To an extent. In a know your enemies sense it's useful. In a useful communication sense it's becoming more and more ineffective. There's software that will post to both twitter and mastodon. If your audience is on twitter but you make no effort to change that. Then you support it to your own determent. Part of it is a publicity thing.
More need to be like hey, if you follow me but want less fascism popping up in your feed. You can now follow on mastodon etc. If enough people did that, we'd see some changes. Probably banning mention of mastodon on twitter. But still better than passive inertia.
Lol. It's as dumb as it sounds. Weren't we in grade school when they taught us that just because everyone is jumping off a cliff, we needn't be like everyone?
The same way elon musk didn't become the richest man in the world by working hard, twitter didn't magically become the platform used by every politician in the world. One of the reason peoples still use twitter is because the representatives of their country use (and are told to use) it.
People on here get really weird about and start downvoting and insulting people who call it X, because they refuse to accept the stupid new name... What are you clinging on to? Twitter is DEAD.
Yes, the new name, X is stupid. It's now the Nazi platform X, accept that and stop using the Nazi platform. Your line in the sand is way further back than it should be, you can't keep using the platform and insist you're giving the finger to Elon by calling it Twitter.
Stop using Twitter, accept that Twitter is dead. Stop using the Nazi platform.
Twitter was always terrible and I've never had an account to quit, so the whole "Twitter is dead, call it X to respect the dead" argument doesn't work for me. I will how ever continue to deadname twitter so long as Musk continues to deadname his daughter.
I do not care if you keep a facebook account open just to talk to your dear aunt Ethel over the holidays
I do care. Aunt ethel got used to twitter, she got used to facebook, she got used to messenger when they forced that switch... she can get used to signal/matrix/xmpp or whatever else you desire.
Do I get bonus cred for having never used it? I don't use X, or Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, whateverthefuck.
I have a Lemmy and Youtube... and before you get all "why not peertube???" because peertube sucks. Sorry, someone has to say it, it's not there yet, content is subpar.
Yea I have no clue why people still use the damn platform. Especially those who hate musk and what bullshit that comes from his mouth...like gtfo the platform, all you're doing is keeping his revenue going.
Honestly I figured his shit would tank, most of the magats are on trumps platform now, and we know magats weren't buying tesla cars...so who's buying and using his shit...the same people who hate him. Like wtf, they literally have the power to remove a ton of his wealth, but nope.
Tesla is a pretty clear example of what's 'wrong' with stocks as a capital/market correcting factor. The value of a stock is solely dependent on what people think it's worth, and meme stocks go uuuuuup!
I wouldn’t say he’s a grifter…he’s definitely got leftist credentials…but he’s also terminally online and really cares about “clout”.
I’m sure he would argue that he’s fighting fire with fire…and I agree with that to an extent: we need somebody operating in those spaces to provide an alternative. But he’s not just reposting content there…he’s genuinely addicted. If he were to be making a coherent argument to remain on Twitter…every single post he makes should include a tagline to a competing platform where you can read his entire post until he’s banned.
If you claim to be a journalist you don’t actually need to be on Twitter…you can just use an aggregator.
The thing is, quitting X is something people can actually do. The core tenet of leftism is to viciously attack any actual leftward action in favour of endless wanking about a glorious revolution that will make everything better for ever and ever. Anything that could produce actual results in the here and now and which doesn't involve a bloody civil war followed by mass executions must be wholeheartedly opposed.
There nothing more irritating than listen to Krystal Ball complain about how Elon ruined groups chats, or whatever she’s addicted to on Twitter…then immediately afterwards platform a leading leftist activist who also uses it.
Banning USian social media services doesn't stop people from wanting sites like these, nor does it protect you or your community from the impacts that these services have on the rest of the world that will unfortunately affect you.
Like why exactly do people even want to be a part of these panopticons when the negative consequences are so severe? Because I think that people mostly do understand that they are sacrificing their privacy and autonomy to these platforms, but how can we get people to understand the seriousness of these sacrifices?
