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But I have so many followers!

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I still don't get why you would want to pay for xitter.
- Even for free I'm unconvinced of the value of using it on purpose.
  
  I only browse it for R18 stuff. Hopefully one day I will be able to get most of it from Mastodon uwu.
- I never understood the appeal regardless. The character limit, the UI, and the content is trash
  
  It always just seemed like a rubbish blog.
- Musk will sue you if you stop paying.
- Or even look at it.
- 2 factor authentication
  
  Authentication code apps are free.
  
  Yubikeys are like the same price as Twitter premium annually.

40 million per month? For check marks? Shit, coming together with a unified move to mastodon to save money and society is the most painless of obligations for those in the limelight. I judge all who remain on that hell plane made manifest.
- It would still take 6075 twitter mass subs cancellations to deplete Musk’s wealth though.

we need more posts like this on the front page. i'm so fucking sick of hearing about goddamn twitter
- i'm so sick of hearing about twitter
  we need more posts about twitter
  pick one
  
  we need more posts shitting on twitter
  if your happy place is considering that to be "about twitter," then ok.
  the comment stands

you guys are paying for twitter???
- You guys are going on shitter?
  
  unfortunately yes, that's where all the idiots i like laughing at exist, as well as mostly bots.

We've attempted this twice now... too many people are addicted to twitter and won't quit, they are addicted to the twitter drama, no matter how bad the disinformation and hate speech get.
- I think there will (or could) come a time. There has to be a limit. "Elon Musk sucks and Twitter is full of Nazis" doesn't seem to be the limit, though.
  
  I figured Twitter trying to dip into everyone's pockets by paying for checkmarks would have been the limit. But what do I know, apparently.
  
  The solution is to call anyone who uses Twitter a Nazi apologist. And it's the truth. Anyone who uses Twitter thinks there's a valid excuse for supporting Nazis, and a level of Nazism by the company owner that isn't bad enough to leave over. The solution is shame.
  
  Twitter being owned by a Nazi isn’t even enough. There is nothing that will ever pry their pathetic fingers from Twitter. Fuckin’ Fanta sipping willfully ignorant pieces of shit.
- i wouldnt be using twitter but if i want to see don trump jr say that tim walz drinks horse cum, i need to be using twitter with an account unfortunately.
  
  Read that sentence again and rethink your choices.
  
  I don't have a X/Twitter account anymore but can still read tweets or whatever they're called these days
  
  I mean, I've never had a twitter account but I've heard it plenty. Just peek over at /r/conservative once a week or so.
  I finally got around to deleting Facebook this year too when I found out they'll cross post your Instagram stuff to Facebook if you don't click a box somewhere.
  I get a lot more stuff done without the doomscrolling.

Each person that uses x is a piece of shit. I'm just saying it as it is. There are plenty of other options.
- Facebook and Instagram by Zuckerberg? Tik Tok by the Chinese government? Reddit by Spez? Everything is a terrible option.
  I don't use Twitter/x or anything but Lemmy, but the social media world is owned by terrible corporations and terrible people.
  
  Mastodon is the federated alternative to twitter.
- I use adblock so I am doing this planet a service by adding load to their shitty serveris 👍

Deleting X is a violation of his first amendment rights and he’ll sue all of you!
- the first ever reverse class-action lawsuit

How do I delete X? I'd love to, but I don't think I have the access or permissions to delete an entire company.
- It's a matter of perspective. Delete it from your personal universe by uninstalling the app and blocking the website.
- Have you learned nothing from GTA?
  Steal a tank
  
  I thought that sort of corporate warfare was more Saints Row and involved septic trucks.

40 millimeter dollars?
- 40 Mega Man dollars.
  
  40 Zennies*.
  
  Nice username
- mm means millions
  
  I guessed that from context and was just making fun of it. Writing it that way is definitely confusing and shouldn’t be done. "mm" is internationally recognized as "millimeters". In financial papers, sometimes, Roman numerals "MM" are used to indicate millions, but then it should strictly be capitalized. In my opinion, for general use, number followed by a single "m" conveys the idea best ($40m), and followed by "k" for thousand ($40k). Use capitals for more formal settings ($40M and $40K).

