Michael Tae Sweeney: Vichy Twitter is a Nazi propaganda machine. You are not immune to propaganda and even if you are, your posts and presence there are the fuel that the machine needs for power

Vichy Twitter is a Nazi propaganda machine. You are not immune to propaganda and even if you are, your posts and presence there are the fuel that the machine needs for power

Important reading on how Twitter algorithms promote far-right classicist accounts.

The Antiquity to Alt-Right Pipelinewww.workingclassicists.com Classical statues in the profile? Racism and misogyny in the feed? Tallulah Trezevant looks at the alt-Right and Classics...

I left because my sparkling wit and trenchant observations don't need to prop that shit up.

I have no sparkling wit or trenchant observations, but I left because me reading other people's posts also meant ad views, i.e. money for Musk, and I don't want to support him not even a little bit. High five!

Oh cmon Kay. You're a star.

So something I’m curious about: Several states have passed laws that require various verifications before being able to look at porn. With Twitter now opening allowing porn, wouldn’t it fall into that same law?

Rules do not apply to our very special boy Elon Musk

Really feels like the story of the 21st century is institutions around the world allowing themselves to rot away rather than confront the right wing grievance machine

Very true, Elon turned on self driving functionality in pre-sold cars in states that very surely did not allow that.

Yeah. Huh, Ken Paxton?

State AG's would have to prosecute. 🤞🏼

But I have to stay on the Nazi Machine because there's not enough sports on here. But I have to stay on the Nazi Machine because I built a huge following there. But I have to stay on the Nazi Machine because we can't let the Nazis win. But I have to stay on the Nazi Machine because . . .

And then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me. There was only the Nazi Machine.

The most common complaint I hear from people who are still over there is “I don’t get the same kind of -engagement-“ on Bluesky” To which I say…sounds like a skill issue I do better over here than I ever did over there I think a lot of them just don’t want to have to rebuild a following elsewhere

the first like... 72 hours of posting here was kinda rough and then it was fine?

Don't underestimate the lack (or at least paucity) of sports talk on here. Literally the only reason I'm still on Twitter. Spent 15 years curating a community to talk Sixers and Eagles

There’s some, but a lot of people can’t decouple sports talk from video and video is not supported here. (I hope it never is)

I am an old head who started out on text-only Philly.com message boards in the late 90s but your point is well taken

Inquirer.com: Philadelphia local news, sports, jobs, cars, homesfaTwitterfaFacebookfaInstagramphilly.com

I think it’s a matter of quality engagement vs quantity engagement.

Killing my Twitter account was a glorious day.

I left mine to wither and die. Is that ok or do I have to actually do a thing

It's hilarious that UPS requires you to have an account here, Instagram, Facebook, etc to contact them. It's one way to maximize profits on personal data sales.

NOTE: Bluesky isn't on their required list.

It's also a way to prevent fraud, so it's a balancing act....

I remember before Amazon, I had so many fewer problems with mail and packages. A lot of it is the defunding of the USPS. They were quite good prior to 2015. The most recent generation won't know how good they were.

Agree! Yet again, it comes back to who we put in Congress/WH. Do they take care of 'us' or do they take care of corruption (aka DeJoy who has personal investments in XPO who does work for the USPS). Biden can't fire him. Congress is in charge & he's a Republican toddy.

You said it. We screwed the pooch in 2010.

DeJoy was installed in 2020.

We just call them, but we are rural…

You are some lucky, lucky people. I remember those days....

Rural has its benefits😂😂

Deep sigh....

lol, I won’t miss it, everyone knows each other… You don’t lose a wife or girlfriend you just lose your turn… That is so true here😂😂😂

Bagged mine when the 'let that sink in' post happened. It was fun while it lasted.

I really don't understand why Dem legislators are still there and not here where their voters are.

I wonder if I’m a little too clever for propaganda to work on me. Probably not. Probably not too clever

unfortunately that’s also true of youtube and substack.

BuT i StIlL gEt MoRe EnGaGeMeNt ThErE!

🎯🎯🎯

I check Twitter occasionally to see who's still propping it up. Basically every "lefty" podcast host is still there. 5-4, Chapo, KYE. It's a shande.

I think a blue check is always a dead giveaway.

Exactly! Propaganda works and that's why authoritarians use it; Putin, 34-felon, Fox news, the Twit.... Education is the only way to recognize/avoid being conned. If emotions (fear, anger, etc) are involved, back up and think! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaga...

Propaganda techniques - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

Best to delete account, then, if we still have them?

i dont advise that people delete their account entirely in part because that allows people to steal your handle and impersonate you. lock it and park it would be my rec

I deleted my account the day Musk took over. Absolutely wish I had done this.

There is a lot of effort put into making the website hosting this article utterly unreadable.

The year-over-year fall in user activity and traffic should really be driving people to other platforms anyway. Twitter’s a cesspool, every day it becomes less usable, the infrastructure holding it up is rotting, and it’s losing its owners money. Get off the Nazi machine.

Social media functions like an organism. If we starved it, it would die. It's happened many times before, and it's not as if the whole thing over there isn't a house of cards already.

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