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Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by monkeywork »

DonHopkins wrote: post #551
cesarb wrote: post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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?

Yes I wish we could have some sort of rule where you could never have more than 100 or so people per server and the community really really focused on making the deploy instructions as simple as possible for people to use with things like Oracles free tier, or the low cost VPS's out there.

Mastodon instances with 10's of thousands of users is a TERRIBLE idea for the long term viability of the service.

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by 323 »

bydlocoder wrote: post #580
minimaxir wrote: post #545

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hijacking top comment to note Elon Musk has commented: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604616426114932737 > Paul’s account will be restored shortly And https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604616863673208832 > Going forward, there will be a vote for major policy changes. My apologies. Won’t happen again.

The company is a clown show if a CEO has to interfere with moderation policies.

Could also be malicious compliance.

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by elkos »

SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #618
jdiez17 wrote: post #547

Musk just tweeted that @paulg will be restored shortly: https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046164261149327... And “Going forward, there will be a vote for major policy changes. My apologies. Won’t happen again.” https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046168636732088... Edit: and now he’s asking if he should step down https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046176439731240...

> Edit: and now he’s asking if he should step down https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046176439731240 ... If it doesn't go his way how many times will he put up a new poll?

What's his way though?

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by [deleted] »

andreyk wrote: post #653
jdiez17 wrote: post #547

Musk just tweeted that @paulg will be restored shortly: https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046164261149327... And “Going forward, there will be a vote for major policy changes. My apologies. Won’t happen again.” https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046168636732088... Edit: and now he’s asking if he should step down https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046176439731240...

"Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll." Wow. 50.9 opposed, 49.1 pro.

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Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by redbell »

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.

Well, I think I have to update my understanding of "Free Speech". It's such a simple concept on paper that got extremely complex to deal with once deployed to production.

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by ceejayoz »

542458 wrote: post #617
jdiez17 wrote: post #547

Musk just tweeted that @paulg will be restored shortly: https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046164261149327... And “Going forward, there will be a vote for major policy changes. My apologies. Won’t happen again.” https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046168636732088... Edit: and now he’s asking if he should step down https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/16046176439731240...

This whole “Elon Musk polls Elon Musk’s followers and acts like it’s a) representative of the Twitter userbase in general and that b) the results of the poll are an infallible measure of which option is best” thing is just bizarre to me. The former is pretty clearly untrue, and the latter is untrue for most definitions of “best”.

Agreed, and it makes it doubly funny when he loses one.

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by elgenie »

smrtinsert wrote: post #393
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.

No mod of any other major social network issues site wide bans based on the mere mention of another social network.

The "reddit mod" the comment you're responding to would be one in charge of a particular subreddit, not of the entire network (the latter would be an "admin" in reddit parlance).

A quick perusal of https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/ should be sufficient to understand that subreddit mods indeed do go on power trips of capricious banning, including for the grievous sin of mentioning a competing subreddit.

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by PierceJoy »

DonHopkins wrote: post #551
cesarb wrote: post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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?

Isn’t that just a private Discord? Or do you specifically mean something you can host yourself?

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by stanleydrew »

Eji1700 wrote: post #581
stanleydrew wrote: post #544

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> Elon might be getting margin called on Tesla right now, which could wipe him out financially. I don't think this is how margin calls work. Presuming your broker is properly managing risk, then a margin call is explicitly designed to not wipe you out financially. You have to put up more capital or sell positions in order to maintain a certain amount of equity in your account, and that required amount is never zero (…

Depends on your definition of wiped out. In order to get the loans for this he wound up putting up a ton of Tesla stock. He won’t be poor, but he could possibly lose control of Tesla and likely by extension things like space x. He’ll likely never be poor but he’ll lose his relevance

Fair. I guess I pedantically object to using the term "margin called" as a verb that implies it causes financial ruin. The margin call helps to avoid ruin.

But you're right, if he had to sell so much TSLA to meet margin requirements that he lost control, that would be bad.

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by ceejayoz »

alkonaut wrote: post #445
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…

I’m sure Elon said on day 1 at Twitter that he wanted a Twitter client app for his phone where he can just click on someone’s face and he’ll never hear from them again.

Which is odd, as they all have that functionality.
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