As someone who doesn't speak native English, is $40mm
40 millimeters of dollars?
40 milliMillion dollars? Or rather, $40k?
40 million million dollars? Or rather, 4 trillion?
40 milliom dollars?
40 morții mă-tii dollars? This one's a longshot
- MM is a common abbreviation for millions in finance and accounting. Not usually used colloquially, but it’s not wrong.
  
  M is roman numerals for thousands, so MM is a thousand thousands = million.
- Million moneys
- As someone who does speak English, I'm pretty sure it must mean 40 millimeters of dollars.
  
  Dammit. Still larger than what I have.
- As someone who does speak native English, no clue. My best guess is that it is a typo. I think it was supposed to be $40m.

Wait, X is still a thing??
- You mean Twitter?

What is this? Facebook?!

I'm beginning to think that destroying it was the whole point.
Tesla, too.
- don't ascribe to malice what can be perfectly explained by incompetence.
  
  Yes, that is generally true. But Elon has shown time and time again that he is an inherently malicious individual.
  Is it implausible that a jackass like Elon would spend a small fraction of his wealth to destroy a company that hurt his wittle feelwings?
  
  That's how you get abused and keep getting abused.
- Don't fall for the glass onion
  
  I've never heard that phrase before. What does it mean/reference?

I’m really sort of disappointed somebody hasn’t launched some transfer service for the entire platform.
- There was almost one but then Xitter nuked their public API which makes it almost impossible, from memory. They knew this would happen, and they did everything they could to stop it.
  
  What other site do we know of that made their API a pain to use killing the app that I used to tolerate that site that a good chunk of is migrated from?

I tried to enter my old twitter account the other day as I needed to check some info that was only in a tweets.
I couldn't see tweets without login so In. tried to login and they pop-up me with so much shit that I didn't even tried. They didn't trusted my login and I couldn't be bothered to close so many pop-ups to enter the verification code they sent to the email (while of course saying that if I logged in their shitty app or with a google account it all will be easier).
Sum up. I didn't check the info. And for now onwards if your organization only post on twitter your organization is non-existent to me as I cannot access that info, plain as that.
- Made a twitter account about 15yr ago but never really used. Tried to log in recently to delete the account. Can't remember my username, just the email address used. Can only do a password reset if I know username. but no option to be reminded of username....

I quit both twitter and facebook 8 years ago as I could see the rise of fascism. I feel good about my choice.

Never used shitter, never will. People addicted to attention have doomed us.

I hadn’t used my account for years but when Lengthened Nutria bought twitter I downloaded all my data and deleted my account.
- What purpose does downloading all your data serve? What do you do with it?
  
  I save it for posterity like all of my Reddit data and every paper I wrote in college. Because it's mine, goddammit

What if we all uploaded extremely high bitrate, high resolution videos of white noise to break their encoding servers and skyrocket their storage costs?

Way ahead of you

if only we could get them to use mastodon and not pay that "x" lover a 10

In my dreams.

But as a liberal, I'm in favor of free speech. X is the only platform committed to that. Why would I cancel?
- X is the only platform committed to that.
  As long as you're not too critical of Elon Musk.
  
  Then what happens?
- lol
  
  Can’t really argue with inarticulate sounds I guess
- For this reason https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
  
  Now show this to your instance admins and my instance admins and explain to them why they should defederate from .ml
  
  The paradox of tolerance is only “paradox” if you start with the ridiculous premise that universe tolerance is good.
  It’s not. That premise is only used in college courses on the day this “paradox” is introduced.
  The paradox of tolerance is used to try and nullify the entire concept of tolerance, as a way of giving people license to be evil.
  The actual theory of tolerance is much more nuanced than that. There are certain things which are chosen to be tolerated by society, and that set of things isn’t structured in a way that gives rise to this paradox.
  Paradox of Tolerance is taught as a way to destabilize that more nuanced and functional theory of tolerance, to provide cover for people who want to overturn the old, functional, hard-won values of freedom.

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