Paris mayor quits X, calling social media site a ‘gigantic global sewer’

Kind of offensive to sewers

Huge fan of Hidalgo with her leadership on transforming Paris to a sustainable city. Nice to see someone taking climate change seriously.

And they know a thing or two about sewers in Paris!

How long will we continue to get news stories whenever a minor entity leaves X (formerly Twitter)?

It's about 13 months past time

It's like this for a long time

"citing manipulation, disinformation, antisemitism and attacks on scientists, climatologists, women and liberals." That was my experience on Twitter before I quit it. "gigantic global sewer”--accurate

that's the most French exit ever. I love it.

where all my Franks at? ou est tout mes francs

It's hugelly different.

You see, physical faeces are something people produce and have to excrete, as a side-effect of feeding not because they want to, and they have to eat to stay alive. Whilst there are some ways to reduce the amount of faeces produced, they're generally unhealthy, so people have no safe choice other than producing said physical feaces and can't really hold them in for long before there's a burst intestine, which can be deadly, hence have no choice than to excrete it.

So sewages dispose of, let's call it, unavoidable shit.

Mental faeces, on the other hand, do not at at all need to be produced, and even if produced need not be excreted. Further, unlike physical faeces, they are not produced as a side effect of feeding and rather are generally produced as a side effect of exposure to other people's excreted mental faeces.

X, unlike sewages, does not dispose of mental faeces, rather it both incentivies people to excrete their mental faeces instead of keeping them in and displays them prominetly for others to see which in turn increases the production of mental faeces in other people.

So X is almost the very opposite of sewages: the latter dispose of the kind of shit that's an unavoidable side effect of being alive whilst the former incentivises the excretion of and increases the exposure to the kind of shit that would otherwise exist only in the minds of a minority of people, plus in doing so increases the production of that kind of shit in previously unaffected humans - in other words, sewages reduce exposure to and harm from physical shit whilst X not only increases exposure to and the harm from mental shit, it even increases production of it.

Twitter+ X = Xitter.

The global town square latrine.

gigantic global sewer

Come to the Fediverse, it's not that gigantic lol

BUT IT'S OUR SEWER

Someone should tell her about the fediverse

That leaves Reddit as a decommissioned sewage treatment plant turned into a bum fight squat haven.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, has announced she is quitting X, formerly Twitter, calling it a “gigantic global sewer” that is “destroying our democracies” by spreading abuse and misinformation.

“I have made the decision to leave Twitter,” Hidalgo wrote in lengthy posts in English and French on Monday, citing manipulation, disinformation, antisemitism and attacks on scientists, climatologists, women and liberals.

“Twitter, far from being the groundbreaking medium that initially made information accessible to the greatest possible number of people, has in recent years become an impressive tool for destroying our democracies,” she added.

Hidalgo’s campaign to transform Paris into a cycling capital has earned her 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.

“This medium has become a gigantic global sewer, and we should continue to wade into it?” said the Socialist politician, whose failed bid for the French presidency garnered 1.7% of the vote in 2022.

More recently, Hidalgo 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.

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truer words were never spoken

Twitter with Tweetdeck was a wonderful means of following the news using the List feature. It still works if you use lists but without Tweetdeck it isn't as useful.

That said, I barely even use the app anymore. I used to be able to only see what I wanted to see, now Elon is forcing right wing propaganda on everyone.

It always was. Wonder why certain people are just now seeing it? Hmm.

It was a sewer before Elon. Only when she gets called out via a hashtag, now it’s the reason to leave? Ok. Sounds legit.