I wish people would reject this brand, as with the-company-formerly-known-as-facebook. Pity.
You have only control over yourself. I will never call this anything but Twitter, same way I've never called Facebook and Google anything else.
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I feel like people just don't know how to deal with trollish people like elon or trump, best you can do is ignore them and they lose the one thing they live for: attention.
Alas, they will always get rewarded for the attention-seeking behaviour. Always. Because it’s a sad fact that there are always people who are attracted to destructive attention-seekers, just as there are people attracted to mass murderers, satanic telepreachers, and promoters of poisonous ideologies. They simply don’t see these characters like you and I do. There’s money to be made by connecting these populations, fr…
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#43Can anyone actually provide any proof that this was an intentional/nefarious "throttle" by X. Using ten domains as an example is not evidence. Did anyone check the millions of sites on the internet? How do you know there were not lots of sites Elon "likes" that were being throttled? Did anyone test more than 100 domains? This could have easily been a bug. e.g. a bug that was happening temporarily because an in memory…
Because that would be impossible to prove, and Twitter’s owner has burned any expectation of good faith by lying, repeatedly, about the smallest issues. He said he wouldn’t ban the ElonJet account, and then he did: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/dec/19/elon-musk/... He banned journalists who reported on it, banned links to Mastodon, Substack, and Threads, changed the algorithm to boost his own content, sl…
Thanks for the reply.
javajosh wrote a great reply in that vein -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37142280
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#44I wish people would reject this brand, as with the-company-formerly-known-as-facebook. Pity.
There should be a higher bar for company names than co-opting a dictionary word or even just a letter. The lack of originality seems to be accelerating: first "Alphabet", then "Meta", and now "X"? (Honorable mention for "Apple".)
I don't know how true this is, but the story was always that the Steves chose "Apple" because it was ahead of "Atari" in the phone book.
I hope it's true. But these things often turn out to be myths.
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#47I wish people would reject this brand, as with the-company-formerly-known-as-facebook. Pity.
You have only control over yourself. I will never call this anything but Twitter, same way I've never called Facebook and Google anything else.
To be fair, Google didn’t change its name like the others. Some subsidiaries that used to be under Google just moved out into a parent umbrella company. Google still exists and contains basically all of the products it used to, and none of the branding changed.
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#48I wish people would reject this brand, as with the-company-formerly-known-as-facebook. Pity.
I think it's time for news organizations to boycott Twitter now
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Posting here might not be helping.
I feel like people just don't know how to deal with trollish people like elon or trump, best you can do is ignore them and they lose the one thing they live for: attention.
This kind of 101-level advice is fine for dealing with random edgelord trolls with 10 followers. However, it's nigh-on impossible to simply ignore the likes of Musk and Trump when newspaper columns are full of their activity and they have such a fucking large impact on us.
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#50Can anyone actually provide any proof that this was an intentional/nefarious "throttle" by X. Using ten domains as an example is not evidence. Did anyone check the millions of sites on the internet? How do you know there were not lots of sites Elon "likes" that were being throttled? Did anyone test more than 100 domains? This could have easily been a bug. e.g. a bug that was happening temporarily because an in memory…
I'm never sure about applying Hanlon's razor to Musk.
I'm trying to make Hanlon's Shaving Brush a thing. Join me! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37042495
(Open Item: A shorter name)