It was sad he was gone during the whole Don't Worry Darling thing
― Motion to adjourn to enjoy a footling (President Keyes), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 18:49 (one year ago) link
"the overrated Florence Pee-Yew..."
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 18 January 2023 18:51 (one year ago) link
Canceled my yearly tweetbot renewal until this 3rd party client stuff is worked out. If it ever is.
― Jeff, Thursday, 19 January 2023 13:40 (one year ago) link
twitter insists of showing me apparently important NBA matches even though i am in the uk and know nothing of basketball. that said, i do enjoy the nonsense poetry this sometimes creates
What's Happening:Nuggets at TimberwolvesRaptors at Pistons
― koogs, Thursday, 19 January 2023 14:10 (one year ago) link
Keeps trying to show me news about the beatles. And when I tell it I'm not interested, it shows me news about each individual beatle instead. And when I finally manage to get them off my feed it goes back to the beatles :(
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Thursday, 19 January 2023 14:39 (one year ago) link
How do I tell the beatles to fuck off?
phoney Beatlemania hasn't bitten the dust
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Thursday, 19 January 2023 14:40 (one year ago) link
in this case
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Thursday, 19 January 2023 14:41 (one year ago) link
How much news is Ringo generating these days?
― Motion to adjourn to enjoy a footling (President Keyes), Thursday, 19 January 2023 14:44 (one year ago) link
you'd be surprised! ancient history never ends it seems
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Thursday, 19 January 2023 15:02 (one year ago) link
The Battle of the Headshake
― The Gate of Angels Laundromat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 19 January 2023 15:08 (one year ago) link
cmon the beatles and the nba are great twitters trying to help you see some cool stuff
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 January 2023 15:35 (one year ago) link
Now imagining Bruce Vilanch cranking out hot Trump tweets.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 19 January 2023 15:44 (one year ago) link
NBA Twitter is still good, in fact it's one of the only good things about Twitter right now
― frogbs, Thursday, 19 January 2023 15:47 (one year ago) link
only thing that keeps me going back
― four square ups... no punches thrown (Spottie), Thursday, 19 January 2023 16:28 (one year ago) link
Seeing a much higher proportion of paid blue checks than normal now. I guess it could be random but it feels like part of the creeping push of unwanted recommendations. I’d managed to filter out everything not directly related to my follower list for a while but lately that seems impossible.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Thursday, 19 January 2023 16:46 (one year ago) link
serious question to regular twitter posters: where is the tipping point for you where supporting team elon becomes more unpleasant than having this free service
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 January 2023 17:04 (one year ago) link
i will never log off twitter dot com i live for this
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 January 2023 17:07 (one year ago) link
I respect lagoon's choice but I am done, personally
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 19 January 2023 17:07 (one year ago) link
you can find my posts at https://jklol.net/posts.html
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 19 January 2023 17:10 (one year ago) link
I went back, for a bit. Then I got banned, for wishing ill on a Tory MP who was gloating about immigrants dying in the sea. Then I got back on again, and I'm hating it, and I feel complicit. Basically my plan is to stay off it unless I have an article or project to promote on it. It's a miserable place. It was before Elon took it over but now it's just miserable to such a vast degree, like Sideshow Bob stepping on rakes for all eternity, but still somehow carrying on.
― his cartoon heart expands, then he relaxes by smoking crack (stevie), Thursday, 19 January 2023 17:42 (one year ago) link
feel like there was an explosion of enthusiasm for twitter amongst the worst people in the world when elon took over but its pretty much gone back to normal now which makes sense like if you didnt want to be there before knowing that elon is in charge is only going to go so far
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 January 2023 17:50 (one year ago) link
should say that i always use the chronological (currently "following" used to be "latest" before that was just the only option) timeline so whatever changes happen there i never see them
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 January 2023 17:52 (one year ago) link
i suspect this elon experiment wont last and twitter will have some faceless private equity bosses before long, if it doesnt just go out of business altogether which seem pretty unlikely but not totally impossible
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 January 2023 17:54 (one year ago) link
Basically my plan is to stay off it unless I have an article or project to promote on it.
Where I'm at. I have Tweetdeck set up so I know when I'm tagged or DM'd and that's all I use it for; killed out my actual main feed.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 19 January 2023 18:16 (one year ago) link
I appreciate people out there still using it for good things as they can, like this amazing thread today.
