Tech tip: Ever wanted to quit Musk's X platform? Here's how you can do it

They're defecting to rival sites like BlueSky, Mastodon, Meta's Threads, and Reddit.

Which are echo chambers.

Some blame Musk for turning a place that used to be fun into one that's chaotic and toxic, pointing to moves like allowing polarizing figures such as Donald Trump back in. Others are turned off by Musk's juvenile humor or by how he's increasingly barging into their feeds with his posts, often to amplify far-right tropes.

I criticize Musk and Xitter as much as anyone, but he does do some right things , business wise at least.

Trying to leverage the profile of Xitter to make it into a Chinese style super app is a power move.

And pouring his billions into LLM compute clusters to try to leverage economies of scale which many say will lead to AGI, using Xitter data, could be fruitful as well.

Twitter's main value was as a noticeboard for any entity on the planet to announce something (often that their systems were down for some reason).

Diluting this universality by having half a dozen replacements is not a solution.

I only use it for this purpose and don't give a toss what else is on it, so no real reason to quit.

So what if I see someone venting their rage or supporting Nazis? There are plenty of people like that on the planet. Just ignore them.

a steady stream of celebrities, public figures, organizations and ordinary people have quit the social media platform.

OMG

well if a steady stream of celebrities, public figures, organizations and ordinary people have quit the social media platform, then I have to too. I certainly can’t think for myself. LOL

Thank you AP for breaking ingsoc news

I quit more than 15 years ago without withdrawal symptoms.

SMH. I was, mistakenly, under the impression this site was more objective and credible as a news source. But it's clear it sees X as a competitor/threat and their readers as mindless lemmings.

Some even are — gasp — quitting social media altogether.

Do that. I got rid of my last account - instagram - about 5 years ago. I've never thought about any of them since.

I quit when they introduced that 8 dollar a month to buy a blue badge thing. I am not going to pay for social media and I didn’t want to stay on a platform where my account would be second tier and subjected to whatever whims the algorithms decided to use to punish it for not being a paid one.

The new owner going nuts didn’t help either.

It had been a kind of useful platform for discussing hobbies rather than politics for me, but I don’t particularly miss it.

SMH. I was, mistakenly, under the impression this site was more objective and credible as a news source.

But it's clear it sees X as a competitor/threat and their readers as mindless lemmings.

Very true

Trying to leverage the profile of Xitter to make it into a Chinese style super app is a power move.

as long as Musk has manufacturing in China aka Tesla factory, the CCP will always have leverage over him.

hell do exactly what hes told in China

Japan Today is going all-in against X. I wish they were this vocal against other platforms who, but it's just X.

Let's do the same with line now.

Japan Today is going all-in against X. I wish they were this vocal against other platforms who, but it's just X.

SMH. I was, mistakenly, under the impression this site was more objective and credible as a news source. But it's clear it sees X as a competitor/threat and their readers as mindless lemmings.

This is an AP story that is shared by literally thousands of news sites.

"Tech tip: Ever wanted to quit Musk's X platform? Here's how you can do it."

First of a rhetorical question! And then follows mind control conditioning. And guess by who?

© Copyright 2024 The Associated Press.

X = free soeech

other sites = ???

X = free soeech

other sites = ???

X is a place for terrorists to recruit, pedophiles to lure children, racists to share hate and corrupt politicians who lose elections to share misinformation.

Freedom of speech is just the propaganda to justify all these horrible people’s action. You can have freedom of speech without giving these people a platform to commit their crimes.

X is a place for terrorists to recruit, pedophiles to lure children, racists to share hate and corrupt politicians who lose elections to share misinformation.

Show me where the rules of X allow terrorists to recruit, and where it happens without being stopped by moderators.

Show me where the rules of X allow pedophiles to lure children, and where it happens without being stopped by moderators.

"Hate speech" is an ambiguous term used by those who would control the voices of others, and, I will add, is protected speech.

Musk started the best thing ever to come out of Twitter / X - the ability for readers to add context, which has resulted preventing the spread of misinformation. This feature was not available back when X was Twitter - and every Liberal's favorite place to hang out and repeat their opinions back to each other.

If the ones leaving are against freedom of speech then it's a win for x I guess.

But of course it hurts musk's pockets.

Rare to see one nowadays not selling principles for profits

"Tech tip: Ever wanted to quit Musk's X platform? Here's how you can do it."

