The "Cancelling" part happens after a mass number of people join in and hurt someone's "brand". Folks like you and I can't get Canceled.
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after the call out. cool, you understand the difference between calling out and cancelling.
I'm not sure why you're pushing me here 😆 It's not me you should be replying to about this lol
But to be clear, IMO, "being canceled" has everything to do with being called out. You could say that the "thing" has a number of "parts" to it. Like, "being canceled" only can happen if people "call someone out". It's as if they go hand in hand 🤣
Because change is scary and people would rather pretend that Twitter is still the same. It’s not. Since everything is behind a login now and I don’t agree with anything that has happened to that site, I’ve moved on to Threads and Mastodon. I just wish people would stop giving Twitter attention so it would go away.
Had to stop clicking the "for you" tab on Twitter, since last week its filled with crazy right wing racist nuts being pushed on my timeline. Hitting the "following" tab is just the people I follow.
Yes, it's still very popular among people who want to express ideas, and debate ideas.
Its reputation has been slandered among the cancel-crowd. And because they're slandering Twitter/X, they think that their viewpoint is the centre of the universe, so they automatically assume that if they've cooled off Twitter/X, then everyone has must have too.
It's sad, but symptomatic of the way the automatons who make up the Masses are programmed to think.
Every Twitter post on here (why does a Mac page so closely report on X?) says this, but I have yet to see this mass exodus that everyone claims has happened multiple times
Thankful every day I walked away from Twitter months ago. I walked away cause I tried to delete my account and the site wouldn’t let me.
People who claim to hate Elon and X sure do love talking about him and X constantly.
To be fair, I've never once used Twitter nor known anyone that has at any point. And no, I'm not American
"everyone" is doing a lot of work here.
More like a small subset especially when it comes to Mastodon.
Yeah I do, I know basically the same amount of people who were using it before Elon bought it.
The "for you" tab is based mostly on your viewing and search history there. For example, mine is full of baseball related posts.
This just means you were likely seeking out the content previously either because you enjoyed it or because you wanted to share it and say "look what is going on over at X"
This is reminiscent of when people complain that they keep seeing risqué ads on websites, when the ad service is using search history and browsing history to determine the ads to show. Calling themselves out without realizing it.
Exactly. We're talking about a tiny, tiny amount of people.
No, that'd be Mastodon. X is still a very popular and active website.
It is a bad thing. If someone makes a statement that I like and I don't find controversial, but some HAMAS loving Columbia infant finds abhorrent, why should they come after me because their feelings got hurt? The Overton Window of what is "acceptable" to certain people has been pushed so far out of the mainstream that benign comments such as liking a post that let's say, contained the phrase "illegal alien", is now viewed like it's some sort of hate crime.
Spreading criminality or trying to foment acts of violence is an entirely different thing, but let's stop venturing into thoughtcrime territory. We need to get back to just ignoring bad people or bad ideas, things we don't like. Not everything has to be a war. Social media is cancer.
Yes, that's my understanding also. I'm on X but I use it mainly for breaking news and weather events. I've almost cut ties with all social media, from a posting perspective, because of the outright hostility that inevitably results from even the most trivial things. Social media is toxic to personal mental health.
Do you think MR should remove the ability to like a comment? I wish X would let you hide the garbage that is the For you tab. I hate it but always somehow end up on it. I don’t know anyone who wants that vs a reverse chronological feed of those they specifically chose to follow.
The weirdest use of the ‘likes’ police was a sports team who tweeted a statement on an issue & the players who didn’t ‘like’ it got lambasted. These players never made any statement one way or another but got heat for not clicking ‘like’. Crazy.
I’ve heard similar stories about employees getting basically scolded at work for not ‘liking’ posts their employer made.
I’ve heard similar stories about employees getting basically scolded at work for not ‘liking’ posts their employer made.
All social media is a cesspit. Every bit of it. There's very little about it that has any sort of redeeming qualities on a societal level and on a personal level, in my opinion, it is outright toxic.
I want to engage with ******s and like terrible content, but I just dont want anyone to see that I did it.....