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Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by wfaler »

jlundberg wrote: post #239
kristianc wrote: post #202

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There’s been some speculation he is trying to build an Everything app a-la WeChat in China. Aside from the fact that the everything app concept has never really worked outside China, and certainly won’t fly with the EU — he probably would have been better starting it from zero. I’m pretty sure if he could have got out of the Twitter acquisition he would have.

And not only speculation, he tweeted this in October 2022: ”Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app”

Forgive me for being stupid, but why would any consumer want an "everything app"? It's not exactly a compelling need I've ever heard anyone express.

Yes, multiple things can be combined, but if it works, probably just coincidence.

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Post by nixcraft »

donsupreme wrote: post #69

Imagine if Meta bans all Twitter or Youtube links in your IG or FB posts?

Meta (FB) doesn't ban links to blogs or other social media but heavily throttles (lock it) it until you start paying for it. Here is the comic that explains it better https://theoatmeal.com/comics/reaching_people Also, links are not clickable on Insta. Similarly, WhatsApp also block if URLs/images/vidoes if shared too many times (at least in India, there is some rule or something like that for Fake news, I forgot the details but they use AI and mods to throttle WhatsApp for sure )

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by pjc50 »

ad404b8a372f2b9 wrote: post #249
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.

With every new thread about Twitter I lose more respect for this community. It is comment after comment of sneer, puerile insults, and caricaturally one-sided remarks.

I don't think you're helping? Do you have anything to say that isn't also an insult?

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by faefox »

Anyone want to take bets on how long it'll be before Twitter prohibits listing your pronouns in your bio? Elon has a real axe to grind about pronouns and it'd be an effective way to antagonize people he doesn't like for no reason, which increasingly appears to be his entire business plan for Twitter.

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Post by Klonoar »

bko wrote: post #136
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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Oh come off it already.

Those people never had a fall from grace, there was never a point to commenting on them like that.

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by praptak »

bko wrote: post #136
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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Musk gets this kind of scathing critique because of the baseline. Many people here believed the hype, so they feel obliged to shake it off and shout it from the rooftops.

Putin on the other hand is just a murderous dictator which is basically the consensus, so nobody feels the need to repeat this.

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by skybrian »

kevinmgranger wrote: post #159
bko wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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It's because Musk is commonly defended, and borderline worshiped across most of HN. The downfall of twitter is the perfect opportunity for a wake-up call. And that's why this type of comment is more and more visible.

At one time that might have been true. To say so now means you have a pretty distorted view of how sentiment has changed.

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by richbell »

pjc50 wrote: post #283
photochemsyn wrote: post #246

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the actual internal business model is motivated more by the desire to capture the Tik-Tok audience than the Parler audience - it's much larger. However, it is true that from a purely business viewpoint, you'd want a platform that was equally popular with left-Democrats, right-Republicans, and unaffiliated-independents.

It has been noted that Tiktok is not on the ban list, possibly because of Elon's personal decision to reinstate "libsoftiktok", a prominent harrasment account. > equally popular with left-Democrats, right-Republicans, and unaffiliated-independents A large number of forces are making this increasingly impossible.

Random unfounded speculation: he also doesn't want to risk souring his relationship with China.
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