(long post, also CW mentions of transphobia/racism/general bigotry)
Y'all I knew I never should've made an account on that damn bird app :deeper-sadness:
stg the algorithm boosts the absolute worst takes on purpose to further muddy the waters. like literally all the profiles are either "ML || 25 || TERF" or "ML || 38 || China bad" like it's all either reactionary patsoc slop or it's genuinely cool people who eat CIA propaganda like it's a kulak's surplus grain.
Meanwhile every talking point that doesn't seem immediately fishy automatically makes me skeptical as fuck bc sometimes the people that have good points about the liberation of the international proletariat also think that all trans people should die and then the people who call them out for their right wing bullshit all follow Vaush or spout something from the black book.
and then the people who spout the most "i have never read a book" takes in their life are met with criticism from people who seem chill at first and then you see transphobic wojaks and 41% memes in their RTs like jfc there is no middle ground with these motherfuckers.
They demand that the first act of the social revolution shall be the abolition of authority subjugation and erasure of marginalized groups. Have these gentlemen ever seen a revolution?
and then the inverse happens and i end up sitting there questioning if China bad or not bc someone said the stats about China's poverty elimination are faked without a source, but at least they're the only other person on that website that hasn't said the n word so fuck it maybe they're right who knows nothing is real anymore :agony-shivering:
like dawg i don't know if Deng was a revisionist or not I'm 22 i never met the guy
anyways if anyone can provide me the online equivalent of cuddling my head and stroking my hair while i cry that'd be much appreciated thank you
Twitter is basically pol now, which means the best you can get is leftypol, which is still pol and thus garbage
you should consider that twitter is already dead and anything you are experiencing there is only a distorted reflection that is allowed to exist by musk because it is either:
A) in some way reactionary
or
B) sufficiently layered in irony so that his brownshirts lose interest.
twitter has been getting slowly dismantled since it was used for countering the American state in 2020 during the BLM uprisings. Musk is just expediting the hollowing of it so he can fill the site with an increasingly wider variety of nazis.
these nazis will all be fighting with each other because that’s all they can do once the normal people leave.
I use it for my job, but I'm hoping that will stop being a thing once something else becomes semi-popular.
Companies will maintain a parallel presence on multiple platforms until Twitter becomes known in the mainstream to be too toxic for advertisers to stay on. It'll take time.
Mastodon is absurdly unwelcoming to twitter users & suffers from severe HOA vibes. Most servers demand you CW all political content & discussion of anything controversial.
Hexbear strikes a good median of content warning most of the time, but too many mastodon servers enforce a “civility at all costs” policy. It of course tends to be used against marginalized groups because bigots are very good at “just asking questions” and mimicking manners.
Real talk: Mastodon massively fucked up their window when Musk first bought twitter. Most of the major accounts tried to move to Mastodon, had culture shock or confusion on picking a server, and then gave up. 3 of the larger instances also immediately started descending into a turf war over who should get the new user influx.
This resulted in some people shifting over to Mastodon, but not enough sticking for it to matter. Mastodon really fucked that opportunity up.
ngl the unnoficial hexbear mastodon instance (toots.matapacos.dog) is pretty chill and we're basically just in a little bubble with a few other cool commie instances
I made an account like 2 years ago, spent 10 minutes trying to figure it out, and have not logged in since.
in case you're interested in mastodon, there's an unnoficial hexbear instance that @PorkrollPosadist set up called toots.matapacos.dog
like dawg i don’t know if Deng was a revisionist or not I’m 22 i never met the guy
I love this so much :michael-laugh:
I never understood the concept of the “hate follow” you can just not engage with the thing that upset you in that YOU DONT NEED TO RETWEET TRANSPHOBIC SHIT JUST BECAUSE YOU WANT TO CALL ATTENTION TO IT! IT MAKES PEOPLE FEEL BAD AND MAKES IT LOOK INESCAPABLE!
Also just straight up makes it inescapable.
I used to feel the same way about stuff on here that wasn't properly contained in the_dunk_tank, but that hasn't been an issue for me in a while.
If China's numbers are faked then the entire U.N.'s poverty numbers are faked because the U.N. uses China's numbers for world poverty calculations. It's absolutely possible, but if so then the world is waaay more fucked than we could possibly even believe.
I'll never call you guys libs again, i promise, now i know what a real op looks like lmao
yeah dawg the ableist rhetoric on that app is insane, they really forgot the "ability" part of "from each according to their ability"
Average hexbearist once they reach :bernie-pout: age
"BRB PURGING THE WHOLE INTERNET"
few days ago I got banned and it's been great so far. find a real dumbass and tell him you can't wait until hes in front of a firing squad. within 2 days you will be free.
Twitter is for following your friends, people who draw cute fanart, and maybe getting updates from video game companies. If you go there for politics you're going to go bananas. Find enjoyment in the superficial - it's what the platform was made for.
If you're going to stay on Twitter at this point, you should download Control Panel for Twitter to turn off all algorithmic suggestions. Stick to followers only, and block people and mute words liberally.
Yeah log off or just fuck with people "ironically." Presidents, prime ministers, Elon Musk, etc.