Not a defense of USian social media websites BTW. I think we should burn these sites to the fucking ground. But while they're active, I don't see how banning your community from interacting with and monitoring them is a good idea.
i agree the need will be there but banning the ones that exist by coming up with good laws is the point.
force them to verify all political claims. All ads need to have very apparent sources of funding. don't let legal entities funnel money to pay for anything. not difficult.
So the US just released a foreign policy document that says that the emergence of nationalist parties across Europe is cause for hope and to be supported in order to help Europe realign with the US.
That's a plan for undermining the governments of the EU and instigating regime change. US social media is their tool of choice. It needs to be shut down. Yes, people might clamour for an alternative, but they can have them. They just need to not be controlled by the US oligarchy.
Yeah but it’s not like it’s physically impossible to build an alternative. If the one monopolizing the network effect is gone, alternatives will pop up ~immediately.
Look at china or Russia (ironically), who blocked google. They have a real alternative by now (baidu, yandex).
you ban them by making good laws that make why they are shit illegal. it's really not that hard. force them to have validation of political claims. if they don't then shut them down. not difficult.
I think they meant that the Nazi bots were Russian - Xitter turned user location on and loads of ostensibly American MAGA accounts turned out to be based in Russia!
Some of them turned out to be in Russia. Some turned out to be in Pakistan. Some in Israel (including the Homeland Security official account). And many in the US itself.
What percentage by engagement was in Russia and what percentage in the US?
I didn't memorise the numbers, lol! I just remember there being a surprisingly large number of MAGAs claiming to be American who were outside the US and specifically a lot in Russia.
Xitter turned off the feature pretty quickly, but also a lot of those specific accounts that got outed as non-Americans disappeared thereafter. I suspect they came back with new usernames!
I found the whole thing amusing because I always thought it was pretty braindead to think you were "making America great again" by voting for Trump, who anyone could spot a long time ago was going to be very damaging for the USA, and Xitter accidentally outing MAGAts as foreign actors was a fun example of rightwingers being to stupid to implement their biases without shooting themselves in the foot.
If all European politicians moved to mastodon, they would drag a bunch of journalists and media behind them. On Twitter, only four insignificant influencers and far-right spammers would remain; all serious debate would shift immediately.
I assure you, this is not an irrational fear.
A year or so ago, the only German political party with a major presence on tik tok was the afd, a far-right to extremist party.
They still dominate an enormous share of political discourse on this platform. Arguably thanks to help from the platforms creator, but also because they were uncontested. The platform most teenagers use.
If you think the presence of other groups would have changed that, you don't understand how the algorithms of commercial social networks work. Twitter is actively promoting far-right content, and believing that occupying that space will change it is absurd; it only legitimizes it through institutional accounts.
It's as if in the 1930s the communist party had actively participated in radio stations or newspapers affiliated with the Nazi party.
Seems Musk is trying to challenge Trump for that pettiest man alive title.
I hope this serves as the final push to have all official EU accounts move to, say Mastodon. Every institution still using this fascist hellhole of a social network helps legitimizing it. It's high time they find another outlet, ideally a FOSS and decentralized one.
Cool, then fuckjng get some balls and block Twitter altogether.
See how quickly they rolled over when Brazil blocked them and they realized everyone was moving to Threads, Bluesky, and Mastodon, giving lots of other people the same idea.
“Your ad account has been terminated,” X’s head of product, Nikita Bier, wrote on the platform early Sunday.
Bier accused the EU executive of trying to amplify its own social media post about the fine on X by trying “to take advantage of an exploit in our Ad Composer — to post a link that deceives users into thinking it's a video and to artificially increase its reach.”
I'm not on either of them, but I'm also not confused as to how a group that's wanting to run ads might prefer an audience of hundreds of millions of people instead of tens of millions.
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JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 213 pts · 251d
Why do people still use Twitter?
MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world · 53 pts · 251d
It drives me insane. Most of the top so called leftists are fully addicted to it and treat it like it’s an essential medium.
Eldritch@piefed.world · 13 pts · 251d
To an extent. In a know your enemies sense it's useful. In a useful communication sense it's becoming more and more ineffective. There's software that will post to both twitter and mastodon. If your audience is on twitter but you make no effort to change that. Then you support it to your own determent. Part of it is a publicity thing.
