It looks like I’m moving to Mastodon

Post by tchaffee » Sat, Nov 05, 2022, 10:09 AM UTC

mechanical_bear wrote: post #134

vorticalbox wrote: post #78

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there could be a number of reasons other than "Elon doesn't care about xyz" other members of the dev team can/are already doing this Maybe he plans to make it part of everyone's job Maybe he has his own team to replace it We have zero knowledge of what's going to happen so jumping ship without knowing the full picture seems haphazard to me.

Jumping ship because of X at this point is just ideological flexing, we have zero indication how this will play out yet.

Post by watwut » Sat, Nov 05, 2022, 10:09 AM UTC

xmprt wrote: post #138

watwut wrote: post #93

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I think that it is case of preference or just different use case. If you follow few people that tweet sparsly, you want chronological. If you follow many people who tweet a lot, you want algoritmus.

That just sounds like algorithmic with extra steps. An algorithm can take information about your follows tweeting patterns and adjust the amount of chronological timeline you see.

Post by low_tech_love » Sat, Nov 05, 2022, 10:10 AM UTC

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #233

hristov wrote: post #214

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Yeah, I like living in a democracy, so I appreciated when twitter silenced certain people that tried to use it to violently overthrow my democratically elected government. Donald Trump tweeted all the time, many of his tweets were of a very different political opinion than mine (when they were coherent), yet he was not silenced. Not until he tried to violently overthrow the US government.

This is a brilliant example of a selective memory. What you have forgotten is that long before Jan6, Twitter blocked retweets of Trump's tweets, attached various warnings to his tweets, was selectively 'fact-checking' him, how that notebook story was banned on Twitter right before the elections. If that is not silencing, then what is? Can you name some other person on Twitter that had undergone a similar treatment?

Post by zero_shift » Sat, Nov 05, 2022, 10:11 AM UTC

buckaroot wrote: post #94

If Twitter and Mastodon were taken permanently offline tomorrow, would this be of any significant loss to the world? When I see people like the author getting so publicly and verbosely upset about a social media website, I wonder about their perspective. There are surely much more important things going on than preening to the crowds.

Post by tchaffee » Sat, Nov 05, 2022, 10:14 AM UTC

briantakita wrote: post #240

tchaffee wrote: post #215

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Twitter also used to be owned by average people. Like most publicly traded companies. So no, it's not from "many rich shareholders" to Elon. It's more nuanced than you're making it out to be.

> Twitter also used to be owned by average people Then all public companies like Boeing, Lockheed Martin, & Northrop Grumman are owned with the money of "average people"...largely managed by fund advisors.