Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves
www.politico.eu
The right-wing billionaire’s platform has recently lost about 10 percent of its European user base.
  • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
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    2 months ago

    The right-wing billionaire’s platform has recently lost about 10 percent of its European user base.

    It’s a good start but we gotta pump those numbers up.

  • toastmeister@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Europe doesnt want federated services, they want censorship.

    Saying that oil production lowers emissions by displacing coal will be called climate misinformation, saying immigration needs to be lower due to a housing crisis will be called hate speech, using Bitcoin instead of the digital euro will be called terrorist financing. They’re already arresting people who do something as benign as retweet things, its a slippery slope.

        • DimlyLitFlutteringMoth@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Still not happened to me yet, and that is in the UK which has the far more authoritarian Policing Bill looming over us. That doesn’t make as interesting a soundbite though.

            • DimlyLitFlutteringMoth@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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              1 month ago

              Yeah, Israel is shit, but unless you have a video for each of these protests being shut down in this way, that just isn’t the norm. Plenty of pro-Palestine protests and meetings here; outside Barclays, protesting specific businesses, sharing information in our most popular streets for tourism and shopping, musical protests at art galleries. Plenty going on, never even seen a police presence at these.

              Not to say it isn’t happening, but trying to paint Europe as some pro-Zionist totality is weird.

    • Sl00k@programming.devEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I tried moving to Mastadon first a few years ago and it was a pretty shit experience, Bluesky however has stuck in my app rotation pretty well.

      • atro_city@fedia.io
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        2 months ago

        Because Bluesky is centralised. You went from one serial killer’s house to another. You don’t know which serial killer owns your new house, but you’re hoping they’ll be nicer than the previous one. But at least their house is nearly as nice as the old serial killer’s house.

      • excral@feddit.orgEnglish
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        2 months ago

        General advice regarding open source: even if you tried something out years ago and didn’t like it, it may be well worth giving it another shot. Open source projects often need some time to mature and take their time to improve, but only get better over time.

        • Sl00k@programming.devEnglish
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          1 month ago

          Unfortunately until they implement a For you algorithm across all instances and abandoned their archaic hashtag following system I will not be re-attempting

      • sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Ewww people actually use Threads? Last time I saw it, it was like LinkedIn 2.0 filled with sigma grindset “chase that bag” crap.

        • altphoto@lemmy.todayEnglish
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          2 months ago

          I’m.on Lemmy and mastodon. Anything else is pure sarcasm. I sarcastically browse for TV’s on Amazon. But will I buy? No. All have spyware on them, so no. I wouldn’t touch meta with a 300ft pole.

          • moopet@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            2 months ago

            This is not a particularly relevant comment, but you reminded me of when I was a kid and a friend had a TV on a stand opposite her bunk-bed. She didn’t have a remote control, but she did have a long stick, and she was amazing at pressing the buttons from like 2m away. Proper life skill.

            • altphoto@lemmy.todayEnglish
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              2 months ago

              In my day you had to turn the knob. I made a geared motor adapter to change the channel remotely. DIY when I was 10.