More need to be like hey, if you follow me but want less fascism popping up in your feed. You can now follow on mastodon etc. If enough people did that, we'd see some changes. Probably banning mention of mastodon on twitter. But still better than passive inertia.
Edit And hello again.
SARGE@startrek.website · 26 pts · 251d
MBech@feddit.dk · 13 pts · 251d
Most people don't want to actually change anything. They want everyone else to change things, and keep living their happy little lives.
ripcord@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 250d
They want to complain but not make even the smallest actual effort.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 251d
The EU were being hypocritical just having an ad account with Twitter.
TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 251d
How?
village604@adultswim.fan · 12 pts · 251d
Because people still use twitter, and other people go to where people are.
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 250d
Lol. It's as dumb as it sounds. Weren't we in grade school when they taught us that just because everyone is jumping off a cliff, we needn't be like everyone?
ripcord@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 250d
And because they're fine enabling Nazis.
obinice@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 251d
Where else are Nazis supposed to hang out?
AshMan85@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 251d
Twatters
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 250d
Because you can sell things to neo-nazis.
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz · -4 pts · 251d
The same way elon musk didn't become the richest man in the world by working hard, twitter didn't magically become the platform used by every politician in the world. One of the reason peoples still use twitter is because the representatives of their country use (and are told to use) it.
MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world · 199 pts · 251d
If you hate Musk…stop using fucking twitter. Nothing grinds my gears more than all these leftists who are still fully addicted.
cv_octavio@piefed.ca · 54 pts · 251d
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 250d
Addictions require effort to quit, regardless of what it is.
cv_octavio@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 250d
3abas@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 251d
Every time I said this, I get downvoted.
People on here get really weird about and start downvoting and insulting people who call it X, because they refuse to accept the stupid new name... What are you clinging on to? Twitter is DEAD.
Yes, the new name, X is stupid. It's now the Nazi platform X, accept that and stop using the Nazi platform. Your line in the sand is way further back than it should be, you can't keep using the platform and insist you're giving the finger to Elon by calling it Twitter.
Stop using Twitter, accept that Twitter is dead. Stop using the Nazi platform.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 250d
Twitter was always terrible and I've never had an account to quit, so the whole "Twitter is dead, call it X to respect the dead" argument doesn't work for me. I will how ever continue to deadname twitter so long as Musk continues to deadname his daughter.
ameancow@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 251d
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 250d
I do care. Aunt ethel got used to twitter, she got used to facebook, she got used to messenger when they forced that switch... she can get used to signal/matrix/xmpp or whatever else you desire.
ameancow@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 250d
ripcord@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 250d
But it's the only place I get the daily recipes I want or some shit
MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world · -1 pts · 251d
To be fair…the site link is literally still Twitter.
3abas@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 251d
No it's not... They kept the domain because it costs $8/year and it would be incredibly stupid to let it go, even for Elon.
But it forwards to x.com
MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world · -7 pts · 251d
Yet it’s still Twitter.
3abas@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 250d
Is Nike still "Blue Ribbon Sports" because they hold the old domain? blueribbonsports.com
SailorFuzz@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 251d
Do I get bonus cred for having never used it? I don't use X, or Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, whateverthefuck.
I have a Lemmy and Youtube... and before you get all "why not peertube???" because peertube sucks. Sorry, someone has to say it, it's not there yet, content is subpar.
SupraMario@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 251d
Yea I have no clue why people still use the damn platform. Especially those who hate musk and what bullshit that comes from his mouth...like gtfo the platform, all you're doing is keeping his revenue going.
ripcord@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 250d
Because they fucking suck.
It just floors me the kind of excuses they come up with.
Same with leftists still buying Tesla. Which is still a fucking lot.
SupraMario@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 250d
Honestly I figured his shit would tank, most of the magats are on trumps platform now, and we know magats weren't buying tesla cars...so who's buying and using his shit...the same people who hate him. Like wtf, they literally have the power to remove a ton of his wealth, but nope.
burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 250d
Tesla is a pretty clear example of what's 'wrong' with stocks as a capital/market correcting factor. The value of a stock is solely dependent on what people think it's worth, and meme stocks go uuuuuup!
grue@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 251d
Or better yet, if you're a government: stop using it yourself and destroy it for being unlawful.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 251d
“Why is the world this way?” says the blue checkmark Tweeter clutching their phone.
