I like King, but like everyone leaving the boat since a couple of days, it's too little too late. Plus, leaving a babyllionaire's toy for another babyllionaire's toy is probably not the brightest idea.
He's a multimillionaire who spent an entire decade or more so coked out and drunk that he doesn't even remember writing Cujo. Don't set your expectations so high.
We have the Nazi bar owned by the Nazi who proudly put the Nazi flag outside and kicks anybody out who insults Nazis, but where a lot of non-Nazis still hang out because it was the busiest, best place before the Nazis took over: Twitter.
We have the soulless corporate bar run by a guy who installed cameras everywhere in the bar, in every booth, every bathroom stall, where every 5 minutes the music is interrupted by an ad, and where the exit door shut has been welded shut: Threads.
We have bar started by the guy who initially owned the Nazi bar, but who has since been kicked out, that has recently accepted a major funding round from TESCREAL fascists, but where the vibe, so far, is pretty chill, where they promise that eventually you'll be able to wander to nearby bars that all share the same menu, but where that promise is always some vague time in the future: Bluesky.
We have the series of no-name pubs that don't show up on any maps, some run out of people's houses, some even run from studio apartments, some run out of mental institutions, where you can leave any time you want and take your friends with you, where it's a bit of a free-for-all, and if you want a round of drinks you have to chase down the busy publican and ask what's available, and where you might be asked for help pouring drinks: Mastodon.
It's great to see that years after the Nazis took over, some people are finally choosing to stop going to the Nazi bar. It makes you wonder why they stayed so long though. But, I'm not as impressed with where they're choosing to go instead.
Follow me on Threads
so, nothing has changed.
This thread is kind of wild. Do all of y'all understand that it's more the blatant endorsement and promotion of literal Nazis that is driving people off Twitter? It ain't the corporatization. We might not like that but to pretend like it's the same thing is fucking insane.
Meta admitted to tolerating election influencing, it doesnt matter in which direction, because it means they can be bought.
Facebook has been a hotbed of nazi communities for longer than twitter has been around.
So, he took his sweet time to leave the nazi bar and, of all places, he moves to the bar already on its way of becoming another nazi bar.
Ok
yawn. wake me up when he joins a social media site not owned by a corp.
Follow me on Threads, if you like.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Idk, Zuck doesn't seem to suck up to Trump quite as much, so there's that. He still does, but he's just a bit more of a "behind closed doors" kind of person.
I'm leaving Reddit. Tried to stay, but the atmosphere has just become too toxic. Follow me on Sh.itjust.works, if you like.
Subscribed! One question of one of your fans: Will you do free giveaways on sh.it just.works? I read every comment you write and I would love to support you enhancing your outreach. I know people from several instances, I also talked to a moderator once (it was DM because I was banned but the mod was wrong omg)
I'm not a whore. I dont give a shit about money. Buy Bitcoin and opt out.
Threads is the same or worse. I just deleted my account.
Good luck.
I wish I could delete my Threads account, but I can't delete what doesn't exist. And I think I deleted my Twitter account before Musk bought it, but I honestly can't remember since I haven't used it many years.
I thought he was into horror?
Have you visited Threads? It’s pretty horrific.
I don't blame him, reality is scarier than fiction.
I don't think he expected to witness Greg Stillson for real.
"Relationship ended with Elon Musk. Mark Zuckerberg is my best friend now."
You clearly don't know anything about Stephen King's politics and social positions.
Apparently neither does he.
I am perfectly aware that he's a shitlib.
You're mixing up your problem with Twitter and normal humans' problem with Twitter, get out of your echo chamber a bit, it might help.
If you don't like weird billionaires running the show and pushing political misinformation, don't use Facebook.
Threads was awash in bullshit "hacked at the tabulation level" election conspiracy theories following the election. It may not be MAGA, but it's still making people stupid.
Meta even has Project 2025 people on staff helping run Threads: https://www.intomore.com/the-internet/why-did-meta-just-hire-this-ron-desantis-approved-project-2025-alum/
Stop using social media run by billionaires of you're tired of getting fucked over by the ruling class.
He's going to Threads??? They have finally launched the metaverse and no one has told me anything??? I don't see any other rational reason to do something like that.
Leaving a corpo-propaganda place, join another corpo-propaganda place. So close, King, so close.
Just like the chest piece, King just moved one square.
It’s remarkable that Musk is so horrible that he managed to make Zuckerberg look good by comparison.
Now it's too toxic? I love SK but come on. Supported that site for too long.
TECTONIC SHIFT
Not to say people shouldn't leave Twitter, but like...this isn't going to devastate him. He's in the inner circle. Twitter could burn down and I doubt he would even notice.
Boom! Mic drop! Stephen King EVISCERATES loser Elon in this EPIC post on X Formerly Known As Twitter!
[gif of that person clapping, you should know which one, everyone posted it endlessly every time Chrissy Teigen or those Krassenstein fucks threw some meaningless shade] hats off to this brave hashtag Resister for doing something that everyone should have fucking done three years ago at the very latest
I’m done, fuck everything, fuck everyone
The "sudden" realisation of corporations and publications and celebrities that now xitter is bad, but a month ago it was fine, is one of the thinner veils I've seen for a while, and there are a lot of thin veils going around.
The truth is, they only care once their income (or other personal interest) is potentially threatened, not a millisecond sooner, and definitely not about the bigotry that's always been on there, but which has been completely undeniable for a good couple of years now, and which they were happy to turn a blind eye to this long.
If you think these people are allies, you're giving them waaaaaaay too much credit.
"I tried hanging out with the Nazis, but they're just too toxic"
Honestly.. 🙄🙄🙄
His final x-cretion
at least there is competition these days, unlike during twitters rise
He's going over to Threads, which is only a slight improvement.
He can fuck off for legitimizing and enriching Musk's Twitter for two years and then leaving after it's too late to do any good.
