Twitter C/D

I shouldn’t be surprised, but very disheartening to see Glinner has been unbanned and is immediately posting transphobic bile

As with his writing for the daily heil if you looked at his steez pre hate crusade you might naively assume there would have to be at least *some* introspection about exactly who is on his side these days

Haha cunt changed his Twitter bio to deny his previous views. Let’s see how he gets on throwing accusations at people while living in a country with plaintiff-friendly libel laws.

Actually just remembered he lost his original, early adopter blue verified tick and it’s not on the account now. Hope he starts sending Elon aggressive emails about it!

just scrolled my (algorithmic) timeline for 5 min and saw like 4 repeated tweets

I shouldn’t be surprised, but very disheartening to see Glinner has been unbanned and is immediately posting transphobic bile

genuinely surprised to see how much of an effort he made to tone it down from what he's posted on his socks & burners during the ban

the charm of being a subversive ban evader and truth-speaker kind of wears off when your account’s reinstated and the owner of the company is voicing the same repellent views

https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/Pages/most-read-threads.jsp

Huh, never noticed that before. Seems weird that some of the most-read threads in the past 5 minutes haven't been updated in years. I guess ILX gets a fair bit of traffic from search results.

elon going with one of his fave moves juicing the stats

I'm calling bullshit on Views -
I logged out of this alt, returned 5 minutes later and suddenly there were 8 more views. pic.twitter.com/fqjZhY9tq6

— Nick (@StrayDogNZ) December 23, 2022

I kind of wondered how they’re defining “views” there and whether it’s actual users or just anytime the tweet’s marked delivered

maybe the tweet was viewed multiple times by the advertising algorithm

cool cool cool, just no bottom with this fucker

Dec 23 (Reuters) - Twitter Inc removed a feature in the past few days that promoted suicide prevention hotlines and other safety resources to users looking up certain content, according to two people familiar with the matter who said it was ordered by new owner Elon Musk.

The removal of the feature, known as #ThereIsHelp, has not been previously reported. It had shown at the top of specific searches contacts for support organizations in many countries related to mental health, HIV, vaccines, child sexual exploitation, COVID-19, gender-based violence, natural disasters and freedom of expression.

Its elimination could add to concerns about the well-being of vulnerable users on Twitter. Musk has said that impressions, or views, of harmful content are declining since he took over in October and has tweeted graphs showing a downward trend, even as researchers and civil rights groups have tracked an increase in tweets with racial slurs and other hateful content.

Twitter and Musk did not respond to requests for comment on the removal of the feature.

Why am I being tortured with @Rjeff24 tonight @TwitterSupport ? pic.twitter.com/9gQvotqTLb

— Dan WHENESOTA (@WHENESOTA) December 24, 2022

more likes than views

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fkwnoq2WQAE7mky?format=jpg&name=medium

🧐

The same ad repeating twice within one screen. pic.twitter.com/NNDmpAtPRt

— Sridhar Ramesh (@RadishHarmers) December 24, 2022

Huh, Nathan J Robinson still exists

Yeah I’m getting this Wendy’s ad over and over again

Can someone explain to me how something can be trending on @twitter without any recent tweets (or top tweets, for that matter)? It's not just this one, same for typing 2,000... @elonmusk? Anyone?#idontgetit #MerryChristmas pic.twitter.com/HBTNQ13krh

— Pli✧✧✧@masto✧✧✧.soc✧✧✧ (@mrjln) December 25, 2022

Currently into hour six of a random bitcoin scammer having access to the DMs of the Secretary of State for Education. The fallout from this will be visible from orbit.

— Joe McNally 💙 (@GaspardWinckler) December 26, 2022

Don't let it get away!

It's gonna be awesome!https://t.co/lhNsyX7VO6

— Gillian Keegan (@GillianKeegan) December 26, 2022

i don't know, trends seems to be working just fine

https://i.imgur.com/WqBnhgh.png

oh christian cheesecake factory i went to jr high with him

ok yeah that "if Jokic scores 1 point you win" ad has been at the top of my feed for like a week straight, lmao

oh christian cheesecake factory i went to jr high with him

bless

lmao he flies to sacramento (where the data center they're decomissioning is) and now it's broken haha

inshallah could this be a big one

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LmYSIlioyA4/hqdefault.jpg

rip tweets

it randomly logged me in to one of my bot accounts now when i try to switch back my regular account i just get a spinner

still working on my phone tho

Mobile web version notifications have been broken on and off

Overall I would have to say that Twitter was “classic”

I have been forced out on my laptop and can't log back in, but it's still working on my phone for the moment. If it's over, it's over. I find that my enthusiasm for Mastodon, mild at best, has waned sharply ...mostly because all anybody seems to do there is talk about Twitter or call everyone else racist and ableist.

Just got bounced out on desktop and can't get back in.

im back on web

Downdetector says it’s coming back up tragically

logged me out of web randomly for no reason, cannot log back in or even get login modal to render.

ah yeah its doing it again for me too

I can’t log in at all on the web site now, just getting an error message.

Mastodon follows Reddit’s primary model of decentralized, volunteer moderation if I’m not mistaken. It’s the libertarian pipe dream but it has a proven history of failure on Reddit, it’s not scalable.

I’ll gladly accept the anti-discriminatory self-righteousness if that’s the worst of it as long as there’s some actual community engaged in decent quality discussion of music, science, politics etc.

My concern as with Reddit is that decentralized moderation is a formula for takeover by bad-faith actors if it becomes attractive enough to them.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fkk8yTrXgAIxLjZ?format=jpg&name=900x900

the best messageboard is still ilx

i don't care what anyone says. i invested a while back and i believe we are going to make a ton of money

as soon as the payment for posting system gets up it'll be TO THE MOON!!!

it's just about to start kicking in, one of the upcoming fiscal years

payPOLLa

Mastodon follows Reddit’s primary model of decentralized, volunteer moderation if I’m not mistaken. It’s the libertarian pipe dream but it has a proven history of failure on Reddit, it’s not scalable.

similar but not quite the same as reddit which is still much more centralised by comparison (in that there is a central admin team at all) - moderation is up to the owners of each mastodon instance & so if there's another instance that's say, full of nazis, then other instances will defederate from them but then you run into all sorts of issues with who's federated with who and having to play whack-a-mole with bad instances and typical forum mod petty tyrant stuff

twitters been switching me over to "home" timeline a bunch from my preferred "latest tweets" which is something that hadnt happened in a long time, tho i may have brought it upon myself by switching over to "home" once on purpose to "see how the algorithm was doing"

yeah it did that to me after force-logging me out on web.

I've gotten some weird glitches and notices today — had to turn to my notifications back on even though I didn't turn them off, had a blue bar pop up at one point saying "Something's gone wrong." Probably related to whatever "backend" thing Elon says he cleared out.

The timeline setting is home by default, per login per client. So if you got force logged out yesterday it will be back to home.