solarbird | Why I keep checking back in on eX-twitter

Every so often, I still have to go back and check up on the fascist disinformation and propaganda fountain Elon Musk made out of Twitter, and it’s never good news.

I once again urge everyone who is still there to migrate their followers away from it, to… basically anywhere else, really. Literally. Anywhere in the Federation would be outstanding (Mastodon being the most famous, and where I am now), BlueSky, TikTok if you can do video, hell, even Threads – though I’m a bit hesitant these days about Threads, for reasons I’m leaving out for now.

It’s not just because continuing to use Xitter puts money in Elon Musk’s pocket. I mean, it does, but I’ve beat that drum for months and nobody cares.

It’s because if you depend on it this election, you’re making a real big mistake, because there’s a real good chance that it won’t be there when you need it – at least, not for you. It’ll be there for the fascists, but not for civil society and/or the left. It’ll be part of the problem, and most certainly not part of the solution.

I mean, you’ve got Xitler’s pet AI lying to people about the election now, you’ve got pro-Harris accounts be labelled spam and shadowbanned now, you’ve got Xitter still placing ads directly next to fascist and other neo-nazi/white supremacist accounts now, you have Elon himself spreading anti-election lies that never seem to get community labels (because he turns them off) now…

…and that doesn’t even get into what he did in the UK a few weeks ago.

But if you missed it – or just forgot about it already – did you know about the biggest race riots in the UK in over a decade, spanning across much of the country?

It was a loosely coordinated effort by fascists and spread via far-right chats on Telegram, fuelled by disinformation spread on Twitter, now X. Musk propped it up and helped spread the lies, using fash lies of a two-tier anti-white justice system, comparing the UK to the Soviet Union, pushing lies about detainment camps being set up in the Falklands, and proclaiming that a UK “Civil War,” by which he pretty clearly meant “race war,” was “inevitable.”

UK commentators are calling it his “trial balloon” for what he intends to do in the US this autumn. Some American commentators other than me are talking about it as well.

This is why he bought Twitter, team. These days, he even admits it, saying he bought it to “fight the woke mind virus,” by which at this point he means basically anything to the left of White Christofascism.

So if you’re relying on Twitter to be how you work, how you coordinate, how you get politics done when things go pear-shaped in a way they actively intend to make things go pear-shaped, I really have to ask:

How do you expect that to work when the guy who owns the tool you use is all in on the other side, and has been working out how best to use it against you for the last two years?

Make it make sense to me, ’cause I don’t see how.

Hopefully things won’t actually go south. Hopefully the results will be so overwhelming that they’ll know not to try.

But that’s in no way guaranteed. Nothing about this election is in the bag, and if it’s not – if they do try another coup… well…

From what I see, you have two months left to get your people away from the reanimated corpse of Twitter, and get re-established somewhere else.

I suggest you use that time you have now, while you can, because if they do try? If there is another coup attempt?

There won’t be time in November.

68 days remain.