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Rocko Bonaparte posted:I'd laugh about Zuck's VR obsession, but it looks almost charming when you put that side-to-side with Musk and Twitter. He honestly believes that he will be vindicated by history and that even if he ends up losing money that he won't make back he will be remembered as a pioneer. This is extremely funny.
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Clarste posted:He honestly believes that he will be vindicated by history and that even if he ends up losing money that he won't make back he will be remembered as a pioneer. The "loses all his money" part is extremely likely at this point. "Vindicated by history", much less so, even if there is a history to look back on in 100 years time.
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Nelson Mandingo posted:Yeah but look at it this way. This is the one very obvious pitfall that I think would happen instantly out of all this. Again using a hypothetical, discord starts it's own social media website/app addition. So you're doomscrolling one day as you do with social media and you see a post by @1776Patriot about how VACCINES are gonna KILL YOUR loving DOG!!! About that... https://twitter.com/waxpancake/status/1589443469189484545?s=20&t=sHU8DVXmE5-ZGw6xqB01vA The Chaser still has this up at least https://twitter.com/chaser/status/1589443482628009984
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Mastodon is probably having a great time of things, but I'm skeptical that decentralization for this kind of platform (/protocol) will ever really work as a competitor for most people. To the extent that things are siloed it's less enticing for people to use as a broadcasting platform, to the extent that things are not siloed you get the same moderation problems. PS Chipzel's music is extremely cool and good.
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Youth Decay posted:About that... Elon got YouTuber Ethan Klein and the h3h3productions Twitter account for making a clearly-marked parody impersonation, so he isn't giving a poo poo about who he's banning. https://twitter.com/halomancer1/status/1589484940772913152?t=8-lalq8zqDYab7rGrRuTcg&s=19 Also, he banned a journalist after they impersonated far-right provocateur Andy Ngo and Ngo replied-tweeted under a Musk tweet about to ban them. Young Freud fucked around with this message at 15:33 on Nov 7, 2022 |
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Nov 7, 2022 14:28
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Those 14 remaining moderators hard at work, I see
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PT6A posted:Saying the problem with Discord is that it doesn't have traditional Twitter/Facebook social media features is like saying the problem with car doors is they don't have a spot for you to insert your penis so you can slam it in the door more efficiently. A glorified IRC/Ventrilo platform for video game nerds is not going to garner adoption from the masses
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Young Freud posted:Welp, there he goes... https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1589639376186724354?t=zyyXd8VPwR87eLAV3GdRpQ&s=19 And when we have a Republican President, “a split government cannot get things done. So I encourage you to vote Republican.”
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Big Slammu posted:A glorified IRC/Ventrilo platform for video game nerds is not going to garner adoption from the masses Ok, and? It shouldn’t, and doesn’t need to.
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PT6A posted:Ok, and? It shouldn’t, and doesn’t need to. Are we talking about a replacement for twitter or something else
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I'm thinking this is probably the end of Twitter. If Elon is showing his biases, that doesn't bode well for either the politicians, journalists, activists, or the marketing teams on the site. Since we already see him acting in a petty way toward his critics and now he's making political endorsements, he's clearly not being an objective neutral party running the site. Who wants to spend ad money for GMs or Fords new EVs for the site owner to post underneath them that they suck, buy Tesla instead?
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Young Freud posted:I'm thinking this is probably the end of Twitter. If Elon is showing his biases, that doesn't bode well for either the politicians, journalists, activists, or the marketing teams on the site. Since we already see him acting in a petty way toward his critics and now he's making political endorsements, he's clearly not being an objective neutral party running the site. I wouldn't be surprised if he cancels GM and Ford ad buys himself at this point. He's already acting like he's the king of twitter, his word is law, and dissent will not be tolerated
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You're already seeing the exodus of journalists. That Elon calling Mastodon "Masturbation" was economist Paul Krugman cross-posting from Mastodon. I have a feeling that, even given it's learning curve and gated nature, Mastodon will become the big journalism clearing house like Twitter was. Maybe politicians, too, since they can get a server, federate it with the party's server, and mod their audiences so you don't get the weirdos interacting with AOC. Everyone will be cross-posting until Twitter collapses, so most people will know where to get the news after everything.
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Nov 7, 2022 19:32
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Richard Marx giving Elon both barrels.  https://twitter.com/richardmarx/status/1589424592757886980?s=20&t=rGaJs71qqGlDZl80Jkwkzw
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What does/did it say? I don’t even see “this tweet was deleted”, I see “this page is down” Edit: it loads if I remove the querystring
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Wayne Knight posted:What does/did it say? I don’t even see “this tweet was deleted”, I see “this page is down” It may just be my imagination, but I feel like Twitter somehow already loads slower and less reliably
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haveblue posted:It may just be my imagination, but I feel like Twitter somehow already loads slower and less reliably I've been getting double posts since Musk took over, so there's definitely something wrong.
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Nov 7, 2022 21:01
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To paraphrase a tweet that I can't find now, we're all the band playing on the Titanic except everyone is laughing at the iceberg and the iceberg is very mad about it.
