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BryantD wrote: post #404
meshugga wrote: post #227

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having a personal website with contact information is not URL cloaking or plaintext onfuscation. Those TOS are ludicrous to begin with, but are not by any reasonable understanding written to say that you can not have a personal website with other social media.

Sure, you can have a personal website with links to other social media. You just can’t advertise that fact on Twitter. “We will remove any free promotion of prohibited 3rd-party social media platforms.” I don’t see how “I have an account on Mastodon and here’s how you can find it” doesn’t violate that. The policy doesn’t require the promotion to be direct. If there was any doubt, the policy explicitly includes linktr…

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Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by sytelus »

rgbrenner wrote: post #430
britneybitch wrote: post #18

Wow. PG did not even post any links, he pretty much just said "I have a Mastodon account." And just like that, banned. Looks like now you're not allowed to so much as mention that you use other websites on the internet besides Twitter.

I would be willing to bet that Elon follows pg... and he probably took personal offense to him leaving.

Emperor doesn't like disloyal twirps.

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Post by ehsankia »

cesarb wrote: post #248
jmoak3 wrote: post #197

He didn't link to his mastodon at all, did he? Twitter is one of the reasons I became an engineer - I was able to follow and see the mutterings of indie game devs in Copenhagen (vlambeer, if anyone knows them). 15 year old me responded the most inane things to their posts, but it exposed me to work ethics, communities, and possibilities in the computing world I never would have found growing up in Kentucky. I taught…

> He didn't link to his mastodon at all, did he? Very indirectly. He mentioned that his mastodon handle was at his site, which was linked in his twitter bio, and had said handle as the first line (excluding sidebars); only the handle, no links at all, but it's trivial to construct the link given that piece of information.

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platfo...

> Examples:

> "follow me @username on Instagram"

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by cesarb »

the_duke wrote: post #367

No one seems to have mentioned the really interesting aspect here: Twitter must be bleeding DAUs. There are other indicators too. After the takeover they dropped the login wall, but it is back, and way more aggressive than before. You can't even scroll down to see more tweets now, or view replies. The ads are also really weird and odd. Either their ad targeting system is broken, or they just lost so many advertisers…

> After the takeover they dropped the login wall, but it is back, and way more aggressive than before.

At least in one small aspect it's better now: the X in the corner is back, so you can dismiss it. Shortly before the takeover, the X in the login wall was hidden unless you somehow found out the trick (you had to click as if you were going to login with an username and password, and that second form had the X in the corner to dismiss it).

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by lolinder »

This whole situation feels like Musk saw the Freenode meltdown last year and thought "I could do that... but bigger".

There was speculation at the time that the new owner was deliberately destroying the network just for funsies, because no one could possibly be so consistent at making the wrong decision at every turn. That's what Twitter feels like right now.

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Post by happytoexplain »

kyleyeats wrote: post #265
intunderflow wrote: post #57

Paul an hour ago: "I'm not leaving Twitter" Guess he doesn't have much of a choice now https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34042993

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>If you're on the left

Why do this? It honestly seems like most cases of anti-right bias in moderation are really just due to a rightward bias in the personality types that have a higher tendency to break common social media rules, and the remaining cases of potentially true bias are numerically small. And yet even giving your implied complaint the most possible benefit of the doubt, it still makes no sense to use sarcasm to look down on people for simply having different politics from those experiencing the bias.

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Post by arcticbull »

BryantD wrote: post #420
croon wrote: post #251

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reconcile this with what you wrote: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604593057676300288

That’s not really my job. If you want him to resolve the discrepancy between what he Tweeted and what’s on the policy page, you should ask him. I do agree that there’s a discrepancy there, to be clear, and I think the policy is ridiculous no matter how you read it. I also think it’s bad that Musk is shooting from the hip in confusing ways. Given that PG got suspended, the weight of evidence seems to be that my interp…

You seem to be assuming that it has to be policy, and that it has to have been justified by policy - instead of just a capricious exercise of power by someone with a very thin skin currently losing a ton of money on the social media site the court made him buy because he was trolling.

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by retrocryptid »

tim333 wrote: post #376
computerex wrote: post #226

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Meanwhile others have been warning about his lunacy for years and up till recently have faced nothing but backlash from his internet armies. It just feels so good to see comments like yours. It's out in the open now, everyone now knows he is a greedy charlatan.

>everyone now knows he is a greedy charlatan. I think he's good at the engineering stuff. It's just social media is not really his forte. I wouldn't go for the TSLA short myself.

Why would you think Elon is good at engineering? Not trying to be snarky. It's just I clearly missed something.
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