I don't care about Alex Jones getting banned or not or whatever it's just risible that they appeal to their Rules in situations like this when the actual problem is @jack is a goddamn Nazi sympathizer
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 17:34 (five years ago) link
it comes down to the fact they've made it clear they consider their service an online community with a completely flat structure. lists aren't especially useful, the verification of users is pretty arbitrary. they think this stuff is fine in their community
― mh, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 17:44 (five years ago) link
little known fact jack's name is actually a nickname, his full name is does jack shit
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 18:08 (five years ago) link
jack off
― mh, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 18:12 (five years ago) link
jack boot stomping on human face forever 5k rts 15 likes 3k replies
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 19:50 (five years ago) link
Mastodon reminds me of Twitter 2007, firehose and all
― stet, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 20:48 (five years ago) link
more gay furries on Mastodon than there were on Twitter '07
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:20 (five years ago) link
is there a main mastodon instance?
― mh, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:25 (five years ago) link
Yeah but don’t join it
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:32 (five years ago) link
Mastodon.social is the mainest one I think. Maybe we should have an ILX one tho
― stet, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:33 (five years ago) link
that'd be cute
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:45 (five years ago) link
last i checked mastodon was full of people talking about mastodon
― Everything to do with chocolate (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 9 August 2018 11:17 (five years ago) link
So was Twitter when it started tbf
― stet, Thursday, 9 August 2018 11:53 (five years ago) link
and app.net, my point being if it doesn’t progress beyond navel gazing it’s not really a proposition
― Everything to do with chocolate (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 10 August 2018 02:31 (five years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/10/technology/twitter-free-speech-infowars.html
But Mr. Dorsey also said that while Twitter’s longtime guiding principle has been free expression, the company is now discussing “that safety should come first.” He added, “That’s a conversation we need to have.” He said he was thinking deeply about human rights law and listening to audiobooks on speech and expression.
you know it's serious when dorsey breaks out the audiobooks
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Saturday, 11 August 2018 01:04 (five years ago) link
If Jack Dorsey fell into an open manhole he’d probably spend months considering what to do about the situation.
― faculty w1fe (silby), Saturday, 11 August 2018 01:08 (five years ago) link
the company is now discussing “that safety should come first.” He added, “That’s a conversation we need to have.”
a decade+ after launch my lord these ppl r fn psycho
― sprout god (lag∞n), Saturday, 11 August 2018 01:35 (five years ago) link
I thought the whole thread on what jay rosen nyu media critic had to say to @jack was interesting:
Makes sense, as long as @jack understands: principles enforced impartially will lead to an imbalanced result under conditions of asymmetric polarization, where one side is drifting toward the extreme at a faster rate than the other. If you grasp that, then get ready for the heat. https://t.co/VEfJ1wXax5— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) August 8, 2018
― Dan S, Saturday, 11 August 2018 01:54 (five years ago) link
i hate illinois nazis
― mookieproof, Saturday, 11 August 2018 02:09 (five years ago) link
this is all just regurgitated half-skimmed max but twitter seems to have a p stable policy of taking actions when enough ppl complain and otherwise being hands off, which sits awkwardly beside their outward stance of being firm about ‘rules’, so they bring out jack to equivocate and say ‘we haven’t been good at that’ eighteen times whenever the discussion gets too loud to ignore
― flopson, Saturday, 11 August 2018 02:14 (five years ago) link
Q: if you refreshed your feed all day, what % of tweets by ppl you follow would you see? i feel like the answer is way below 100
― flopson, Saturday, 11 August 2018 07:37 (five years ago) link
seem to remember before algorithmic twitter i could read tweets for hours. now i follow an insane number of ppl and it runs out after like 45 mins
― flopson, Saturday, 11 August 2018 07:38 (five years ago) link
if u can use tweetdeck, theres no algorithming
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Saturday, 11 August 2018 12:32 (five years ago) link
just a steady deluge of Content
yeah, I only ever visit the site to do polls or get a link to send someone. tweetbot is still chronological timeline of who I follow and their retweets. that’s it
probably should open the official client some day just to get a feel for what people are actually seeing. it took a while to realize half the crap where people I follow are reacting to garbage is because that’s what the official client/site is giving them
― mh, Saturday, 11 August 2018 19:42 (five years ago) link
its getting really bad they show u the same tweet multiple times and so forth shd prob switch to tweetbot
― sprout god (lag∞n), Saturday, 11 August 2018 19:44 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/x049E8b.png
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 17 August 2018 18:30 (five years ago) link
The ratio on that original tweet is hilarious.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 17 August 2018 18:31 (five years ago) link
Don't bother. https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/16/twitter-company-email-addresses-why-its-breakingmytwitter/
When Twitter kills off third party clients, I'm off twitter for good.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 17 August 2018 22:58 (five years ago) link
Jack's approach to hate speech seems quite like that of China, where people are reprimanded more for "spreading rumours" and "disrupting social order" than for actual harassment or spreading bigotry.
