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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 36 points 5 months ago (3 children)

So since Deviantart, Imgur, and Tumblr died by banning porn, he's hoping X will come back to life!?!?

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No thanks, the fediverse is better at it, with way less nazis and tankies, those that are here are in their own containment zones.

[–] kava@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Twitter is way better for certain topics. I haven't been able to find the quantity or quality of OSINT stuff almost anywhere else at the level that Twitter has it.

If you want to know what's happening on the ground day to day in Ukraine or Middle East, there's no better place (edit: I lied. Telegram is pretty good, I forgot when I was writing this)

Like there are people who geolocate pictures to determine GPS coordinates and then get satellite scans to determine the effects of missile strikes or what have you

Foe example remember the Iran missile/drone salvo? There was an Israeli response to it? Claimed they blew up some Iranian radar for an air defense system with a missile?

Satellite images showed that was a lie. The damage on the ground implied only a small explosion that looks like other drone explosions. I only knew about it because I was on Twitter following specific people.

There's a lot of shit you have to tread through, lots of bots and spam and crazies and propaganda accounts and what have you

But if you look around there's a lot of gems

[–] StaySquared@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

X is.. dead? That's news to me.

As of 2023, there are approximately 556 million active monthly users on X. As of April 2024, X receives around 6.1 billion visits per month.Apr 25, 2024

What... reality do you live in?

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] ChanchoManco@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Probably very hard to know given that Musk had to buy the company to find out.

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Well now he owns it so should be easy for him to publish that.

But then those who carry musky water for him probably wouldn't be able to do so.

[–] StaySquared@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I could be wrong, but I thought Elon had a campaign to eliminate bots from X? Not sure if that ever took place though or if it's in the process of.

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Cool.

But until you call tell me how many bots, your claim isn't evidence that it's actually as active as you imply it to be - at least by humans.

[–] StaySquared@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

No one knows. Apparently all the bigots on X are the bots.

That's the best that has been done /shrug

Plus, who really gives a fk about X if you're not even using X? I don't know why the hardon for the community size of X.

[–] Zacryon@lemmy.wtf 4 points 5 months ago

I think it's more a twitterix is dying thing, as user count was declining last time I checked.

[–] miridius@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Glad I got to see this comment before the Lemmy hivemind downvoted you to oblivion for posting data that contradicts their world view!

[–] Zacryon@lemmy.wtf 2 points 5 months ago

Wasn't the user count declining?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago

Deviantart, Imgur, and Tumblr died by banning porn

None of them are dead.