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Post by mschuster91 »

barathr wrote: post #444
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…

The good thing is that many of these things are now happening at mastodon, among other places.

Mastodon lacks one very important thing: global trends, the most important tool for minorities and the oppressed to call for attention. So many crimes got the spotlight because of that, and Mastodon by design can't replicate it.

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Post by EugeneOZ »

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.

After that famous level of Tesla quality? I think he is stealing the fame of the real SpaceX engineers just because he has a much bigger influence in the media.

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Post by sytelus »

benmorris wrote: post #97

If it isn't obvious this is the new norm for Twitter. Elon is making up the rules as he goes and ruling like a pissed off insecure reddit mod. I don't buy into all the freedom of speech rhetoric he has been spewing. This is about control and fueling his ego. It is a real shame because I wanted to continue using Twitter like I always have, but I don't think that will be possible.

Please don't compare Emperor with "insecure reddit mod". Whatever sentence he may utter is the law of the land.

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Post by paxys »

RivieraKid wrote: post #158

Honestly it's hilarious to see the Elon worshippers turn against him. Paul Graham and Ryan Jones - check. Tim Urban, Andrej Karpathy, Sam Altman - no comment so far, but I suspect they're not on Elon team anymore. Lex Fridman - no chance, that guy would gladly follow him to grave.

Not surprising at all. This happened consistently with Trump and all the moderate republicans who supported his rise but eventually realized that his extremism wasn't an act and he was never on their side, just his own.

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Post by IOT_Apprentice »

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.

He isn’t, Musk is a lucky grifter. No need to short Tesla he is destroying his own net worth AND Tesla all in his own. Sit back, relax & enjoy the fire.

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Post by srcreigh »

BryantD wrote: post #207
meshugga wrote: post #104

This is amazing. He basically said, he'd return if elon comes around, and wishes him the best. And just said "my mastodon is on my website". No violation of those new "TOS" of any kind. https://mas.to/@paulg seems to have been hugged to death already :)

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Sorry for all those downvotes. I get people dislike Elon right now, and dislike the ban, but you are correct. I wish we would seek understanding instead of trying to… promote misunderstanding and silence people who point it out?

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Post by kmonsen »

Dreako wrote: post #53

Turns out, running a consumer social company is a lot different than building rockets. a part of me still had some hope. "Maybe he has better plans, maybe he knows what he's doing" But nope. I was wrong.

Twitter is an advertising company not a consumer company (Tesla is a consumer company)

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Post by halfmatthalfcat »

consumer451 wrote: post #478
SilverBirch wrote: post #134

There's kind of three options here: * Elon is personally policing twitter, and has banned PG in a fit of pique, despite literally being at a party in Doha the world cup * Twitter's staff are just being crazy over the top with bannings - this might actually be the most likely. It's kind of obvious that Twitter has some automated systems that suspend accounts when they get mass reported, and some people with a sense of…

> despite literally being at a party in Doha the world cup I wasn't sure that you were serious, but lo and behold... https://imgur.com/a/kyoI2X6 picture was posted by: Chief of Public Affairs - Air Force/Space Force (prior position: Space Force 45th Space Launch Delta Media Relations Chief)*PERSONAL ACCOUNT-OPINIONS ARE MY OWN

With Jared Kushner right next to him? Man the Monkey’s Paw is fully clenched.

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Post by DistractionRect »

croon wrote: post #251
BryantD wrote: post #207

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

With Twitter, it's been demonstrated that what Musk does, does not follow what Musk says. There's nothing to reconcile here. The new policy is very clear and leaves no wiggle room for the occasional link.

Much like when Elon said he wouldn't ban Sweeney and that he's a free speech absolutionist, followed by him:

- banning Sweeney without justification

- unbanning some of Sweeney's accounts

- banning linking to Sweeney's other social media

- putting links to any mastodon instances behind a warning

- rolling out new policy to justify banning Sweeney and links to his other social media

- walking back the permabanns after a bunch of journalists get roped up in the Elonjet fallout

- this new policy, presumably to justify the continued banning of Sweeney. You can put other reasoning here, like making it harder to migrate off Twitter. Other commentors mentioned in previous discussions that linking your mastodon in your profile allowed mastodon users to more easily find/recreate their Twitter network automatically.

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