Many quit when it was managed by the far left liberals who encouraged porn and beastiality on the platform. Only to come back when Elon bought it and cleaned that crap

“ Since Elon Musk acquired Twitter, renamed it X, fired much of its staff and made other big changes, a steady stream of celebrities, public figures, organizations and ordinary people have quit the social media platform. “

And?

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“ Tech tip: Ever wanted to quit Musk's X platform? Here's how you can do it “—

Hmm, the anti–Musk/X sentiment is getting stronger—

Musk is bothering a lot of people—(interesting, isn’t it?) Heheh.

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Some blame Musk for turning a place that used to be fun into one that's chaotic and toxic, pointing to moves like allowing polarizing figures such as Donald Trump back in. Others are turned off by Musk's juvenile humor or by how he's increasingly barging into their feeds with his posts, often to amplify far-right tropes.

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Nibek32Today  07:11 pm JST “ X is a place for terrorists to recruit, pedophiles to lure children, racists to share hate and corrupt politicians who lose elections to share misinformation. “

Is X the only place that allows bad things to happen? (I didn't think so either)—

X is a bit like real life—there are good and bad people with good and bad intentions everywhere—

It's up to you to choose whether you want to follow them and pay attention to what they have to say or not—

No one is forcing you to do something you don't want to do—you can follow who / whatever you want and

you can surround yourself with content that interests you and feels comfortable with—it's that simple.

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( Twitter was never perfect, just like X isn’t perfect; if you can't think for yourself and/or if you're too sensitive to accept that there will always be bad and ugly things out there that you wish didn't exist (or simply things that you don’t agree with), then that's your problem, not Elon’s )

In 2020, the far-leftists controlling Twitter at the time clamped down hard on conservative voices, making it a leftist echo chamber.

Now, it is more balanced.

Next, it would be great if Musk or some other non-far-leftist bought ABC, MSNBC, CNN, or NYT.

The "community notes" program was introduced in 2021, then named "Birdwatch". Musk bought Twitter in 2022.

I didn't know. Great! That's what community notes / Birdwatch? is for - to correct mistakes. So if there is any misinformation (and both sides are at least guilty of exaggeration, hyperbole and truth stretching) then there is a system in place to correct it.

So what's the problem?

CephusToday  09:29 pm JST “ Many quit when it was managed by the far left liberals who encouraged porn and beastiality on the platform. Only to come back when Elon bought it and cleaned that crap. “

Hervé L'EisaToday  10:21 pm JST “ In 2020, the far-leftists controlling Twitter at the time clamped down hard on conservative voices, making it a leftist echo chamber. 

Now, it is more balanced. 

Next, it would be great if Musk or some other non-far-leftist bought ABC, MSNBC, CNN, or NYT. “

Accurate / well said.

X is a mess. If you rely on that to get news and make your voice heard you have bigger problems.

The problem is that the crowd-sourced "community notes" program is not content moderation. It does not fulfill the accountability and transparency requirements of several countries (and, dare I say, common sense).

So we should have a staff of ideologues that hide and delete posts they don't agree with or shadow ban members they don't like? Doesn't sound very productive.

I have never used Twitter/X and since Muskrat acquired it (resulting in users leaving in droves) and alloed TreasonTrump to use it again to violently sass off the mouth about everyone, I have no desire to have anything to do with it.

Even its HQ building is butt-ugly with that giant letter 'X' on the roof. It looks like something out of a dystopian cyberpunk sci-fi flick. And with this being the age of cyberwar and cyberpunk, that is just one medium I can do without.

Because authoritarian governments need help to stifle your free speech.

awkward

I have never used Twitter/X and since Muskrat acquired it (resulting in users leaving in droves)

And millions of conservatives taking their places.

and alloed TreasonTrump to use it again to violently sass off the mouth about everyone, I have no desire to have anything to do with it. 

But it was ok for liberals to use it in the same manner? Why?

Even its HQ building is butt-ugly with that giant letter 'X' on the roof.

But the blue fat comical bird was cute?

It looks like something out of a dystopian cyberpunk sci-fi flick. And with this being the age of cyberwar and cyberpunk, that is just one medium I can do without.

Is this the part where I'm supposed to chuckle or...?

X is a mess. If you rely on that to get news and make your voice heard you have bigger problems.

So that means if WaPo, NYT, PBS, msnbc, Salon, Vox, LAT, WSJ, or Snobes, post on X which they do daily, I should just ignore every liberal outlet as well? Yes/No?

bass4funkToday 02:52 am JST

But the blue fat comical bird was cute?

Yes it was. The black X looks like something from an Andrew Tate loser.

Which are echo chambers.

