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Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by exq »

greenthrow wrote: post #396
CatWChainsaw wrote: post #364

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Implying it wasn't already a dry well? Remember, he called one of the divers who rescued the Thai schoolboys "pedo guy" because the diver made a statement he didn't like. When the diver took him to court (I forget if it was libel or slander or defamation), Musk got away with it because "pedo guy" was clearly a nickname, not insinuating that this person commits atrocious crimes and we should all attack him.

I agree with you but they excused his banning of journalists the other day under the baloney "his kid was in danger" malarky. This doesn't have any fig leaf they can grab onto.

If someone did truly try and attack grimes and little XÆ alphabet soup, that's wrong and they need to be prosecuted. But so far no police report has been filed and journalists pointing that out have been banned. Besides, if he's that concerned about aircraft location tracking, he should pay for a private rolling transponder code for his aircraft through the FAA.

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Post by photochemsyn »

guelo wrote: post #594
jrmg wrote: post #284

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Washington Post removing all investigative journalism into the CIA / NSA while AWS seeks large services contracts from those government entities That happened?

No

AWS got $10 billion from the NSA last year. Do you really think Bezos' Washington Post is going to be publishing anything that might derail contracts of that value?

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by Xylakant »

pedro2 wrote: post #540
newaccount74 wrote: post #220

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Yup. People were angry that a company they don't like bought Github. But if you look at what Microsoft actually changed, there's not much to complain. They even made private repositories free, and significantly reduced prices for many users. It's hard to stay angry at a company when they are giving you what you want for free! Twitter, on the other hand, wants to get users to sign up for a paid subscription and starts…

Free while there are alternatives. After they asfixiated the competition they're free to jack up the prices. Smart business practice really.

I doubt github has significant interest in the small org accounts. If you look at the prize differential between the „normal paid“ and the „enterprise paid“ tier, you can see where the money is. Burning the goodwill of many technical decision makers would be an issue.

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Post by someNameIG »

fhd2 wrote: post #393
Deestan wrote: post #210

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> Wow. How will the free speech absolutists twist this as being pro free speech? Same as anything else. Any sequence of words that mimic a rational argument, with no concern for consistency with any previous stance or statement.

Sounds like it'd scale well with ChatGPT :P

This is when the world learns Musk has been a non-sentient AI chatbot all along lol

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by ttepasse »

synu wrote: post #551
jrmg wrote: post #524

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I’m never sure what people mean when they say things like this. I found community in Twitter by following people I knew, a small number of organizations, websites and celebrities, then occasionally following people I learned about through retweets or replies. How did you do it on Twitter? Did you use the search functionality? What did you do with it? The idea of doing that just seems overwhelming to me. I mean all th…

I wasn’t able to find anyone I know, and the incoming discovery feeds were people I didn’t know anything about talking about stuff I wasn’t interested in. Overall it was just really quiet and felt empty. Maybe this means I joined the wrong server, not sure. Eventually it seems someone deleted the server I was on, I am not sure if I can do anything about that or not. When I first joined Twitter it seemed like more peo…

You may want to try those automated tools which search your Twitter following for profiles with Mastodon-Links. Movetodon is rather easy:

https://www.movetodon.org

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by jrmg »

holler wrote: post #574
jrmg wrote: post #259

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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?

Definitely not! It just seems a bit ‘risky’ to use another centralized Twitter-like when Mastodon seems to be working. I’d rather we gave it a try than another centralized service.

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Post by jacquesm »

323 wrote: post #567
jacquesm wrote: post #183

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Very interesting, thank you. To what degree is it decentralized?

Recommended by Jack too: https://nitter.it/jack/status/1603945963944480768

I'll make sure it is sell-out proof then :)

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by jacquesm »

leesalminen wrote: post #605
jacquesm wrote: post #530

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Ok. I will definitely have a look. My decision so far was to go and run a one-person Mastodon instance but this sounds intriguing.

I was able to get nostr-rs-relay[0] running in [0] https://github.com/scsibug/nostr-rs-relay

Neat!

Re: Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

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Post by jrmg »

jacquesm wrote: post #327
jrmg wrote: post #259

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

That's true. The only proper way that I can see to join Mastodon is to have your own personal instance. And maybe that's how social media should be, but then the difference between that and a webserver with an RSS feed is getting quite small.

The user experience is quite different though?

And I think there’s value in decentralization even without the granularity of a server-per-person. Sure, some Mastodon servers might go down, or some admins might do unwise things, but damage should be limited. the entire network - I hope - would not fail.

Of course, I’ve lived through the death of Usenet, so perhaps I should not be so optimistic :-/

Edit: not to mention the arguable centralization of email, blogging, and perhaps soon podcasting :-(

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