The current state of Twitter reminds me of the startups I worked at in the beginning of my career, where unstable people made stupid decisions all the time.
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#332Wow. PG did not even post any links, he pretty much just said "I have a Mastodon account." And just like that, banned. Looks like now you're not allowed to so much as mention that you use other websites on the internet besides Twitter.
You are wrong about what PG said. In fact, his Tweet included an explanation of where to find a link to his Mastodon account. Elon has made it clear that these blatant attempts at ban evasion are not allowed.
I'm curious - I've seen his tweet. Can I ask you:
1. Are you just an advocate for following a website's terms?
2. Or do you think there is credibility in these terms?
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#333Wow. PG did not even post any links, he pretty much just said "I have a Mastodon account." And just like that, banned. Looks like now you're not allowed to so much as mention that you use other websites on the internet besides Twitter.
So far links to legit-elephant.lol/@username@instance.name seem to work.
So far.
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#334Earlier quoted context omitted.
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No, it's not clearly a violation. From Elon Musk: > Casually sharing occasional links is fine, but no more relentless advertising of competitors for free, which is absurd in the extreme. That was very casual and not at all an example of relentless advertising for competitors. It's also extremely dubious that PG was trying to evade Twitter enforcement.
So you can incite and insurrection or be antisemitic and be reinstated, but you can't post a link to a competitor. These rules are arbitrary - Twitter is an absolute clown show now
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#335Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]
#336Paul an hour ago: "I'm not leaving Twitter" Guess he doesn't have much of a choice now https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34042993
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That's one type of suspension. There are multiple types. Many of the suspended never got an email what's their violation, or which tweet to delete. Just "you violated the rules".
More importantly, right now none of this matters, because you may get suspended, unsuspended, suspended and again unsuspended and then suspended on a whim. Happened to some of the journalists.
It's a mess.
This is not a left/right issue. It's shoddy management and leadership
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#337The sad part was Elon's responded @paulg tweet with two ROFL
emojis.
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#338Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, it's not clearly a violation. From Elon Musk: > Casually sharing occasional links is fine, but no more relentless advertising of competitors for free, which is absurd in the extreme. That was very casual and not at all an example of relentless advertising for competitors. It's also extremely dubious that PG was trying to evade Twitter enforcement.
This absolutely was not casually sharing a link that happened to be on another platform. It was an announcement about quitting twitter and an advertisement on where he could be found on a competing platform. It is straight up the EXACT scenario that the policy was put in place for.
It's a ridiculous policy.
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#339Free speech!
This is not exactly free speech issue, because Twitter does not ban based on political preferences/opinions. This is dishonest competition (all other major companies do the same but not as blunt: Facebook, Google, Amazon for example). Twitter could be an exception. But it won't.
It's both.
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#340He didn't link to his mastodon at all, did he? Twitter is one of the reasons I became an engineer - I was able to follow and see the mutterings of indie game devs in Copenhagen (vlambeer, if anyone knows them). 15 year old me responded the most inane things to their posts, but it exposed me to work ethics, communities, and possibilities in the computing world I never would have found growing up in Kentucky. I taught…
> He didn't link to his mastodon at all, did he? Very indirectly. He mentioned that his mastodon handle was at his site, which was linked in his twitter bio, and had said handle as the first line (excluding sidebars); only the handle, no links at all, but it's trivial to construct the link given that piece of information.
But handles are the thing they are specifically trying to stop people from linking. Cross posting content is okay, but not profiles