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Recommended by Jack too: https://nitter.it/jack/status/1603945963944480768
im getting a tweet not found. was that tweet from jack deleted?
No, some nitter problem:
Promotion of alternative social platforms policy
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#732Wow. How will the free speech absolutists twist this as being pro free speech? This policy makes Twitter the least free speech social media platform available. I wonder how this will work for official Twitter accounts for those other social media platforms? Will @facebook be banned/blocked? Also what about news services that link to a longer form story on alternative platforms?
As something of a free speech absolutist myself, I'd say this Twitter policy goes directly against the principles of free speech. No twisting required, Elon is simply being hypocritical here.
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Last I knew the debt is now owned by twitter, not Elon/against Tesla stock. THAT is why the debtors are pissed right now, that $13 billion is sinking hard.
Investment banks financed a portion of the deal which they could then sell to investors. They are the ones bagholding. Twitter’s debt owned by twitter makes no sense.
“Twitter’s debt owned by twitter” is indeed the wrong wording, but GP’s point is that twitter is on the hook for paying, and it is unsecured.
That being said, because the banks are having extraordinary trouble selling the debt, they may work with Elon to make it his personal liability, and secured by TSLA shares.
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#734Let’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
Oh this is nice. I made a similar tool to search twitter archives a few weeks back https://observablehq.com/d/2f43e70f2168ddab . You can see mine to get a feeling for how it looks https://observablehq.com/@mauforonda/my-tweets .
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> 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”.
Perhaps, but whether that is actually true is the tricky part....though truth seems to be not very interesting/fun to some cultures, so they instead imagine "truth" into existence and discuss that instead.
If no one breaks character (so far so good in this thread), it works out really good, ignoring the consequences of course.
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#736Let’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…
Thanks for the links!
Do you know if it is possible to subscribe (?) to two Mastodon servers at once? Say I am at a San Francisco server but also want to see what people post on an LA server, is there a straight forward way to do that or do I need to maintain two separate accounts on both servers?
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#737When MS bought github many people moved to gitlab and started to advertise their gitlab IDs. I too put my gitlab in there. But ultimately, gitlab didn't catch on on a permanent basis: most devs still are on github, thanks to network effects. People removed their gitlab mentions. I feel the same with the "find me on mastodon" twitter bios: people will realize that only 50 of their thousands of followers can be found o…
I find the level of engagement on Twitter to be very low. While I enjoyed using it for a long time (probably my favourite social network), I don't think it would take much for me to replace it. Having hundreds of followers doesn't amount to much once you account for spam, bots, inactives and passive users. If only a handful engage with you day to day, you only need a handful in a replacement network to feel like you're accomplishing much.
I feel like someone could crack this with an attempted replacement. Go out of the way to create incentive for people to interact with each other.
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#738Worth mentioning that this policy might have suspended John Carmack for this tweet a couple days ago, announcing his resignation from Meta: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1603931899810004994... This is a very, very, very bad policy and shows with absolute clarity that Twitter is far from a free speech platform. Which deeply saddens me. Imagine how absurd it would be for Reddit or Hacker News to have a polic…
Reddit already does have a policy like this. Try writing a comment containing "rdrama.net" in it.
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Destroying Twitter, or at least rendering it unusable by its current audience, is clearly the objective. I'm not entirely sure why but it seems to be to "own the libs". (edit: I have been pointed at the EU rules https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-... under which "gatekeeper platforms" may not "prevent consumers from linking up to businesses outside their platforms". However I expect Twitter t…
I don’t really buy that there _is_ a master plan. I suspect everyone has just been telling him he’s a magical super-genius for so long that he’s started to believe it, so obviously Twitter would be easy.
Yeah, I think this is a singular personality with outsized influence rather than an intentional playbook. And it's not that everyone's been telling him he's magic, but that his personality desires that feedback and that it's increasingly coming not from everyone but from a subset. If a solid part of that subset is let-it-burn/popcorn agitators, well, good luck! The plight of a $40B investment is somewhat in the hands therefore of people using the results as free entertainment.
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#740Anyone find any particularly nice memes or comics regarding free speech absolutionist, only when convenient?