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Post by DonHopkins »

cesarb wrote: post #174
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 :)

> https://mas.to/@paulg seems to have been hugged to death already :) You can watch the account in your own instance (if someone on your instance has already followed him, which is likely for larger instances). Just go to https://example.org/@paulg@mas.to (replace the domain with your favorite instance's domain). (Edit: fixed typo)

Does it make any sense to spin up your own little Mastodon server just for you and your most trusted friends, so you don't have to spend any time moderating content?

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Post by srcreigh »

yayr wrote: post #64

This is an absurd situation. I wonder how many "promises" made by Elon have been broken regarding how he wants to manage Twitter and make it a better place. E.g. what about transparency here? Where is the explanation why this account was suspended? I am not sure, that with Elon in the hot seat the trust of the public into Twitter may be restored anytime soon... very sad.

PG left instructions for how to follow him on Mastodon, which is against the new policy. You may not like it, but you can’t say it’s not transparent.

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Post by joegahona »

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…

> Twitter must be bleeding DAUs

My thoughts exactly, he was in some random meeting last week and learned that traffic is falling and this is his dopey “solution.”

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Post by hackernewds »

thebradbain wrote: post #170
garbagetime wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are wrong about what PG said. In fact, his Tweet included an explanation of where to find a link to his Mastodon account. Elon has made it clear that these blatant attempts at ban evasion are not allowed.

The TOS says any accounts that primarily focus on promotion of competitors will be banned, which, hm, but anyways. I think it’s obvious PG’s account was not primarily focused on links to other socials, so on to the next condition. The TOS also says any accounts which post a direct link to such sites will be found in violation. It does not say anything about purely mentioning the fact you have another social media (es…

So if Twitter restarted Vine they would ban Tiktok's Twitter account? Unheard of

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Post by domador »

Is there an archive of Paul Graham's tweets somewhere? I was hoping to get around to reading all of them at some point, but now I might never get that chance.

pg's current Twitter ban and my desire to read pg's full tweet archive reflect two things I despise about common design practices for contemporary social media sites:

1) When a user's account is banned, all their content is made unavailable, even if the rest of their content didn't run afoul of the site's policies. (In other words, user-provided content bans are almost universally draconian.)

2) A user's content can only be accessed linearly. I'd be more likely to have read the full set of pg's tweets by now if I didn't have to always start from the most recent tweet and start scrolling backwards. We've regressed to the time when data storage was primarily tape-based... except that now I, the user, am the human, manually-operated (and frustrated) tape drive. (Sites do tend to provide text-based search but that doesn't fix the full-content-access problem, since I'd have to know the keywords for every bit of content that I'd want to find.)

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Post by rinze »

dm319 wrote: post #497
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…

Wasn't there something about Elon trying to sell Twitter stock privately? I think in the financial times. They have probably lost a lot of advertisers, and Elon might be in financial trouble.

It was in several places, Bloomberg among them: https://archive.ph/0P9i7

The entire thing is a joke.

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Post by seo-speedwagon »

It’s interesting to consider that this is likely the “less online” crowd’s (i.e. what I suppose to be the vast majority of Twitter users) first experience with capricious and arbitrary moderation of their online discussions. Folks who have posted a lot in smaller forums with moderation drawn up from the user base are a lot more familiar with this kind of thing, but if you’ve only posted on corporate, “professionally moderated” platforms, it must be quite disorienting
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