dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35391433
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A new era of transparency for Twitter
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#22Nothing twitter can do to restore the lost trust. Twitter has to die evenutally. I believe in federated microblogging future.
For me the best social media company is one I don't have to trust in because I can look, check and verify. Or at least that others can do this.
In that sense, this does make a dent.
Still, without config/model weights, etc. it's not worth that much.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
For me, at least, I don't even see it signed by "Twitter". I see a "By" under the headline, with an empty space where the author should be. (Maybe it's since been updated/removed?) Which is even more ironic/hilarious.
Twitter shows up next to "By" for me, but it took a few seconds to load in after the page itself. Maybe it's being blocked by a script/ad blocker in your end?
No, it actually has something to do with my Twitter account. If I log out (without changing any extensions), I see "Twitter" show up as the author.
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#25Isn't it slightly ironic for a post on transparency to be signed "Twitter" as its author instead of some human? Who's speaking at this point? Of course in context of the rest of their missteps it's a tiny thing, but it stands out to me immediately when seeing the post at least.
For me, at least, I don't even see it signed by "Twitter". I see a "By" under the headline, with an empty space where the author should be. (Maybe it's since been updated/removed?) Which is even more ironic/hilarious.
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#26Lol talk about tone deaf and rudderless. This is their era of impulsive decisions, cyber bullying and demise (I hope)
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#27Nothing twitter can do to restore the lost trust. Twitter has to die evenutally. I believe in federated microblogging future.
I think twitter can be replaced by another twitter. something that share some of the nice traits, but leaves out the others.
Whatever it is it won't be federated though.. except maybe as a small side feature "normies" dont know about.
Re: A new era of transparency for Twitter
#28Isn't it slightly ironic for a post on transparency to be signed "Twitter" as its author instead of some human? Who's speaking at this point? Of course in context of the rest of their missteps it's a tiny thing, but it stands out to me immediately when seeing the post at least.
The organization is speaking, which is made up of many people. This is fine.
Fine maybe, just not very transparent.
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#29> By Twitter
so what is that, no one wants to put their name on this?
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#30Nothing twitter can do to restore the lost trust. Twitter has to die evenutally. I believe in federated microblogging future.
I think twitter can be replaced by another twitter. something that share some of the nice traits, but leaves out the others. Whatever it is it won't be federated though.. except maybe as a small side feature "normies" dont know about.
Launching a big brand Twitter alternative on top of the existing Fediverse feels to me like it could work incredibly well right now.
The obsolute worst thing about the Fediverse (Mastodon et al) right now is the onboarding process. You have to "chose an instance" before you can even start understanding what that's about - and if you chose wrong you might find your instance gets switched off leaving you high and dry in the future.
Now imagine Tumblr ships ActivityPub. Every Tumblr user can now follow any Mastodon user, and vice-versa. The Tumblr ecosystem gets a whole bunch of new high quality available content. Mastodon enthusiasts can tell their skeptical friends "go sign up for a Tumblr account and follow me from that".
Or... if you're launching something new, why would you launch from a state of zero accounts when you could launch with Fediverse compatibility and have ~10m accounts that your first users can start following straight away?