_taxt_@lemmy.world -4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Who is being entitled? This guy is saying he's supporting the Nazi platform because his sports ball people are still on there. I told him that's a bullshit reason to stay on a platform. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Ado@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) The vast majority of people using twitter are not thinking “I’m supporting a nazi but it’s okay”. They are thinking “I’m using twitter because I enjoy the content/interaction”. The issue on Reddit, and Lemmy even more so, is that you frame the issue as if people are knowingly supporting a nazi. This a silly straw man argument the only gets upvotes in chronically online circles permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] _cerpin_taxt_@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Have you been on Twitter recently? I kept getting white supremacist and MAGA tweet notifications left and right. I only followed progressive pages and random bands and music festivals. I even tested it out - blocked a high profile Nazi that I kept getting tweet notifications for - sure enough, got a notification for that same Nazi. It's a Nazi platform, 100%. Are you a Muskrat apologist/dickrider or something? Because that's what you come off across as. I've seen it with my own eyes, dawg. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Ado@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Yes I have, and it’s nothing like what you describe on my end. I don’t even care for twitter, I’m just explaining to you why your views are extremist and contain zero nuance. The world is not so black and white. Go touch grass my brother. permalink fedilink source parent [–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Youtube? Talk about a cesspool… Sometimes it’s simply almost unavoidable. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] _cerpin_taxt_@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Are you one of those weirdos that actually looks at comments on YouTube? There's your problem. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 1 point 2 years ago True, I did that once upon a time. It made me feel like a pharaoh. A dead one, where the balmers are pulling the brain out through the nose. But aside from the toxic comments, YT has an algorithm that really keeps feeding you worse and worse garbage, with an increasingly ultra-rightwing bias. It really is a cesspool and a foul one at that. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Ado@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (1 child) How do yall feel this entitled over another persons decision to use any particular social media 😂super weird behavior permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] _cerpin_taxt_@lemmy.world -4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Who is being entitled? This guy is saying he's supporting the Nazi platform because his sports ball people are still on there. I told him that's a bullshit reason to stay on a platform. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Ado@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) The vast majority of people using twitter are not thinking “I’m supporting a nazi but it’s okay”. They are thinking “I’m using twitter because I enjoy the content/interaction”. The issue on Reddit, and Lemmy even more so, is that you frame the issue as if people are knowingly supporting a nazi. This a silly straw man argument the only gets upvotes in chronically online circles permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] _cerpin_taxt_@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Have you been on Twitter recently? I kept getting white supremacist and MAGA tweet notifications left and right. I only followed progressive pages and random bands and music festivals. I even tested it out - blocked a high profile Nazi that I kept getting tweet notifications for - sure enough, got a notification for that same Nazi. It's a Nazi platform, 100%. Are you a Muskrat apologist/dickrider or something? Because that's what you come off across as. I've seen it with my own eyes, dawg. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Ado@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Yes I have, and it’s nothing like what you describe on my end. I don’t even care for twitter, I’m just explaining to you why your views are extremist and contain zero nuance. The world is not so black and white. Go touch grass my brother. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] _cerpin_taxt_@lemmy.world -4 points 2 years ago (1 child) Who is being entitled? This guy is saying he's supporting the Nazi platform because his sports ball people are still on there. I told him that's a bullshit reason to stay on a platform. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Ado@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) The vast majority of people using twitter are not thinking “I’m supporting a nazi but it’s okay”. They are thinking “I’m using twitter because I enjoy the content/interaction”. The issue on Reddit, and Lemmy even more so, is that you frame the issue as if people are knowingly supporting a nazi. This a silly straw man argument the only gets upvotes in chronically online circles permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] _cerpin_taxt_@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Have you been on Twitter recently? I kept getting white supremacist and MAGA tweet notifications left and right. I only followed progressive pages and random bands and music festivals. I even tested it out - blocked a high profile Nazi that I kept getting tweet notifications for - sure enough, got a notification for that same Nazi. It's a Nazi platform, 100%. Are you a Muskrat apologist/dickrider or something? Because that's what you come off across as. I've seen it with my own eyes, dawg. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Ado@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Yes I have, and it’s nothing like what you describe on my end. I don’t even care for twitter, I’m just explaining to you why your views are extremist and contain zero nuance. The world is not so black and white. Go touch grass my brother. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Ado@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) The vast majority of people using twitter are not thinking “I’m supporting a nazi but it’s okay”. They are thinking “I’m using twitter because I enjoy the content/interaction”. The issue on Reddit, and Lemmy even more so, is that you frame the issue as if people are knowingly supporting a nazi. This a silly straw man argument the only gets upvotes in chronically online circles permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] _cerpin_taxt_@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Have you been on Twitter recently? I kept getting white supremacist and MAGA tweet notifications left and right. I only followed progressive pages and random bands and music festivals. I even tested it out - blocked a high profile Nazi that I kept getting tweet notifications for - sure enough, got a notification for that same Nazi. It's a Nazi platform, 100%. Are you a Muskrat apologist/dickrider or something? Because that's what you come off across as. I've seen it with my own eyes, dawg. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Ado@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Yes I have, and it’s nothing like what you describe on my end. I don’t even care for twitter, I’m just explaining to you why your views are extremist and contain zero nuance. The world is not so black and white. Go touch grass my brother. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] _cerpin_taxt_@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Have you been on Twitter recently? I kept getting white supremacist and MAGA tweet notifications left and right. I only followed progressive pages and random bands and music festivals. I even tested it out - blocked a high profile Nazi that I kept getting tweet notifications for - sure enough, got a notification for that same Nazi. It's a Nazi platform, 100%. Are you a Muskrat apologist/dickrider or something? Because that's what you come off across as. I've seen it with my own eyes, dawg. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Ado@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Yes I have, and it’s nothing like what you describe on my end. I don’t even care for twitter, I’m just explaining to you why your views are extremist and contain zero nuance. The world is not so black and white. Go touch grass my brother. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Ado@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Yes I have, and it’s nothing like what you describe on my end. I don’t even care for twitter, I’m just explaining to you why your views are extremist and contain zero nuance. The world is not so black and white. Go touch grass my brother. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Youtube? Talk about a cesspool… Sometimes it’s simply almost unavoidable. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] _cerpin_taxt_@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Are you one of those weirdos that actually looks at comments on YouTube? There's your problem. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 1 point 2 years ago True, I did that once upon a time. It made me feel like a pharaoh. A dead one, where the balmers are pulling the brain out through the nose. But aside from the toxic comments, YT has an algorithm that really keeps feeding you worse and worse garbage, with an increasingly ultra-rightwing bias. It really is a cesspool and a foul one at that. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] _cerpin_taxt_@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Are you one of those weirdos that actually looks at comments on YouTube? There's your problem. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 1 point 2 years ago True, I did that once upon a time. It made me feel like a pharaoh. A dead one, where the balmers are pulling the brain out through the nose. But aside from the toxic comments, YT has an algorithm that really keeps feeding you worse and worse garbage, with an increasingly ultra-rightwing bias. It really is a cesspool and a foul one at that. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 1 point 2 years ago True, I did that once upon a time. It made me feel like a pharaoh. A dead one, where the balmers are pulling the brain out through the nose. But aside from the toxic comments, YT has an algorithm that really keeps feeding you worse and worse garbage, with an increasingly ultra-rightwing bias. It really is a cesspool and a foul one at that. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago Did you try messaging them? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MajesticSloth@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) I think part of the problem is so many things have relied on it up until now. I read how at a college shooting that was the main way they had to tell people to stay where they were. Which is a problem if that is your only way to communicate in an emergency situation. So much news is passed quickly from it or other social media. If you're not on it now you're often left in the dark. Which is good for mental well being for some of us (me), but bad at other times. permalink fedilink source parent