Today I joined Twitter... or X.

[Zeze]

Don't preach to the choir about how it's a cesspool and why would I be joining so late? Yes I get it.

But I had no idea how it's filled with real idiots - like some of these are verified grown men defending this famous pedophile streamers that got outed today. I posted some hot takes dunking on some idiots and 28 people favorited my reply. and some followers. Oh my god, the delicious dopamine hit.

I'll give y'all a shoutout once I amass 5M subscribers or followers and have them do my bidding and selling merch.

Is this all useless? Yes. I'm just a temporarily embarrassed billionaire.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I joined it years ago but never really ended up using it much. Started using it a little more when I was following the convoy. I find in the past few months or so, the algorithm is really weird though, I find I'm not seeing a lot of the people I follow and my followers don't seem to see me a lot either. I used to get posts with like 100 replies and thousands of likes now I'm lucky to get a few likes. I find once you hit 10k followers things slow down as well, I guess the idea is it forces you to actually produce more quality posts, which I don't really do, I mostly just post memes and stuff.

 

[brianmanahan]

i made mine like 12 years ago, but just to get my tweets to show up on a screen at a conference

probably haven't tweeted anything in a decade now

 

[lxskllr]

I joined mastodon when everyone with sense abandoned twitter. I was never on twitter, but I like the idea of federation. If I get anything in my feed, I specifically signed up for it. Zero algorithms. The way it should be.

 

[hzl eyed grl]

Today I joined Twitter... or X.​

I'm sorry.

 

[Charmonium]

I joined mastodon when everyone with sense abandoned twitter. I was never on twitter, but I like the idea of federation. If I get anything in my feed, I specifically signed up for it. Zero algorithms. The way it should be.

Had to look that up. Did you know that Truth Social is a Mastodon instance?

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/what-is-mastodon-the-alternative-social-network-now-blocked-by-twitter/

 

[lxskllr]

Had to look that up. Did you know that Truth Social is a Mastodon instance?

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/what-is-mastodon-the-alternative-social-network-now-blocked-by-twitter/

Yea, there's been a lot of debate with instances whether or not to federate with them. Some do, some don't. Mine(mastodon.world) does for the time being, but I don't see anything from there. My world's small. I don't follow many people, and don't have many followers. I carefully curate everything.

 

[dank69]

Remember when Musk whined about the company not being worth what he agreed to pay for it because it was like 30% bots? I bet today it's closer to 90%.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I imagine bots are hard to eliminate 100% but there definitely has not been much effort to do anything about it.

 

[darkswordsman17]

This will certainly help your fragile self confidence, OP.

As to the focus of your twittering, did anyone seriously expect anything less from that guy? His entire persona was essentially "80s mullet pedo guy". That enough people sat by with their thumbs up their asses instead of outing this guy the what 7-8 years ago that it happened is telling and wonder how long before more comes out (there's never just one example - see James Franco who got outed for doing the same shit and then after realizing its stupid to do that online where there's gonna be proof then proceeded to do that at his acting school as well).

This suggests there was a cover up by Twitch, and apparently by other people. I hope someone tells his wife. He seems to be "taking his family on vacation" which likely means he's trying to make it so they don't see the news. More people should be losing their jobs over this.

Today I joined Twitter... or X.​

I'm sorry.

I hope that's directed at his family as they're the ones that are gonna have to deal the most with the ramifications of such a decision.

Then again seems like he's got nothing but good intentions, to go rage tweet and troll about some jackass gamer guy that gets outed for being a piece of shit. Well that and probably so he can proselytize at people about how they should shave their pubes and scrape their tongues, almost like he keeps getting pubes stuck to his tongue.

 

[Shmee]

Social media is dumb, AT forums is where it is at.

 

[nakedfrog]