Great news if you’ve ever looked at your replies and thought “you know what? there are too many non-Nazis here”
People still use Twitter?
People are were the content is, but using this platform after all that's happened to it... Yeah no, I don't get it either
You realize if you weren't surrounded by lemmy zealots how seriously ignorant you folks sound right?
These people existed before lemmy, reddit or digg. just annoying to be around.
I don't know anyone in real life who uses it. Even before Musk bought it out. I'm getting older so checked with gen z in my family and they don't use it either.
It's popular among journalists and media types so it gets talked about as if it's a huge public forum for everyone but it's not.
I have frequently found myself surrounded by Twitter and Instagram users, and they seem just as deluded as they do from here.
Why are you here exactly?
To read and comment on content?
Way too many massively good artists I follow are still on Twitter with no intention of leaving. Some are on Pixiv or DeviantArt, but most not.
Out of interest, what do you get out of following artists you like on twitter?
Unfortunately, it's still where the majority of the art community resides after the enshittification of deviantART. Fortunately, I have other ways of staying in touch with the "best of the best" among my artist friends now, but there are still many holdouts.
As someone who doesn't really follow that art scene, what happened with deviantart?
About 10 years ago, Angelo Sotira ($spyed) fired one of the other co-founders, Spot, and started pitting paying users against non-paying users. Free users had a marker on their profile saying "Needs Premium Membership." The site also marked whether you were a paying or free user everywhere. Sound familiar?
They drew more controversy in 2018 when they hired this marketing firm to come up with a lackluster new logo everybody hated. Because, you know, it's not like they had a bunch of artists using the site or anything.
Free users had a marker on their profile saying "Needs Premium Membership." The site also marked whether you were a paying or free user everywhere.
Big yikes. Goddamn that's dumb
Some of my fave artists have mastodon accounts, that are their main accounts, I urge you to check it out maybe you can find the artists you want to follow there
I have Mastodon, and I only know one artist on there. The majority of them are still on Twitter even though they hate it.
@breadsmasher @SSUPII it's more about FOMO I guess than having anything useful. Happy to not follow any of them ...
They use Twitter because they can't use MySpace
Yeah my classmates do
“Accounts you follow” still the best option.
Otherway round would be a lot more useful. Block idiots who pay Elon for his new 'X'.
That already exists by leaving Twitter. 👽
Humanity will make huge progress once it stop commenting every sh*t originating from E. Misk.
Seriously, there is now way to block all that noise?
Lots of lemmy clients have keyword filters
Oh, thanks. Didn't notice :)
Free block list
Can't believe you forgot the usage limits on how many tweets you can view and how many DMs you can send. I think some of those might have been walked back, but I know people who were holding back from discord because twitter DMs were enough that now rarely go there.
Also all sorts of API functionality has been killed off - embeds, RSS, bots, etc
It’s funny that all the new features they’re touting over there are really simple changes. Things like a new setting that controls an if statement.
What a time to be alive!
What I need for Mastodon is a database of verified users organized by subject matter expertise or your of content.
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