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Summary

Stephen King announced his departure from X (formerly Twitter), calling the platform “too toxic” and urging followers to join him on Threads.

King has frequently clashed with X owner Elon Musk over verification charges and political disputes, including Musk’s support for Donald Trump.

Other entities, including The Guardian, German football club St Pauli, and actor Jamie Lee Curtis, have also left the platform, citing concerns over toxic content, misinformation, and hate speech.

Rival platforms like Threads and Bluesky are gaining traction, with Bluesky reporting nearly 15 million users globally.

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[–] TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Also, good guy St. Pauli. They are also currently transforming into a co-op which is unique in German soccer. TRAILBLAZERS!

[–] theherk@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Sai King has left Twitter, so he has.

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Drat, this Tower's level

I did get a warning to not engage in level hopping, which is why I must emphasize not to do so again

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee -1 points 6 days ago

It was 10 years ago.

People just want to be smug now cause it's the cool thing to do.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 123 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Better late than never for all of these people, I guess.

Sunk cost fallacy hits people hard.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 days ago

Sunk cost fallacy hits people hard.

It's true. I never deleted my reddit posts and comments because I spent like 13 years with that account. A part of my brain says "don't delete those, you might need them later." It's like a natural hording instinct.

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[–] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 65 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Anything but Mastodon/Activitypub, eh? These fellas rlly love sucking on corporate dicks, don't they

[–] Sl00k@programming.dev 5 points 6 days ago

Mastodon is a far worse experience than Twitter and Bluesky, it's not a 1:1 transition.

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Attitudes like yours certainly isn't attracting any new users...

[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago

Sure, but he's not wrong. I'll never get why people love to rail again corporations and enshittification while using those sites.

[–] fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 60 points 1 week ago (10 children)

It really boggles my mind the cognitive dissonance of everybody constantly complaining about corporations screwing them over, then refusing to use the obvious solution to their problems.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 66 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I can absolutely believe that an old guy like Stephen King has never even heard of Mastodon. It's not like there's a big Mastodon PR team being paid to advertise its existence.

[–] Jeffool@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Good point. Does anyone know an animator? I'll write some promotional material.

[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Or sometimes the PR team of niche and new tech are a bunch of insufferable twats.

[–] fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can totally believe that he didn't know about mastodon, but even Bluesky is like a reasonable platform. Threads... I see literally no upside to using threads. It's on a timer from the beginning to turn into another X. Just look at how long Facebook has been a cesspool of Nazi propaganda.

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[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Twitter to Threads is like leaving Derry for Jerusalem's Lot.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 week ago

So it's like moving from Salem's Lot to a house near the town of Ludlow, along a busy highway with a pet cemetery nearby?

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Glad I wasn't the only one who noticed. Good for him, though, he's trying.

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[–] garretble@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

He has a Bluesky account already, and has posted...some.

Everyone I've seen (mostly in the tech space) seems to say that Threads feels soulless. I follow a few people there from my Masto account (yay, federation), and that's all fine and dandy. But I don't know if I'd trust Zuck in the long run since he already seems to be kissing the ring.

[–] capital_sniff@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I've been calling it the Roman numeral for ten site formerly known as twitter. Are people just abbreviating this to 'X' now?

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I've been calling it Xitter, the X is pronounced sh

[–] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yep, and each post is a Xit, still pronounced with the mandarin X.

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Each post that goes viral is poppin’.

If it really blows up it’s BACKNE and it’s POPPIN’!

But the best xits are all BLOWING THE FUCK UP!

Whole place was covered in pus! means EVERYONE popped it. To pop a xit is to share a post.

Gah. Hep me loard.

[–] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The mandarin X is pronounced similar to SH pronunciation in English.

Like Xiaomi is pronounced "Show me"

So Xitter and Xit are not pronounced with the Z sound you are thinking.

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Oh, and yours isn’t the comment I meant to reply to.

Shitter, zitter. It’s all gravy baby.

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

I mean, shitter is cool and all. It ain’t poppin’ though.

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Xitter! It’s poppin’!

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

Formerly known as? It's still twitter.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've just been calling it twitter

I'll never deadname a person, but I'll deadname the shit out of a bigoted transphobic crybaby billionaire's shitty website.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] modus@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Just make "X" catch on as a popular Euphemism for "Trans."

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 6 days ago

Please don’t, thanks

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 days ago

Merry transmas.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago

Bro should’ve went to Mastodon.

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