Paris mayor quits X platform, calling it a ‘gigantic global sewer’

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And she would know what a sewer is because she governs Paris.

/Badumtiss

Best description I've heard of X yet.

She’s not wrong.

She is just running away from a scandal of her using public funds for a holiday while in a mission in French Polynesia. Now she is turning that into a statement

NOW she thinks it's a sewer, but she's ignored all the BS that was always there?

It's always been a sewer.

Isn't she the one with the big sewer improvement project to stop flooding the Seine with poop water whenever it storms? She must be basically an expert on sewers among politicians by now, so I'll trust that assessment.

Where did she go to? Do the French have a mastodon instance?

Old and busted: Twitter is the global town square
New hotness: X is the global town sewer

Always has been.

Oui oui!

I mean it was fine until social media companies knowingly were causing genocide and destroying democracies in Asia, South America and Africa.

But now it's in your face,

"I don't like this. 😭"

"A gigantic global sewer"? Sounds much like Paris.

I'm curious to see where politicians end up after ditching X. I want to believe that governments could set up their own lemmy/bluesky instances. But my gut is telling me Meta owned platforms will win out due to ease of use and their ability to comply with local European laws.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

After buying Twitter in 2022, Elon Musk laid off thousands of employees, including many who moderated content on the platform.

Rebranded as X, it has lost several major advertisers and was blasted by critics, including the White House, for not doing enough to curtail antisemitism.

"This platform and its owner intentionally exacerbates tensions and conflicts," Hidalgo said in lengthy posts in English and French, citing manipulation, disinformation, antisemitism and attacks on scientists, climatologists, women and liberals.

Hidalgo's campaign to transform Paris into a cycling capital has earned her both scorn and praise on social media over the years, with some users criticising the seemingly endless work and visually unappealing worksites under the #SaccageParis (WreckParis) hashtag.

More recently, she has come under fire for a trip to the French island of Tahiti purportedly to view a 2024 Olympics surfing site, but that opponents said did not fall under her remit and during which she visited her daughter who lives there.

X users and opposition politicians took to the #TahitiGate hashtag to lambast her over the partially taxpayer-funded trip.

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This is our world, these are the morons we inhabit it with.

X is (very stupidly) unregulated in all things that aren't talking shit about Musk, but that just means that we get a daily dosage of "raw humanity" and we don't like it because it's fucking gross. Most social media companies know this and sanitize it for us to enjoy. X is like walking down the street in some really depressed town where drug addicts and weirdos are running around naked shouting at "the man in the wires who tells me to mate with Barny."

people suck (mostly) lol

gigantic global sewer

And this is why third world countries should be banned from the internet

gigantic global sewer

This is why third world countries need to be banned from the internet