Twitter is already an echo chamber, to the point of engaging in illegal suppression of opinions Musk doesn't like.

Trying to leverage the profile of Xitter to make it into a Chinese style super app is a power move.

Because China is a really important market for twitter? that would be the opposite of a power move.

well if a steady stream of celebrities, public figures, organizations and ordinary people have quit the social media platform, then I have to too. I certainly can’t think for myself. LOL

One, the point is that the people that most benefit from the service are leaving (something easy to demonstrate precisely because they are so public), so the rest, that are not so heavily involved are likely in the same situation. Two, if the purpose of someone being in twitter is to see what the celebrities, public figures and organizations are saying then it becomes a natural consequence to leave.

Japan Today is going all-in against X.

The world is, mass media outlets are just reporting what is happening, not making it happen.

First of a rhetorical question! And then follows mind control conditioning

You are describing twitter, that is no longer even pretending to be fair and free for anybody to have an opinion, instead it manipulates the users feeds so only certain opinions are promoted.

Musk started the best thing ever to come out of Twitter / X - the ability for readers to add context, which has resulted preventing the spread of misinformation

As mentioned already renaming something is not the same as starting it, specially when Musk himself get rids of the context when its applied to his own attempts to manipulate the users with disinformation, When Musk lies notes clarifying the lies are systematically deleted.

Many quit when it was managed by the far left liberals who encouraged porn and beastiality on the platform.

Making up imaginary situations only evidence that you have no actual arguments to criticize the people that disagree with the censorship and manipulation happening now in twitter.

It's up to you to choose whether you want to follow them and pay attention to what they have to say or not—

When the owner openly, strongly supports the bad people then those that disagree express their choice by leaving the service. If someone in a white hood comes into a bar you avoid him, when the bar if full of people on white hoods you avoid the bar.

In 2020, the far-leftists controlling Twitter at the time clamped down hard on conservative voices, making it a leftist echo chamber.

In 2020 the spectrum of opinions was much more variated, but for extreme right proponents anything but their opinions automatically becomes far-leftism, so they perceive balance as the enemy, and breaking the balance to their side the only solution they will accept.

Bob FosseSep. 15  11:27 pm JST “ X is a mess. If you rely on that to get news and make your voice heard you have bigger problems. “

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sigh / smh—millions of accounts on X disagree with you—there’s a world out there (X is much bigger than just politics and (biased) information).

X TW whatever whatever is just about taking the bucks out of your pocket, be it pollies businesses or the would-be influencers. rcch yep a whole world of people wanting to be more rcch, at the expense of others, This bird nested away in a safe tree decades ago

Some blame Musk for turning a place that used to be fun into one that's chaotic and toxic, pointing to moves like allowing polarizing figures such as Donald Trump back in. Others are turned off by Musk's juvenile humor or by how he's increasingly barging into their feeds with his posts, often to amplify far-right tropes.

Some others say the exact opposite : Twitter was woke spreading social lies, was censoring everyone who had other ideas than the social mass, humor was not tolerated except one way and blocked those deemed not worthy of accepting those ideas.

You see it is so easy to manipulate people !

Now X accepts everyone for every opinion, outside illegal stuff. Good !

So has there been a significant number of account deletiona ever since AP published this article encouraging users to delete?

Now X accepts everyone for every opinion, outside illegal stuff. Good !

Exactly the opposite, twitter is fighting the courts to keep illegal stuff (that Musk wants to promote) on the platform. And systematically oppress and censors perfectly legal things that Musk wants to censor.

It is extremely easy to prove that Musk has made the service much worse from the point of view of freedom of speech alone, going into abuse, harassment, violence, threats, etc. just makes the situation much more clearly negative.

People are leaving in mass, and many companies are not longer supporting the platform with money, enough so Musk has to sue them to supposedly force them back, so much for his "gfy" declarations.

The author of the article on how to quit X is Kelvin Chan who can be found @chanman..........on X

The author of the article on how to quit X is Kelvin Chan who can be found @chanman..........on X

To be fair the point of the article is not that you should leave twitter, but explain what is necessary to do for those that want to do it.

To be fair the point of the article is not that you should leave twitter, but explain what is necessary to do for those that want to do it.

To be forthright, this was the point of the article:

Some blame Musk for turning a place that used to be fun into one that's chaotic and toxic, pointing to moves like allowing polarizing figures such as Donald Trump back in. Others are turned off by Musk's juvenile humor or by how he's increasingly barging into their feeds with his posts, often to amplify far-right tropes.

The comment section clearly substatiates that