What a fucking joke of a platform
Don’t insult the Joker like that.
Not technology.
Stop.using.xitter
Which goes to show that if you are a public figure whether in politics, entertainment, or otherwise, owning your own server for social media instead of relying on Zuck and Musk should be a critical concern at this point.
There is no reason for the Harris campaign to not dip their toe into federated social media at this point given Musk’s antagonism towards them.
And it’s so cheap to run. The only reason it’s not as worth is the limited reach and impact. But if main political figures would adopt it, the users and journalists would certainly come.
Can you post snippets of mastodon posts on websites like you can tweets?
You mean embedding posts or something else? https://fedi.tips/how-to-embed-mastodon-posts-on-a-website/
But isn’t that inherintly dangerous? I don’t exactly trust any random fedi server to embed it in my website.
Kind of, in that embedding anything from a site you can’t trust is inherently risky, but I’d say it’s not actually that bad, for two reasons:
- iframes are much better sandboxed than they once were, and are much safer now than their reputation suggests
- you probably wouldn’t be embedding from any old instance; I assume you could embed from an instance you use and trust as long as the post is federated to it
People big enough to have a staffed social media team will stilk have an Xitter account just because it is a viable vector to get news out. They may also have Truth Social account, just because it’s there.
It’s funny (scary) how the police and fire department never post to thir own websites about important timely information and updates.
It’s in twitter and Facebook. I use neither anymore. Because obvious reasons.
This week, I could only find reference to the smell of natural gas covering half our city via a news site that quoted the FD’s twitter.
Great work, guys!
I agree with you and I will not let them off the hook. They have no legitimate excuse to be using racist, misogynist, transphobic, homophobic, bigoted right-wing platforms.
Do they also have a stormfront account? Fuck anyone who contributes to fascist owned platforms just because they are there.
I don’t mind them having account there. They need to reach people where they are after all. I’m pissed at them for not being on any platform that is not owned by a fascist enabler oligarch at best.
Well put.
What do they even expect? They know who’s site they are using.
The remaining users are 100% in denial that it’s a Nazi website now.
Nah a lot of them are just actual Nazis.
Why is anyone still on, “The Social Media Platform Formerly Known As Twitter” ?
Its still twitter. You can’t take the twit out as long as a twit owns it.
Preaching to the choir.
Isn’t that, like, illegal?
the corporatocracy is an authoritarian dictatorship and there’s nothing you can do about it
No. That doesn’t make it right though.
Still being on Twitter? Definitely immoral, but legal.
No, if you are rich enough.
Maybe technically in Florida and Texas, given that they passed a law to try to stop sites deplatforming Trump.
https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess125_2023-2024/bills/3102.htm
“The owner or operator of a social media website who contracts with a social media website user in this State is subject to a private right of action by a user if the social media website purposely: … (2) uses an algorithm to disfavor, shadowban, or censure the user’s religious speech or political speech”.
In May 2022, the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled to strike the law (and similarly there was a 5th Circuit judgement), but just this month the US Supreme Court vacated the Court of Appeals judgement (i.e. reinstated the law) and remanded it back to the respective Court of Appeals. That said, the grounds for doing that were the court had not done the proper analysis, and after they do that it might be struck down again. But for now, the laws are technically not struck down.
It would be ironic if after conservatives passed this law, and stacked the supreme court and got the challenge to it vacated, the first major use of it was used against Xitter for censoring Harris!
Even without all that messing with stuff too much is bound to clash with protections those kinds of sites have around editorialising. That is, by doing such stuff X says “we’re not actually a pinboard, we’re a newspaper, we’re editorially responsible for what’s on there”, and then prosecution can come along and say “so, your newspaper published an article calling for <crime>, didn’t it? That’s your speech now, not speech of some random user, isn’t it?”.
People stupid enough to support fascism aren’t smart enough to recognize that it can be used against them
It’s the same stupid that thinks a dictator will preserve their freedom.
The same people who think a narcissistic billionaire is “one of them” because he says all the stupid things they’re thinking.
It would be ironic
It would be Fascism.
Why not both
Ironically, there is nothing ironic about fascism.
Of course not, fuck fascism, but even fascists can say ironic/moronic bullshit :)
That would be called “election interference”
Which should be treason.
Absolutely!
A nice razor hair cut then?
The Italian kind.
