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I mean that’s gotta be a given since they probably have 1000x more users right?
Not measuring per capita (estimated by daily active users or whatever) seems intentionally misleading. Ironic on a post about misinformation.
I feel like per post would be a pretty intuitive metric here too
The network effect is one hell of a drug.
I learned something thank you
Yeah. Somehow. Still.
All levels of government need to stop using that shit.
I don’t want to be forced to sign up to a man-child’s vanity project so I can get updates on emergencies.
The government using it for bulletins, especially for emergency announcements, is such ridiculous bullshit. Like what in the actual fuck?
It drives me nuts that it’s used for diplomacy too.
I won’t even click links there anymore. No traffic if I can help it.
I used to click breaking news to see what others were saying, then they did the “you have to create an account to see this” and all the sudden, I didn’t care anymore.
There’s a bot that just reposts X posts to Lemmy; so much, it is essentially just spam.
Thank god for the ability to block accounts and communities.
As much as I hate reddit users, x users are by far worse. Judgement passed.
As mediocre as Twitter is these days, I’m pretty fucking sure there are more lies in Truth Social.
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Name a single prominent account on Truth Social that isn’t Trump…
I think its got at least a couple of Congresspeople / Gubernatorial accounts on it. There are lots of prominent names within MAGA world (Laura Loomer, Michelle Malkin, etc). Also, there’s whatever madman is still posting under Herman Cain’s account.
I think the OP is factoring in number of users. Lies that no one sees don’t matter as much.
Yeah it’s all about orders of magnitude. X has over 100 million daily users while Truth Social has around half a million (and that’s the highest estimate I saw). Even if only one percent of X users are spreading misinformation that’s more users than if everyone on Truth Social is spreading misinformation.
I think the lies per person are probably higher, but the total number of lies might be fewer.
More in proportion, but less in actual numbers
I had a 2fa on shitter and then I factory reset my phone and the 2fa app stored shit locally, so all of my 2fas were gone. One of them was shitter. Tried to log in, but they wanted me to call them and go through hoops and loops to retrieve my account. It was for the better. I let it go for good. It has absolutely nothing anyway, I was just a lurker. Fuck Elon.
The really stupid thing is that even though I ditched Twitter long before Elon bought it and started turning it into a dumpster fire it still gets shoved in my face constantly because shitty “journalists” continually link and quote some dumb random on there and spin whatever their dumb ass says into “people are saying/doing/boycotting/protesting/etc etc etc ad nauseum…”
I’m really sick of it.
But how do we know this statistic is not fake news too?
Ahh yes Turnips truth social…the only social to get to the root of the issue.
Soaking investo- errrr I mean, truth!
Still beets watching Fox News though
Arguably, twitter has more users, so more opportunities to produce and spread lies.
Everyone always has an excuse. I can’t wait to see all the justifications people will end up making here.
I already disliked it before Elon, and haven’t logged in since. I was literally just using it to antagonize a guy who was rude to me about Bitcoin years ago.
Link mastadon
Isn’t Mastadon more a loose conglomeration of independent self-hosted instances? Sort of the Lemmy to Twitter’s Reddit? Might be good to cite a few high quality Mastadon instances than just point people to “Mastadon” as a generic source.
Also should note that there’s still the Garbage-In / Garbage-Out problem. Mastadon is only as good as its user base. Twitter’s admin went from bad to nightmarish under Elon, but it was still choke full of annoying, manipulative bullshit. Mastadon has all the same problems, just on a smaller scale because of its lighter userbase. Get the environment up to 400M users and you’re going to see the exact same basket of incentives for manipulation and abuse.
Hell, just look at Threads. Same exact problems, just skewed towards Facebook friendly corporate influencers rather than Twitter friendly Groypers.
No shit right?
I’m not on X so why are you yelling at me without checking your facts? Spread misinformation much!?
Hah?
