xp: well what do we have here? looks like twitter's got it's very own version of Οὖτις now.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 2 November 2022 11:29 (one year ago) link
Well this isn’t looking promising. Can’t log into emails. Mac wont turn on. But so grateful this is happening at 3am. Really appreciate the thoughtfulness on the timing front guys. Meanwhile to everyone else at Twitter, you’re the best ❤️ #OneTeam pic.twitter.com/iWyAPeURcm— Chris Younie (@ChrisYounie) November 4, 2022
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 4 November 2022 11:57 (one year ago) link
the good news is that at least he'll have to start paying $8 a month for his blue check starting monday!
― 龜, Friday, 4 November 2022 12:19 (one year ago) link
I just reported someone who literally said "I am an antisemite" and got an email back saying they hadn't broken Twitter's rules
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 4 November 2022 12:26 (one year ago) link
Some things haven’t changed then
― Wiggum Dorma (wins), Friday, 4 November 2022 12:41 (one year ago) link
I’m gonna miss this place pic.twitter.com/L3Y0tGBKQR— 𝕖𝕣𝕚𝕜 𝕗𝕠𝕣𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕥 𝕛𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕤𝕠𝕟 🛸 (@MrErikJackson) November 3, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 4 November 2022 12:45 (one year ago) link
lol very nice
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 12:54 (one year ago) link
chaka khan tho
heh
and yes, it is true that Chaka Khan would’ve been the more correct answer pic.twitter.com/dUuBk7Rvua— 𝕖𝕣𝕚𝕜 𝕗𝕠𝕣𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕥 𝕛𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕤𝕠𝕟 🛸 (@MrErikJackson) November 3, 2022
Twitter is being sued for conducting mass layoffs without giving the required 60-day notice(via @business) pic.twitter.com/6f2nuQCUI7— Culture Crave 🍿 (@CultureCrave) November 4, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 4 November 2022 13:14 (one year ago) link
that Chris guy who worked on entertainment partnerships (idk asking them to twet?) has pictures with more famous people than Elon does. writing was probably on the wall
― mh, Friday, 4 November 2022 13:46 (one year ago) link
I can't wait to see Twitter die a death. It has brought nothing but misery to huge numbers of people.
― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 4 November 2022 13:51 (one year ago) link
Lol, what?
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 4 November 2022 14:05 (one year ago) link
"I don't even own a TV!"
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 4 November 2022 14:08 (one year ago) link
meanwhile in the Qing dynasty (1644-1912) the Meat-Shaped Stone is a piece of jasper carved to resemble a slab of Djongo pork belly marinated in soy sauce (housed in Taiwan's National Palace Museum)
"The Meat-Shaped Stone has been called the 'most famous masterpiece" of the entire National Palace Museum' [...] and has also been chosen by the public as the most important item in the museum's entire collection. pic.twitter.com/RQVlvi60B3— vince kaichan (@VinceKaichan) August 3, 2022
― mark s, Friday, 4 November 2022 14:23 (one year ago) link
So, the people who didn't get fired-- I assume they will also be looking for new jobs. Every time I worked at a place that started threatening layoffs, even if I wasn't under the knife, I started sending off resumes.
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Friday, 4 November 2022 14:25 (one year ago) link
xxxp i have to admit that when people say "my personal experience of twitter is benign, you just have to curate your timeline really well" its like i believe you and honor your lived experience, but also for everybody with a well-curated timeline thats just poets and record labels there are 45 nancy pelosi hammer guys out there being slowly driven insane. looking forward to Elon hastening the day when twitter becomes like myspace, a site that still exists but has no remaining users or features
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 4 November 2022 14:26 (one year ago) link
meat stone rules lol
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 14:27 (one year ago) link
i have to admit that when people say "my personal experience of twitter is benign, you just have to curate your timeline really well" its like i believe you and honor your lived experience
I believe them, I honour their lived experience, but
(i) I don't want to be them(ii) I have no intention of becoming like them(iii) why do *I* have to do the hard work? The point of tech is to make our lives easier, not more difficult, and if the tools won't serve me, I don't want them in my life!
(I do own a tv by the way. And a PS4 ;-) )
― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 4 November 2022 14:41 (one year ago) link
...and if I sound like the classic ex-smoker, chiding folks for what they are still doing to their lungs, then, well, I kinda am. I was a regular user of Twitter, but it got to the point when it was affecting my mental health and before Musk got his grubby little hands on it, I pressed Delete. My life's got much better since. There is a causal link; it's not the only causal link.
― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 4 November 2022 14:45 (one year ago) link
One of you people recommended a Chrome extension (tweak new twitter?) which I had totally forgotten that I had installed but which seems to be passively doing the trick.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 4 November 2022 14:48 (one year ago) link
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Friday, November 4, 2022 9:25 AM (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
this is the rational response. the irrational response is thinking that maybe you can acquire and carve off a slice of the territory that remains once there are fewer employees remaining
― mh, Friday, 4 November 2022 14:51 (one year ago) link
GG are there social media platforms you like? other than ilx. My objection to your post was that singling out Twitter as immiserating doesn't make sense
― rob, Friday, 4 November 2022 14:51 (one year ago) link
Yeah before I started using twitter more I was just getting angry at Facebook instead.
