The big loser in this election is the legacy media, it is dead. Look at Jeff Bezos who owns the WaPo, Patrick Soon-Shiong who owns the L.A Times- they are firing editorial staff to make their publications more conservative. CNN- Chris Wallace is gone with no job in sight, and others will be fired. They bought into the woke politics of the last four years and now realized they fucked up.

I don't engage in social media. I'm interested in joining X. I see on the phone app that it allows for 3 ways - google account (email?), apple account or create an X account.

Is there a recommended way to join X? I'll probably access on phone and on PC. I'm thinking I'd prefer to remain anonymous and not have to enter any info that is personally identifiable. Other than an (anonymous) email address, is this possible or will the account creation require something that identifies me? Or is it better to be identifiable for some reason?

^^ Just 'create an X account'...You'll be fine!

I'm considering joining X as well. In creating an "X" account does one use their real name and information?

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Originally posted by ridewv:
I'm considering joining X as well. In creating an "X" account does one use their real name and information?

Nope

You can create a username and you don't have to use your real name. In fact I'd NEVER use my real name on Twitter.

^^ You can use/create whatever Name and User Name for your account you'd prefer. You can provide any bio info you'd like to for your profile, or provide none at all. The listed name and bio info in your Public Profile can be edited at any time you'd like should you desire to do so. It's been several years since I created an account on 'X', but as I recall, SIGforum currently requires more info/verification for an account the 'X' does, so you'll be fine regardless.

Thank you, signing up now.

suggest going through all the privacy and preference settings and disable as you desire. especially access to device contact lists. I disabled a lot of stuff....

The truth hurts

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1861063141326573907

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Originally posted by konata88:
I don't engage in social media. I'm interested in joining X.
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I’m sticking with SIGforum.

Mr. Barber's observation is absolutely correct.

The liberal bozos leaving X will be back. Just sit back and watch and wait….

Joe Rogan has repeatedly acknowledged the importance of Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter and its importance in fighting censorship and maintaining/restoring freedom of speech. I would encourage you to listen to Rogan’s podcast with Mike Benz, a free speech watchdog and part of Trump 45’s administration. Just how deep the Deep State is will blow your mind.

Here’s a 15 minute sample.



BTW, Shawn Ryan has also interviewed Mike Benz.

Good on Mr. Musk!

“Elon Musk has become the first person in history to amass a fortune of more than $400 billion.

His net worth now stands at around $440 billion (£345 billion), according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index – more than that of Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Amazon's Jeff Bezos combined.

Mr Musk's fortune has boomed in the weeks following Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election.

During the campaign, the X owner served as a major political donor and advocate for his fellow billionaire, and he is expected to wield considerable influence when Mr Trump takes power in January.…”

Daily Mail article:
https://mol.im/a/14183639

^^^ Remember when the naysayers said buying Twitter would bankrupt him?

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Mr. Barber's observation is absolutely correct.

And where did they go? Bluesky.


Yesterday, Inc. Magazine ran a thoughtful op-ed titled, “I Give Bluesky Six Months Before It Implodes.”
https://techcrunch.com/2024/12...ns-views-harassment/

The author, a tech founder who started one of the early social media networks (Intrepid Media), later clobbered by Facebook and Twitter, said BlueSky is collapsing under the unbearable weight of its woke brand.

The author takes several paragraphs to disclose the development that spurred his gloomy scribblings about BlueSky’s limited prospects. What finally did it was Friday’s article on TechCrunch, headlined “Bluesky at a crossroads as users petition to ban Jesse Singal over anti-trans views, harassment.”

In other words, Big Trouble in Little Portland.

BlueSky was the progressive immune response to Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter. It was initially seeded with the most delicate woke snowflakes, all seeking a safe, fully moderated social media environment free from any criticism of their deplorable sexual habits or the logical fallacies inherent in their worldviews. Indeed, they sought solace with their co-adventurers in progressivism, mutually applauding their brave life choices and bilaterally appreciating their constant virtue signaling in a deafening woke echo chamber.

It went okay for a while. But its user rolls really exploded after Trump’s election, when apoplectic liberals spluttered that, instead of leaving the U.S. as they’d promised, they would symbolically depart by removing the inextinguishable radiance of their progressive presences from Twitter and setting up shop with the early progressive pioneers on BlueSky. Buh bye, suckers!

The problems started right away. Unfortunately, departing progressives made a little too much of a song about it on their way out Twitter’s digital doors. The vacuum created by their sudden departure sucked with it a bunch of conservative trolls and trouble-makers, curious about the opportunity to develop a whole new, unblemished wilderness of wokeness (many lakeside parcels remain available!).

BlueSky’s long-timers (i.e., roughly two years), who until now had been happily and peacefully enjoying their carefully curated, conservative-free community, were appalled and outraged by the newcomers. They demanded BlueSky’s management do something to stop these intolerant interlopers. And like it was hit by a Russian Poseidon nuclear tsunami missile, the exploding conflict washed over the fledgling platform in an all-hands discussion over free speech versus muscular moderation.

It became obvious that, over the two years since its formation, presumably adjusting to market forces, BlueSky had quietly de-emphasized outright banning people and strengthened its individual tools for blocking undesired folks. In other words, one user can block another and never again have to see the blocked user’s posts, or vice-versa. It is the digital equivalent of ghosting a relative who voted for Trump.

BlueSky has heavily invested in its blocking technology. For example, BlueSky lets users upload files containing long lists of accounts to block people en masse, and users can block entire categories of accounts in their account settings. This has led to BlueSky users enthusiastically swapping ‘block lists’ and tips for fine-tuning their personal feed settings to ensure no conservative ideas penetrate their bubbles of peaceful, progressive fantasy.

But sadly, as the Inc. article’s author noted, what with the new, post-election conservative invasion, blocking is no longer good enough for BlueSky’s progressives. Blocking is insufficiently punitive.

That is why BlueSky’s managers are now grappling with their first Change.org petition, with over 25,000 signatures, signed by ‘celebrities’ like Lizzo, demanding that BlueSky perma-ban an anti-trans influencer, by flat deleting his account and blacklisting him to make sure he can never re-join under any other name or email address.

But there’s a problem for BlueSky’s managers, as the Inc. article pointed out. Social media platforms aren’t social clubs. They are social media businesses. The industry noticed that Elon Musk grabbed an opportunity, when he realized that free speech is the best social media business model, the one that attracts the most customers.

BlueSky is now caught between the razor-sharp horns of a difficult dilemma. On the one hand, it wants to grow, but wholesale banning customers for wrongthink is a poor growth model. On the other hand, its most passionate, most loyal, original user base demands wholesale bans.

What to do? There is no good answer. Or at least, there is no obvious answer. That is why the author —who once tried and failed to get his own social media platform off the ground— gave BlueSky six months, tops.

Socialism always destroys itself. The French Revolution lasted just long enough for General Napoleon to overthrow the revolutionary government and become France’s dictator. BlueSky is like a miniature digital Portland, and the winds of revolution are blowing.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com...rue&utm_medium=email

Our favorite 1/1024th Faux-Indian sent a smoke signal to President Trump:




https://x.com/unusual_whales/s.../1869101547818504363

All the qualifications you claim that you and your colleagues possess are meaningless, Stelter, because all you and they do is LIE.

Get it, stupid? All you do is lie, so the position you claim is null and void, bird brain, you fucking fraud.

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1870178810169000202

Only way I’ll watch that idiot is if he volunteers to be the test dummy for less lethal crowd control research.