I was thinking about the French rapid weight loss system.
I hear that cut right through the fat… and the bone.
Just above the shoulders, just below the ears?
This might be one of Twitter’s automatic security features I’d heard about a while back (prior to the Musk takeover). Supposedly, Twitter stops accounts from getting a large amount of followers in a short amount of time to try to limit botting. Sometimes, rarely, it can trigger when a large amount of real people follow a real account.
I think I heard about it when I ran into the issue myself, but I don’t remember what account it was that I was trying to follow.
Go away with your sensible explanations, we have conspiracy to uncover.
prolly fake news but i would not be surprised.
telsatubby could be trying to make up his losses on a bad trade, we’ve all been there.
Teslatubby
K, thats it!!!
This is my new fave nickie for Elmo
Can we revoke his government contracts now?
Seriously though, it should be grounds for getting blacklisted from the government.
Or if the company in question is strategically crucial to national interests, as is the case here, it should be put into federal receivership with the appropriate relevant agency - so, SpaceX goes to NASA, Tesla goes to the DoT, Twitter goes to the FCC, etc.
I so deeply want this to be a case of “fuck around and find out”.
Maybe the reason Elon broke every part of Twitter was just so he has plausible deniability while he meddles with everything and desperately tries to get his name in every discussion.
😂 Space Karen
Keep being transparent as fuck, Space Karen
🤣
I agree this is of questionable veracity, but could you imagine if for example fb users had trouble following Trump? There would be a whole news cycle culminating in a congressional hearing. When people talk about the asymmetrical standards that conservatives are held to vs liberals in the media this is a prime example.
This is what happens when trying to give equal platforming to buttcracks on top of shoulders. They shit all over everything and dont understand why the mic was taken from them. They dont understand why we can post about single payer healthcare and they can’t say immigrants deserve to die. They think all ideals are equal on the battlegrounds of legislature.
Correction: some of them truly know why. However, they are trying to see what they can get away with, like a toddler testing their boundaries (“but why can’t I have dessert instead of dinner!?”). It is our fault if we fall prey to their BS.
The only thing required for evil to flourish is for good people to do nothing.
Those that are dumb far outweigh the manipulators. Get the dumb ones educated and the manipulators will lose their grasp. Or so I’d like to believe…
This is what the original founders of the United States of America believed, but that did not last long.
Separately, ignorance is different than obstinacy - the former is easily curable but I have never heard of anything ever that can possibly cure the latter.
Anyway, you could have the most amazing endgame chess move ever planned out, but if you can’t get to it then it’s useless. The Republicans are winning so much lately bc they are playing the game as it is, not as they wish it could be in some fantasy scenario. If we want to beat them then it will take equal effort than they have put in for decades while liberals seem to have simply gone to sleep.
He posted a picture on his stream of the error message “There’s a problem here” over the Biden/Harris campaign page, so at very least he’s trolling instead of taking his job seriously. Twitter is his private platform so whatever, but it’s another reminder that Musk will not be impartial and is actually pouring millions into the Trump campaign, so if you’re still there now would be a good time to leave.
I’m afraid people on Twitter will never leave it no matter what
I left
When? I meant if they’re there now, they probably won’t leave
Technically everyone left Twitter because Twitter doesn’t exist anymore.
If you ever wonder why the people you know seem to be better friends with each other than with you, or why they look away while talking with you, or why they always seems to excuse themselves after interacting with you for only a very short time, this post is why.
That person had a family… granted, based on this post, they probably didn’t like them much…but good grief…lmfao
at very least he’s trolling instead of taking his job seriously
Let’s be real, there’s nothing he personally could do to fix this issue. He just plain doesn’t have the skills.
Yo it was a good time to leave back when he bought it. It was a good time again when he dumped moderation. It was a good time again when he changed the name to X. Really its always been a good time to leave. Anyone who hasn’t left by now has already ignored so many signs not even Ace of Base can help them.
Anyone who hasn’t left by now has already ignored so many signs not even Ace of Base can help them.
LOL
You nailed it. I left Twitter the day he took over, haven’t looked back once. Anyone still using it is perfectly fine with the dumpster fire and can burn in it.
Why in the fuck did Biden announce his resignation on that platform?
Because, out of all the platforms available (Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, Reddit, Lemmy, Mastodon, etc.), Twitter is the place where the news will spread the fastest.
