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X Kills Its Mac App, Accidentally Bans You for Switching to the iPad Version

lifehacker.com X Kills Its Mac App, Accidentally Bans You for Switching to the iPad Version

X (formerly Twitter) has finally decided to pull the plug on the old Twitter app for Mac, which wasn't updated for years. Instead of replacing it with a modern app, the company is forcing users to use the X iPad app instead, which itself is suffering from account suspension issues.

Technology @lemmy.world Twitter/X kills its Mac app, prompts users to "upgrade" to the X app for iPad, and then accidentally bans users who switch to the iPad version

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“If you're a Twitter diehard who's not willing to swap to X, it might be finally time to ditch X for Mastadon or Threads. On your way out, don't forget to delete your X account.”

Best advice in the article.

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- I'm on mastodon, but the problem is none of the people I want to follow are (mostly sports press). for now I am relying on bots who just repost their stuff from twitter, and sometimes they go down for long periods of time. at this rate I'm not sure mastodon will ever take off for what I used twitter for.
  
  And threads is equally shitty, or worse than twitter. I begrudgingly signed up for an instagram account to try it, followed a few people, then my feed was crammed full of instagram catfish and sad ass middle aged dudes asking for dates. I get that they're trying to hook you with algorithms, but in the process they've made the service literally unusable.
  
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  Yea I tried threads recently myself & had the exact same problems. I followed like a total of 3 people, yet my feed was filled with utter crap that I wasn't the slightest bit interested in....
  
  4
  
  How about Bluesky?
  
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- Bluesky gets forgotten
  
  9
  
  As it should be.
  
  9
- Good news! I already did, the day the moron Musk took over.
  
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- I've never used Twitter a lot and I've mostly stopped using it, but Mastodon is just not a viable alternative for most people. I used Twitter to keep up with things. I made a Mastodon account like two years ago, but almost none of the people or organisations I care about are on there. And most of the ones that are on it aren't posting. So I'm basically never using it. The same is true for Bluesky. Threads may be better but I'd rather avoid anything from Facebook.
  
  4
  
  Well you’ll soon be able to subscribe to the big accounts on Threads, even from Mastodon, provided your server allows it.
  
  I personally wonder if the time for this kind of microblogging hasn’t come and gone now. A lot of media on Instagram but my teenage kids don’t use Twitter, don’t want to use Twitter and don’t care about what happens to Twitter. Pry TikTok out of their hands, though…
  
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Lol, I'll never refer to Twitter as X. How silly.

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- I always refer to it as X, to remember people that the twitter they knew is long dead
  
  30
  
  But that's what Elon wants, and fuck that guy.
  
  Twitter or Xitter for me. Maaaaybe X (formerly known as Twitter), but never X alone.
  
  Especially because it's a fucking confusing name in a tech space. I swear I thought the headline referred to X Window at first.
  
  25
  
  Haha, fair
  
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- Xitter
  
  14
  
  Pronounced “shitter.”
  
  14
- I've been plotting to exclusively talk of x as if it was some brand new microblogging site where you pay for the entire thing and it's userbase and administration is kinda unhinged.
  
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- you do know that you are technically dead-naming, right?
  
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  Aw, do you think Twitter is a person? How cute. No, dead naming only applies to people obviously.
  
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  Tesla CEO Elon Musk said his estranged transgender daughter was "killed" by the "woke mind virus" after he was tricked into agreeing to gender-affirming care procedures.
  
  "I lost my son, essentially. They call it 'deadnaming' for a reason. The reason they call it ‘deadnaming’ is because your son is dead." https://eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/2024/07/22/elon-musk-jordan-peterson-interview/74506785007/
  
  4
  
  Aww.
  
  1
  
  This is why the right makes fun of the left.
  
  Though I just hope you were joking.
  
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Please call it Twitter in the title unless there's a good reason not to. I thought this was Xorg.

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- How would that make any sense in that context?
  
  5
  
  It doesn't but X in some people's mind is not the fascist hellhole but is Xorg, and will forever stay that way.
  
  15
  
  https://www.xquartz.org/
  
  :)
  
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  The full title on close parsing doesn't make sense in xorg context. But "X kills its <unix os> app" initially had my brain trying to figure out what people were running X on mac.
  
  1
- Haha you got click baited.
  
  Let me find you a link that is not related to Rick Astleigh
  
  1
- it's better to call it X this way, we need to accept twitter is never coming back, and it's high time users still on it to migrate.
  
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  I won't give the dbag the satisfaction of calling it anything but twitter.
  
  4
  
  "The platform formerly known as Twitter"?
  
  It wouldn't be so bad if it weren't the fact that he's trying to lay claim to 1/26th of the English alphabet
  
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I hadn’t logged into my Twitter account in over a year. When I finally did recently, I simply shared a link to my Mastodon account. A few days later, I went to check a Twitter link, only to find my account had been banned....

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- But they can't ban bots from spamming shit
  
  15
- Greatest recipe ever to close my account.
  
  3
- My account was banned for some reason, no idea really. Wrote to support to unban me so I could delete it, they did and I delete the account.
  
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I actually interpreted this as X as in X11 window system and was very confused for a bit

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- Same...
  
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44 billion, dude…

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So glad I left Reddit and Twitter behind, I need to get my family over to the Fediverse and off Facebook and Instagram now.

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- good luck with that
  
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  Hey now, maybe their entire family consists of nerds and trans chicks
  
  4
- Yeah. No such thing as moderation on Facebook anymore. I've reported porn, abuse and a lot of other things. Never gets removed..
  
  And it basically has emboldened the worst people in society because they know nothing will get done
  
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It's pronounced "xitter."

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- It's written Xitter. It's pronounced Shitter.
  
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  Alternative pronunciation: Shittier.
  
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Accidentally

lol

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Why are people still using a site bought and run by a guy supporting the rise of Christian fascism solely for the purposes of getting tax breaks on his ill-gotten billions?

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I dislike this "Elon Musk" fellow, good sir!

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I use an iPad, but not X or Twitter…go figure.

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Haha, fair.

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