There are def times when I feel the need to get off twitter for a while or mute everyone who does politics but it is superior to FB in that while both serve me up the thoughts of racist cunts on a daily basis, Facebook provides me no access whatsoever to ppl who think that you should warn someone before masturbating thinking of them or that reading is a sign of privilege. It's just a much more colourful dystopia.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 4 November 2022 14:58 (one year ago) link
ppl who don't want to get angry at their feeds at all use instagram I believe but boy are things boring on there
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 4 November 2022 14:59 (one year ago) link
A lot of people were paralysed into doing nothing out of fear of jeopardising any severance.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 4 November 2022 14:59 (one year ago) link
I use FB occasionally, but I game it. I try to cheat the algorithms by not liking anything and not following anyone or anything, so if distant relatives want to tell me someone's ill or has died they can, and if I want to see what a friend's up to I put their name into Search.
Other than that, I use WhatsApp but only with friends. I don't follow any groups with people in them I don't know. And that's it.
― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 4 November 2022 15:04 (one year ago) link
This feels different from the careful curation of Twitter someone mentioned above in that you don't need to do curation. It was more "(un)set it and forget it"
― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 4 November 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
i go on twitter to see the bad stuff, amongst other reasons
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 15:17 (one year ago) link
The 'rewards' are interesting takes by people who don't normally have a voice. And yeah you see a reality, a certain insight on people's lives, whether bad or good. I know I'll miss it.
But saying twitter has bought misery on lots of ppl when not many ppl actually tweet and *looks at what actually immiserates people* is just wrong.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 4 November 2022 15:22 (one year ago) link
new tab alert
Lol I guess I got an early rollout? Farewell verified tab, I will never think of you again pic.twitter.com/aep3Gpw02I— Anna Merlan (@annamerlan) November 4, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 15:24 (one year ago) link
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Friday, 4 November 2022 15:44 (one year ago) link
I get most of my news from Twitter tbh, including labor stuff, author stuff, very-online-personality stuff, academics who are also public figures stuff, following electeds that I like, hyper-local politics stuff...there's no other place where all of those things are accessible.
otm re IG, reels made it unusable.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Friday, 4 November 2022 15:45 (one year ago) link
xp to gyacsomeone on ilx recently shared the tip that if you tap the Instagram logo and then pick "Following" you only see posts from people you follow (well, plus ads I think). You have to do it every time, but it might be worth it if you only look once a day
― rob, Friday, 4 November 2022 15:48 (one year ago) link
yeah i get all my news via twitter great source for links
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 15:48 (one year ago) link
Such a shame Ed Lee isn't around to see this. Yup.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 November 2022 16:04 (one year ago) link
I did see that tip rob, and I have found it useful, but I guess the issue is not that you can change it, but, like so many things, that you keep needing to put stuff back that was never broken in the first place.
― after several days on “the milk,” (gyac), Friday, 4 November 2022 16:18 (one year ago) link
yeah i get all my news via twitter great source for links― lag∞n, Friday, November 4, 2022 11:48 AM (fifty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― lag∞n, Friday, November 4, 2022 11:48 AM (fifty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
this is the only good feature of twitter blue!
https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/twitter-blue-features#top-articles
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 4 November 2022 16:42 (one year ago) link
yeah ive heard other people say thats good too
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 16:45 (one year ago) link
that's what nuzzle used to do iirc
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 4 November 2022 16:54 (one year ago) link
yeah they bought nuzzle and turned it into that iirc
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 16:56 (one year ago) link
ah i see there are a few replacements now
https://murmel.social
https://www.markpack.org.uk/168092/tweetshelf-a-great-tool-for-making-the-most-of-twitter/
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 4 November 2022 16:56 (one year ago) link
insta switched to an awful side-menu view in my browser a few days ago. there is literally a frame with a scroll bar when i look at my notifications. also i can't see the 'following' option when i click the logo anymore.
i followed a bunch of random gays and drag queens because i do my dj promotion on insta. sounds fun in theory but boy does my timeline get monotonous.
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 4 November 2022 16:58 (one year ago) link
there's always matrix!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v1HKXYQbfU
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 4 November 2022 17:22 (one year ago) link
what if were all already in the matrix
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 November 2022 17:28 (one year ago) link
ah i see there are a few replacements nowhttps://murmel.socialhttps://www.markpack.org.uk/168092/tweetshelf-a-great-tool-for-making-the-most-of-twitter/― Tracer Hand, Friday, November 4, 2022 11:56 AM (thirty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Tracer Hand, Friday, November 4, 2022 11:56 AM (thirty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Ooh, thanks for this. I was a devoted Nuzzel user and was sad when it shut down and was incorporated into Twitter Blue.
― jaymc, Friday, 4 November 2022 17:28 (one year ago) link
what the everloving fuck is the Verified tab? blue checkmark folks complaining about shit the rabble has never even heard of is some top tier schadenfreude
― diamonddave85 (diamonddave85), Friday, 4 November 2022 18:12 (one year ago) link
lol It's obviously a tab that screens out tweets by the unwashed masses
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Friday, 4 November 2022 18:13 (one year ago) link
to replace twitter-as-links-service i’m just going back to rss feeds of sites i like again, the way forward is backward
― slai gorgeous-alexander (m bison), Friday, 4 November 2022 18:21 (one year ago) link
I was looking at the Twitter Blue features the other day and it's funny but half of the features are just.. there.. if you use a third-party client and not the official Twitter one (or the website)
I hope Elon doesn't remember that third-party clients exist
― mh, Friday, 4 November 2022 18:24 (one year ago) link