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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 6 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 57 minutes 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 2 points 49 minutes ago

Sai King has left Twitter, so he has.

[–] capital_sniff@lemmy.world 14 points 4 hours 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?

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 32 points 4 hours 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 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] modus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 hours ago

Please don’t, thanks

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago

Formerly known as? It's still twitter.

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 1 points 17 minutes ago

Xitter! It’s poppin’!

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

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

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 1 points 14 minutes ago

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.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 32 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 hours ago

Hey, I get these references!

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 4 hours 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?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 98 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

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

Sunk cost fallacy hits people hard.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 48 minutes 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 48 points 7 hours ago (5 children)

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

[–] Sl00k@programming.dev 4 points 1 hour ago

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

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

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

[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 2 points 46 minutes ago

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

[–] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

Why wouldn't they want to join this place and be called bootlickers for moderate policy take by some screaming communist from a .ml? Sounds like a great time to me! Getting yelled at by flying squid twice a day is a joy!

This place is primarily made up of a ton anarchist and communists screaming and spreading their own bullshit. Centrist and and less progressive folks are commonly shouted at, called bootlickers, or Nazis for relatively centrrist views.

Mods and admins are far less balanced than reddit or pre x Twitter as well. LWis about to as close to center as you can get and it's quite obvious.

[–] USSEthernet@startrek.website 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

StarTrek.website recently defederated from hexbear and we got called names too. I'd say our instance is pretty well balanced and small.

[–] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 1 points 54 minutes ago

I'll check it out!

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

What do you mean when you say "this place"? Because Lemmy is decentralized, and it can vary wildly by instance and community.

[–] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 1 points 56 minutes ago

LW. The only instance really even close to supporting commercial needs. I may be missing a few snale ones but LWis the most "normal" for lack of a better description.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 hour ago

It's still small, so the whole platform still feels like one of the larger reddit subs. The same people show up everywhere, and if you want to create a niche community, you'll go months without seeing any posts.

[–] fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 7 hours 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 54 points 7 hours ago (5 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 2 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] fishpen0@lemmy.world 45 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

Lemmy is definitely its own little bubble. People here really misestimate the average person’s exposure to tech news or how much they can understand or care about operating systems and distributed protocols.

You’re all in here shouting about this to eachother and nobody hears you.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 5 points 4 hours ago

Yeah like the average person has never heard of enshitification. It's not even an established concept in their mind.

They may have a vague sense that things are getting shittier on the big platforms, but probably don't even consider smaller platforms or decentralization as solutions

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[–] fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 6 hours 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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[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 4 points 5 hours ago

There is a slight learning curve to Mastodon. Is there a method for verifying accounts? Honest question there. I signed up for Mastodon years ago but I used it as often as I used Twitter which is to say never.

[–] garretble@lemmy.world 21 points 6 hours 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.

[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 13 points 7 hours ago

Bro should’ve went to Mastodon.

[–] oxjox@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

If you're on Bluesky, maybe bombarding him with followers there would shift him in that direction https://bsky.app/profile/stephenking.bsky.social

Edit: For the record...
https://www.threads.net/@stephenking 268K followers
https://bsky.app/profile/stephenking.bsky.social 223.9K followers
https://x.com/StephenKing 7M Followers

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