Free speech absolutism ladies and gentlemen.
X Randomly Banning Users for "Inauthentic Behavior"
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This hyperbole does more to turn people away from Bluesky and other sites more than X to be honest. There are clearly lots of politically moderate, wholesome "politically inert," and international X users. The people who are vocal about having left seem more extreme and less tolerant to me. Perhaps for related reasons, I've also recently heard Elon Musk being described as a "literal Nazi" a lot, and I'm sure that kin…
Maybe describing him as a "literal Nazi" is a bit exaggerated (although there was that thing with the Nazi salute last year), but you only have to remember what he did at DOGE (https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/04/world/lancet-usaid-global...) and maybe take a look at what he posts (and reposts) on X to realize that it's not too far from the truth...
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This hyperbole does more to turn people away from Bluesky and other sites more than X to be honest. There are clearly lots of politically moderate, wholesome "politically inert," and international X users. The people who are vocal about having left seem more extreme and less tolerant to me. Perhaps for related reasons, I've also recently heard Elon Musk being described as a "literal Nazi" a lot, and I'm sure that kin…
The dude did a literal Nazi salute on stage. Twice. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to call him a Nazi.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
The classic "if it disagrees with me, it's a far-right neo-Nazi" rhetoric. Sadly thiss is becoming depressingly common in certain corners of tech discourse. X has the best AI news, the best virality for good content and sure - it has a lot of shit, but community notes and curated feeds keep the noise low.
This. No other platforms has a system akin to CN's. For me personally, I could never stand using any platform that is aggressively tone policed towards whatever official truth. Not Truth Social, not BlueSky. Other places are like playgrounds, X is where the adults go to talk.
> any platform that is aggressively tone policed
all platforms are tone policed, yes even real life. If you don't notice it, you're either not looking, or you agree with the tone.
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#25"X" is in a weird place now. The monetization of engagement absolutely wrecked the feeds from my cursory glance. Just ragebaiting, vague posting, abuse (for a while, every female posting would have someone in the replies doing "grok, put OP in a bikini" and it would post sexualized images of them). Someone vent viral by posting a picture of Steve Jobs' daughter (?), and people try to replicate that as that now genera…
vague posting is the current meta
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a command to the Grok bot and used to generate an image based on the post and that specific prompt. After significant outrage they disabled it for non-paying users at least, not sure if they changed more about this later.
If the "algorithm" thinks that I want to see from random accounts so jams lots of them into my feed then it is a pretty dumb algorithm
Maybe X thinks X users might be unaware of the ability to pay money to see other random X users naked, so it's basically an advert for non-consensual sexual image generation.
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This hyperbole does more to turn people away from Bluesky and other sites more than X to be honest. There are clearly lots of politically moderate, wholesome "politically inert," and international X users. The people who are vocal about having left seem more extreme and less tolerant to me. Perhaps for related reasons, I've also recently heard Elon Musk being described as a "literal Nazi" a lot, and I'm sure that kin…
> I've also recently heard Elon Musk being described as a "literal Nazi" a lot
The chatbot run by his company has called itself 'MechaHitler' multiple times, and Musk himself did what is widely regarded as a Nazi salute during Trump's second inauguration.
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#28Most social media has been has been utterly untenable forever, but Twitter and Discord are the most troublesome in my experience. It's so hard to create and use a new account on those sites without the rigmarole of captcha (due to suspicious activity) -> banned (due to suspicious activity) -> captcha (due to suspicious activity) -> verify email (due to suspicious activity) -> banned (due to suspicious activity) -> ve…
I needed to create a Facebook account to verify some Facebook posting functionality worked as we wanted it to. Ok, easy. Tried using my work email. No, not allowed. Hmm, try creating a new email. Nope. Tried to create an account on my personal device with a personal email. Nuh-uh.
I've never seen a service so opposed to me using it. There's no option for dev accounts either.
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#29I created an account in X yesterday because I'm trying to get more involved into building in public and the social aspect of development and I was shocked to see nowadays you can pay for X premium where the more you pay, the more interactions you get to your tweets. At the end I just deleted it and created an account into Bluesky instead.
>X premium where the more you pay, the more interactions you get to your tweets.
You are confusing X ads for X premium or you are mistaken.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is a command to the Grok bot and used to generate an image based on the post and that specific prompt. After significant outrage they disabled it for non-paying users at least, not sure if they changed more about this later.
If the "algorithm" thinks that I want to see from random accounts so jams lots of them into my feed then it is a pretty dumb algorithm
I've been saying that about a lot of algorithms for a while now, but I think the issue is more that they're smart algorithms optimized for the wrong thing