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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by petesergeant on Thursday July 10, 2025 @12:37AM (#44517233)
I am seriously restricting my inbound and outbound reach by boycotting X. It's a hit I can afford to take, but for some people they'd be making a very foolish choice when that's where their audience and the content they want to read is.
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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by davidw on Thursday July 10, 2025 @12:44AM (#44517271)
NPR found that they really didn't lose much:

https://bsky.app/profile/carlquintanilla.bsky.social/post/3l...

But sometimes you have to make some sacrifices in life over your principles.

And the more people move, the easier it is for everyone else.

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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by petesergeant on Thursday July 10, 2025 @12:45AM (#44517281)
NPR's audience is very different from mine (AI researchers and thinkers) though. Some communities seem to have managed the move wholesale: all the cartoonists I like switched, for example.
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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by guappa on Thursday July 10, 2025 @04:58AM (#44518868)
> and thinkers

Your audience is pretentious people I guess?

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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by MSFT_Edging on Thursday July 10, 2025 @07:33AM (#44519819)
The "thinker" is one of the main audiences of twitter now.

The Statue PFP, incorrect assumptions about the path, and extreme dunning kruger.

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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by Applejinx on Thursday July 10, 2025 @05:44AM (#44519143)
By the time I left I was deleting multiple bot followers a day. You cannot take X's claims at face value, everything about the platform is aggressively dishonest. NPR's experience is instructive: https://niemanreports.org/npr-twitter-musk/

I don't think it's realistic to pretend that abandoning X is seriously restricting anyone. If anything, sticking with it is brand endangerment and by leaving it you're making the smart move, with or without animus.

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Re:X Chief Says She Is Leaving the Social Media Platform by ghaff on Thursday July 10, 2025 @10:12AM (#44521324)
Are you really? I found my personal network got pretty much shredded. At this point it doesn’t matter much if I used X or didn’t use it.
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