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Re: The Shit Show

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Post by paulcole »

geerlingguy wrote: post #28

I'm still waiting to hear any kind of official word, but it looks pretty bleak. Without Tweetbot, Twitter is almost impossible to use. Checking in on https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/ , the alternate UI, it's almost usable, but still missing like 8 of the most important features that made Twitter useful to me. I have been posting sometimes on Mastodon but still primarily on Twitter, waiting to see how things turned out.…

> Without Tweetbot, Twitter is almost impossible to use

In what way? Don’t probably 99% of people who use Twitter not use Tweetbot (including myself)? I use the browser and/or the iPad app and don’t find anything unusable about it. What am I missing in my ignorant bliss?

Re: The Shit Show

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Post by tptacek »

tremon wrote: post #138
tptacek wrote: post #87

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In the set-associative cache that was my brain in 1998, MP3s occupied the same slot as XDCC'd Amiga mods. But much bigger files. I was carrying around giant folders of CDs at the time. Also: you had to listen to them... on your computer? I had a whole discrete stereo system. Why would I want to listen to music through game speakers?

Didn't your discrete stereo system have external inputs? I've had an analog cable from my computer's line-out to the stereo system's aux-in from pretty much the same day that my parents let me have my own pc in my bedroom (which was 1996, I think). These days it's a USB cable rather than a cinch cable, and vorbis/flac rather than mp3, but my PC has been my main music player for more than 25 years -- and the only pair…

I mean, to be clear, I did eventually come around on MP3s! I don't still lug a 15 pound folder of CDs around with me everywhere. It just took me longer than everyone else. :)

To put a timeline on this: I also ended up buying one of those Empeg in-dash MP3 players.

Re: The Shit Show

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Post by giantrobot »

riceart wrote: post #81
count wrote: post #75

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Napster didn't start until 1999 :) I remember downloading mp3s on Napster, and then using my parallel port to transfer them to my Diamond Rio MP3 player. All 4 songs at a time!

Before Napster there was FTP.

An F-serves on IRC. Much respect to the glorious bastards running FTPs and F-serves off their dorm ResNet connections. The rest of us poor slobs on dial-up could actually max out our downstream bandwidth.

Re: The Shit Show

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Post by simonw »

nradov wrote: post #133
Ensorceled wrote: post #97

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And you're defending the antics of a childish billionaire and blaming the damage on the people he hurt. That's on you.

There hasn't been any damage. No one has been hurt. Calm down and stop being overly dramatic. Twitter is not a real place, it's just a social network. Anyone who doesn't like it is free to use other communication tools, or even build their own. And I'm not defending Elon Musk here. I don't care about him one way or another. This isn't an issue that rational, educated people should get agitated about.

"Twitter is not a real place, it's just a social network"

The idea that what happens on the internet is unimportant compared to what happens "in real life" hadn't made sense for over a decade now.

The internet is real life.

Re: The Shit Show

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Post by Spooky23 »

warinukraine wrote: post #99
Ensorceled wrote: post #97

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And you're defending the antics of a childish billionaire and blaming the damage on the people he hurt. That's on you.

I'm defending the right to own property, which is something really fundamental to the way we organize our society. ... and when you say "the people that were hurt"... If you leave your wallet on the street, it might be stolen and you might be hurt. I'm not blaming the victim; someone stealing your wallet is wrong even though you left it on the street. It's not your fault, I'm not blaming you, I blame the thief for th…

Why? Turds like Musk don’t need defense from anything other than their own ego.

Taking a poorly run site that had such a great influence in society and somehow running it even worse so that it loses its influence and revenue capability is breathtaking. It’s a lesson on how the modern hands off approach to corporate governance puts society at risk and is a lesson for limiting the rights of property owners.

Re: The Shit Show

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Post by acdha »

geerlingguy wrote: post #28

I'm still waiting to hear any kind of official word, but it looks pretty bleak. Without Tweetbot, Twitter is almost impossible to use. Checking in on https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/ , the alternate UI, it's almost usable, but still missing like 8 of the most important features that made Twitter useful to me. I have been posting sometimes on Mastodon but still primarily on Twitter, waiting to see how things turned out.…

I have to say that Mastodon has surprised me in that regard: fewer followers by number but roughly equal on the count of pleasant interactions.

Re: The Shit Show

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Post by duxup »

gnarbarian wrote: post #8

He has every right to be mad but this post comes off as petulant and juvenile.

Normally I would agree 100%, but in this case the target has more than earned it and the tone matches the impact on the author so I give them a pass on it.

Re: The Shit Show

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Post by pbronez »

zenmacro wrote: post #47
tptacek wrote: post #12

I think (and have been saying this a bunch lately) that he's right about ActivityPub and Mastodon, and that "a universal timeline" is actually a really good way to put words to it. I was a Mastodon hater for years, but having used it for the past month or so with an actual community of people (really: the whole community I interacted with on Twitter before), I have to admit it: the ActivityPub people were right about…

Are there any guides, tools, apps, etc to try out ActivityPub?

I reference a few in my orientation thread https://hachyderm.io/@PeterBronez/109521578914692484

For learning ActivityPub specifically, the best meta-guide I’ve found is https://tinysubversions.com/notes/reading-activitypub/

Re: The Shit Show

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Post by Jcowell »

input_sh wrote: post #92
hhh wrote: post #78

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The ‘For You’ is the behavior i’ve had for a while. I’m happy to be able to go to the Following tab. I’m tired of seeing ‘X follow’ etc.

You were able to switch to "latest tweets" before as well. The control was top right next to "home" label, the icon looked like stars. The only thing that truly changed is "latest tweets" got renamed to "following" and it now takes up more vertical space (53 pixels to be exact) completely unnecessarily for something you're quite unlikely to click on on a regular basis. Change for the sake of change. Doesn't actually…

Not that I want to defend Elon’s twitter, but a sliding menu is far better than a button you need to click on to see the options of what it does. It far easier to see tweets just from the people you follow with just a glance & swipe

Re: The Shit Show

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Post by Spooky23 »

nradov wrote: post #133
Ensorceled wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And you're defending the antics of a childish billionaire and blaming the damage on the people he hurt. That's on you.

There hasn't been any damage. No one has been hurt. Calm down and stop being overly dramatic. Twitter is not a real place, it's just a social network. Anyone who doesn't like it is free to use other communication tools, or even build their own. And I'm not defending Elon Musk here. I don't care about him one way or another. This isn't an issue that rational, educated people should get agitated about.

Twitter is how a failed game show host and real estate promoter became the president of the United States.

It matters.

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