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Re:Elon Musk's X lost 11M users in the EU over the past 5 mo... by anonzzzies on Thursday May 01, 2025 @03:20AM (#43854620)
No one should use this platform until it returns to something more balanced / free speech akin. It is weird that official organisations and smart people stil use it for work; sure it has all the users, but that's not how you change things; by thinking 'yeah sure its bad, but it's good for me so he'. I know, I know, utopia which is never going to happen as literally everyone thinks like that.
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Re:Elon Musk's X lost 11M users in the EU over the past 5 mo... by alganet on Thursday May 01, 2025 @03:37AM (#43854705)
That's a very original line of inquiry!
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Re:Elon Musk's X lost 11M users in the EU over the past 5 mo... by Zigurd on Thursday May 01, 2025 @07:56AM (#43856513)
It doesn't have "all the users" and anyone interested in reaching all the users will find they must be multi-channel. They also don't need every channel to reach all the users since users are themselves multi-channel.
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Re:Elon Musk's X lost 11M users in the EU over the past 5 mo... by anonzzzies on Thursday May 01, 2025 @09:39AM (#43857529)
It is always the excuse of not leaving here.
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Re:Elon Musk's X lost 11M users in the EU over the past 5 mo... by Findeton on Thursday May 01, 2025 @02:39AM (#43854370)
Good riddance in my opinion. X is not completely free in terms of speech but it's better than before and better than the alternatives.

And some people don't like that.

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Re:Elon Musk's X lost 11M users in the EU over the past 5 mo... by BLKNSLVR on Thursday May 01, 2025 @03:16AM (#43854587)
I think what the Europeans don't like is that it's Musk-adjacent, and therefore smells worse in the EU than in the US.

I agree in the good riddance. I hope the rush to the exits speeds up. It can only be healthier for the individuals and society in general.

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Re:Elon Musk's X lost 11M users in the EU over the past 5 mo... by doener on Thursday May 01, 2025 @03:32AM (#43854678)
Musk massively limits the scope of political statements directed against him:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/04/23/business/elon...

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Re:Elon Musk's X lost 11M users in the EU over the past 5 mo... by watwut on Thursday May 01, 2025 @05:30AM (#43855412)
It is neither better nor more free. The moderation moved from slightly right wing biased to strongly right wing biased.

And more importantly, independently of politics, site algorithm just got worst after Musk took over - promoting and pushing unrelated and uninteresting content. By that I mean you getting notices about a high school hockey club drama in any another country uninteresting.

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Re:Elon Musk's X lost 11M users in the EU over the past 5 mo... by cruzcampo on Thursday May 01, 2025 @05:49AM (#43855555)
It has gotten much worse in terms of speech suppression. https://www.thefire.org/news/twitter-no-free-speech-haven-un...
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Re:Elon Musk's X lost 11M users in the EU over the past 5 mo... by Findeton on Thursday May 01, 2025 @08:14AM (#43856661)
So trans/bisexual etc words are "hidden". Okay, that's not good, but honestly I don't think that's the most important topic.
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Re:Elon Musk's X lost 11M users in the EU over the past 5 mo... by lawn on Thursday May 01, 2025 @02:44PM (#43861767)
If they do this for a "not important" topic, don't you wonder what they do with very important topics?

Such as, for example, critique against Musk, Tesla, Trump, or Russia?

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Re:Elon Musk's X lost 11M users in the EU over the past 5 mo... by rsynnott on Thursday May 01, 2025 @07:25AM (#43856257)
From the article, this is _over 10%_.
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