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Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by Shish2k »

colinmhayes wrote: post #727
colechristensen wrote: post #284

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think this is ... necessarily the wrong thing. Acknowledging that it is a difficult problem and you don't know how to solve it might be better than thinking you know how to solve it and doing something worse. People are also quick to blame platforms without acknowledging that a lot of people are awful, the venue in which they practice their awfulness isn't necessarily at fault but it's easier to blame a thing…

"the problem is unsolvable nothing can be done" is obviously false, because things were not always this divisive. Of course it's people's fault that twitter is awful, but twitter isn't in charge of people, it's in charge of twitter. Investors won't take "not our problem" as an answer here.

> things were not always this divisive

Um… *gestures vaguely towards all of human history*

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by Kinrany »

rcMgD2BwE72F wrote: post #775
Kinrany wrote: post #741

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They at least talk about decentralization. This definitely qualifies as more than any other comparably large social media.

I'm not so sure. The illusion of action could be worse than indifference. Who would build a service/standard that Twitter could make obsolete/outmoded in one day, with potentially billions of $ against it?

We have the technology but most people don't care about decentralization. Even paying lip service helps as an admission that decentralization is good for users.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by nw05678 »

CameronNemo wrote: post #827
smsm42 wrote: post #804

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USA is literally founded on this principle: Congress shall make no law /.../ abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press And while it talks about the Congress, it is clear why the founders considered it to be necessary - the principal value of the free and unabridged speech to forming a free society is tremendous. True, in an armed conflict, speech has been used as a weapon, and it is also true that the reality…

USA is literally founded on this principle: Congress shall make no law /.../ abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press IIRC the founders explicitly did not include that in their constitution. Hence it being called "First Amendment " rights.

Your founders were a bunch of tossers. The American fascination with elevating them to god like status is laughable.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by jcun4128 »

twodayslate wrote: post #552
jcun4128 wrote: post #545

random rant: was annoyed with the "Twitter will use BTC" then days later "nvm"

You can tip via the Bitcoin network https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2021/bringing-...

that's cool looks pretty easy to use

It's interesting the handoff though eg. cashapp or something else vs. directly through Twitter

yeah... there's all kinds of things to consider managing money yourself

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by teetertater »

Aeolun wrote: post #832
bad_username wrote: post #764

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> it has essentially enabled an incredible explosion of "voices" that can be heard Very controlled, curated, and politically corrected explosion. "Very lively debate within allowed spectrum".

What exactly would you like to discuss on Twitter? I’ve never felt censored there regardless of what my opinion was.

This probably isn't what the parent meant, but also:

I began using Twitter a week ago after avoiding it for years. Imo it incentivizes you to gain likes/followers, but in order to do so you have to tailor your content to appeal to bots/algo/quick-digestion. And it's not fun tweeting if nobody interacts, so you end up self-censoring to post clickbaity hype content

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by stcredzero »

mjamil wrote: post #608

I'm in a post-Thanksgiving charitable mood, so thank you, Jack. The execution hasn't been perfect (as has been commented on ad nauseam), but Twitter is the closest to a worldwide-accessible [1] Speaker's Corner [2] I know of, and that - despite all the completely valid criticism - is a valuable public service: mediating access to information has been the defining tool of control for those in power pretty much since c…

Twitter is the closest to a worldwide-accessible [1] Speaker's Corner [2] I know of

Far, far, far from it! They actively suppress information they do not like, while giving reasons for it that are transparently double standards.

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by adam_arthur »

krolden wrote: post #229
riffic wrote: post #151

Looks like activist investors are getting their Christmas wish this year. Twitter's not immune from ending up on this list (on a long enough timeline): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_social_network...

Are people really using the term 'activist investors' unironically?

It's a real term used in the finance industry to refer to investors pushing for changes that often run counter to what current management/board wants.

Why do you think it's a poor term?

Re: I resigned from Twitter

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Post by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS »

Goety wrote: post #847
smsm42 wrote: post #795

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They are actively making even access to individual tweets very cumbersome to people without logins. I guess maybe compared to something like facebook where you are completely blocked without login it's ok, but "almost inaccessible" is only a small step ahead of "completely inaccessible" - that's hardly championing anything, let alone "decentralization" which Twitter is actively hostile to.

This is one thing that has bothered me with recent twitter.

nitter.net to the rescue
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