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Post by HDThoreaun »

LatticeAnimal wrote: post #56
psolidgold wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Serious comment: I wonder how this dynamic will change when AI has some real legal chops. One could spin up agents that could sift through all the BS discovery docs and correspondence they send to waste time and money. The agents could presumably even file the necessary paperwork on your behalf. Obviously not a lawyer, just food for thought.

Unserious comment: The big company will spin up swarms of agents whose job is to overwhelm your AI agents with legal requests / correspondence, still with the goal of making you run out of money (but now via AI spend).

The legal process isn’t a free for all. There’s only so much bullshit they can throw at you before the judge finds them in contempt.

Re: Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice

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Post by initatus »

gloosx wrote: post #82
codechicago277 wrote: post #3

Few details but glad to see the project will continue. Given how much crucial information is posted exclusively to X, having an alternative frontend is important. Interesting that they were inspired by Invidious (alternative YouTube frontend). That’s another project that could use some love. Hopefully AI coding tools can do some good and make it easier for these projects to find ways into the walled gardens and work…

If you dont mind, could you share an example of information posted exclusively on twitter which was crucial to you? Just curious;)

Regional police and fire here post wildfire updates and accompanying rural road closures on twitter.

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Post by spiderfarmer »

spiderfarmer wrote: post #133
ThePinion wrote: post #114

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When it comes to CEO actions I'd unfortunately still choose Elon over Jackoff if the question is which site to use because the latter has shown when he ran Twitter that he will happily manipulate and censor discourse to appease the current mob mentality/political climate. Two evils, but one has a better (still not amazing) track history of supporting free speech and ideas, so that's the what I would use. I don't have…

Elon was proven to manipulate and censor Twitter. So you should prefer neither.

I'm being downvoted by Elon's posse. But here's the evidence:

https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/these-report...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0589g0dqq7o

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/04/x-twitter...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/15/elon-musk...

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/14/23600358/elon-musk-tweets...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/how-elon-musk-uses-his...

https://apnews.com/article/musk-europe-politicians-influence...

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Post by curious_cat_163 »

coalstartprob4 wrote: post #190
fatal94 wrote: post #102

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atproto is very promising here, being able to separate personal data from social platforms will make it far easier for people to mass migrate to other services. Unfortunately this selling point is more focused towards tech savvy people but with personal data and privacy becoming more of a concern to the average user online, and social platforms which are working towards keeping bots away its possible.

atrpoto is great technology but disappointing communities most people in bluesky moved to bluesky driven by hate and fear instead of love and curiosity i notice they talk bad a lot about other people's posts in other platforms

> most people in bluesky moved to bluesky driven by hate and fear instead of love and curiosity

My personal experience has been a lot more balanced. But, I don't want to say that there is no hate and fear on ATProto...

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Post by sanskritical »

Vaslo wrote: post #356
sanskritical wrote: post #186

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> Now we need an alternative that works well and is de-centralized from the get go. It's called Nostr. I post on it every day.

Who?

Nostr is like a decentralized message queue/key-value store with cryptographic identities. It has been funded by Jack Dorsey. Its most common usages are a decentralized Twitter clone, a tailscale clone without any registration needed called NostrVPN, and diVine, a revival of the classic Vine service. But there's also very interesting stuff like this, a completely decentralized git that uses public relays and cryptographic identities to control ownership.

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Post by rlw_sp »

charcircuit wrote: post #325
koyote wrote: post #231

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It almost seems like we need laws that information about public services have to be available on a public website (as opposed to a third-party website that requires registration). I personally do not know anyone in real life with a twitter account (although I have one, I have not used it in over 15 years), I wonder how many people just go without this information and are angry that it's (seemingly) not available.

X is a public site. Anyone is free to make an account.

You have to give your phone number and are then tracked for what you view.

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Post by cxr »

parineum wrote: post #389
cxr wrote: post #304

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Pretty much every podcast in the world and all of their listeners are using RSS. WordPress powers something like 30% of the Web, and most of the operators behind those sites are publishing RSS whether they know it or not.

I thought I was more clear than I was being about rss in the context of the conversation about text based news. How many people consuming text via rss the same way people consume audio via podcasts? We're talking about text here. We all know how this sentence ends, "You should start a ..." and it isn't rss feed. Everyone used to have a blog and nobody really cared. Now everyone has a podcast and (more) people do. Peo…

> We all know how this sentence ends, "You should start a ..." and it isn't rss feed.

I don't know what this means. I'm guessing the correct answer is supposed to be "podcast"? Even so, weird false dichotomy.

That looking at tweets and listening to podcasts is more popular than reading long-form blog posts via RSS has a lot more to do with people's revealed preference for looking at tweets and listening to podcasts versus reading long-form blogs than it has to do with RSS.

(The actual context was delivery of notices by public services through non-Twitter feeds, anyway. Not blogging.)

> People don't know what an rss feed is.

I don't know why you think this is relevant here. It seems that when you're referring to using "RSS", what you mean is for people to care about RSS—in the way that Gemini, Secure Scuttlebutt, etc. have always been about caring about (and almost exclusively using them to talk about) Gemini, Secure Scuttlebutt, etc. than they ever were actually expected to be used organically and non-self-referentially.

The fact is that people (already/still) use RSS today. It hasn't been defeated. And Twitter could turn into an RSS-based feed reader tomorrow that works basically the same as it works today, and then suddenly everyone would be using RSS but no one would drop out because of it. Because people don't know (read: care) what an RSS feed is.

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Post by avidruntime »

silexia wrote: post #409

X.com is far superior to the original Twitter and far better than any other social media sites.

How is it superior when viewing w/o an account is impossible? From my POV this was the moment X/Twitter completely rejected its stated mission of being a town square.
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