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

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It is very simple: 1. Inherited rich kids like Elon often have a strong feeling that they are better then the rest of humanity. 2. But it turns out if you are a leech on society like that sooner or later people stop accepting that (remember: he pays less in taxes and gains more in government subsides than most people) 3. So in order for people not to turn against you sooner or later you need to keep them split into s…

Even granting that, you would want MORE LGBTQ+/minority speech. The more energy people spend arguing with each other about culture war, the more dividee they are and the less they have for trying to change inequality. Trying to silence LGBTQ+ etc people goes directly against the goal you posit.

Not if you're trying to win the next election in the hope is going to be the last.

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

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It's existence. A couple journalists broke a social media platform's rule on doxxing, and were temporarily suspended for it. This wouldn't meet the standard for notability if it occurred on any other platform.

You can not make Wikipedia care about your pet idea without working on it yourself, so the absence of information on something is more an issue with you than with the people that edit Wikipedia. It is impossible to argue against you because it is an opinion. First of all there is not one "Wikipedia", second of all as politicians usually say "I can not comment on specific cases". There is some truth in that saying, yo…

> You can not make Wikipedia care about your pet idea without working on it yourself, so the absence of information on something is more an issue with you than with the people that edit Wikipedia.

Have you actually tried creating articles on Wikipedia? I've seen some pretty notable projects have pages that they wrote for Wikipedia be rejected as being "not noteworthy enough". Specifically Pleroma (a Fediverse application similar to Mastodon) comes to mind.

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

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If you have verifiable information that debunks or improves upon existing text in the article, which meets the standards of the organization (not self-published, etc), I promise you that your edits will be considered and integrated. There is a Talk page for a reason. The system is not perfect, and is still vulnerable to certain kinds of subterfuge, but the more critical thinkers involved in the process, the better. I…

You seem to have completely missed what I was saying. Journalists get suspended from social media platforms for doxing all the time. These events are not newsworthy, and wikipedia articles are not written about them. The problem isn't the content of this article, it is that the article exists at all. It only exists because wikipedia editors apply different notability thresholds to one side of politics than the other.

You're making up rules that no one is required to follow. Wikipedia doesn't exist in order to appease you, it exits in order to educate you.

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

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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 proto…

Twitter is valuable only because of its network effect. Not everyone is going to try both of the apps. Thus, they will lag in both places. There can be only one winner I presume.

Unless they interop. And there is no reason why they shouldn't.

(other than grumpy old neckbeards bickering over their Prefered Thing and blocking any progress towards cooperation or interoperability. Which is actually a thing in "The Fediverse" even right now. Yes, really. A few loud voices manage to bully down projects that build bridges between both.)

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

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

Legit question: How would you test something like this? It's not like you can have automated tests with million of random links. And these URLs are certainly not hardcoded.

Unit tests with a text fixture of every URL format you can think of, and every time one breaks your e.g. parser, you add it and some permutations to the list. Eventually, you have a vast file with tons of nasty edge cases to ensure that your e.g. parser is robust and reliable.

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

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post #129

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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 proto…

Bluesky is neither decentralised nor federated. I wouldn't let that stop you from signing up for bluesky -- in my experience it is definitely the best of the options for a twitter alternative -- but you should know exactly what it is you're getting into before you get into it. And if you want to know exactly what you're getting into with bluesky, you should read this, which tells you more than you really want to know…

"yet".

> And at present, there's really only one each of the Relay and (Twitter-like) AppView components used in practice, but there is a real possibility of this changing and real architectural affordance work to allow it. So perhaps things to not seem all that bad.

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

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post #288

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That's not how capitalism works because the between the companies and the customers is a Mismazch in power and information. That's why governments make rules to protect those with less indormation and power. According to your logic cyberbullying is just free speech. Should I wish for you to by cyberbullied, so you see first hand that free speech has limits? And don't forget that many free speech apologetics say that…

> According to your logic cyberbullying is just free speech. IMO it is > Should I wish for you to by cyberbullied, so you see first hand that free speech has limits? Feel free to, you have that right. If people choose to act on it I will deal with it on my end appropriately, and I wont be complaining to you to stop saying what you have the right to.

What about cyber grooming?

So you think you can’t damage people’s psyche through words?

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

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I'm not defending Twitter or their policy in any way (disclaimer: I left Twitter the moment Elmo took over. I despise his hypocrisy and his fascist ideas) But this could be a "legitimate f-up". Normally, most of these unsafe-url protection and detection is automated in something with the scale of Twitter. Just like URL-shorteners often are (were?) "seemingly randomly" banned, because a portion of the shared urls are…

The purpose of a system is what it does.

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

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So much for Elons "Free Speech"! This may come as a shock to him: Free Speech means to allow people to say something that he disagree with. Something that may hurt his interests or even his ego. Free speech is not to allow people to say things he agree with or don't care about.

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> You can still say anything you like on X

You cannot even say the word "cisgender" on X.

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

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post #245

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Elon literally said: "Criticizing me all day long is totally fine" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2022_Twitter_suspensi...

You are using Musk as a source to defend Musk. Do you realize why that's not a good source?

No not in this case. Im using a quote from Musk to defend something someone made up about him. Theres no conflict of truth because theirs was an opinion, mine is a fact.
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