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Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by PixyMisa »

hk__2 wrote: post #743
abnry wrote: post #631

Ways I think Twitter could immediately improve, from the perspective of users: - Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol. Offer "real person" twitter filter. - Transparent and consistent moderation policies. Bans are inconsistently applied for reasons that are often hard to figure out. - Return to a reverse chronological time and/or down selection of rage-ba…

> Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol Those are not mutually exclusive. I may be interested to know that @emmanuelmacron and @emmanuel_macron are both real persons but I’d also want to know that @emmanuelmacron is the famous one while the other is just an homonyme. Blue Check symbols are also a lot useful to distinguish real brand accounts from fake ones…

Oh, I read that thread. It is at best self-serving, and several of the tweets are simply false-to-fact.

Big Tech is extremely political, practically ruled by politics, and those politics - as of 2022 - are almost exclusively left-wing.

Twitter's response to everything they don't like is to construct a rule forbidding both sides to do anything that goes against Twitter's politics. Truth, public interest, and freedom of speech do not factor into the equation.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by PixyMisa »

13415 wrote: post #758
abnry wrote: post #631

Ways I think Twitter could immediately improve, from the perspective of users: - Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol. Offer "real person" twitter filter. - Transparent and consistent moderation policies. Bans are inconsistently applied for reasons that are often hard to figure out. - Return to a reverse chronological time and/or down selection of rage-ba…

I've tried Twitter recently for the first time to get more recent information about the Ukraine war. Maybe long-term twitter users see it differently because they've fine-tuned it and got used to it, but to me Twitter looks like a horrible and awful medium. I just can't see any purpose for it. People on Twitter post opinions and are subsequently mocked and insulted by other people who also value their opinions above…

If you go to Reddit with the default subreddits, the experience is the same. Nothing but noise.

At least Reddit is easier to tune - you can get a great feed by joining a dozen subreddits, instead of following hundreds of individual accounts on Twitter.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by stouset »

memish wrote: post #877

It's telling that no one is worried about being censored by Elon. They're worried about Elon not censoring others.

Uh, yeah?

Why do you think Hacker News exists as a space to have reasonable, we’ll-intentioned discussion? I’ll answer for you: moderation.

Without moderation, all anonymous public discussion forums devolve into cesspools. By and large, reasonable people don’t want to participate in these places. Twitter certainly isn’t the best place for meaningful discourse right now, but without moderation it can certainly be a hell of a lot worse.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by beowulfey »

DyslexicAtheist wrote: post #612
altacc wrote: post #41

He's already said that he'd follow all local laws so it would be interesting to see if he can find the elusive path of maintaining free speech, following the law and not having Twitter being a toxic cesspool used mainly to shout down those not our your "side". Personally my reservations are because I think running a social media site is a lot about understanding people and defining a healthy culture for your elusive…

> interesting to see if he can find the elusive path of maintaining free speech I am also utterly gobsmacked how people here jump to the defense of billionaires. > Taking a moment to think about how utterly crazy it is that in 2022 a company with a significant dataset of private and public communications, that has municipalities, companies and governments on the platform, can switch ownership with pretty much zero sc…

Billionaires are the celebrities and royalty for tech folks. Human beings thrive on hierarchy and we need to have people above us and below us in order to know where we stand in society.

Often people look up the ladder in awe and respect because we all want to move up and be there ourselves one day, so it makes sense to venerate that position in order to justify it within ourselves subconsciously.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by moron4hire »

abnry wrote: post #631

Ways I think Twitter could immediately improve, from the perspective of users: - Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol. Offer "real person" twitter filter. - Transparent and consistent moderation policies. Bans are inconsistently applied for reasons that are often hard to figure out. - Return to a reverse chronological time and/or down selection of rage-ba…

Alternately, get rid of verification completely. Different people have the same names all the time and not one of them is entitled to being THE canonical "Michael Bolton" over any other of them.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by raxxorrax »

syshum wrote: post #683
abnry wrote: post #631

Ways I think Twitter could immediately improve, from the perspective of users: - Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol. Offer "real person" twitter filter. - Transparent and consistent moderation policies. Bans are inconsistently applied for reasons that are often hard to figure out. - Return to a reverse chronological time and/or down selection of rage-ba…

I have never understood this aversion to Anonymous Speech, free speech requires Anonymous Speech. Some of the most important events in history (like the Founding of the United States) would never have happened with out Anonymous Speech. We should debate idea's not authors. Anonymous Speech enables idea's to be spread not personality cults, one would thing those opposing Elon believing that people just support him bec…

> We should debate idea's not authors

There is a large group of people that is more interested in other people instead of ideas and to evaluate anything they need to check their trust in the person uttering it. I think they simply need different platforms.

Otherwise I 100% agree, there are good behaving anonymous platforms but I don't know if Twitter ever can become one. I would never register with my real name though.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by hyperpallium2 »

altacc wrote: post #41

He's already said that he'd follow all local laws so it would be interesting to see if he can find the elusive path of maintaining free speech, following the law and not having Twitter being a toxic cesspool used mainly to shout down those not our your "side". Personally my reservations are because I think running a social media site is a lot about understanding people and defining a healthy culture for your elusive…

It will be an interesting foreshadowing of how he will govern the Mars colony.

Re: Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

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Post by trixie_ »

WilTimSon wrote: post #421

God this is depressing. I'm sure many people are excited about it but I feel like this will just make Twitter worse than it already is, and the scariest part is that it won't kill off the platform. People may say they'll ditch it but, realistically, there's no real competitor to it.

It’s going to get way way better. Twitter is so bad right now it’s almost too easy to figure out what needs to be fixed.
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