Twitter C/D

sure. i think there's a difference between building a product nazis "end up" using and personally boosting posts by nazis, unbanning nazis, and then writing nazi posts yourself as owner.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 8 May 2023 bookmarkflaglink

I don't.

Yes, this is why reading the LRB and Unherd is the same thing.

Twitter is not a publication. Glad to help.

Yes, that's why it's an analogy mate.

Colour me skeptical that social media sites, unlike publications, are platonically perfect bastions of neutrality and uninfluenced by the agendas of their owners.

Mate, Elon Musk does not shape the content in anyway so all I'm seeing is right-wing content.

I hate Twitter but am with xyzzz on this— there’s still plenty of stuff on the site that is fine, even helpful to some people. Maybe instead of chastising people who still use it, it would be better to continue documenting its problems and downfall? just feels like a useless pile-up.

All tech bro CEOs are Randian creeps, pass it on.

For whatever reason I still see a timeline that’s remarkably close to how things looked Before Elmo.

time to go imo. Not that I have an account anyway, but definitely trying to ignore twitter links etc now. Which is going to make me out of touch with the discourse but that's a price I'm prepared to pay lol

For everyone who's like 'who care about the ownership, they're all assholes' I feel like Muskrat is inevitably gonna just keep upping the ante here, so if you're not at breaking point yet you will be in a couple weeks when Golly faces replace the bird logo for 72 hours

by the looks of it Elon is pretty close to responding "Interesting!" to holocaust denial stuff so yeah maybe time to jump ship

I mean my timeline is close to what it looked like before, except half the people have either stopped posting or have throttled way back. the Lakers/Warriors game last night would've been pandemonium on my TL last year, because all that energy kind of feeds off each other, now most of the people I like just don't care to share their thoughts on Twitter anymore

I also don't think caek was saying you should leave because your timeline will be less good, as some people seem to be implying. I read his comment to be that you should leave because staying helps keep the lights on for a platform that is aggressively pushing nazi voices and ideology. I don't completely agree, I think it is still good to boost the good on there and refuse to give attention to the bad, but I'm not unsympathetic to his POV.

Yep.

Here’s a fun new tweet from the owner btw. It’s about soros and Zuckerberg (wonder what those guys have in common, does anyone know?)

Strange that election officials from pivotal regions attended a far left conference when they’re supposed to be impartial

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 9, 2023

Replying to Laura "They called the police on me" Loomer

crazy to think years ago she handcuffed herself to twitter hq and now shes inside the building so to speak

Activism works!

the blue check boost really has swathed twitter with the unmistakable stank of facebook

i mean it was always there, or had been for the last 5-6 years, but it now suffuses almost everything

I read his comment to be that you should leave because staying helps keep the lights on for a platform that is aggressively pushing nazi voices and ideology. I don't completely agree, I think it is still good to boost the good on there and refuse to give attention to the bad, but I'm not unsympathetic to his POV.

― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, May 9, 2023 10:00 AM (thirty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

If someone tried to convince me there was good content amidst the bad on Truth Social or w/e I would be like lol come on. So I think it's a question of when is Twitter *essentially* a right-wing platform. The CEO boosting Laura fucking Loomer is enough for me (maybe 'cause I'm in Canada?), but I get that it's not that stark for everyone

xp that handcuffing bit was some amazing physical humor

the moment it became clear she just handcuffed herself to one door handle and it didn't actually block the door and people could just open the other side was *chef's kiss*

I have a sinking feeling elmo's going to boost election denialism next year

the blue check boost really has swathed twitter with the unmistakable stank of facebook

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, May 9, 2023 10:26 AM (thirty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

its wild how like 90% of blue check replies seem barely literate or even sentient, just the worst possible posters lifted for all to enjoy

he's gonna run a Twitter poll that only blue checks can vote in and then find it very interesting when Trump does not actually get 85% of the vote

sure. i think there's a difference between building a product nazis "end up" using and personally boosting posts by nazis, unbanning nazis, and then writing nazi posts yourself as owner.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 8 May 2023 bookmarkflaglink

I don't.

― xyzzzz

i do. also twitter is a publication

He didn't get rid of dril after he humiliated him.

that's because he didn't want to make his friend stephen king mad

he reinstated all of the covid deniers who were banned after torturing the victim's families

that's one way he directly affected the content that is published on twitter

Giving the blue checks back to dril and Binder was Elon's only good troll

I can choose not to see that content xp

Murdoch got rid of Tucker Carlson. Musk can't even get rid of some random popular shitposter who humiliates him.

he can't even get catturd's engagement numbers up to where they should be! terrible at running this site

i no longer understand what we're even talking about here

what the fuck are we even talking about, someone just tell me like i'm a dumbass

twitter dot com

i kind feel like "who really owns twitter" like we have been there and have been posting and now because a rich nazi buys all the stock we have to leave, but since elon is just completely running the site into the ground it doesnt really matter that much anyway, in some ways its a good outcome since before twitter was too powerful and often bad but now its less powerful every day, but also its sad since there was some funny stuff on there

if they sell it to someone who's not the worst person in the world and they re-ban all of the people who deserved to be fuck off, i'll start posting on there again. that'll show them

The world will be alright then

It's still possible to publish good and interesting things on Twitter. Its owner wants to see certain things published, so he encourages people to post that type of thing, but you can just mute/block those people and keep doing your thing in a semi-surreptitious fashion. In a way it's like when people in the Soviet Union used to press records on used X-rays because the music they wanted to hear had to be smuggled in.

he's boosting those right wingers though because they are the only ones to pay for twitter blue. it's not just a free for all, some voices are being promoted and others not.

I think at the point where I'm unable to not see those blue ticks (I just don't follow anyone like that) with the min effort is when I will delete.

Overall, there has been little change. I would argue things have improved slightly except some ppl I like have stopped posting bcz they can't see past the weirdo owner (as if Jack wasn't weird).

ive been enjoying blocking the blue its funny to me

he's boosting those right wingers though because they are the only ones to pay for twitter blue. it's not just a free for all, some voices are being promoted and others not.

Clearly you're too young to know how to operate within/sustain a cultural underground. No one's gonna "promote" you — you have to do the digging to find people whose interests align with yours, and then preserve those relationships and alignments yourself. It's work.

In one of William Gibson's novels, written when Twitter was new, two characters use it as a messaging service by only following each other. It is possible to create a sealed-off world within Twitter where you only follow a select group of people, they follow you, and you exchange information.

Or you can just post goofy shit and have fun and not go around pretending that your every action online has global significance.

im mostly on twitter to study the human brain (cw racist imagery)

I can admit when I’m wrong

I thought he was tied to the cartel

New evidence shows him with Nazi tattoos

He is more likely tied to Ukraine than the cartel pic.twitter.com/LoloNvT7kg

— Isabella Riley Moody (@isabellarileyus) May 8, 2023

welp hiding that did not seem to work lol

the DFW area but specifically the one that's outside Kiev

plano, ukraine

Ukraine: literally the only place that's ever produced nazi sympathizers

I predict this new McCormick opinion will make it into the BizOrgs casebooks. It's short (unusual for Delaware) and perfectly illustrates the business judgment rule while making Jack Dorsey look like the absolute worst businessperson in history:https://t.co/iteCEKQan7 pic.twitter.com/Ha9GKM9kqE

— @annmlip✧✧✧@e✧✧.soc✧✧✧ (@AnnMLipton) May 9, 2023

buying into Tidal after hanging out with Jay because it seems cool

whom amongst us, etc

better than buying Twitter so you can hang out with Laura Loomer I guess

congratulations to twitter.com for picking up tucker carlson's new show (not joke).