I wouldn't call it "surreal" at all, I'd call it "completely expected" given who runs that platform
this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2024
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Elon Free Speech Musk himself? Never!
He must have a tiny pp to be that insecure
Elon Musk’s pp? As it was in the beginning, so shall it be in the end. Very tiny.
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Quit. Using. Twitter.
Person eating shit: THIS TASTES BAD, SOMEBODY SHOULD CHANGE THE TASTE
Quit eating shit.
But all my friends are in the shit restaurant!
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"But I've never had problems with the SS before..."
Louder for those in the back.
I stopped using it before muskrat bought it.
I stop caring after i reported so many bots and a farm started harassing me.
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O’Reilly said if he did not get his account back it would be “personally, quite annoying but professionally quite depressing” as Twitter was his route into his current profession as a journalist and author. He used it as a “shop front” in ways, he said.
“I was very, very reluctant to be a Twitter doomer because it had done so much for me... But it’s really at the point where it doesn’t really work in practical terms. It is not as useful as an object as it used to be. It incentivises lots of extremely negative and hateful speech and has really made that a big kind of calling card of its business for the last year or two... that you can go on there and say anything.”
Fediverse is waiting.
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Social networks that do this should lose any safe harbor provisions. Government are so fucking far behind with basic common sense.
Absolutely. You cannot claim safe harbor while banning stuff like this.
i hate banning anyone as much as the next anarcho-dingus but afaik there's no law against banning whoever you want and i'm not sure there should be one. i don't know what the answer is, if it isn't public control of all social media.
maybe some public funded internet services such as defederated twitter and reddit alternatives? completely open and paid for with taxes, in direct competition with their for-profit contemporaries.
Like the BBC mastadon instance social.bbc
Séamas gave us of the funniest story threads I've ever read on that cursed site: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/992006545473966082.html
Yup - this is one that stayed with me. This has earned a place in internet history.
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This should be a post. Much better!
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Well that's actually exactly what I'd expect
The suspension cited platform manipulation and spam as its reasoning, which he wrote in his appeal that he had nothing to do with.
So the only conclusion we can draw here is that writing an article critical of Twitter because it's overrun with (paid) spambots now constitutes "platform manipulation."
Elon in 2022: I wanna get rid of all the spambots!
Elon in 2024: You're banned for being mean to the spambots!
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First off, just call it Twitter.
Second, get off Twitter!
It's time for news orgs and journalists to say a) "we're hosting our content on our own Mastodon server and that will be the source of truth for federated platforms (eventually including Threads and Bluesky)", b) "we will mirror the content across non-federated social media platforms that support free and fair reporting".
In other words give Twitter the middle finger and make the content available everywhere.
I just wish that a free-speech-absolutist-billionaire would buy the platform so things like this wouldn’t happen anymore. He could even rename it something cool (like ‘Y’ or ‘Z’) to get some street-cred with edgy middleschoolers..
What pains me the most is that idiots still simp for Elon after all of this.
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Clearly Seamas has not spent much time on message boards.
All sad jokes aside: This really is a problem. Ignoring the evangelizing for a moment, we have been watching someone who owes his entire life to apartheid destroying the most democratized "free speech" platform for over a year now. And, with the increasing wariness of venture capital to burn money for a decade at a time, we are unlikely to see anything like it ever agian. Because bluesky and threads started with corporate interests and Mastodon has serious privacy concerns due to the amount of data that instance owners have access to.
This has very much been a "something has died forever" kind of experience.
Because bluesky and threads started with corporate interests and Mastodon has serious privacy concerns due to the amount of data that instance owners have access to.
Don't Bluesky and Threads have similar serious privacy concerns? Those running them would, I think, have similar if not even more access to people's information, depending on how much their respective apps request. Mastodon and its apps on the other hand, generally don't request as much access to one's information, meaning instance owners arguably have much less to snoop through.
It's always weird to me when a social media app tries to brag about "privacy". You know once you post something publicly, it's out there forever, right? And if you want private, direct messaging, there are apps for that. (And they integrate with Lemmy/Mastodon a hell of a lot better than proprietary apps.)
ActivityPub in particular is radically public. It broadcasts what you post to a bunch of other servers run by anyone from IT professionals to kids, which could be anything from vanilla Mastodon running in a datacenter to an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden slow implementation of half of ActivityPub running on a hacked smart toaster. It's for things you want to show to the world.
We have several good options for end-to-end encrypted communication, such as Matrix, which is open source and federated, or Signal, which several of my elderly relatives managed to figure out without coaching.
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I'd argue, oddly, that it's easier to hold a single corporate entity accountable for data breaches than mastodon instance owners.
It's likely the case that both of are bad from a data security point of view, but at least with the corporations you know who to shout at.
** edit just realised that mastodon may not work in the exact same way as Lemmy when it comes to instance owners, I'd have to look that up.
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Has this "journalist" been in a coma since twitters purchase? One of the first things done was the removal of 'elonjet' and a plethora of elon critics
STOP USING TWITTER, DUMBASS.
Wtf did they expect from 2024 Twitter?
"Free speech absolutist", my ass...
"Liberal finds it surreal that neoliberalism creates fascism"
Such a weird thing! :D
Anyone surprised by Musky at this point only has themselves to blame.
How is this surreal? Journalists critical of Musk/Twitter have been being banned since he bought it.
Is this journalist really so self involved he thought it was OK they all got nuked as long as he didn't?
The author’s account had over 100,000 followers and was around 14 years old, he said
Well there's your problem, it's 14 so Daddy Musk started taking an interest in fucking it.
Technofeudalism
Insert "It's a private platform. He can do whatever he wants" comment
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If you ever question whether Eløn is actually a free speech absolutist, we can all point to cases like this.
Llama still inhabiting former llama enclosure (recently and very publicly converted to a tiger pen) confused by strange occurrence of tiger bites.
Yeah what did he expect. It's not a people's platform anymore. It's the owner's. Better he be off and do his own thing elsewhere. Find better fields!
We need a big exodus of media then the platform would be dead for sure.
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Have a lovely and ribald toast for a Musk stroke.
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