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.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 14:00 (eleven months ago) link
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
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 14:13 (eleven months ago) link
Replying to Laura "They called the police on me" Loomer
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 14:21 (eleven months ago) link
crazy to think years ago she handcuffed herself to twitter hq and now shes inside the building so to speak
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 14:23 (eleven months ago) link
Activism works!
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 14:24 (eleven months ago) link
the blue check boost really has swathed twitter with the unmistakable stank of facebook
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 14:26 (eleven months ago) link
i mean it was always there, or had been for the last 5-6 years, but it now suffuses almost everything
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 14:27 (eleven months ago) link
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
― rob, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 14:37 (eleven months ago) link
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*
― mh, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 14:37 (eleven months ago) link
I have a sinking feeling elmo's going to boost election denialism next year
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 15:01 (eleven months ago) link
― 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
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 15:06 (eleven months ago) link
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
― frogbs, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 15:08 (eleven months ago) link
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
― z_tbd, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 15:10 (eleven months ago) link
He didn't get rid of dril after he humiliated him.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 15:20 (eleven months ago) link
that's because he didn't want to make his friend stephen king mad
― z_tbd, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 15:21 (eleven months ago) link
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
― z_tbd, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 15:22 (eleven months ago) link
Giving the blue checks back to dril and Binder was Elon's only good troll
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 15:22 (eleven months ago) link
I can choose not to see that content xp
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 15:24 (eleven months ago) link
Murdoch got rid of Tucker Carlson. Musk can't even get rid of some random popular shitposter who humiliates him.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 15:26 (eleven months ago) link
he can't even get catturd's engagement numbers up to where they should be! terrible at running this site
― mh, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 15:27 (eleven months ago) link
i no longer understand what we're even talking about here
― z_tbd, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 15:27 (eleven months ago) link
what the fuck are we even talking about, someone just tell me like i'm a dumbass
twitter dot com
― mh, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 15:28 (eleven months ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 15:29 (eleven months ago) link
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
― z_tbd, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 15:30 (eleven months ago) link
The world will be alright then
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 15:31 (eleven months ago) link
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.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 15:33 (eleven months ago) link
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.
― treeship., Tuesday, 9 May 2023 15:35 (eleven months ago) link
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).
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 15:47 (eleven months ago) link
ive been enjoying blocking the blue its funny to me
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 15:49 (eleven months ago) link
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.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 15:50 (eleven months ago) link
im mostly on twitter to study the human brain (cw racist imagery)
I can admit when I’m wrongI 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
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 15:55 (eleven months ago) link
welp hiding that did not seem to work lol
the DFW area but specifically the one that's outside Kiev
― mh, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 15:57 (eleven months ago) link
plano, ukraine
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 15:58 (eleven months ago) link
Ukraine: literally the only place that's ever produced nazi sympathizers
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 16:47 (eleven months ago) link
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
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 20:22 (eleven months ago) link
buying into Tidal after hanging out with Jay because it seems cool
whom amongst us, etc
― mh, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 20:33 (eleven months ago) link
better than buying Twitter so you can hang out with Laura Loomer I guess
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 20:35 (eleven months ago) link
congratulations to twitter.com for picking up tucker carlson's new show (not joke).
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 21:00 (eleven months ago) link
Uh.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 21:02 (eleven months ago) link
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, May 9, 2023 11:26 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― rob, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 21:07 (eleven months ago) link
community notes going to be poppin'
― mh, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 21:07 (eleven months ago) link
Is Twitter a network?
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 21:09 (eleven months ago) link
what do you mean?
― rob, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 21:10 (eleven months ago) link
streams routinely happen on Twitter, so no reason they can't show a show.
but god, this is now codified as another Telegram type site.
― Qeq-hauau-ent-pehui (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 21:18 (eleven months ago) link
― mh, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 bookmarkflaglink
Can't wait.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 21:27 (eleven months ago) link
patiently waiting for my 88yo mom's text about how to set up a twitter
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 21:31 (eleven months ago) link
love to watch a tv show on twitter dot com a totally normal activity
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 21:46 (eleven months ago) link
as documented above I watched the entire Super Mario movie on twitter
#onethread
― mh, Tuesday, 9 May 2023 21:47 (eleven months ago) link