How Twitter?

[Stormlight]

Originally Posted by ChuckF

I only used Twitter to follow news, but just deactivated my account. I guess I'll have to learn to use fucking reddit or something now.

Same. Space Karen can go fuck himself.

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The more the woke flee, the better it gets

[Stormlight]

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Pick your fave slur and run a search on that shit. I see a market for a database in the future. Run a name in a job application. What, they think they’ll never get doxxed by some AI pattern matcher in the next ten years?

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

[Stormlight]

EU Commissioner tells Elon Musk that Twitter must ‘fly by our rules’ – business live | Business | The Guardian

Top EU official: 'In Europe, the bird will fly by our rules'

[Basset Hound]

I agree with Opus the Penguin. We would be better off if Twitter was a chat room for birds.

[specious_reasons]

Originally Posted by Stormlight

Same. Space Karen can go fuck himself.

I had 2 Twitter accounts, one was intended to be work-related - following people in my industry, maybe even posting about some work my team did. I haven't touched it in many months, so this reminded me to deactivate that one.

I'm still keeping the personal one, but I've already written that if Trump is reinstated, that one can go, too.

[Crumb]

Originally Posted by JoeP

Reddit seems to go out of the way to be difficult to use. Potentially useful replies hidden under "more comments", half the screen taken up with unrelated threads. Does it need customising? Is there a dark art?

Try the RES browser extension. It is in Chrome, not sure if elsewhere.

[BrotherMan]

Use old.reddit.com and the Reddit Enhancement Suite and it's okay. You still have to be judicious in what you follow and finding something you saw this one time even an hour ago is still stupid hard.

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This horrific development of Elon Musk taking over Twitter fills me with dread.

It's exactly what an evil Dictator would do. Force free speech on everybody in the entire word!

I can't even describe the terror I am experiencing.

[ChuckF]

Originally Posted by Crumb

Try the RES browser extension. It is in Chrome, not sure if elsewhere.

Hm, it is best on desktop? I tried the app a few years ago and it was sort of unusable. Maybe it's gotten better since then.

[BrotherMan]

Try the Reddit is Fun app. It works closer to the desktop. (And asking me: desktop is usually better for everything.)

[ChuckF]

I like desktop for most things, but spend a lot of idle time doomscrolling on my phone.

Deactivating Twitter and removing the app led me to do some more cleanup, so I also mothballed my LinkedIn. is it. It's like 2006.

[Crumb]

I have only used it on desktop.

[beyelzu]

Saw this in one of my lefty fb groups.

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

lol

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Originally Posted by beyelzu

Saw this in one of my lefty fb groups.

"pedos"

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

[JoeP]

> be Kam
> post a greentext 4chan-style screenshot instead of Twitter screenshots as in 14,700 previous posts
> receive thanks

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“I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack tweets on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like woketard tears in rain."

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Twitter re-bans white nationalist Nick Fuentes after he makes new account

((( )))

[Stormlight]

By Buying Twitter, Elon Musk Created His Own Nightmare

This is why Musk hit the ground running with a groveling attempt to propitiate advertisers. He absolutely must keep them happy. As he put it, “Twitter aspires to be the most respected advertising platform in the world that strengthens your brand and grows your enterprise.”

And that’s where the hilarity begins. Musk has engaged in endless paeans to the glory of free speech and the need to end Twitter’s invidious censorship. This clearly isn’t a subject he’s thought deeply about, since he said back in May that Twitter should delete “tweets that are wrong and bad.” Still, his vague pronouncements have given him a legion of right-wing acolytes who feel they’ve been ill-treated by Twitter.

But they are not Musk’s constituency now. Advertisers are. Even if Musk had some genuine commitment to free speech (which he absolutely does not), it would be essentially impossible for him not to continue significant content moderation.

That’s why, after a brief nod to his wish for Twitter to be a place “where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner,” he quickly pivoted to telling advertisers that “Twitter obviously cannot be a free-for-all hellscape, where anything can be said with no consequences! In addition to adhering to the laws of the land, our platform must be warm and welcoming to all.”

This could have been the mission statement of pre-Musk Twitter. But now there’s one big difference: When the content moderation of Twitter remains largely the same, the sense of betrayal among Musk’s super-fans will explode with the force of a supernova. And they will scream at Musk about it nonstop — on Twitter.

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If you don't like how a social network is run, build your own.

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Or buy one lol