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Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by sneak »

My last tweet, October 31st 2020, has links to sign up on my mailing list or to follow me on my own mastodon instance. Twitter's censorship was bad then; it's worse now. Opt out of it.

Stop donating free content to billionaires.

https://twitter.com/sneakdotberlin/status/132263246078230118...

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

#162

Post by LordAtlas »

nailer wrote: post #123
choult wrote: post #19

"Thin-skinned narcissist buys criticism machine." This is not "free speech absolutism" in the slightest. It's not even business-savvy. Elon's mask has truly cracked, and he proves he is nothing but a febrile mind who has bought into his own hype.

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Plenty of people have posted their Instagram profile links in their Twitter bios over the years and never got suspended or locked for it. I've posted tweets with links to my Instagram profile several times and never got even a warning. This is all new Musk policy.

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

#163

Post by NelsonMinar »

It is sickening seeing how far Twitter has fallen.

Be sure to get an archive of your Twitter data while you still can. https://twitter.com/settings/download_your_data

Also if you are on Mastodon the tools to follow your Twitter followers are probably still working but may not very much longer. My favorite of the bunch is https://www.movetodon.org/

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

#164

Post by jacquesm »

nopenopenopeno wrote: post #82
choult wrote: post #19

"Thin-skinned narcissist buys criticism machine." This is not "free speech absolutism" in the slightest. It's not even business-savvy. Elon's mask has truly cracked, and he proves he is nothing but a febrile mind who has bought into his own hype.

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There are no real structural constraints to capitalism that I'm aware of.

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

#165

Post by sneak »

es7 wrote: post #93

Thats got to be the worst possible decision for Twitter to possibly make. What good is a social media platform that prohibits links to other platforms? I use FB, Twitter, Insta, TikTok, LinkedIn, Discord, etc for a variety of purposes and find and share great content across platforms.

Instagram prohibits links, period, not just to other platforms. This is where "link in bio" comes from.

They hate the web.

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

#166

Post by NelsonMinar »

haxiomic wrote: post #84

Let’s help people get off this ship Tools to migrate to mastodon: Archive your data and repost to mastodon: https://twitter.com/settings/download_your_data https://github.com/FGRibreau/import-tweets-to-mastodon Find accounts you follow on mastodon: Browser Extension - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mastodon-handles-i... Using API - https://debirdify.pruvisto.org/ (thanks @guerrilla) - https://www.movetodon…

Another tool like those two with a nice UI is https://www.movetodon.org/

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

#167

Post by Vaslo »

m4lvin wrote: post #24

Note that Mastodon is third in the list. I consider that a success. 1. They ignore you. 2. They laugh at you. 3. They fight you. <<<--- we are here. 4. You win.

No one outside of tech nerds or PR departments is going to get seriously into Mastodon. My wife and her lib/moderate friends checked it out and went right back to Twitter. Too confusing, one husband was banned from one instance and caused issues getting onto others, hard to understand why.

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

#169

Post by strangattractor »

There is no money is promoting free speech or at least not the kind of money Twitter needs to pay back it's investors and creditors. There have been multiple poor business decisions since the buyout. The "burn it the ground and start over mentality" is effectively placing the company in a startup position. Given the risk of startups it would have likely been cheaper/smarter to start a new company than pursue a leveraged buyout. Any value Twitter had is rapidly deteriorating. The capital put into the purchase would have been better spent just starting a new company.

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

#170

Post by drdaeman »

ClumsyPilot wrote: post #36

Ah damn, I hoped for a fair experiment to demonstrate absordity of total free speech, but istead we got bog standard hypocracy! Boo! If you are caught wondering why some people still support Elon - in 'true conservative' society, like Russia or Saudi states, hypocracy is means of demonstrating hierarchy. So as a leader, you show that you are dominant by demonstrating that rules don't apply to you. That makes you even…

Honestly, this. I wasn't expecting much but was hoping that at least Elon has some unorthodox idea to try. What he promised wasn't supposed to work, but no matter who he is and what he believes in, I had to give him some respect - dude had actually put his money (lawsuit or not) where his mouth was, and that's a commendable thing.

Except that... I really don't like roasting people - that's just faux pas, so I'll rather say that what he does makes no sense to me, and I fail to see the correspondence between Elon's past statements and current actions. Which makes me disappointed.

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