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Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by natpalmer1776 »

Yoric wrote: post #738
mhitza wrote: post #678

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The way Elon seems to like to take his chances, Twitter pulling out from the EU/EEA market might be a possibility. Personally I think that would be beneficial, as even more would switch to Mastodon in 2023. Even if I don't use social blogging websites myself, I think that would be a net win.

Having the open sewer pull out from the EU? Oh, no, that would be such a shame... /s

I mean… having recently read “Everyone Poops” to my youngest I feel the analogy isn’t terribly far off.

Guess the question is what direction the sewage is flowing.

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Post by agrippanux »

berniedurfee wrote: post #753
catapart wrote: post #656

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I'm kind of shocked that Bezos hasn't commissioned an ActivityPub/federated network (mastodon instance) that obfuscates the decentralization (for easier onboarding) and gives you some kind of "deal" for having Amazon Prime. Feels like Amazon could eat Twitter's lunch here (especially since they, allegedly, run Twitter's servers now, meaning that they could handle the traffic).

I think there are tons of brands that could launch a Twitter clone right now while the dumpster fire is hot. My guess is that nobody wants to run a social media site these days… not even Elon Musk. Social media sites are a sort of grayweb at this point in history.

Content moderation is a hard, stressful, thankless job. Having built several moderation tools for large sites (large for back in the day), I for one am enjoying the debacle that is Elon and a cadre of Yes Men thinking they would waltz in with no experience and shake it all up with no consequences.

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by meepmorp »

airocker wrote: post #508

It is not right that TOS can be changed abruptly and people made to comply at once. Why not just delete a post than suspend account?

Because Musk got angry about pg's tweet and lashed out, then pretended it was about policy instead of his lack of emotional regulation. He's not really making deeply reasoned choices.

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Post by waboremo »

OJFord wrote: post #635
srrr wrote: post #609

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The European Union Digital Markets Act, coming into effect in May 2023, explicitly forbids such behavior. (If twitter is classified as a "gatekeeper".) https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-... Example of the “don'ts” - Gatekeeper platforms may no longer: - treat services and products offered by the gatekeeper itself more favourably in ranking than similar services or products offered by third p…

Odd use of 'gatekeeper' isn't it? Even if I would call this 'gatekeeping behaviour' (I don't think it is, the way that's usually used around here at least? Not to say that it isn't 'misbehaviour') surely the thing that's objected to really is gatekeep ing by x platforms, where x is 'monopoly' or 'dominant' or something?

Twitter is a bit of a gatekeeper is it not? So many companies ran their customer service through there, it became one of the dominant customer service platforms (alongside Facebook). On top of this, many news platforms also relied heavily on Twitter to break and share news, same with journalists who used Twitter as their only form of communication effectively.

Twitter was positioning itself as a major gatekeeper of information, and so I do think the EU should be looking into this carefully in hopes of preventing it from happening again.

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Post by barathr »

EamonnMR wrote: post #770
barathr wrote: post #444

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

It's hard to surface stuff there, got any good devs to follow?

Here are a few among many:

https://mastodon.social/@b0rk

https://abyssdomain.expert/@filippo

https://ioc.exchange/@matthew_d_green

https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza

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Post by richbell »

tonightstoast wrote: post #697
sc68cal wrote: post #353

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https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1514938507407421440?s=20&t... For those curious

Do I have to be logged in to see threads now? I can only see the first tweet that ends in “Long thread emoji ”

For some reason his replies aren't at the top, you have to expand past the first few replies.

Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by PaulHoule »

paxys wrote: post #718
PaulHoule wrote: post #691

I think people haven't quite gotten yet what's going on. Twitter fell out of the news cycle about two weeks ago because SBF outdid Musk on "CEO from Hell". For the past year or so, whenever Musk has dropped out of the news cycle he has started acting out to get more attention. Reinstating accounts like Trump's did not give Musk much of a boost, so Musk decided to try banning accounts. Musk will have to find some exit…

Here is a much simpler explanation - there is no "4D chess" involved. Musk overpaid for a social network and is wildly incompetent at running it.

It's more like 1D chess. The trouble with your explanation is that Musk was well-established in an escalating cycle of acting out to get attention before he announced his plan to buy it. That situation naturally kept him in the news as it developed but he's going to have to try increasingly drastic actions to prevent people from losing interest.

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Post by dang »

Hoyadonis wrote: post #646
sillysaurusx wrote: post #594

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Paul’s unbanned now.

Additionally, Elon Musk just tweeted asking if he should resign as head of Twitter: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604617643973124097

Related ongoing thread:

Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34045423

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