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Thursday on X (Twitter), all users saw the same pinned topic under the "What's happening?" sidebar. As part of a "timeline takeover" -- which gives

Thursday on X (Twitter), all users saw the same pinned topic under the “What’s happening?” sidebar. As part of a “timeline takeover” — which gives advertisers “priority access to logged-in users’ first impression of the day” — conservative media nonprofit PragerU is promoting the hashtag “#DETRANS” to advertise its new film about “the stories of detransitioners.”

  • dynamojoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    76·
    2 years ago

    Every day I miss my twitter account less and less. I now wish there was a way I could block twitter content inside news articles and such.

        • bloopernova@programming.devEnglish
          5·
          2 years ago

          Yes. Because this post is not on twitter. It’s on a site called lemmy.world. I don’t think it even looks like twitter?

          If you want no mention of twitter or the musky chodelet, I recommend Connect, a Lemmy app for Android. It features a keyword block list, so you can add as many twitter related keywords as you need.

          • elshandra@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            2 years ago

            I thought that’s more what the original comment was asking for, maybe I misinterpreted. Ps. Sorry for wasting your time explaining things I already know by not clarifying my sarcasm, but you helped someone else so it worked out alright.

  • misterundercoat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    58·
    2 years ago

    Despite pushback from some users

    Well there’s your problem. You’re still using the fascist platform.

    Any active user who “pushes back” in an attempt to “fix” the fascist platform is either delusional or being disingenuous. There’s no fixing it, guys. Just walk away.

    • gkd@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      Yep. I could see people sticking around if there were not viable alternatives. And while those alternatives have indeed been around for a good while, they are very available now. There’s really no excuse now.

      Now, while I do think Mastodon is the better platform, I’m curious to see how BlueSky affects Twitter’s user base once it comes out of its “beta”. For all of its faults, it does have the smallest learning curve - if really any at all - when comparing it to Twitter.

  • dinckel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    473·
    2 years ago

    Can we please just stop talking about the clown in command, and his dogshit bigoted platform?

        • hiddenSin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          63·
          2 years ago

          Everyday there is some “tech news” about X. These are not tech news anymore. How is a trans film promotion tech news? Where is the technology in this? This is just drama news at this point.

            • hiddenSin@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              2 years ago

              That’s right. I think of tech news to be about the technology not about some political, racist, transphobic, etc… things. If it was actualy about tech then so be it but this ain’t it chief.

    • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 years ago

      And also can we not mention the things they want mentioned on the internet?

      Let’s spread the hashtag to multiple websites… that’ll prevent it from trending!

  • alienanimals@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3810·
    2 years ago

    Downvote Musk spam.

    The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring him and his businesses stay in the 24 hour news cycle. Don’t be a useful idiot.

        • subversive_dev@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3·
          2 years ago

          I don’t know for sure but I know their moderation is dogshit. I think they don’t want to face down the deluge of Nazis like we have had to here, they’d rather be a clique-y cool kids clubhouse of Twitter brainrot

  • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    261·
    2 years ago

    Detransition is the equivalent of people who decided they actually aren’t gay. It’s rare enough to not make policies or be an ass about it, it’s super rare for it to go all the way to straight/cis and instead is typically “actually it turns out I’m bi/nonbinary”, and there’s a group actively funded and encouraged by the right wing, many of whom later retransition. It is a real phenomenon, but so is quicksand, both of which turned out to be less common in real life than certain media would have you believe

    • andros_rex@lemmy.worldEnglish
      121·
      2 years ago

      It’s also sadly common for folks to detransition because of hostility and a lack of support. Hard to afford hormones if you can’t get a job because you’re trans.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        2 years ago

        Very true. And it’s easy to decide that physical safety is more valuable at the moment than self fulfillment.

      • mob@lemmy.worldEnglish
        123·
        2 years ago

        Oh I hate this argument.

        With an election year next year, politics is about to get shoe horned into everything with the “(insert subject) is politics” is justification.

        I think most people think of technology as scientific based rather than social media trends and events.

        • peanutyam@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          2 years ago

          That’s only if you live in the US though….the rest of the world doesn’t care that much for your local politics….so it won’t be “shoehorned” into all posts as there are internet users outside the USA….gasp

          • mob@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 years ago

            Non American Internet users likely talk American politics just as much as Americans. Even if it is just to criticize Americans

        • PorkRollWobbly@lemmy.mlEnglish
          21·
          2 years ago

          I wouldn’t call the possibly intentional destruction of a social media infrastructure “social media trends and events.”

  • Gigan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    228·
    2 years ago

    The film purports to feature young people who sought gender affirming care, but now regret doing so.

    This isn’t anti-trans