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[–] Melpomene@kbin.social 99 points 1 year ago (7 children)

The best anyone can do right now is to migrate off of Twitter entirely. As long as Musk is in charge (or in charge through his puppet CEOs) the site will be a cesspool of toxicity and hate. I'm honestly not sure why reputable people are still using the site... guess the view and media exposure are better than doing the right thing and leaving?

[–] Traumkaempfer@fedia.io 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anyone who is still on Twitter has, in my opinion, fewer issues with being a corporate puppet and being associated with all the hatred there than they have with losing views.

[–] Skyler@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago (14 children)

I have (had?) plenty of friends on Twitter who loudly proudly boycotted the Harry Potter game due to JKR's comments about trans people.

But they’ve stayed on Twitter despite its horrible owner and how he runs things.

I’m willing to give a pass to creators who make a living off their online audience. If the audience went off Twitter, so would they.

Everyone else, though? I don’t ever care to hear about what they're boycotting again if they can’t pull themselves off Twitter.

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[–] xtremeownage@lemmyonline.com 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We (most of the people here), already did. Thats how mastadon was born!

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[–] notamichael 92 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why is everything to do with this story completely unsurprising.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because we've all come to accept that Elon Musk doesn't know how to run a social media site?

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

He knows how to run a social media site into the ground...

Which is probably the whole point. Make it seem like the site is failing because of mismanagement, and not that its failure was intended right from the start with a leveraged buyout saddling the business with an untenable $13bn of debt.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 9 points 1 year ago

No, he's just dumb!

[–] tanglisha 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yup, it's easy to forget that an important use of Twitter used to be finding out what was happening when propaganda was covering it up. It's how we learned about Arab spring.

If my life were at risk from my government, I certainly wouldn't trust Elon to keep me safe from them.

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[–] curiosityLynx@kbin.social 82 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Musk is a proponent of near-absolute free speech

Anything goes, so long as it doesn't hurt his feelings personally

[–] Sentinian@lemmy.one 41 points 1 year ago

As long as you don't use the term cisgender :)

[–] Skyler@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

People are also not allowed to say the word "cisgender” over there

[–] FloatingAlong@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Woah dude, cool it with the c-bombs.

[–] FedericoSchonborn 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's okay, I gave them a c-word pass.

[–] I_am_10_squirrels 17 points 1 year ago

Some of my friends are c-words, so I can use it

[–] pizza_rolls@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

Or when an authoritarian government asks him to block literally anything

[–] taanegl 14 points 1 year ago

Freedom, by Musk... a cologne that's actually mace with directions to the local old folks home and instructions on how to use InShot.

[–] GunnarRunnar@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Kinda far from absolute imo.

[–] curiosityLynx@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I would claim actual free speech absolutists don't exist.

[–] GunnarRunnar@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You're probably since those that preach about free speech are politically driven, hence biased to protect their stance. Rest of us have realized speech isn't free of consequence and the last third just doesn't give a fuck.

[–] admiralteal@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Defamation, fraud, hate speech, harassment, collusion, confidentiality, incitement...

No reasonable person actually thinks that free speech is an unlimited right. Plenty of kinds of speech are viewed as too harmful to be legal. The right is well understood to be about political speech only, and even then the edge cases can be hard to pin.

Anyone who claims to be an absolutist on free speech is insane or absolutely full of shit.

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[–] Traumkaempfer@fedia.io 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Didn’t he also give in to block a few accounts of political opponents in Turkey instead of risking being banned there completely, because he said it would be better to lose a few accounts instead of losing the whole country?

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[–] glennglog22@kbin.social 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

"TikTok copycat"

You know, way way back in the pre-Elon days, they had another one. I think it was called Vine?

[–] GunnarRunnar@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I still don't understand why they killed it. Must've been a real money sink.

[–] zakomo 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

high costs server side, poor quality of the videos, poor-ish internet connections, not enough powerful cell phones, etc. They were ahead of time. They achieved a decent success in the US but not much outside of it because of much of the reasons listed above.

[–] lackthought@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I know peertube already exists, but I wonder if a federated app specifically for short videos (to reduce data storage costs) could find some success?

would probably also need to use some intense video compression technology before upload to further reduce file sizes

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[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 10 points 1 year ago

Yeah, and it closed because they weren't making money on it. Turns out all you needed was a few years for server costs to go down.

[–] CookieJarObserver@feddit.de 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Elon wanted a worse version of 4chan, Elon gets a worse version of 4chan...

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[–] caffeine@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The fediverse is looking like the objective best alternative, more so day by day.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One day the far right has to realize we're here, and they'll pile in to hurl abuse etc. When that happens I'll be looking for instances that moderate and defederate them away. I didn't realize how much that stuff got me down until I came here from reddit and found people having reasonable conversations, just like in the old days. It's a rare thing to find on today's internet. Let the commercial sites go after absolute numbers of users while we pursue a better experience.

[–] keeb420@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

are there videos of apes with nualink in their brains?

[–] EnthusiasticWhale@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

System is working as intended... I guess then huh Elon?

[–] realcaseyrollins@kbin.projectsegfau.lt 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] Snapz 38 points 1 year ago

Try not to link if you can, just screenshot or copy text. Don't need to drive any traffic to that pit of despair.

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[–] richneptune@lemmy.fmhy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't use Tiktok but I gather that this is a big problem over there as well, so it sounds like Twitter is working just as well as the site it's riffing off.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't either but my understanding from other feedback, and from the article linked, is that no, it's not a problem there. More accurate algorithm and proper moderation.

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[–] FedericoSchonborn@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Many reported being alarmed by a stream of graphic videos they encountered while scrolling through the feed, including videos showing gun violence, police brutality, physical altercations and vaccine misinformation.

So it's working as intended?

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 year ago

Sounds like tiktok

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