Right now my biggest problem with using twitter is that half the people I follow seem to be so heavily engaged in the trans / TERF debate that there seems to be room for very little else, and there is no way it's going to end anytime soon. It is definitely an important topic, but arguing on twitter is like picking a scab until it bleeds, and the energy put into this could surely be better spent elsewhere. Recently I've found myself only using my website's twitter account, where I mainly follow sound archivists, and it's a much more pleasant experience, though effectively it means not following a number of old friends any more.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 18 August 2018 20:08 (five years ago) link
Twitter reminds me a lot of the "Is this racist?" thread here, where there for awhile, well-meaning people would post incredibly racist things and add "CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS SHIT?" Like, I know right? And yet, here it is right in front of me.
For example, the more lib the Tweeter I follow, the more likely I'm going to see a RT from the current president.
― pplains, Saturday, 18 August 2018 22:32 (five years ago) link
blockity block block block
― Everything to do with chocolate (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 18 August 2018 22:48 (five years ago) link
i don’t even use twitter and i blocked that orange bastard years ago
― Everything to do with chocolate (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 18 August 2018 22:51 (five years ago) link
i blocked all of twitter on my home pc but unfortunately tweets still show up converted to text. i'd like it if i could get rid of the text too.
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Saturday, 18 August 2018 22:57 (five years ago) link
I blocked the his surname, but not his account. I figure one of these days, I won't mind being among the first to hear about WWWIII.
― pplains, Saturday, 18 August 2018 23:01 (five years ago) link
WWIII, not the website.
― pplains, Saturday, 18 August 2018 23:02 (five years ago) link
www.twitterIII.com
― sprout god (lag∞n), Saturday, 18 August 2018 23:08 (five years ago) link
lol
can't say I have issues with twitter. I'm 100% a viewer not a contributor though, so don't have anything at stake
― Dan S, Saturday, 18 August 2018 23:14 (five years ago) link
but neal schon is already on twitter
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Saturday, 18 August 2018 23:15 (five years ago) link
(apparently he's upset that journey wants to tour without him? i've got a bootleg of the 1971 "santana journey into the universe" tour, he shreds on it)
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Saturday, 18 August 2018 23:17 (five years ago) link
A furry became an intern for NASA and got instantly fired after telling someone on their council to suck their dick because this is 2018. pic.twitter.com/XL7jvCKFFj— Michelle Catlin (@CatlinNyaa) August 21, 2018
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 18:43 (five years ago) link
Space Force claims its first victim
― badg, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 18:52 (five years ago) link
These filter settings that people are passing around have upgraded my experience quite a bit
https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=filter%3Afollows%20-filter%3Areplies&src=typd
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 19:53 (five years ago) link
what do they do exactly
― marcos, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 20:00 (five years ago) link
still have yet to see a good "hurt me" meme
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 21 August 2018 20:01 (five years ago) link
"filter follows" removes anyone you don't follow. Filter replies I'm a little hazy on
http://www.followthehashtag.com/help/hidden-twitter-search-operators-extra-power-followthehashtag/
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 20:10 (five years ago) link
i liked this "hurt me" meme
me during sex: hurt meher: You’ve been traded to the Metsme: wait—her: you have a sore elbow. Mets expect you to miss one start.me: stopher: It’s a torn UCL. Tommy John surgery. 12-18 months recovery.— JB (@JB_August) August 19, 2018
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 20:12 (five years ago) link
― k3vin k., Tuesday, August 21, 2018 4:01 PM (forty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
almost all memes are bad imo
― marcos, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 20:43 (five years ago) link
hard disagree there but the hurt me meme is a rare example that i haven't found funny yet either
surprised so many people here are having such a negative time on twitter. it's still by far my favorite social media thing between IG and FB in a distant third. the algorithm didn't fuck up my experience of the site.
just curious, how many people do y'all follow?
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 02:19 (five years ago) link
i see a fair amount of pretty funny stuff.
there was once an ugly duckling. the other ducklings made fun of him. but eventually he grew up. he got larger. much larger than a duck should be. and far uglier. he was the size of a labrador and had razorlike serrated teeth and a pea brain incapable of remorse— Mike F (@mikefossey) August 20, 2018
― macropuente (map), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 02:25 (five years ago) link