Wouldn't you love to visit the Disneyland knockoff, Nara Dreamland, in its prime? Thanks to an early 1960s souvenir guidebook, we'll do just that! Here's a comparison with Disneyland's 1962 edition.1/36 pic.twitter.com/bcobQJaxLy— Jason Schultz (@ArchivistJason) January 19, 2023
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 19 January 2023 18:27 (one year ago) link
what exactly is Elon musk getting from me using twitter
― mh, Thursday, 19 January 2023 18:35 (one year ago) link
A hardon
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 19 January 2023 18:38 (one year ago) link
xp yeah but that could be (and likely is) just as easily disseminated on tumblr or insta or whatever
not xp - you personally? nothing. "you" in the larger sense is anybody utilizing the 44b playground which is revenue. i dunno, that seems purposely disingenuous along the lines of "what exactly is r kelly getting from me listening to him on spotify"
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 January 2023 18:38 (one year ago) link
one hundredth of a cent
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 January 2023 18:40 (one year ago) link
advertisers bailed, his fortune is tied up in tesla stock which is dropping daily, he didn’t create the site/app/whatever and while he’s a creepy worm, people attribute all kinds of things to him (both positive and negative) that he has nothing to do withfor personal and work reasons I use software products and services by companies who have announced layoffs exceeding those he did at twitter by a large marginI guess if me leaving teaches the world or one man that it’s bad to be a disgusting person publicly — when many are as bad or worse but keep their mouths shut — then…
― mh, Thursday, 19 January 2023 18:45 (one year ago) link
instagram, the social media service famously run by an ethical silicon valley billionaire
― 龜, Thursday, 19 January 2023 18:45 (one year ago) link
I guess the third-party app disappearance means I’d have to recreate my muted words list, but I can use the site without seeing elon musk tweets (he’s blocked) and never even see his name
― mh, Thursday, 19 January 2023 18:47 (one year ago) link
lol yeah Meta allows all kinds of ad hoc groups on whatsapp that are ridiculously bad but I’ll still scroll that gram
― mh, Thursday, 19 January 2023 18:48 (one year ago) link
just gimmie that garbage shovel it in
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 January 2023 18:49 (one year ago) link
tbh i only use twitter its the one i like
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 January 2023 18:50 (one year ago) link
I like the local food spots that post the sandwich of the day on instagram at 11am so I know whether to go there for lunch
― mh, Thursday, 19 January 2023 18:51 (one year ago) link
my tweets are 44 billion times more powerful than the richest man on earth (bernie arnault)
― mark s, Thursday, 19 January 2023 18:51 (one year ago) link
its true that posting a sandwich is the highest possible form of social media
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 January 2023 18:52 (one year ago) link
lagoon please make a tumblr version of the restaurant bot tho
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 19 January 2023 18:55 (one year ago) link
if u set up the account and write the code for making a post (en javascript) i will put it on my server
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 January 2023 19:02 (one year ago) link
all social media is garbage, all corporate business is corrupt, these are givens
the larger question is when does the stated purpose of the app you're using shift sufficiently toward supporting explicitly heinous shit (racism, astroterfing, misogyny, you name it) that you no longer want to associate your inner life with it
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 January 2023 19:03 (one year ago) link
i would never associate my inner life with social media i maintain a strict firewall
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 January 2023 19:06 (one year ago) link
I used to be an Instagram defender but it's gotten harder to curate an experience (of seeing puppies, bands and architecture) and become even more of a shitpile of recommended reposts of the world's dumbest TikToks and bizarre scam ads over the last year.
Despite Musk Twitter is a paradise in comparison.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 19 January 2023 19:06 (one year ago) link
Twitter at least makes blocking (of every ad and annoying people, including the site's owner) a simple one-step process.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 19 January 2023 19:08 (one year ago) link
insta is definitely a garbage site. i use it for pottery, comics, art and burlesque/nightlife people and try to avoid getting stuck in pseudo-tok black holes. i'm aware i shouldn't be feeding that beast either but when you spend ten hours on making something, you wanna share.
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 January 2023 19:09 (one year ago) link
yeah instgram making itself into the algo influencer center is lame, someone shd make an app where u look at your friends pictures
― lag∞n, Thursday, 19 January 2023 19:09 (one year ago) link
was just gonna say as shitty as twitter is, it's less shitty than instagram
― a (waterface), Thursday, 19 January 2023 19:10 (one year ago) link
i assume some genzer in a garage is currently finishing a stripped down open source freeware bare bones social media interaction app with relative ease of use and without ads that is going to be everyone's default in the next year or twomastodon is clearly not it but it's pointing to the it
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 January 2023 19:21 (one year ago) link
however, unlike most tech products, this is a clear problem in search of a solution which for some reason is not profitablewherefore art thou jonas salk of social media
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 January 2023 19:22 (one year ago) link