if you're still active on twitter - stop

[solarbird]

QAnon is being brought back to Twitter, at scale. Fascists at 8kun (not 8chan, but one of the spinoffs) are lathering themselves over the opportunity to recruit, boosted by someone - Elon Musk - they see as being on their side.

Leave Twitter. Seriously. Now. Staying there only keeps interaction numbers up and tells advertisers it's okay to stay.

Leave.

Now.

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Re: Counterargument from Dr Johnathan Flowers

[solarbird]

In my obviously limited observations, Black Mastodon has different opinions - newer Black arrivals seem more likely to agree more with Dr. Flowers, but it's not universal there either.

Queer and Jewish mastodon, by contrast, have very definitely different opinions. The anti-queer and anti-Jewish hate on Twitter have ramped up very sharply.

I mean, even as little as I've used Twitter since Elon took over, I've personally seen shit.

That is not why I'm urging people to leave, however. I'm urging people to leave because it is going to become not just a disinformation fountain and hate propaganda machine - assuming Mr. Musk delivers on his stated promises, of course - I have no doubt whatever that the machine will be further rigged to promote these views, both by him personally (he's stated repeatedly that people who disagree with him are not real accounts, just bots) and through the various bad-faith actors he is allowing to run ramptant.

I stayed as long as I did in no small part because I was constantly hammering on their algorithm as I understood it. That's no longer going to be possible.

Further, Elon Musk hates queers and in particular hates transgendered and genderqueer people - enough so that he was willing to drive his own daughter out of his life.

I know these people, and I know how this goes.

And that's why I keep saying - it's time to leave.