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Re: Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]

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Post by puyoxyz »

sytelus wrote: post #282
AJ007 wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Finally signed up, seems fine. I think the big problem is if the servers will be able to handle the volume.

The whole server concept is a disaster, IMO. There is no search box for server. There is no information on how to create a server (at least on landing page). A lot of servers require "manual review". Many are "full". I don't know which one of these servers will even survive over time. I use Twitter as my "log" of interesting content and ideas. I rather not put content on server managed by a dude who can be run over b…

The servers on the Mastodon website are servers that have been running for a long time, are trusted, and have a plan for what happens in an emergency (multiple people with full access to everything required)

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Post by zamalek »

Eji1700 wrote: post #587
wereallterrrist wrote: post #421

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33991851 Why is it so plainly obvious to many of us and so god damn impossible for others to see it. Elon is not a genius. You got duped. Just accept it and realize he's a petty tyrant whose ego is exploding. It explains every single thing that has happened, and yet people are so desperate not to accept it.

He’s a less self aware Steve Jobs. For whatever reason people will throw themselves on the tracks for them.

Elon is a yes-man. Steve Jobs was a no-man.

Being a yes-man doesn't make you categorically stupid, but a no-man is strictly further along in some of the dimensions of intellect and creativity.

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Post by davidw »

davidgerard wrote: post #578
DonHopkins wrote: post #551

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Does it make any sense to spin up your own little Mastodon server just for you and your most trusted friends, so you don't have to spend any time moderating content?

Yes, but the main problem is that Mastodon is very large and fat. Running it for more than a few people is expensive. There's also Pleroma (the Akkoma fork is recommended) and Misskey. There are people working on server software to be fully a part of Mastodon without spending $30/month. It should be possible to do this much more efficiently.

As a BEAM fan, Pleroma looks interesting, but "which fork of the Elixir project that is related to Mastodon" is... peak open source isn't it? In all the good ways and bad ways.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Pleroma/comments/yu8xof/pleromas_re...

I wonder what the resource requirements of that look like compared to the default Mastodon thing.

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Post by ncallaway »

tick_tock_tick wrote: post #463
the_duke wrote: post #367

No one seems to have mentioned the really interesting aspect here: Twitter must be bleeding DAUs. There are other indicators too. After the takeover they dropped the login wall, but it is back, and way more aggressive than before. You can't even scroll down to see more tweets now, or view replies. The ads are also really weird and odd. Either their ad targeting system is broken, or they just lost so many advertisers…

> Twitter must be bleeding DAUs Secondary indicators seems to indicate DAU is surging. I don't know why you'd think it would drop from controversy this kind of shit is what people live on twitter for. Real question is is it sustainable and can they actually monetize it. > The ads are also really weird and odd. Twitter has always been an embarrassment in terms of targeted ads.

> Secondary indicators seems to indicate DAU is surging

Which ones?

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Post by s5300 »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #523
echelon wrote: post #93

I was a pretty big Elon fan a year ago. SpaceX is/was a monumental achievement. He's gone insane. Suggesting Taiwan and Ukraine surrender, all this Twitter nonsense... I'm shorting TSLA to $50 on Monday.

Wait, when did he suggest that Taiwan surrender? I missed that. He is speed-running the Howard Hughes game.

Howard Hughes unfortunately developed allodynia after his aircraft accident, which is a hell I wouldn’t wish upon anybody. Not trying to say anything nice about his before life, but the insanity which followed after is… a bleak reality of what such agonizing physical suffering leads to.

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Post by meepmorp »

ehsankia wrote: post #453
cesarb wrote: post #248

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> He didn't link to his mastodon at all, did he? Very indirectly. He mentioned that his mastodon handle was at his site, which was linked in his twitter bio, and had said handle as the first line (excluding sidebars); only the handle, no links at all, but it's trivial to construct the link given that piece of information.

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platfo... > Examples: > "follow me @username on Instagram"

Yes, but given the information in pg's comment, you could easily reconstruct the string "follow me @username on Instagram," which is very clearly a violation of the policy.

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Post by slaw »

JulianMorrison wrote: post #524
justapassenger wrote: post #485

TBH, I have 0 sympathy for PG. he was excusing Elon’s Twitter actions, with roughly “he lands rockets, and you don’t, so he knows what he’s doing”. He only has an issues with him when he’s personally affected? Cool.

He employs rocket scientists. And also, I hear, a layer of glad-handing management dedicated to keeping him from putting his thumb in the rocket scientist pie, patting him on the head for his cockamamie ideas, and faking up Potemkin demonstrations to keep him happy.

How the world changed. I was heavily downvoted for a comment like this few months ago.

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Post by thepasswordis »

threatofrain wrote: post #122
britneybitch wrote: post #18

Wow. PG did not even post any links, he pretty much just said "I have a Mastodon account." And just like that, banned. Looks like now you're not allowed to so much as mention that you use other websites on the internet besides Twitter.

From official Twitter support: > We recognize that many of our users are active on other social media platforms. However, we will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter. > Specifically, we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms and content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, T…

LOTT doesn’t usually link to TT. They reupload the videos to twitter.
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