[Brazelton] Twitter
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Maybe I’m ethically culpable but I refuse to accept that the additional revenue Twitter brings in by my presence is outweighed by the costs of my traffic.
GasBandit
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When he can still count you as a subscriber, he can still use that "total active subscribers" metric to woo advertisers.
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Brazil’s X ban is coming to an end: all the latest news
Keep up with the latest on Brazil’s X ban.
--Patrick
"whites", as if those drunken Irish and filthy Slavs are anywhere near as good as proper Aryan Germanic. Tssss.
An update to this:Brazil’s X ban is coming to an end: all the latest news
Keep up with the latest on Brazil’s X ban.www.theverge.com
Planning To Use VPN To Access X In Brazil? Supreme Court Says....
On Friday, Brazil's Supreme Court imposed a complete ban on X (formerly Twitter) after Elon Musk failed to name a legal representative in the country. The court plans to fine individuals using VPNs to access the platform, with penalties up to $8,874 per day. This decision intensifies the ongoing...
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What... what is this even supposed to mean?
It means he is weird and creepy.
I just retched in my mouth a little
figmentPez
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It's a threat of sexual violence.
figmentPez
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Twitter ‘ceased to exist’ after Australia’s eSafety commissioner demanded answers about child sex abuse material, X’s lawyer argues
TL;DR The Australian government sent inquiries to Twitter about what it was doing to prevent CSAM on the website, and Twitter completely ignored some of the questions asked, resulting in fines. Now the company's lawyers are claiming that they can't be held responsible because X is a different company.
TL;DR The Australian government sent inquiries to Twitter about what it was doing to prevent CSAM on the website, and Twitter completely ignored some of the questions asked, resulting in fines. Now the company's lawyers are claiming that they can't be held responsible because X is a different company.
TIL, Japanese, Chinese and Koreans aren't Asians (minus India).
It feeds into that "model minority" bullshit, which isn't the compliment some people think it is.
figmentPez
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Elon Musk takes @America handle from X user to promote Donald Trump
"The @America handle appeared attached to a brand new account setup just this month, in October 2024. However, this rare, one-word geographic handle had already been long registered by another X user more than 14 years prior to Musk taking the handle from them, in September 2010.
"According to a person familiar with the situation, X took the handle from the user much like how Musk’s social media company took the @X handle from its original registrant last year. "
"The @America handle appeared attached to a brand new account setup just this month, in October 2024. However, this rare, one-word geographic handle had already been long registered by another X user more than 14 years prior to Musk taking the handle from them, in September 2010.
"According to a person familiar with the situation, X took the handle from the user much like how Musk’s social media company took the @X handle from its original registrant last year. "
figmentPez
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Twitter/X announces that the block button is getting nerfed:
GasBandit
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TBH the current "block" functionality made little sense to me. "No way buddy, you can't read my public posts! Unless you, you know... log out."
Even on this forum, "banned" users can still read any public content.
Yeah, between the changes to blocking and THIS unearthed nugget, I'm done. I should've deleted my account long ago, but this is the one-two punch excuse I needed. I've made a post about it to inform anyone following me, and give it a week for people to see, but I'll delete it this time next week.
I'll post on Bluesky more going forward.
I'll post on Bluesky more going forward.
figmentPez
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Twitter heavily limits what you can view without logging in. Not just obvious stuff, like not being able to view replies, and not having search functionality, but subtler stuff that may not be obvious, like how it'll only show you highlighted tweets from an account. If you're not logged in you may not see their most recent tweets someone has made, you won't be able to see most of what they've tweeted, and it won't give any indication of how much recent content you're not seeing. You might see a dozen tweets going back months, but not see hundreds more from that same time span.
The block button used to be a six-inch high fence. Since X has steadily upped their efforts to force people to log-in, the block button has become more substantial.
GasBandit
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More likely, this just makes it easier for AI to train itself on a larger pool.
Speaking of, guess which minority make the most money in the US:
Wonder why they still don't qualify....
Dave
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So I've resisted deactivating my account because there were a couple of people that I follow and because it's a good place to get reports if something goes wrong here. But I find it extremely difficult to go there lately without having to wade through a morass of racist or misogynistic or jingoistic posts from people I don't follow and don't want to see.
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We have Discord for that now.
And anyway, Twitter is not going to long survive Musk's meddling. The only thing keeping it alive right now is his personal fortune combined with his habit of delaying his bill payments. Which is a shame, because it used to be THE premier place to shout into the void, but now you are forced to preselect which void you want to scream into, sometimes with an associated subscription fee.
--Patrick