Post B2GJDVbE4CFe2T79nc by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
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(DIR) Post #B28dliWUxzrhmloTGC by andrewstroehlein@mastodon.social
2026-01-10T08:03:08Z
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When did you stop posting on X?Person A: When its owner made nazi salutes. Person B: When it became a production and distribution channel for images of child sexual abuse.Government: We're still posting there.
(DIR) Post #B28sOSVDrab2kbaGHo by MatthewNewell@mastodon.social
2026-01-10T08:12:33Z
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@andrewstroehlein I posted a lot on Twitter - but never on X. His purchase of the platform was enough for me to leave along with a sizeable number of other mastodon posters
(DIR) Post #B28sOTrEpDnixAtMEy by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-10T12:44:20Z
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@MatthewNewell @andrewstroehlein When Musk bought Twitter the new policy was that calling a trans person by their dead name or misgendering them would not be considered "abuse"... and yet calling a person by a name other than their own to be rude, or misgendering a cis person *would* still be abuse. With such a moderating system you basically have moderation for some but not for others. And it was obvious to me it would spread to include non-whites, non-christians, women etc.Untenable.
(DIR) Post #B28vMTDIY6HqErwXoW by MatthewNewell@mastodon.social
2026-01-10T13:17:36Z
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@futurebird @andrewstroehlein To be frank I thought I knew enough about Musk to not even wait but your description is exactly that which I feared would come to pass, and it's so much worse than I dreaded. When Zuckerburg went along same lines I stopped Instagram too; which I really loved for the cooks and crafters which I copied and mostly failed to copy.It's petty but I will never forgive those two men for ruining those two places for me.
(DIR) Post #B28vkPDz20bMojg2ue by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-10T13:21:55Z
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@MatthewNewell @andrewstroehlein Yeah. I remembered trying to explain how the policy was singling trans people out. Specifically making it so that trans people would be an exception to basic expectations in moderation decisions ... but most people just thought it was "being a little less woke" in some general way. Not thrilled to have been right. I'm disappointed at how many big companies, governments, and famous people I want to otherwise respect still go there.
(DIR) Post #B28xWgK4ratzhW6x7o by MatthewNewell@mastodon.social
2026-01-10T13:41:51Z
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@futurebird @andrewstroehlein Yes. Agree completely. I am stunned by supposedly sensible "right-on" people who still use Twitter Facebook etc.
(DIR) Post #B2AVpj5SOxXXNLU9Am by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-01-11T07:40:22Z
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@andrewstroehlein And some of us left even before, when it was “just” a surveillance capitalist and then deleted our accounts fully when Elon bought it (well, as much as you can, they openly flaunt GDPR and won’t actually delete your data and the Irish DPO – what a joke – won’t do thing about it).https://ar.al/2021/05/10/hell-site/https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/113514875129992780
(DIR) Post #B2GJDVbE4CFe2T79nc by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
2026-01-14T02:47:52.266809Z
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@TheOneDoc @andrewstroehlein Stopped posting on it a bit after April 2017, closed accounts few months later.Sometimes I wish I could close it harder.
(DIR) Post #B2GKAB6rtFbVZotHYu by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
2026-01-14T02:58:29.840261Z
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@TheOneDoc @andrewstroehlein I think only thing that made me use G+ was Youtube, but I closed my google accounts in something like 2014~2015 so I left it before it closed down.Facebook, I reluctantly used it for few months in ~2009.