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Re: X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links

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Post by eesmith »

kstrauser wrote: post #89
addandsubtract wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There really should be a bigger campaign for everyone to sell their Tesla shares. As you said, take away his money and he goes away.

Sell them to whom? If I had a Tesla and sold it to you, there are still the same number of people driving one. I’m sympathetic to Tesla owners who've had their car for a while. If Akio Toyoda turned out to be a bastard, I wouldn't buy another new Toyota, but I’d continue to drive our current one until the wheels fall off. Same with Teslas. It's unreasonable to ask someone to get rid of their working, paid-for family…

addandsubtract wrote "sell their Tesla shares", not "sell their Teslas".

Even nicce's parent comment only concerned buying new Teslas.

Re: X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links

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Post by sjsdaiuasgdia »

murg27 wrote: post #102
decimalenough wrote: post #4

Remember the Arab Spring and how Twitter was hailed as a tool for the masses to fight against their oppressors? And remember how Elon bought Twitter, loudly proclaiming he was doing so to defend free speech? I'm mildly curious to see how X tries to justify this, but I suspect they've reached the stage where they don't even need to pretend to pay lip service to their notional values.

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That's because it was a nothingburger.

Remember how Taibbi got an agency name wrong and used that to make a bunch of conjectures that didn't actually align to reality?

If you don't, maybe you should refresh your memory.

Re: X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links

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Post by cheema33 »

murg27 wrote: post #102
decimalenough wrote: post #4

Remember the Arab Spring and how Twitter was hailed as a tool for the masses to fight against their oppressors? And remember how Elon bought Twitter, loudly proclaiming he was doing so to defend free speech? I'm mildly curious to see how X tries to justify this, but I suspect they've reached the stage where they don't even need to pretend to pay lip service to their notional values.

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> Remember how he exposed government meddling with twitter and everyone called it nothing burger.

Please provide actual evidence of said government meddling with Twitter.

Re: X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links

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Post by xzjis »

decimalenough wrote: post #4

Remember the Arab Spring and how Twitter was hailed as a tool for the masses to fight against their oppressors? And remember how Elon bought Twitter, loudly proclaiming he was doing so to defend free speech? I'm mildly curious to see how X tries to justify this, but I suspect they've reached the stage where they don't even need to pretend to pay lip service to their notional values.

"Freedom of speech" on Twitter is nothing more than Newspeak for censorship. In reality, the goal has always been to silence minorities who already struggle to express themselves, while allowing hate, racist, homophobic, and transphobic language to run rampant. It is a form of indirect censorship, through the self-censorship of minorities who fear speaking out. Then comes direct censorship, where certain terms or links are banned.

Re: X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links

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Post by PedroBatista »

Signal could start doing some posts praising Musk and promoting Tesla or whatever scam he’s pushing at the given moment, that would unblock them really fast.

Pre-Musk Twitter was indeed bad, a sign of it’s time and dying. Now it’s even worse and quite pathetic.

Re: X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links

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Post by buyucu »

Majestic121 wrote: post #99
buyucu wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

does the reason matter? regardless of whether it is a mistake or or censorship, the end result is the same.

The reason absolutely matter : a mistake can happen to anyone, and be fixed within a short time, while censorship is deliberate and will probably not be fixed

twitter is not anyone. you would expect a company of this size with millions of users to have checks and tests.

Re: X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links

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Post by berkes »

nxpnsv wrote: post #104
sounddetective wrote: post #68

Everyone reading this -- sign up for Bluesky, help it build up a larger network effect, so it can outcompete X. It already has 30m users.

Who owns bsky? What prevents a random billionaire to buy it and use it their election platform? Mastodon just feels as a safer bet...

bsky is decentralized, in theory more so than Mastodon, which is federated (a variant of decentralization that requires you to trust the server admins of a server of your choice)

"In theory", because so far, there are very few nodes (one?), very few (if any?) alternative implementations, most is controlled and operated by a small team paid for by a.o. Jack Dorsey and other funds. Mastodon (using the ActivityPub protocol) has one main repo, managed by one person under a non-profit that also operates the biggest instance. But also has dozens of other implementations in other languages, with other niches, with more, less, other features and so on.

So, "best bet" would probably be to:

- Sign up at both a Mastodon and Bsky. Try them both for while.

- See which one fits your needs, style and practical needs best. Stick with that one.

Re: X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links

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Post by [deleted] »

nomilk wrote: post #72
masklinn wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I suspect they've reached the stage where they don't even need to pretend to pay lip service to their notional values. It took 6 weeks for that milk to rot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2022_Twitter_suspensi...

X/Twitter should publicly provide a suspension reason - that would help a lot in verifying whether the account did/did not break TOS. A justification [0] of sorts is provided for the journalist suspensions: > Criticizing me all day long is totally fine, but doxxing my real-time location and endangering my family is not [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2022_Twitter_suspensi...

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