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.

Comments

[solarbird]

I do?

This link is to Vice. I have linked to twitter a couple of times in the last week, for purposes of providing evidence, so I suppose that counts. Lately, I'm moving towards linking to Mastodon and/or screenshots.

Also, I have been using shorthand, because most people I think have had decent context, but perhaps less so here. This is what I've done:

1. Deleted all apps. That's a trackable number.
2. Logged out of all accounts on all machines except for my primary account on one (1) device. Also a trackable number.
3. I check in roughly daily for intel purposes. I don't post, except to give another set of reasons for people to leave. VERY trackable numbers.
4. When asked, I've specifically said "Don't delete your account, but do the above."

If you want to get technical, advertisers have to see impressions and activity bottom out. I'll be better about linking secondary sources (screencaps) in future specifically to further that goal. It's just that posting images here is kind of a pain in the ass.

But if you're calling me on not being rigourous enough about doing that, you are correct, and I will adjust henceforth.

[mme_n_b]

You do. You are one of the two people in my daily reading that does.
My intent was not to call you, but to understand what it is you're asking for, because it sounded like "don't read the stuff I link to", which makes no sense.
So, thank you for the list, it helps. Since I have no app and am not logged in on any other machine, and don't check it unless I see a link the effect should be the same as deleting the account.