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Nov 7, 2022 21:22
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https://twitter.com/verge/status/1589798095877214211 We are officially at the starting line of Elon Musk's Lowtax Speedrun Any%
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nine-gear crow posted:https://twitter.com/verge/status/1589798095877214211 I assume the paywall is subscription-based and not  once
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nine-gear crow posted:https://twitter.com/verge/status/1589798095877214211 He's been compared to Iron Man and is now going after a DC Universe comparison. 
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When even the New York Times is openly accusing him of posting through it, he's looking real bad. His image is in the toilet, and every tweet he sends just increases the mockery. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/07/technology/elon-musk-twitter-spree.html quote:Facing a Tide of Criticism, Elon Musk Is Tweeting Through It The funniest part is that it's entirely self-inflicted. For all his terrible business decisions, the mockery would have stayed relatively quiet if he did the normal CEO thing and stayed quiet, communicating exclusively through press releases and bland corporate-speak statements. Instead, he's determined to make himself the main character of Twitter and won't stop until he finally convinces people to respect him. It's gonna be a wild ride.
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https://twitter.com/MNateShyamalan/status/1589702291803713536 The future of Twitter comedy is here
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Main Paineframe posted:When even the New York Times is openly accusing him of posting through it, he's looking real bad. His image is in the toilet, and every tweet he sends just increases the mockery.
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E-Diddy posted:https://twitter.com/MNateShyamalan/status/1589702291803713536 Oh so that's what they meant when they said "comedy is legal now" 
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Coming soon to a timeline near you: the Fail Whale comeback tour. https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/08/1062886/heres-how-a-twitter-engineer-says-it-will-break-in-the-coming-weeks/ MIT Technology Review posted:“Sometimes you’ll get notifications that are a little off,” says one engineer currently working at Twitter, who’s concerned about the way the platform is reacting after vast swathes of his colleagues who were previously employed to keep the site running smoothly were fired. (That last sentence is why the engineer has been granted anonymity to talk for this story.) After struggling with downtime during its “Fail Whale” days, Twitter eventually became lauded for its team of site reliability engineers, or SREs. Yet this team has been decimated in the aftermath of Musk’s takeover. “It’s small things, at the moment, but they do really add up as far as the perception of stability,” says the engineer. Not entirely shocked that this isn't getting as much play from the usual sources, since the circus is in town and the sideshow's doing booming business. Ben Krueger, a site reliability expert, says if current conditions are allowed to stay in place, significant, visible issues with the tech will start showing up within six months. And that's the optimistic estimate.
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Good SRE's are probably quite hard to replace, too. At Google they're paid even more than SWE's.
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Cicero posted:Good SRE's are probably quite hard to replace, too. At Google they're paid even more than SWE's. I would expect so, yes. And I think you'd probably have to pay a premium above comparable positions elsewhere when you've just announced that the company is run by a vindictive idiot who will not hesitate to lay people off without thinking. Musk really has made an astonishing amount of fuckups in a very short time. I would've expected him to make any of those mistakes, sure, but not all of them all at once.
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Discendo Vox posted:Discord was, for a period, really infamous as a recruiting format for the alt-right; the siloed servers and the gaming focus made it really effective for this. I don't have much info on how the company tried to address this, though I recall that at least some tightening of policies occurred. That is still a problem. The alt right just changed rhetoric and switched targets. They are grooming teenage anime and kpop stans now. TooMuchCornstarch fucked around with this message at 01:20 on Nov 9, 2022 |
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After much fanfare about removing the checkmarks from previous verified users and opening up verification to Twitter Blue, Elon reinvented the blue checkmark for politicians and celebs and then removed verification from Twitter Blue, making it opt-in and even more meaningless... https://twitter.com/esthercrawford/status/1590109344976470016?t=-HLsDR6oeheOsin5OufzGQ&s=19 https://twitter.com/esthercrawford/status/1590109530452815872?t=AV3QSNlcLNBSIcxYUVAcMQ&s=19
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Later: Pay $8 to get an Official tag. Verified accounts will now be labeled Double Official [...] Later: Pay $8 to get an Official Infinity tag. Verified accounts will now be labeled Official Infinity Plus One
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Young Freud posted:After much fanfare about removing the checkmarks from previous verified users and opening up verification to Twitter Blue, Elon reinvented the blue checkmark for politicians and celebs and then removed verification from Twitter Blue, making it opt-in and even more meaningless... The outcome of everyone going "lol gently caress you" to the idea in real time. Nothing much will change about Twitter except a death spiral of stability.
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Sodomy Hussein posted:The outcome of everyone going "lol gently caress you" to the idea in real time. Nothing much will change about Twitter except a death spiral of stability. Speaking of which, the latest "Elon fired too many people" article turned up at ZDNet, with this one touching on specific bits of the technical infrastructure that runs Twitter. So here's a little snatch of that to wet your whistle: ZDNet posted:Twitter runs on CentOS 7. This free Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) clone comes to the end of its life at the end of June next year. The leading choices for what to replace it with should be RHEL 9, Rocky Linux, or AlmaLinux. But instead of working on on that transition, what few system administrators Twitter has left are both trying to get the platform ready for Musk's laundry list of new features and keeping it patched and up-to-date.
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Cicero posted:Meta laid off 11,000 (13% of company). Almost 3 twitters of layoffs
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