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In reply to the discussion: Do you like the inundation of Musk posts in this forum? [View all]mopinko
(72,150 posts)5. i dislike the inundation of twit shaming.
im not a big tweeter, but i have friends there, and appreciate the news i find there that doesnt even make it here.
but there r a lot of folks there who feel the same way most of us here feel about du.
marginalized groups have spaces of their own there. disabled ppl who connect there cuz they cant irl.
its a shit storm atm, but it is still in flux. well see how it shakes out.
meanwhile, i am truly bothered by the hate here on ppl who r just readers there.
ppl who r on there to promote themselves should stand back. but those of us who use it for the connections, we arent hurting anything. and a lot of us are resisting- blocking ads, blocking trolls, and generally gumming up the works.
and i thought the fb shaming was bad
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It is NOT 95% of DU. It's 95% of the people who bothered to vote in your poll. People who
highplainsdem
Dec 2022
#27
I'll add you and the other one that magically now don't want to vote in polls.
W_HAMILTON
Dec 2022
#31
No, I have better things to do with my time. But if that's the level you want to argue at,
Emrys
Dec 2022
#36
I think you overestimate how much other people are invested in all this compared to you.
Emrys
Dec 2022
#60
I'm not the one being defensive. And I've explained why Musk and Twitter get so much
highplainsdem
Dec 2022
#45
I had that dude on my trash list way back when people couldn't stop talking about his tv show.
Iggo
Dec 2022
#16
I only open a small percentage of all of the post. If a subject doesn't interest me,
Chainfire
Dec 2022
#6
You phrased your poll question to attract the people who agree with you and
highplainsdem
Dec 2022
#17
Attention DU: I do not need to know every time Musk farts on twitter. It is not news
ZonkerHarris
Dec 2022
#19
I honestly could not care any less about what Elon Musk says, does or who he is.
lees1975
Dec 2022
#26
This isn't about Musk. It's about the compromise of a global town hall w fascist influences.
FlyingPiggy
Dec 2022
#28
It's a shit show. And it will continue to be a shit show as long as Musk as the owner.
W_HAMILTON
Dec 2022
#32
No, but neither do I expect someone to extrapolate DU opinion from 63 votes.
brooklynite
Dec 2022
#49
I think we can maybe gauge admin's attitude from something that happened yesterday
Emrys
Dec 2022
#52
Or the pro-Musk crowd whined about since technically it probably would not explicitly violate...
W_HAMILTON
Dec 2022
#53