Both Apple and Google benefit from Twitter “nazifying” their users so they vote Repug and pay zero taxes. They’ll never do shit.

Exactly my thoughts, the rules are bullshit if they are not equal for everybody.

The single letter name exception is basically everything you need to know. It’s all bullshit.

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Done! Thanks for the idea.

I reported the app formerly known as Twitter for hate speech.

We’ll see. Bullying is a probably a bigger hurdle for them to jump over. The single letter rule was so that people couldn’t game App Store search results.

So if I make and app to track potassium intake, I get special priviledges?

K

honestly I wouldn’t mind if this was excepted because everyone on there hates the change and he’s just losing more and more of his userbase from it :)

On a unrelated note. Had no clue you could have emoji in a user name on Lemmy. Might reroll just for that tbh.

The problem though is that your comment/mindset, and of those like you, who just want to ignore Twitter and just do our own thing here, ignores the point of the social gathering critical mass situation.

People talk about Twitter because they’re trying to gain intel from others about if they’re moving over or staying, so they can decide if they should stay or move over as well. They’re trying to determine the location of where everyone will gather at.

And yes, at this point you’re going to say “oh they should move over anyway and we will just grow our content here”. Unfortunately that’s not how human minds work, we’re social creatures, and we like to gather in singular large locations when we want to interact with each other socially.

There’s a battle being fought right now, the battle for where the social critical gathering point is located/hosted at.

To ignore that battle, is to lose that battle.

I think it’s overlooked how many people just by default have Twitter on their phone and open it while on the toilet or waiting in line etc. It will essentially fill that need for them outside of anything Musk does short of rendering the service unavailable. Reddit used to be the big one for people who were a bit more tech savvy, even Twitter in it’s inception was full of tech journalists, I think that’s the status they’ve lost over the years. If you’re connected to tech scene in some way Fed is fertile ground.

if only Mastodon would get off their high-horse and address usability issues, like the lack of a like button. Lemmy has it figured out much better by having an “all” tab populated by all the subs users have subbed to.

It’s the same on Threads. Half the posts are about Twitter and it’s exhausting.

Its the behavior of a jilted ex.

I can’t imagine that still won’t violate both store policies.

I’m kinda surprised this wasn’t the original announcement. I figured it would just move to a paid feature. Maybe the initial tweet (or whatever the fuck we call an X) was just to get attention.

And then everyone will cheer for such a revolutionary feature.

Everything you mentioned is simply a subset of “[corporation] takes away our ability to own property” (i.e., trying to usurp our fundamental property right to control our computer). You can also add Apple and John Deere “right to repair” to the list, along with automakers trying to lock capabilities of the machine we already payfor behind paywalled subscriptions. It’s all the same underlying issue.

Make no mistake: corporations are waging a war on the public’s right to own property, and we’re going to be forcibly returned to serfdom if we don’t start fighting back.

Luckily there are alternatives to all of these.

Duck duck go can replace Google search. Dropbox can replace Google drive. Firefox can replace Chrome.

Mastodon replaces x / Twitter

Go buy a brother printer instead of HP

As far as Adobe, we do have photopea… The rest are harder.

For a adobe you have the affinity suites.

Regarding the Adobe part: I see what you’re saying, and I’m uncomfortable with the subscription model too. But to be fair, you never really own software, unless you write it yourself. When you purchase a software license - no matter for what software - you’re purchasing the right to use such software. You aren’t purchasing the software itself. But yes, even that feels better than just a subscription.

Btw, I’ve read an interesting conversation elsewhere about subscriptions. In some cases it’s not a bad thing at all. If you’re seldom using a software, why would you pay a full boxed price, when you can also just pay the fraction of the price for one month of usage? In my opinion, subscriptions do have their place, but companies should offer a dual pricing model: a boxed one-time price for one version, and a subscription for always the updated version. And it would be up to the customer, which one suits best for their use case. For example, JetBrains does something like this.

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I never got onto twitter in the first place. I got a bit concerned when governments and NGOs started using it as the default shopfront from which they interacted with the public.

I mainly use Mastodon now but sadly, my country’s public institutions (such as meteorology and seismology) have no presence in the fediverse. There’s also a particular fandom I follow that mainly interacts om Twitter.

The biggest problem is articles online still quoting, linking to, and embedding Tweets

I was only lurking but it was usefull to find out why a train is delayed and stuff like that.

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Yeah there’s a lot of good covid info still on there.

Need? No

I do still have an old version of the app installed that I occasionally get interesting notifications from though

I’ve read somewhere that all important decision making for SpaceX and Tesla are out of muskrat’s hands.

They’ve historically been some of his best clients.

I eventually just uninstalled the app because of that.

Imagine being excited about publicly announcing the deletion of a critical feature. Have you even seen such a brazen and naked attempt at control from a CEO or corporation? Seriously, name one. Name one company that has done this sort of thing.

Any other company that would even attempt to remove a critical feature like that would try to sugarcoat it with an apology letter about how it was a tough decision, or have a bulleted list of reasons why they were forced to remove the feature.

No, not this guy. Just a blind, unfiltered matter-of-fact tweet. No explanation. No apologies. No signs of any remorse.

Name. One. Company. Who. Has. Done. This.

There’s still mute but that weirdly makes things worse - now you mute someone but they can still reply and interact with your tweets except you can’t see it. So the abusers can just spam the shit out of you, doxing and w/e and you’ll never know.

There is no “they”. There is only Muskrat.

The Google Play Store rule seems like it’s about users though…

It’s very vaguely worded. Maybe that’s on purpose. It seems like it might satisfy the requirement if the app / service can block a user, but users don’t have an option. But, if the context is that Apple has refused to allow the store to carry any app that didn’t allow its users to block other users, then the precedent is clear.

The Google one is also unclear. It talks about an in-app system for blocking UGC and users. That seems like it’s talking about preventing UGC from leaving the device, which makes it seem like the “blocking users” part might be more like being able to ban a user from using the app / service.

Yes I agree, that’s how I interpreted it

While you’re at it, might as well add some lootboxes and cosmetics you can buy with Xcoins.

Spend money to get the coins. Spend the coins on the lootboxes and hope you can get a message booster. Without a booster, your tweets will be deleted in 10 minutes. If you have a booster, they will stay around for an hour before they get deleted. If you want better lootboxes, you have to upgrade them with with some more Xcoins.