I have an idea. Do not build your businesses on top of other social media platform APIs.
In fact, you should live like a hermit in wilderness and never depend on other people for anything, making your computers out of wood.
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This feels like concern trolling. Did your mom just die a few weeks ago? The author experienced two personally traumatic events in a short period of time. Maybe your sense of "tastefulness" isn't relevant here.
One is business, the other one is family life. His business decisions were not right and he is learning it the hard way. Why would anyone involve their mother's death in an Elon Musk post?
> His business decisions were not right and he is learning it the hard way.
This is absurd. His business decision worked for 16 years, which is longer than many jobs or even companies last.
The point is that the new owner of Twitter has no respect for the people who contributed to the platform over the years. Twitter won't even announce that they've shut down the 3rd party API. How cowardly is that?
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#203Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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?
> Don’t probably 99% of people who use Twitter not use Tweetbot (including myself)? My understanding is that the significant accounts tend not to use the official apps / web interface, one of the biggest reasons being so that they can track accounts for reading purposes without providing what the algorithm treats as a positive endorsement of them, and so that they can use the signal boosting effect of “following” sel…
Interesting idea but it doesn’t really support:
> Without Tweetbot, Twitter is almost impossible to use
So some celebs, journalists, and the overwhelming minority of users have to use a burner or browse incognito?
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#204Earlier quoted context omitted.
One is business, the other one is family life. His business decisions were not right and he is learning it the hard way. Why would anyone involve their mother's death in an Elon Musk post?
> His business decisions were not right and he is learning it the hard way. This is absurd. His business decision worked for 16 years, which is longer than many jobs or even companies last. The point is that the new owner of Twitter has no respect for the people who contributed to the platform over the years. Twitter won't even announce that they've shut down the 3rd party API. How cowardly is that?
How is that absurd? His twitter client is just an interface for what twitter does already. It is like buying pizza from Dominos and adding one more topping on and reheating. I think investing in social media platform APIs is risky because they keep changing their business models and policies.
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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.
There were also quite a few websites that just straight up hosted MP2s/MP3s for public download. I can't recall domain names but I do remember .se and .ru being common tlds.
I couldn't read a single word of Swedish or Russian, but my friends and I figured out how to navigate to the music downloads.
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#206Well-written and touching post. To switch off this API used by so many long-time users on the same day "For You" appears as the default option on Twitter triggers me. The "For You" timeline is only for Elon: it will drive engagement, extremism, and all the things social networks have been accused of driving for years now in order to make more $. Some folks here have been comparing the crypto/Web3 and ActivityPub craz…
I admit I don't use Twitter or Mastodon very much, but Mastodon's UX seems pretty decent these days. At least 50% of the time when I click on a Twitter link something breaks. Either the page doesn't load or a video won't play or whatever. And that's to say nothing of the "SIGN UP FOR TWITTER" bullshit that pops up whenever you click on anything.
I was just thinking about how every page I visit on mastodon is in a strong dark mode theme.
About a week ago I was in Twitters web settings checking stuff like connected apps, just to see if there are some, and switched the theme to light, the default blue-white, which probably 90+% of the users see.
I then noticed that Twitter looks nicer when not in dark mode (I have this same issue with IDEs, but yet I always stay with dark themes), that it looks friendlier.
Does Mastodon have a way to set my own preferences across all the different servers by specifying it in one location, or is this something the owner of the server decides? because if 90+% of those light themed Twitter users are confronted with default black themed mastodon feeds, it might give them a bad association towards this dark web thing the news talk about, or some depressive mood.
I wonder if it would help if Mastodon instances had a light theme by default.
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#207Earlier quoted context omitted.
> His business decisions were not right and he is learning it the hard way. This is absurd. His business decision worked for 16 years, which is longer than many jobs or even companies last. The point is that the new owner of Twitter has no respect for the people who contributed to the platform over the years. Twitter won't even announce that they've shut down the 3rd party API. How cowardly is that?
How is that absurd? His twitter client is just an interface for what twitter does already. It is like buying pizza from Dominos and adding one more topping on and reheating. I think investing in social media platform APIs is risky because they keep changing their business models and policies.
> His twitter client is just an interface for what twitter does already. It is like buying pizza from Dominos and adding one more topping on and reheating.
This is also absurd. If the app is so pointless, then why did so many people buy it?
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#208Well-written and touching post. To switch off this API used by so many long-time users on the same day "For You" appears as the default option on Twitter triggers me. The "For You" timeline is only for Elon: it will drive engagement, extremism, and all the things social networks have been accused of driving for years now in order to make more $. Some folks here have been comparing the crypto/Web3 and ActivityPub craz…
> The "For You" timeline is only for Elon
The "For You" timeline is a new name for the "Home" timeline that's been around forever. And now it's easier to get to the chronological feed ("Following"), the first actual UX improvement to the site since the acquisition.
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#209Well-written and touching post. To switch off this API used by so many long-time users on the same day "For You" appears as the default option on Twitter triggers me. The "For You" timeline is only for Elon: it will drive engagement, extremism, and all the things social networks have been accused of driving for years now in order to make more $. Some folks here have been comparing the crypto/Web3 and ActivityPub craz…
Dealbreaker for Mastodon (that I've seen multiple people mention) is that instance admins can view personal DMs. Yes, employees from major social media companies can view your private messages, but it's more likely there's an audit trail in those cases while Mastodon instances have minimal oversight.
Eh, if it’s that secret, use Signal or something.
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Same.
> We loved this app like I loved my mom.
> Like my mom, the API has been declining for awhile.
I can't tell if these were attempts at humor, but if they are they're disgusting, and if they're serious then they're even more disgusting.
Elon Musk may be an asshole, but so is this guy.