Though to be fair, many are more disingenuous cash farming influencers.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 251d
if any leftists is in the nazi platform, they aren't leftists.
MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world · -1 pts · 251d
I wish we could say that - but those terminally online leftist “influencers” like Kyle Kukinski are completely addicted to it.
athatet@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 251d
Then he isn’t really a leftist. He is a grifter who uses left wing talking points.
MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world · 1 pts · 251d
I wouldn’t say he’s a grifter…he’s definitely got leftist credentials…but he’s also terminally online and really cares about “clout”.
I’m sure he would argue that he’s fighting fire with fire…and I agree with that to an extent: we need somebody operating in those spaces to provide an alternative. But he’s not just reposting content there…he’s genuinely addicted. If he were to be making a coherent argument to remain on Twitter…every single post he makes should include a tagline to a competing platform where you can read his entire post until he’s banned.
If you claim to be a journalist you don’t actually need to be on Twitter…you can just use an aggregator.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 251d
if you sit in a table with 9 Nazis, there are 10 nazis at the table.
MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world · -1 pts · 251d
My cats breath smells like cat food.
ripcord@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 250d
Dude quit trying to soften it. He's a Nazi enabler.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 250d
But where else can you toxically brow beat people who do not agree with you?
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 251d
The thing is, quitting X is something people can actually do. The core tenet of leftism is to viciously attack any actual leftward action in favour of endless wanking about a glorious revolution that will make everything better for ever and ever. Anything that could produce actual results in the here and now and which doesn't involve a bloody civil war followed by mass executions must be wholeheartedly opposed.
MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world · 3 pts · 251d
…and it’s so easy.
There nothing more irritating than listen to Krystal Ball complain about how Elon ruined groups chats, or whatever she’s addicted to on Twitter…then immediately afterwards platform a leading leftist activist who also uses it.
_Nico198X_@europe.pub · 114 pts · 251d
please just ban this shit already. please. i'm so tired.
ferrule@sh.itjust.works · 61 pts · 251d
just think if the EU banned twitter, facebook, instagram, and the rest. the world might instantly get a little smarter.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org · 11 pts · 251d
Banning USian social media services doesn't stop people from wanting sites like these, nor does it protect you or your community from the impacts that these services have on the rest of the world that will unfortunately affect you.
Like why exactly do people even want to be a part of these panopticons when the negative consequences are so severe? Because I think that people mostly do understand that they are sacrificing their privacy and autonomy to these platforms, but how can we get people to understand the seriousness of these sacrifices?
Not a defense of USian social media websites BTW. I think we should burn these sites to the fucking ground. But while they're active, I don't see how banning your community from interacting with and monitoring them is a good idea.
ferrule@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 251d
i agree the need will be there but banning the ones that exist by coming up with good laws is the point.
force them to verify all political claims. All ads need to have very apparent sources of funding. don't let legal entities funnel money to pay for anything. not difficult.
wewbull@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 251d
So the US just released a foreign policy document that says that the emergence of nationalist parties across Europe is cause for hope and to be supported in order to help Europe realign with the US.
That's a plan for undermining the governments of the EU and instigating regime change. US social media is their tool of choice. It needs to be shut down. Yes, people might clamour for an alternative, but they can have them. They just need to not be controlled by the US oligarchy.
Edit: literally the next article in my feed
HaiZhung@feddit.org · 2 pts · 251d
Yeah but it’s not like it’s physically impossible to build an alternative. If the one monopolizing the network effect is gone, alternatives will pop up ~immediately.
Look at china or Russia (ironically), who blocked google. They have a real alternative by now (baidu, yandex).
We could do the same thing easily in the EU.
