Fuck you rocket Kiko hahah
I’m so down to calling him Kiko from here on out.
Brazil didn’t shut down “X”. They did it themselves so X wouldn’t have a Brazilian entity subject to Brazilian court orders. That is why Starlink got caught in the mess.
Elon should have received additional fines for his taunts and threats, honestly.
Having an account on X supports this shit whether you like it or not it.
It beggars belief, how one who grew up in the abject lap of luxury, surrounded by prolific and successful businesspeople that negotiate billion dollar deals for a living, how that child grew up to be one of the most illiterate fools on Earth when it comes to economics and business administration. It just further reinforces my belief that the $22B he took from MBS for the purchase of Twitter was part of a larger plot to destroy its reputation and make it unusable for any would be revolutionary group to use to organize. Like, assume for a second that he ran his mouth and then was forced to buy Twitter (as the popular narrative goes). Why would MBS be cool with giving Elon $22 BILLION for his fuckup?
Perhaps Elon ran his mouth, was forced to buy Twitter because signed papers and MBS saw an oppertunity to remove Twitter from the scene?
Guy made a couple of lucky investments and convinced himself he’s a superior being.
Why would MBS be cool with giving Elon $22 BILLION for his fuckup?
Same reason idiots kept throwing money at trump back when his resume was just a list of bankrupcies (several hotels, an airline and a casino), moneyed people are way stupider than we think.
Why, oh, why, Bluesky and not Mastodon
Cause all the Linux people, FOSS people, and communists are already here.
I think one of the biggest reasons is that the Fediverse is often a pain to get into and sometimes a pain to use.
Bluesky and Threads “just work.”
Some people say it’s marketing and in Threads’ case I can believe it, but I haven’t seen any example of large marketing campaign by Bluesky.
How is Bluesky easier to use when it’s literally also federated? And you can just create an account on any Mastodon instance like mastodon.world or mastodon.social and start using it.
It may be easier because Bluesky already made the choice for you, you don’t need to pick an instance, the default is Bluesky Social and that’s it, if you want a different one you can search it or make one. It removes that tiny mental block of having to commit to a server you don’t know if you will like.
That’s inaccurate and reductive. ATproto and ActivityPub do not federate the same way, and how they work greatly affects how users interact with the entire ecosystem.
On Mastodon, pick the wrong instance and there’s content you’ll never see, migration isn’t complete, discovery is so bad they started a new initiative to try fixing it, instances have their own cultures, and so on.
Bluesky has issues, some I’d consider critical, but they’re not directly user-facing for the most part. Make an account, you get the same experience as everyone else.
edit: Sorry, I have this issue where I try to be concise, yet feel like I end up being rude. I get your confusion, but they’re quite different. Hopefully this helped; I can elaborate if you want.
Because outside of the Fediverse, literally no one has heard of Mastodon. No one has heard of the Fediverse either.
Mastodon has more users than Bluesky. (I fear it won’t stay like that for a long time anymore though as Bluesky has a bigger growth rate.)
All those people and its never managed to show me anything I felt was worthy of following.
lol then leave
Mastodon has serious UX problems that even other federated networks don’t have. I’m pretty well tech literate and love Lemmy, for instance, but I just couldn’t ever get Mastodon to stick for me, like it just didn’t have the right feel and wasn’t fun to use. And if it’s not working for me then it’s never going to take off with a more general audience.
Bluesky is a lot better. It still has some issues that I feel keep it from fully replacing Twitter, especially Twitter before Elon screwed it up. But it does manage to keep me checking it, even though it’s probably only once or twice a week max.
Because Mastodon needs a reliable instance with a catchy domain name. Maybe even the slightest bit of advertising.
Someone reputable could make a real Twitter competitor for about $2m a year these days.
I’d say Mozilla, but they just took all their social media funding away and threw it at AI. Genius.
Would you worry Google would have too much influence?
I would worry that Google will simply discontinue the product abruptly. Google is unreliable with product longevity.
I’d say Mozilla, but they just took all their social media funding away and threw it at AI.
Nobody was using their instance from what I heard. So a bit of a wasted effort.
