• danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
    115·
    2 个月前
    • 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.

      • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        2 个月前

        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

    • mosiacmango@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      2 个月前

      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.

  • Dasus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    53·
    2 个月前

    He acts literally like a fucking toddler.

    Perhaps even a toddler in a tantrum.

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      291·
      2 个月前

      Now that’s just kind of rude toward toddlers. He acts like what he is… a Ketamine addled, narcissistic billionaire, who got lucky in life and thinks he crafted his own destiny all by his own hands.

      • Dasus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        2 个月前

        Fair enough, fair enough. Toddlers are way more pleasant than him, even when they’ve shat their pants. I apologise to all toddlers.

      • Rekorse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        6·
        2 个月前

        Ketamine is a dissociative which strips away what you know about things, sort of like how a child doesnt know things. So in a way, he’s actually a toddler.

      • freddydunningkruger@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        2 个月前

        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

        • Kusimulkku@lemm.eeEnglish
          61·
          2 个月前

          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.

          • SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zipEnglish
            6·
            2 个月前

            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.

            • naught101@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              2 个月前

              I think they are just changing it so the blocked user can still see the blocker’s posts, not the other way around.

                • DillyDaily@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  2 个月前

                  Wow, that was not made clear to me. Fortunately I’ve never needed to block anyone specifically from my profiles/content (it’s the other way around, I don’t want to see some other users stuff)

                  But good to know if I had a stalker or something, blocking them doesn’t mean they are blocked from my content, it means they’re blocked from contact.

                  I totally would have assumed blocking someone on various social media platform went both ways in terms of what’s visible to each other.

        • Ilovethebomb@lemm.eeEnglish
          4·
          2 个月前

          Isn’t that how it works on most platforms though? You can see the account you’ve been blocked by, but can’t interact with them.

          • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
            3·
            2 个月前

            On reddit it stopped the blocked person from seeing your account and comments.
            Or it used to. Or I’m misremembering.

      • Korne127@lemmy.worldEnglish
        18·
        2 个月前

        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.)

        • JoJo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 个月前

          Size doesn’t matter imo, especially not between an organically growing distributed user-ran network and a corporate Twitter wannabe who, despite calls of wanting to decentralise, basically have 99% of users on its main instance

    • Serinus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      273·
      2 个月前

      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.

        • GaMEChld@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          2 个月前

          I would worry that Google will simply discontinue the product abruptly. Google is unreliable with product longevity.

        • Serinus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 个月前

          It’s rather see NYTimes get into it. Even if they time allow outside signups on their instance.

      • Kusimulkku@lemm.eeEnglish
        31·
        2 个月前

        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.

        • Serinus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          2 个月前

          They never allowed people to use it. There was a wait-list. It never opened afaik outside of Mozilla people.

    • makyo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      2 个月前

      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.

    • mke@programming.devEnglish
      18·
      2 个月前

      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.

      • Korne127@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        2 个月前

        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.

        • Lanusensei87@lemmy.worldEnglish
          22·
          2 个月前

          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.

        • mke@programming.devEnglish
          7·
          2 个月前

          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.

    • IntheTreetop@lemm.eeEnglish
      8·
      2 个月前

      Sadly, Mastodon had its shot during the pandemic and blew it. The non-tech savvy didn’t understand how federation worked and they marketed themselves very poorly.

      • Korne127@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 个月前

        Why replace horrible company with bad company run by literally THE guy that let the prior company become horrible instead of replacing it with good non-profit network?

        • mke@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          2 个月前

          Are you talking about Dorsey? Because if so, he left Bluesky as he didn’t like their focus on moderation.

          Not that it matters much, I sincerely doubt most users look up such details before joining anything. It’s all about the experience.

    • uranibaba@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      2 个月前

      Perhaps Elon ran his mouth, was forced to buy Twitter because signed papers and MBS saw an oppertunity to remove Twitter from the scene?

    • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
      4·
      2 个月前

      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.

  • SouthFresh@lemmy.mlEnglish
    201·
    2 个月前

    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.

    • lobut@lemmy.caEnglish
      91·
      2 个月前

      I dunno, I follow some political, rap, and basketball YouTubers and they all use Twitter. I’d much rather them use Bluesky or Threads. I think Mastodon would probably be best but so far, anything’s better than Twitter.

    • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      2 个月前

      Because “it’s where people are going” - plus those two are already well known among normies, unlike mastodon/misskey/fediverse. They want a centralized thing.

      Funnily enough, during this brazilian exodus, my sister complained that Threads was too “clean”, while bluesky had all the “people with questionable mental stability” and was thus more interesting.

  • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.mlEnglish
    121·
    2 个月前

    As long as the general public only hears the first half of the story, it’s good marketing