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Thursday on X (Twitter), all users saw the same pinned topic under the “What’s happening?” sidebar. As part of a “timeline takeover” — which gives advertisers “priority access to logged-in users’ first impression of the day” — conservative media nonprofit PragerU is promoting the hashtag “#DETRANS” to advertise its new film about “the stories of detransitioners.”

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[–] dynamojoe@lemmy.world 134 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Every day I miss my twitter account less and less. I now wish there was a way I could block twitter content inside news articles and such.

[–] bloopernova@programming.dev 48 points 10 months ago (5 children)

We've got it blocked at our router. The DNS server just responds with no such address.

[–] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 48 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hijacking twitter DNS queries and redirecting to a page that only serves images of cats.

[–] 0110010001100010@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] BitsOfBeard@programming.dev 8 points 10 months ago

Cats?? On the internet?!

[–] Drunemeton@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

You are the hero we need! ❤️

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 127 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Man, musk really fucking hates his daughter

[–] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I just realized I had no clue what her assigned gender was. Probably says something about the media I consume.

[–] JonEFive@midwest.social 12 points 10 months ago

Don't worry, it's completely acceptable that you neither know about nor care about a billionaire's daughter.

[–] bloopernova@programming.dev 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Nobody defies the musky chodelet!

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[–] Iwasondigg@lemmy.one 103 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is a good time to remind people one of his kids is trans. What utter garbage he's turned out to be.

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[–] misterundercoat@lemmy.world 91 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Despite pushback from some users

Well there's your problem. You're still using the fascist platform.

Any active user who "pushes back" in an attempt to "fix" the fascist platform is either delusional or being disingenuous. There's no fixing it, guys. Just walk away.

[–] Stephen304@lemmy.ml 34 points 10 months ago

Imo the best pushback is to leave and make twitter irrelevant

[–] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 10 months ago

Boycotts can work. Leave, and let people know why you're leaving. (The second part is important!)

[–] gkd@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 months ago

Yep. I could see people sticking around if there were not viable alternatives. And while those alternatives have indeed been around for a good while, they are very available now. There’s really no excuse now.

Now, while I do think Mastodon is the better platform, I’m curious to see how BlueSky affects Twitter’s user base once it comes out of its “beta”. For all of its faults, it does have the smallest learning curve - if really any at all - when comparing it to Twitter.

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 79 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Can we please just stop talking about the clown in command, and his dogshit bigoted platform?

[–] hiddenSin@lemmy.world 35 points 10 months ago (2 children)

And how is this even about technology anymore?

[–] wmassingham@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] can@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Seriously though, are there any better tech communities here?

[–] natecox@programming.dev 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Browse around programming.dev, there’s plenty of good tech content here.

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[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It is about an abuse of technology so it is relevant

[–] hiddenSin@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Everyday there is some "tech news" about X. These are not tech news anymore. How is a trans film promotion tech news? Where is the technology in this? This is just drama news at this point.

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[–] seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 10 months ago

I'm sure if we ignore him, he'll just go away. That's how this works, right?

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[–] alienanimals@lemmy.world 49 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Downvote Musk spam.

The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring him and his businesses stay in the 24 hour news cycle. Don’t be a useful idiot.

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 37 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Detransition is the equivalent of people who decided they actually aren’t gay. It’s rare enough to not make policies or be an ass about it, it’s super rare for it to go all the way to straight/cis and instead is typically “actually it turns out I’m bi/nonbinary”, and there’s a group actively funded and encouraged by the right wing, many of whom later retransition. It is a real phenomenon, but so is quicksand, both of which turned out to be less common in real life than certain media would have you believe

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It’s also sadly common for folks to detransition because of hostility and a lack of support. Hard to afford hormones if you can’t get a job because you’re trans.

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[–] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 37 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Twitter already sucked in its own ways, but X-formerly-known-as-twitter is so utter shit I have a hard time imagining people browsing and enjoying it.

[–] TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml 25 points 10 months ago

X-formerly-known-as-twitter

I've also heard people call it "Twitter, desperately trying to be known as X".

[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

This is why they're losing advertisers left, right, and center.

[–] Invertedouroboros@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago (3 children)

This is why they're losing advertisers left ~~right~~ and center.

Fixed that for you.

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[–] grayman@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Great "technology" article.

[–] ComradePorkRoll@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Social Media isn't technology?

[–] mob@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Oh I hate this argument.

With an election year next year, politics is about to get shoe horned into everything with the "(insert subject) is politics" is justification.

I think most people think of technology as scientific based rather than social media trends and events.

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[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

Knowing Elon, I am not surprised.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 6 points 10 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


PragerU, which is not a university, aims to “preserve American ideals.” The organization has been criticized for doubting climate change and downplaying the realities of slavery.

“PragerU has chosen X/Twitter specifically for this campaign, as it is one of the least censored social media platforms,” the organization wrote in a press release.

PragerU calls the short documentary its “most important” video yet, but extensive research shows that detransitioning is incredibly uncommon.

In spite of research indicating that these procedures are often life-saving and rarely result in regret, right-wing figures continue to drum up panic around gender-affirming care for LGBTQ+ people.

X CEO Linda Yaccarino claims that the company will be profitable by 2024, but other evidence shows that the platform’s advertising business continues to suffer.

As recently as this week, Musk has posted that he believes the word “cis” is a “heterosexual slur,” a personal position that reflects changes made to the company’s content moderation policies under his leadership.


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