A phenomenon that galls me:
*continues to spend time on a toxic, miserable social platform*
*constantly screenshots example of the toxicity and misery*
*brings screenshots over here because we were just dying to know how it was going*
The only conclusion I can draw is that they enjoy it. Some people insist that they have to stay over there to 'monitor the right wing' and like... no, you really don't! And you definitely don't need to import that shit here! We aren't asking for it!
beyond being addicted to drama, a lot of those people tend to get a lot of engagement on twitter and are too scared of losing their follower counts to ever leave the site
Social media, in general, is toxic. Also, humans are addicted to drama. Bluesky is relatively drama-free, so drama junkies need their fix in the form of screenshots, so they go back to X for their fix.
I can't help but be fascinated by the AI hallucinations of FB. But, we don't need to drag the rubbish hither and dither, it's like setting up a half melted maga flag in a pretty garden and screaming "look at this fucked up flag!" Unless you are Ms. Alito, that seems a waste.
Regrettably, I signed up again a week ago so that I could watch the UKs far right explode and enjoy the ushering in of a new, hopefully sensible and grown up UK politics. My pleasure was short lived and I binned my account. By every week Twitter gets worse and Musk is a big part of that rot.
It's why we glance at the traffic accident in the opposite carriageway and tell our family about the horror.
...while also bemoaning those rubberneckers.
My standard practice is to immediately mute anyone who posts screenshots of awful shit from Twitter.
For a while this was an every day thing, but it's slowed down a lot lately
Yep
If your house is on fire, your neighbours don’t want you running about with buckets of fire
Throwing it onto other houses so the rest of the street can
‘Share the experience!’
Yes!! My absolute least fav posts are "I just randomly* stopped by the Bad Site, let me show you some of the garbage I saw there."
* = for the 10th time this week
i post ongoing about Gaza and Palestine bcz there is very little coverage on MSM, and very little here. i know some people dont want to see it, but BlueSky has a robust Mute&Block function so they can easily opt out. much off what i do post about Palestine recirculates fast, so there is demand...
Is like .
We don't want to be in the burning house, but since used to live there we gotta watch it burn.
...and assist people we notice that need to get out and go someplace safer.
I mean I'm banned from it and would love to still shit all over people there but I have to live vicariously through other people doing it so I appreciate the drama shipping
Blocking Zionists has been my happiest activity there lately.
And trying to educate those who retain enough humanity to be swayed into seeing genocide and turning against it.
I don't need to drop that shit on y'all.
There's not much my broke crippled ass can do and dropping knowledge is something.
There is no conversation to be had with paid propagandists.
They're easy to spot.
But any real person who engages in good faith will get the respect due.
Obviously, but why be proud of it? Why act like you're doing anything? You're pushing a couple robots off the factory line, what does it all accomplish?
It accomplishes me not having to see genocide apologia on my time line.
I'm already sick in my heart over this slaughter.
I've only really learned the history and started see it through that lens for 30 years.
The current occupation started the year I was born.
