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174 points

WHY THE FUCK HAS EVERYONE NOT DELETED TWITTER

there is literally no correct answer

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-4 points

What can I say, I like to watch dumpster fires

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11 points

There’s way better hobbies

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There is no one true replacement for the utility that it provides. Not with sufficient penetration of network effect, anyway.

Same reason most people don’t delete Facebook (edit: or Reddit).

You may not personally find utility in either of them. But just like boner pill spam, clearly someone does, or they would just go away.

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13 points

You could say the same thing about Reddit, yet a lot of us left there a year ago on principle. Sometimes taking a stand means doing without.

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The two are not mutually exclusive. But OP’s question was why “EVERYONE” has not deleted their account. And the objective answer is that some people obviously still use the service. But once again people are treating the downvote button as an “I don’t like this” button.

Edit to add: Why? What exactly is wrong with what I said?

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3 points

damn, it’s already been over a year, hasn’t it?

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17 points

lol the comparison of useless social media to useless boner pill ads is perfect. of course someone finds it useful. just like someone finds crack cocaine useful

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1 point

But boner pills aren’t replaceable (like Twitter) or unnecessary (like crack). Sexuality isn’t a vice.

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If it weren’t for twitter, i wouldn’t have even known there was another attempt on Trump. I don’t sort Lemmy by new and there was nothing in the top posts about it (that I saw, at least) until HOURS after it happened. None of the other social media sites I use showed anything for a while either.

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11 points

nothing in the top posts about it (that I saw, at least) until HOURS after it happened.

in other words, since it can be assumed that you’re checking multiple social medias often enough for “HOURS” to make such a huge difference, then basically your life is driven by FOMO, and you see no problem with that.

kudos for the honesty at least. you do you and keep supporting that nazi safespace

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Pretty glad that all of these responses are assumptions about my character just because I somehow managed to not see that someone tried to merc trump again for the whole day.

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Its so funny that lemmy thinks its better than reddit with all these reddit ass responses.

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-4 points

Biggest bunch of self righteous blowhards I’ve ever seen.

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8 points

I knew here within 30 minutes. Also on Bluesky. Also on any major news source.

If you’re not finding the stuff I think that’s on your

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8 points

The ap app notified me so you can’t be trying that hard to replace twitter

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17 points

“Don’t believe initial reporting about any dramatic event. The rush to be first often overrides the responsibility to try to be correct. As with any event like this, some of this information is likely to change as more information becomes available.”

https://youtu.be/sgpYzFTtJug?feature=shared

In any case, I heard about the attempt shortly after I started scrolling through lemmy last night, so from my pov the information had gotten to me in a timely manner.

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24 points

You could simply open a news site a couple times a day. They all had the assassination attempt up pretty quickly.

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I didn’t know it happened. Why would I have thought to go looking for something I don’t know about?

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46 points

What did you gain by knowing unconfirmed information a few hours earlier? Did you need to act on that “information” that quickly?

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16 points

People who view policymaking as “entertainment” are the reason we have Trump in the first place.

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I would rather have my entertainment sooner, as opposed to never.

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28 points

You might consider reading some real news, vetted and produced by professional journalists. Twitter is not news source, neither is Reddit.

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I typically do, twitter happened to be the first place I saw any information about it, nothing else tipped me off about it happening until then.

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3 points

It’s such a non-event that even the Conservative lemmy didn’t post about it until yesterday.

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7 points

I just said goodbye to it today. I realised there’s a bigger, unselfish choice to be made in the scheme of it all

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5 points

there is literally no correct answer

I deleted mine years ago but, in Japan, it’s still one of the main ways small shops communicate with their customers. Some use FB or insta instead. They don’t have the knowledge, money, or desire to create a whole website that is far more difficult to interact with and update than the platforms that are free, people use, and are easy to update.

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6 points

We need to get libraries running mastodon/lemmy/fediverse world-wide

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1 point

I don’t disagree, but the majority of Japanese are just using whichever device is in their pocket (largely iPhones or Android, some feature phones, the occasional tablet, and much more rarely (outside of official business work), an actual full-sized computer).

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2 points

I’m worried my library would ban me for wanting more stuff to be owned like libraries.

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1 point

Looks for library in current country. Nope.

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7 points

I was only ever there to follow a wide variety of parody star trek accounts which were hilarious and thought provoking.

They’re all gone, now that musk is doing his thing. Twitter was cancer, now it’s terminal bullshit and I’ve deleted it long ago

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Democrats are extremely calm about the fact their followers have attempted to assassinate their main political opponent twice this election cycle. Is murdering your political opponents “protecting democracy?” The only reason to kill your political opponent in a democracy during an election is if you believe they will win the election. Sad state of the country.

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Neither was a Democrat. The first was a Republican and the second was a former Trump supporter. It’s conservatives that are trying to do the assassination.

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22 points

1st attempt was a republican shooter. He was

2nd attempt didn’t actually happen. They didn’t see Trump or draw their weapon. It was just someone who owned a gun in America.

It’s the republican party who have consistently displayed the attitude that the 2nd amendment is there for this type of thing, not the democrats.

How calm are you about your party doing this?

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9 points

Amazing. Every word of what you just said was wrong.

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Both assassins donated to progressive causes. They were not republicans. The second guy they caught on the golf course with a scoped rifle poking through the bushes. Idk how that “didn’t happen?” Next you will be saying it was Trump who staged these events himself. You are deep in the propaganda. Good luck to you

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The second guy voted for trump in 2016 and was a huge Vivek stan in the republican primary. They were both republicans just not the MAGA ones who are motivated purely by racism.

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Sure they are. Whatever you need to tell yourself.

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8 points

Not saying he staged them himself, but the campaign had those fundraising emails ready to go very quickly after the second one. Since the SS didn’t kill this one, maybe we’ll get some actual answers about who he is rather than more armchair speculation.

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Smart move.

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