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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsI now am on Bluesky
I have an account:
https://bsky.app/profile/ralphingermany.bsky.social
I am reducing my FB usage. To step away somewhat from the oligarchy.
Old Crank
(4,731 posts)EYESORE 9001
(27,531 posts)Keyword: ACTION
Many bemoan the muskrats power and influence, yet DU is choc-a-bloc with xitter links. Ive heard many excuses for maintaining ties to that site, and none are satisfactory IMO.
InstantGratification
(285 posts)Install Privacy Badger on your browser, it will block embedded twitter content from showing up on the non twitter web sites that you visit. You have the option to allow that content once, always allow it on that given site or just keep ignore the embeds.
Every time you follow a link to a tweet, twitter records that as a page view. They will use that to compile numbers to show to advertisers how much traffic they generate and that is how they convince companies to spend advertising dollars with them. Even if you don't follow the links and just view the embedded content on the site where it is embedded without ever going to twitter, that is recorded as an interaction with twitter content. That still helps his advertising numbers.
Never go to twitter, block the embeds on 3rd party sites. Those will both help to starve twitter. If there is a big enough drop off in page views and content interaction, advertisers will take their ad dollars elsewhere. Hopefully twitter collapses and muskrat loses that bullhorn for spewing his lies.
Walleye
(35,893 posts)sagetea
(1,440 posts)sage
Walleye
(35,893 posts)Old Crank
(4,731 posts)Most political stuff will stay on DU.
I'll be gradually weaning off fb.
livetohike
(23,002 posts)sagetea
(1,440 posts)Had an account there, then promptly forgot about it! I went back last week and BOOM, so many users!
sage
Old Crank
(4,731 posts)I find in a search 2 sagetea
sagetea
(1,440 posts)sage
livetohike
(23,002 posts)markie
(22,929 posts)Mr. Jinx
(1,370 posts)I'm there as https://bsky.app/profile/burriscj.bsky.social. I followed you too!
livetohike
(23,002 posts)the period at the end needs removed?
Edited: Got you!
https://bsky.app/profile/swampflower.bsky.social
Add Bluesky to the all of the other major 'social' networks I've never been on or subscribed to, Facebook, Twitter (X) or even the ancient Myspace. DU works for me just fine.
meow2u3
(24,927 posts)My account is: https://bsky.app/profile/sueb60.bsky.social
livetohike
(23,002 posts)Archae
(46,832 posts)livetohike
(23,002 posts)Different Drummer
(8,655 posts)My profile:
https://bsky.app/profile/david6320.bsky.social