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Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

#91

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People absolutely should. And people should also hold Musk to account for being a liar and a hypocrite. These things don't conflict.

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Is there any reason why Mastodon can't make a proper mobile app/client?

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

#92
Constraints breed creativity so I’m looking forward to the explosion in creative methods of circumventing this rule.

You probably won’t even have to try that hard to evade automated detection and simply overwhelm their moderation team, which I presume is now tiny.

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

#93
Thats got to be the worst possible decision for Twitter to possibly make. What good is a social media platform that prohibits links to other platforms?

I use FB, Twitter, Insta, TikTok, LinkedIn, Discord, etc for a variety of purposes and find and share great content across platforms.

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

#95
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Note that Mastodon is third in the list. I consider that a success. 1. They ignore you. 2. They laugh at you. 3. They fight you. <<<--- we are here. 4. You win.

I mean, what a great way to find out about alternatives. I'd never heard of "Post" and "Nostr".

That they included Nostr was interesting to me because it’s far smaller than the others but Jack Dorsey has been promoting it recently.

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

#96
Wow. How will the free speech absolutists twist this as being pro free speech?

This policy makes Twitter the least free speech social media platform available.

I wonder how this will work for official Twitter accounts for those other social media platforms? Will @facebook be banned/blocked?

Also what about news services that link to a longer form story on alternative platforms?

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

#98
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"Thin-skinned narcissist buys criticism machine." This is not "free speech absolutism" in the slightest. It's not even business-savvy. Elon's mask has truly cracked, and he proves he is nothing but a febrile mind who has bought into his own hype.

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Plenty of social networks thrive while letting users link to other social networks. TikTok is famous for linking to YouTube.

This is a sign of a bad product.

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

#99

Seems reasonable. Let's all remember the spirit of '20, everyone: Twitter is a private company, if you don't like it build your own twitter!

It's his business, but that doesn't necessarily rationalize it. Jack Dorsey's Twitter, for as oblivious and misguided as it was, didn't stop people from connecting on other sites. This is a top-down decision to lock everyone in the Hellsite, and I'm pretty sure this will be the tipping point for most average users.

>I'm pretty sure this will be the tipping point for most average users

I don't think so. Musk is doing the same thing Trump did - a new outrage every day to keep the masses coming back. It's far more important to generate controversy than anything else and he can get a whole new day of Twitter views when he changes the policy again next week.

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

#100

If Twitter was trying to find a way to alienate big accounts who otherwise haven't been affected by the drama so far, it would be this.

I can think of a few popular OSINT accounts I follow that have linktree links in their profile. They're still primarily active on Twitter and even posted that they'd even prefer to stay there. I wonder if waking up to their accounts suspended will be the impetus to finally get off.
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