Thursday on X (Twitter), all users saw the same pinned topic under the “What’s happening?” sidebar. As part of a “timeline takeover” — which gives advertisers “priority access to logged-in users’ first impression of the day” — conservative media nonprofit PragerU is promoting the hashtag “#DETRANS” to advertise its new film about “the stories of detransitioners.”

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[–] 146 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Every day I miss my twitter account less and less. I now wish there was a way I could block twitter content inside news articles and such.

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  • [–] 48 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    We've got it blocked at our router. The DNS server just responds with no such address.

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  • [–] 48 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Hijacking twitter DNS queries and redirecting to a page that only serves images of cats.

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    [–] 128 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Man, musk really fucking hates his daughter

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  • [–] 103 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This is a good time to remind people one of his kids is trans. What utter garbage he's turned out to be.

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  • [–] 100 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Despite pushback from some users

    Well there's your problem. You're still using the fascist platform.

    Any active user who "pushes back" in an attempt to "fix" the fascist platform is either delusional or being disingenuous. There's no fixing it, guys. Just walk away.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    Yep. I could see people sticking around if there were not viable alternatives. And while those alternatives have indeed been around for a good while, they are very available now. There’s really no excuse now.

    Now, while I do think Mastodon is the better platform, I’m curious to see how BlueSky affects Twitter’s user base once it comes out of its “beta”. For all of its faults, it does have the smallest learning curve - if really any at all - when comparing it to Twitter.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    And how is this even about technology anymore?

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    [–] 53 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Downvote Musk spam.

    The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring him and his businesses stay in the 24 hour news cycle. Don’t be a useful idiot.

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    Followers and online friends are very important to some people, but at what point do remaining Twitter users give up?

    I understand there are some pathetic individuals who agree with Musk. I’m not talking about them. I mean the ones who should know better, but haven’t left yet.

    What does it take for people to realize “I’m helping an utterly wretched man keep his business alive?” Don’t they realize they’re burning their all-important reputations by staying? Is it worth it to them? Why?

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I feel like you're underestimating the amount of apathy most people have.

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    [–] 37 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Twitter already sucked in its own ways, but X-formerly-known-as-twitter is so utter shit I have a hard time imagining people browsing and enjoying it.

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    [–] 37 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Detransition is the equivalent of people who decided they actually aren’t gay. It’s rare enough to not make policies or be an ass about it, it’s super rare for it to go all the way to straight/cis and instead is typically “actually it turns out I’m bi/nonbinary”, and there’s a group actively funded and encouraged by the right wing, many of whom later retransition. It is a real phenomenon, but so is quicksand, both of which turned out to be less common in real life than certain media would have you believe

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    This is why they're losing advertisers left, right, and center.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Great "technology" article.

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    [–] 17 points 2 years ago

    Knowing Elon, I am not surprised.

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