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This is the exact reason I refuse to touch Mastodon - the people who are Really Mad about Elon's purchase of Twitter are the exact people who made Twitter so toxic that I avoided it like the plague. I guess I'm happy that they are self sorting onto their own platform, but I'm going to stay far away from it.
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For the last few weeks you’ve been mostly posting grammar correction comments. Why? I’ll give you something to keep your interest: wensday.
I also participate in discussions like any other regular user, but I can't look away when I see somebody butcher the english language like that (and it isn't even my first language). It takes me 10 seconds to correct someone, and hopefully the corrected person makes less mistakes in the future. Nobody loses here, I don't see any harm in this, there are only good outcomes. Once you realize how many people can't write…
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This is very disappointing, and automatically dismisses omg.lol as an option for me as a researcher and educator.
And is illegal to boot. If that's their attitude they should not allow Europeans to register in the first place because all it will do is set them up for a confrontation with the various Data Privacy Offices. And such wilful language rules out any apologies.
If enough people do it they will act.
https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/r...
If one does not like EU law, one should just not do business here.
It's nice, the only problem I got with omg.lol is that Wayback Machine archives are unavailable for all domains. I'm concerned that this part of the internet won't be saved for others to see in the future.
I think that's great.. archiving should be opt-in not opt-out You can read and access my work/words as I want. And once I don't or change my mind you can't. Once someone posts something, you don't have a right to it in perpetuity .. That's how things should work - but that's just my opinion
> You can read and access my work/words as I want. And once I don't or change my mind you can't.
That's not reasonable.
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Hangon, if go to another country I most certainly have to follow the laws that apply there. If I surf over to another (Internet surfing) country because the server is physically located in that country, I again am forced to follow the laws that apply there. It does seem illogical to have such setup especially since physical I haven't moved. Now it seems that I can take my laws with me when I visit a server in another…
If you run a site in the US targeting a primarily US user base, should you be forced to abide by the laws of Saudi Arabia?
That's the situation with privacy protection laws: the user brings the laws with them.
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Do you equate freedom of speech with "abuse, harassment, and harm"? Were these activities you wanted to perform in order to sign up?
>Do you equate freedom of speech with "abuse, harassment, and harm"? Almost anything in CURRENT_YEAR can be interpreted as "abuse, harassment, and harm" by someone. Is saying "fuck Christianity and fuck White men" abusive, harassing, or harmful? What if Christians and White men interpret that as harmful? Will they take that down? >Were these activities you wanted to perform in order to sign up? Again, something as be…
By contrast, if you wanted to express some other truths that pertain to the latter group, such as "'trans women' are not actually women, they are men who desire to be women" or "there are a significant number of 'trans women' who 'identify' as women because they are men with a sissy porn fetish", then all their fury will be unleashed upon you. Even if you back it up with evidence and solid argument.
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>That's already more than half the features you get with this, and you get to be on the actual internet, not some dude's silo. "the actual internet" ??
Yes, the real internet where domain names don't cost $20, and where my stuff doesn't need to live on some dude's server. It's just someone else trying to do what Zuckerberg failed at. You're paying $20 to go a level-deeper into complexity on someone else's proprietary platform. It's not only going to fail, but it's a bad idea.
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> Section 6.3 We may share personal information in connection with a corporate transaction, like a merger or sale of our company, the sale of most of our assets, or a bankruptcy. >Section 6.5 Except where explicitly stated to the contrary in this Policy, in some cases, particularly given the limited amount and type of information and data collected through omg.lol, we have not restricted contractors’ own use or discl…
Also not a lawyer, but that sounds more like "if another company acquires us, we will give your info to them" and then separately "Stripe might sell your data; we're not responsible for them". Which is rotally reasonable/expected imho.
When a blog post starts with saying "twitter is dead" it doesn't really make it worth reading further. "Twitter is dead" was said pretty much as numerously as "2 more weeks" but it's off better than ever, with Community Notes having proved themselves and X now having proved its capability to serve its main mission by working as the town square on issues related to OpenAI, Gaza, etc, etc. Eventually, with subscription…
> When a blog post starts with saying "twitter is dead" That is not what it says. Please don’t straw man and misquote. > it's off better than ever By which metric? Certainly not financial. https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/15/business/twitter-cash-flow-el... > X now having proved its capability to serve its main mission by working as the town square on issues related to OpenAI, Gaza, etc, etc. Those conversations happened…
Other parts can only be considered incorrect if you lose sight of the big picture! As I said, you can't put a price on Freedom Of Speech. And considering the platform is technically very operational, it is being protected.
Your other points like "subscriptions will NEVER pay for everything!" are only the kinds of things that do actually end up turning true to unique tech companies, which X absolutely is like now.
>> X does have pretty much everything it needs, and will only grow with time.
>So does it have everything it needs, or will it grow? Those don’t make sense at the same time.
Wrong. It has everything it needs to function, and will eventually grow. Like with anything, usually the prerequisite for growth is sustainability in a stable state.
If you're a free speech absolutist, and not a total idiot who doesn't see forest from the trees, Twitter for sure wasn't the platform for you, but X is pretty much the only one due to its popularity and successfully driven iniatives to protect it. Pointing out things like ElonJet (of whose handling was reasonable anyway due to security), or some Twitter's old behaviours not being handled yet due to international complications is not seeing the forest.