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Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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His mastodon account has also been suspended on the server I'm on. Ugh, what is it with person C deciding that person B is not allowed to see what person A says. I dislike human nature sometimes. Or at least the personality type that is attracted to moderator positions.

So go to a different instance or even start up your own! That's the beauty of it, now you don't have to care what person C thinks - you can just go elsewhere.

Except that persons C, who control the instances where many interesting people are, have banned instances run by people who are not like the Cs. Furthermore, I don't even want to bother with all this stuff, playing detective trying to figure out the character of the moderators of different instances, figuring out how to migrate, and figuring out which other instances they federate with. There is no beauty to be found here, just human nature being such that as a species we can't even accomplish a platform where we can read the text messages from people we want to follow.

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post #93

I was a pretty big Elon fan a year ago. SpaceX is/was a monumental achievement. He's gone insane. Suggesting Taiwan and Ukraine surrender, all this Twitter nonsense... I'm shorting TSLA to $50 on Monday.

Wait, when did he suggest that Taiwan surrender? I missed that.

He is speed-running the Howard Hughes game.

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#524

TBH, I have 0 sympathy for PG. he was excusing Elon’s Twitter actions, with roughly “he lands rockets, and you don’t, so he knows what he’s doing”. He only has an issues with him when he’s personally affected? Cool.

He employs rocket scientists.

And also, I hear, a layer of glad-handing management dedicated to keeping him from putting his thumb in the rocket scientist pie, patting him on the head for his cockamamie ideas, and faking up Potemkin demonstrations to keep him happy.

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#525

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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?

It tells me that I leaned a bit too far into being neutral and wasn’t clear that I think the ban is ridiculous! Good corrective feedback for me.

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#526

Twitter is not an institution. It is not a utility. People can just leave and go to another website. It will take time for a new website or websites to figure things out at scale, both technologically and socially. But people were patient with twitter in the fail whale days and I assume they'll be patient with another service in the future. This guy is running twitter like it's his personal website. Which, it is. But…

The problem is everyone is treating it de facto as an institution to the point that the Library of Congress preserves tweets, and nearly every government and corporate PR uses it to issue announcements.

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post #113

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Mastadon UX is really frustrating. Hoping there's a better option for following him in the near future

I feel like someone should lean into the fact that twitter is going insane and make a carbon copy of it, instead of trying to innovate on the concept/UX. Maybe even use a similar name, like bitter, xitter, etc. Innovation is usually the way to overthrow incumbents, but in this case a carbon copy might be more effective.

https://nitter.net/about

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

#528

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…

their entire ad backend is in a state of crisis. i have friends who were on the monetization (read: ads) teams at twitter and every single one of them has been asked/ordered to return to work if they want to collect their severance

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From official Twitter support: > We recognize that many of our users are active on other social media platforms. However, we will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter. > Specifically, we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms and content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, T…

lol, nostr? There are like 20 people on that, it's still just an experiment.

Jack has been promoting it.

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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post #483
post #390

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Entirely anecdotal but I did notice a marked shift towards even more erratic behaviour and dissonant, often contradictory utterances after his second disclosed Covid bout back in March this year and since then.

Counterpoint - Thai cave diver.

That was an example of sporadic immature behavior on his part, certainly. Lately, though, he seems to be losing the ability to think almost anything through.

IANAD, not a medical opinion, etc., etc., but I wouldn't be surprised if a dementia diagnosis is in his near-term future.

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