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Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by _djo_ »

Yoric wrote: post #533
TheOtherHobbes wrote: post #439

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I think he's hoping for a run in 2028. Possibly 2024, but that's a little close. Buying Twitter would be a strategic campaign move. Of course a lot of people now realise he's an asshole, and he's likely to lose a lot of money on the deal. So maybe that plan won't work out. It's been a real case study in self-harm. Many who were neutral or positive before - because of Tesla, SpaceX, and some of his other projects - ar…

If he runs for office in the US, he may run for governor, but he can't run for president. On the other hand, there are many countries that have less stringent regulations, plus he may run in South Africa. But that's a wild guess. I introduced this speculation in the thread but for all we know, he's just really bad at handling frustration and that's how it manifests.

He would never run for office in South Africa, where he has no remaining serious ties, no support base, and no popularity amongst the general population.

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by haxiomic »

BryantD wrote: post #566
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…

In-browser tool for creating an HTML version of your Twitter archives: https://tinysubversions.com/twitter-archive/make-your-own/ Easy tool for making your own linktree clone: https://glitch.com/glitch-in-bio

Love it! Thank you BryantD!

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by roflyear »

Xylakant wrote: post #502
TheOtherHobbes wrote: post #439

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I think he's hoping for a run in 2028. Possibly 2024, but that's a little close. Buying Twitter would be a strategic campaign move. Of course a lot of people now realise he's an asshole, and he's likely to lose a lot of money on the deal. So maybe that plan won't work out. It's been a real case study in self-harm. Many who were neutral or positive before - because of Tesla, SpaceX, and some of his other projects - ar…

> I think he's hoping for a run in 2028. Possibly 2024, but that's a little close. One of the few requirements to become US president is that you must be a natural born citizen. So Musk is out, as he’s born in Pretoria, South Africa and neither of his parents were US citizens. https://www.usa.gov/election

To be president, but plenty of other government positions.

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by holler »

jrmg wrote: post #259
synu wrote: post #77

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I’m excited to check it out, signed up for the waiting list today.

Please don’t just move to another centralized platform. Mastodon is right there, and working.

> Please don’t just move to another centralized platform.

Do you believe that all centralized platforms are inherently evil?

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by funnymony »

jacquesm wrote: post #302
CoastalCoder wrote: post #275

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> This may be too meta, but there are a number of topics where I find the HN comments really low quality. I agree. I'm not sure why, but there's something about Musk's behavior that really irks a lot of HN readers. To be honest, for some reason I can't pinpoint [0] I feel a tremendous sense of schadenfreude against Musk. Hopefully that hasn't affected my comment posts too much. [0] I'm somewhat politically conservati…

> there's something about Musk's behavior that really irks a lot of HN readers Hypocrisy. Massive lies, Cruelty. Lack of empathy. Do we need more to be irked?

… Hype. Fanboys&fangirls.

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by vitaflo »

sneak wrote: post #165
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.

You can post URLs on your Insta posts, it's just not a clickable link. Twitter's policy is any text that describes other social media sites is banned, including trying to get around it by using "dot" ("instagram dot com/user" is banned on Twitter).

This isn't really the same as Insta.

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by snowwrestler »

wpietri wrote: post #457
snowwrestler wrote: post #171

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I don’t see how this is a legal problem for Twitter, at least in the U.S. They are not a dominant force on the Web or even in social media; they have little market power. And any data that shows lots of people leaving for other social media platforms would actually help prove that competition is strong (ironically). Free speech cuts both ways. It’s legal for Twitter to block links to Mastodon for the same reason it w…

Yes and no. Twitter is dominant for their slice of social media, as demonstrated by the fact that a lot of the people who think about leaving don't see viable alternatives. But I agree that US anti-trust law is so hands off at this point that there's no chance the FTC would do anything substantive here.

If you define Twitter’s market as “sites that do things very similarly to Twitter,” I agree they look dominant. I doubt U.S. courts would agree with such a narrow definition, though.

Twitter itself doesn’t seem to take that view of its own market, given that Facebook and Instagram are first on the block list—both products of Meta, a competitor with far more eyeballs and revenue than Twitter.

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by wpietri »

Fetiorin wrote: post #385
NelsonMinar wrote: post #163

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/

> Be sure to get an archive of your Twitter data while you still can It worked for me in the past (a few months ago). Today, however, I can't even receive an SMS to make a backup due to having a Ukrainian phone number.

And it's not just Ukraine. Major UK provider Vodaphone is also no longer working: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2022/12/16/twitters-dec...

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by BryantD »

haxiomic wrote: post #572
BryantD wrote: post #566

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In-browser tool for creating an HTML version of your Twitter archives: https://tinysubversions.com/twitter-archive/make-your-own/ Easy tool for making your own linktree clone: https://glitch.com/glitch-in-bio

Love it! Thank you BryantD!

As unfortunate as the current situation is, the wellspring of helpfulness is really heartwarming. Look for the helpers, as they say.

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by 9wzYQbTYsAIc »

mistermann wrote: post #498
Chinjut wrote: post #418

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There's no need to defend Elon here. Clearly what will happen is highly capricious enforcement based on who he personally likes and dislikes.

> There's no need to defend Elon here. There is at least arguably value in defending/pursuing the truth though. > Clearly what will happen is highly capricious enforcement based on who he personally likes and dislikes. Visions of the future are sometimes not as accurate as they appear due to shortcomings in the simulator.

> > There's no need to defend Elon here.

> There is at least arguably value in defending/pursuing the truth though.

Indeed, it seems to simply be the case that the company is supporting “paid speech”.

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