_Nico198X_@europe.pub · 6 pts · 251d
totally agree. no one is owed to operate here and spread malicious propaganda and ignorance to the masses.
someguy3@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 251d
Replaced by knock off versions and nothing is solved.
ferrule@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 251d
you ban them by making good laws that make why they are shit illegal. it's really not that hard. force them to have validation of political claims. if they don't then shut them down. not difficult.
someguy3@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 251d
Then it's not a ban, it's a law. Which they'll likely follow so that they have at least some level of business
ferrule@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 250d
if the law makes their business not viable it's a ban. and if all they can do is show ads and not allow people to post BS then they will go away.
someguy3@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 250d
A law is a law, a ban is a ban. JFC.
And no they won't go away if all they can do is post ads JFC.
ferrule@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 250d
How the fuck do you think a ban happens?
ahornsirup@feddit.org · 2 pts · 251d
Replaced by European knock-offs that are subject to European law. That'd be a big step forward if you ask me.
someguy3@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 251d
European operations are already subject to European laws.
ahornsirup@feddit.org · 1 pts · 251d
Only on paper. They can effectively do what they want unless they have physical offices in Europe or are willing/able to pay the fines.
someguy3@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 250d
Uh no that's not how it works. Classic Lemmy.
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 52 pts · 250d
More governments and corporations need to stop using this piece of shit platform.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 25 pts · 250d
By more you mean all.
not_me@piefed.social · 47 pts · 251d
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 250d
he subsists on ketamine and cocaine alone, he gets most of his moistures from wine.
random_character_a@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 251d
Everything is better with less Musk
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 251d
Nah unh! The surface of the sun is better with all of Elon Musk.
AlexLost@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 250d
He is hurting them by taking their revenue away from his company. Ouch! It hurt itself in its confusion.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 250d
This is why so many people invest in this jeeneeus.
bookmeat@lemmynsfw.com · 27 pts · 250d
And nothing of value was lost. Who wants to advertise to thousands of Nazi bots?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 250d
which is run by russia.
Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 250d
Elon Musk is hardly Russian, the US is capable enough of creating its own supervillains
davidagain@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 250d
I think they meant that the Nazi bots were Russian - Xitter turned user location on and loads of ostensibly American MAGA accounts turned out to be based in Russia!
Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 250d
Some of them turned out to be in Russia. Some turned out to be in Pakistan. Some in Israel (including the Homeland Security official account). And many in the US itself.
What percentage by engagement was in Russia and what percentage in the US?
davidagain@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 250d
I didn't memorise the numbers, lol! I just remember there being a surprisingly large number of MAGAs claiming to be American who were outside the US and specifically a lot in Russia.
Xitter turned off the feature pretty quickly, but also a lot of those specific accounts that got outed as non-Americans disappeared thereafter. I suspect they came back with new usernames!
I found the whole thing amusing because I always thought it was pretty braindead to think you were "making America great again" by voting for Trump, who anyone could spot a long time ago was going to be very damaging for the USA, and Xitter accidentally outing MAGAts as foreign actors was a fun example of rightwingers being to stupid to implement their biases without shooting themselves in the foot.
HazardousBanjo@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 250d
Who tf still fucking uses Twitter?
michaelalf@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 250d
Boomers, Bots, and Bigots
_Nico198X_@europe.pub · 4 pts · 250d
Battlestar Galactica
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 250d
The Bob Loblaw Law Blog.
titanicx@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 250d
What's Twitter?
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 250d
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 250d
Way too many artists.
For many the choices are paying for their patreon or following them on twitter or instagram, both of which are ass.
IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz · 26 pts · 251d
European comission has their own mastodon server at ec.social-network.europa.eu. Why in the fuck they're still advertising/doing anything on twitter?
frongt@lemmy.zip · 27 pts · 251d
Because a lot more people are still using Twitter than have started using mastodon
Foni@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 251d
If all European politicians moved to mastodon, they would drag a bunch of journalists and media behind them. On Twitter, only four insignificant influencers and far-right spammers would remain; all serious debate would shift immediately.
Phineaz@feddit.org · 4 pts · 251d
And one party might remain on twitter and have a tremendous advantage in reach over all others.
Foni@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 251d
That kind of irrational fear of being left out is what keeps Musk as one of the richest and most powerful men in the world.
Phineaz@feddit.org · 3 pts · 251d
I assure you, this is not an irrational fear. A year or so ago, the only German political party with a major presence on tik tok was the afd, a far-right to extremist party.
