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Is Twitter/X Down
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Re: Is Twitter/X Down
#72Elon probably didn't pay the compute bill.
Re: Is Twitter/X Down
#73Yes...all my timelines are gone. Cannot see anyone else timeliness. Treating me like a new user with a welcome message to set up my account. Also, the text as well as the like button, RT has shrunk and is very tiny. Only thing working is "Spaces"
Because no one is using them probably :D
Re: Is Twitter/X Down
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
When I was a kid (Nat Nanny)[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Nanny ] was totally and completely lame, but the whole millennial generation grew up to adore content moderation. A strange authoritarian impulse.
I don't think it's that. if you had said something about how the moneyed interests make the rules you would then be on to something substantive though.
The moneyed interests are boycotting X and deploying their EU and American regulators to tangle the platform up in regulation enforcements.
Re: Is Twitter/X Down
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think it's that. if you had said something about how the moneyed interests make the rules you would then be on to something substantive though.
The moneyed interests are boycotting X and deploying their EU and American regulators to tangle the platform up in regulation enforcements.
now you're getting somewhere.
Pre-acquisition the unwritten rule on Twitter was you could always do (and could never do) anything that aligned with the board and the equity holders. The rules that existed were theirs.
Re: Is Twitter/X Down
#76It might seem obvious, but I'd like to highlight that this illustrates another benefit of a distributed system like Mastodon. Even if one of the Mastodon servers goes down, the others will continue to function.
But if your instance is down how do you post?
Re: Is Twitter/X Down
#77https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_social_network... soon.
When I was a kid (Nat Nanny)[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Nanny ] was totally and completely lame, but the whole millennial generation grew up to adore content moderation. A strange authoritarian impulse.
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