What sort of money are they throwing at AI? I only know about the sidebar and that’s basically just a tab to a website of your choosing. Couldn’t have been expensive.
They never allowed people to use it. There was a wait-list. It never opened afaik outside of Mozilla people.
Twitter is now removing the block function next. It ought to bleed users like crazy.
Wait, what?
X/Twitter will soon be making more changes to the block button, with CEO Elon Musk confirming that all public posts will be viewable going forward, even to those who have been blocked
I thought most stuff was viewable even without account. Doesn’t seem like a big deal if you can view their post but not interact with it since I would’ve thought others interacting with you was what you wanted to block them from doing anyway.
If you’re blocking users left and right that you know spread misinformation, you will still see their posts. No way you can keep track of the usernames in your head, and now you may hear a misinformation or two and assume it to be a fact.
No they aren’t. They are changing how it works, in a way that is mostly immaterial to the user. That is not even close to completely removing.
Yep.
From the sounds of it:
Before: if you block somebody, they cannot see your stuff.
After: if you block somebody, they can still visit your profile.
Usually, when you block someone, they can no longer see your feed; instead, it’s replaced with a message stating that they’re blocked. Now, they can freely browse your feed; they’re just not allowed to interact or comment on your posts.
https://www.makeuseof.com/x-block-feature-poor-job-blocking-people/
NGL Elon’s excitement sounds like he was blocked by a lot of people and Daddy Musk will not have closed doors in this household! 😮💨
Stalkers and abusers rejoice!
Seriously, if you are on twitter and have had a relationship with someone like this do not post on your account or they will find you now.
Your scenario doesn’t exist. All you had to do to get around this was make a new profile.
A small barrier is better than none
- Brazil asked Elon to ban 7 fascist accounts spreading disinformation
- Elon refused pretending it was a free speech issue even though he complied multiple times with similar requests from right wing govts
Gotta say, this is new information to me. I’ve briefly looked at the stories and the banning of twitter, but I never realized this was entirely because Elon wouldn’t ban accounts as he does for right wing government.
Elon seems like a kinda shitty guy.
He censors way more than old twitter, and is way less transparent about it.
Old twitter complied with 51% of legal requests, Elon’s twitter is at 71%. Old twitter complied with 53% of government take down requests, Elon’s is at 76%.
Old twitter also used to post a high detailed transparency report every 6 months. This one from Elon’s twitter is light on detail, and the first in 2+ years.
So he’s a lying liar and even his own data proves it.
Elon seems like a kinda shitty guy
Hot take!
I mean it genuinely is because of the “kinda” and “seems”
“Elon is a shitty guy” is one of the coldest takes out there at this point
How’s this a meme?
Your face is a meme.*
Seriously, screenshat your face. Call it a meme. If others adopt it, it’s a meme.
*^Not legal advice^
This is a hint at why he wanted involvement in PayPal and wants X to be a financial service. You can’t take away money from a system he controls.
The government can absolutely take away money he controls.
I still prefer to refer to him as “Leon.”
“Elmo” is better if you ask me. They’re both annoying children that need to shut the fuck up and go away.
Elmo is beloved and doesn’t hurt anyone. Put some respect on his name.
As someone who once had a toddler, he’s not beloved, he’s hated by most parents. Because he’s fucking awful. Stop talking to the fish and the baby, Elmo! They can’t fucking understand you! Also, you don’t seem to notice that Mr. Noodle keeps changing and that lack of basic attention to detail is worrying.
On top of that, his parents basically neglect him, which is why you never see him.
Fuck Elmo. Give me Cookie Monster, Ernie and Bert and Oscar the Grouch.
Yeah get him! Elmo has been dodging the consequences of his war crimes for far too long.
Israel, is that you?
First of all, Elon is probably just trying to do some marketing bullshit But Brazilian STF is full of crap also, Alexandre de Moraes is Just censoring people without any judgment or justification, he tried to prohibit the use of vpn and created a “fake news” committee where he get to say what is real or not
I tried searching for sources that back up the claim that the judge created a fake news committee under his control and couldn’t find anything.
Not saying it’s false, but do you have a source for that?