They still dominate an enormous share of political discourse on this platform. Arguably thanks to help from the platforms creator, but also because they were uncontested. The platform most teenagers use.
Foni@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 250d
If you think the presence of other groups would have changed that, you don't understand how the algorithms of commercial social networks work. Twitter is actively promoting far-right content, and believing that occupying that space will change it is absurd; it only legitimizes it through institutional accounts.
It's as if in the 1930s the communist party had actively participated in radio stations or newspapers affiliated with the Nazi party.
HK65@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 251d
The EC absolutely has the marketing budget to change that though.
AmidFuror@fedia.io · 3 pts · 251d
By getting the word out in X about their mastodon link?
HK65@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 250d
Or having the members, the respective heads of states, on whose words the entire European and actually world press hangs, promote and politicise it.
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 251d
Because they can control the narrative much better on X
Beryl@jlai.lu · 26 pts · 251d
Seems Musk is trying to challenge Trump for that pettiest man alive title.
I hope this serves as the final push to have all official EU accounts move to, say Mastodon. Every institution still using this fascist hellhole of a social network helps legitimizing it. It's high time they find another outlet, ideally a FOSS and decentralized one.
bfg9k@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 250d
The world is being run by children.
Fucking insane.
uberdroog@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 250d
No one needs twitter
Krompus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 249d
Xitter.
llacook@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 250d
It’s a cesspool now anyway
ripcord@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 250d
Cool, then fuckjng get some balls and block Twitter altogether.
See how quickly they rolled over when Brazil blocked them and they realized everyone was moving to Threads, Bluesky, and Mastodon, giving lots of other people the same idea.
ICastFist@programming.dev · 2 pts · 250d
That was roughly a month before he caved
ripcord@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 250d
Anf that was just Brazil.
DupaCycki@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 249d
This by itself should be enough to have Twitter banned, at least temporarily.
You don't just get to retaliate for getting fined for breaking the law. That's how you upgrade a fine to a prison sentence if you're a regular person.
hayvan@feddit.nl · 15 pts · 250d
Double win then.
MoreZombies@quokk.au · 15 pts · 251d
Elon Musk should threaten to sue Elon Musk for hurting Elon Musk's ad revenue, right?
Bonesince1997@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 251d
I thought at one time he was trying to sue people who wouldn't advertise on his platform.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 251d
Aw, did poor little insecure muffin get his butt hurt?
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 251d
Why would the EU place ads for fascists anyway?
Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 250d
They still think its a good choice
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 251d
Good maybe they'll use something other than Twitter.
melvisntnormal@feddit.uk · 11 pts · 250d
Why is the text of the summary completely different from the contents of the article?
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 250d
Tit for tat bullshit that you only usually see on the middle-school playground.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 250d
Have you seen what we're dealing with? Didn't Trump just get a made-up trophy from FIFA to prevent a tantrum?
phillycodehound@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 250d
What an idiot!
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 250d
Why the fuck was the EU Commission on there in the first place?
someguy3@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 251d
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 250d
blue sky is similar enough that you wouldnt lose much if you moved there.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 250d
Except, of course, for audience size. Which, if you are running ads, is sort of the main goal.
jj4211@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 250d
Of course I won't leave the platform because no one else will is a self fulfilling prophecy.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 250d
I'm not on either of them, but I'm also not confused as to how a group that's wanting to run ads might prefer an audience of hundreds of millions of people instead of tens of millions.
AlexLost@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 250d
In all fairness, fuck ads! No one wants them except for the people that make them.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 250d
I'm not disagreeing with that, but saying they "wouldn't lose much by switching" is laughably untrue.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 250d
Great, so now any ad from the EC we know is either a scam or propaganda.
Makes it quite obvious.
mudkip@lemdro.id · -2 pts · 250d
It already was propaganda, even before this!
jlow@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 251d
Well, are they on the fediverse?
baronvonj@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 250d
European Commission has an active account on their own instance
@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu
Wispy2891@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 251d
No, even closed their mastodon accounts
InFerNo@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 251d
Let's look back 100 years and see what decisively to the right did to the EU 🤔