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Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by greatgib »

troydavis wrote: post #49

(from another thread) Any attorneys want to weigh in on whether - or when - this becomes an anti-competitive/anti-trust concern, either in the US (FTC) or the EU? Related reading: * Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) Article 102, on abusive conduct by companies that have a dominant position in a market: https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/antitrust/procedures... . Any EU resident can file a co…

Awesome in stupidity, because there is also not a fake good reason like "there are bad content that we don't control there so we want to protect our users" but just "you should stay here and we forbid any link to a platform we don't own".

Also that it is not a rule that is there since ever, like apple could have done, but a sudden change after an already controversial situation.

It is awesome to see how Elon is behaving like a spoiled kid! I really hope that twitter financial will crash so that he will be ruined and the platform will be sold by the bank he used for the LBO.

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by amrocha »

tomrod wrote: post #16

LOL!!! How thin Elon's skin must be. To staunch competition, his team bans people rather than produce a better product. Has he always been a bully in business, or is this recent? Caveat emptor, advertisers. Mastodon is proving to be simple enough and good enough for everything Twitter offered.

The writing has been on the wall for years. He swatted a journalist for being critical of Tesla. At this point anyone that still supports him is willingly looking away.

Edit: he swatted a whistleblower, not a journalist

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by bvaldivielso »

sva_ wrote: post #80

People here can't even read a few paragraphs on a link posted? > We recognize that certain social media platforms provide alternative experiences to Twitter, and allow users to post content to Twitter from these platforms. In general, any type of cross-posting to our platform is not in violation of this policy, even from the prohibited sites listed above. This is just about people who basically stop using Twitter and…

My read on that is that they allow the content to be cross-posted, not linked

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by shubhamkrm »

afandian wrote: post #44
m4lvin wrote: post #24

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".

The irony is Jack has invested in and actively promotes nostr.

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by est31 »

When MS bought github many people moved to gitlab and started to advertise their gitlab IDs. I too put my gitlab in there. But ultimately, gitlab didn't catch on on a permanent basis: most devs still are on github, thanks to network effects. People removed their gitlab mentions.

I feel the same with the "find me on mastodon" twitter bios: people will realize that only 50 of their thousands of followers can be found on mastodon, and then move back in a few weeks after giving up on the experiment. During all that time they have still kept most of their activities on twitter because there is simply more going on there, more replies to their tweets, more tweets to reply to, etc.

banning them might have actually the opposite effect here: then they get forced to focus on mastodon. Having a large number of users advertise mastodon ids and talk all day long about how horrible twitter is on twitter actually drives engagement. Banning large numbers of users is very bad for engagement on the other hand, but very good for mastodon engagement numbers.

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by nopenopenopeno »

ClumsyPilot wrote: post #36

Ah damn, I hoped for a fair experiment to demonstrate absordity of total free speech, but istead we got bog standard hypocracy! Boo! If you are caught wondering why some people still support Elon - in 'true conservative' society, like Russia or Saudi states, hypocracy is means of demonstrating hierarchy. So as a leader, you show that you are dominant by demonstrating that rules don't apply to you. That makes you even…

And we should criticize historical communist leaders accordingly, instead of criticizing socialism whole cloth.
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