Twitter C/D

"elmo" is like "drumpf"; funny for one second and then annoying forever

elmo mrumpf

St Elon's Fire

he made his first lump sum of money off a company called zip2, that has some nickname potential

my bf was taking my pics and his friend was like “portrait mode! use portrait mode!” and i was like “ew no!”………. tell me why he’s the person who created it………….

— 🎀 dove! 🎀 (@lovedoveclarke) October 9, 2023

Yeah it sounds like an odd request

think the current discourse has finally driven me away

calling it discourse is maybe a bit of a stretch

It's similar to the innovations e.e. cummings brought to poetry, but with a modern spin.

wau

this is going to sound like i'm joking, but i am absolutely not: no lag∞n, no credibility

it's the last straw

end of an era

interesting to see how Thierry Breton's stepping in and using the EU's new rules on online media to threaten Musk plays out. he's set his blue-ticks on them and is trying to stonewall, but my gut reaction is they won't be fucked with on this.

Twitter has mostly been pretty good on the week's events. Have seen pics/footage of pro-Palestine protests in many parts of the world, for example.

Many posters have done very well to counter the current narratives. It's certainly coming through to me.

i dunno. the number of beheading videos and astroturfed hashtags i've seen is higher than ideal.

atrocity competition

the level of warmongering on there combined with all the misinformation is too much for me, tho yeah there is more room for other views on there than say the tv news, also just the whole israel-palistine situation is so awful that i dont really want to consume endless info on it regardless of its political slant or quality

being reminded of usa post 9/11 also not super pleasant

all I see on there is stuff about Jada Smith and Joe Budden

that does sound nice

does it, though

you know how much i love joe budden updates

I’ve always been very careful about who I follow or allow to follow me so my bad experiences so far have been limited to seeing TERF shite (which is bad enough) but I will not watch any of the horrible Middle East snuff clips doing the rounds or explore I/P stuff from bots/new accounts/trolls. I’ve had over a decade of figuring out who is or isn’t full of shit.

being reminded of usa post 9/11 also not super pleasant

― lag∞n, Wednesday, October 11, 2023 11:13 AM (one hour ago)

this is a not-confined-to-twitter otm

Even after 9/11 there were cursory attempts to protect Muslims from collective blame

I’m not seeing that here

i've noticed my usage really dropping off in the last month or so. and not even for morals or mental health reasons, more just boredom with it, lack of engagement (I don't know if "shadowbanning" is real but I did notice that after I got banned for impersonating Elon Musk in the post-bluecheck mania and saying that the Twitter team was hard at work so "Two Against Nature" by Steely Dan would autoplay while you were using the app my engagements and views of my tweets were down radically)

which actually might be a worse sign for the platform, indifference is deadlier than outrage

yeah I just checked and I'm seeing all of one single tweet about the baseball games over the last few hours which given the people I follow is pretty surprising. its not at all like previous years. no one wants to tweet these days

Ad tweets are showing up in my timeline again, I hope adblock and ublock can keep up with filtering those out. It took a couple of weeks last time Twxttxr made a change.

I got an anti-vax ad yesterday, don't recall the last time I reported an ad

no one wants to tweet these days

The great X-it

Threads seems to be picking up steam in the last couple days, posters are reaching out to find people with similar interests and the app added edit and voice functions

bluesky still nice but this “Ned” is a main character on my feed?!

Wish we could get to the bottom of who this Ned is

is anyone else seeing "RT" at the start of every retweet like it's 2010 again?

I just figured that meant it was Russian propaganda

seems to be down at the moment, can't get anything to load

xpost- which is even weirder since they've now renamed it "repost" instead of "retweet"

is anyone else seeing "RT" at the start of every retweet like it's 2010 again?

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, October 13, 2023 10:01 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

ive seen that bug before manual rts are still operating deep within the system

only they can save us

XP GOT A WHOLE LOTTA NED *bwroaur* "it's time to get the NED out!" jk i like the ned for sure.

yeah for me it's like ned/gaiman duopoly enterprise, but the gaimans are v perseverative, ned is funny and informative.

i am so bad at socials, i ventured into mastodon in a similar non-custodial non-curated way and it is now controlled by a nice enough person i will call antlady-- i have no idea why she is there. but i learned a bit about bugs.

xxp yup the original retrofit of "RT" as real links in the table is still pretty fundamental to how retweets work in the backend. so i'm sure this is a bug (looks like it's fixed now).

We should invite this Ned guy to ILX

I think he used to post a lot on ILTWITTER iirc.

xxp yup the original retrofit of "RT" as real links in the table is still pretty fundamental to how retweets work in the backend.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, October 13, 2023 2:50 PM (forty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

stuff like this is so funny like if you were making some lil app for hundreds of users youd be embarrassed to put a weird design like that in there but there it is in one of the biggest sites in the world just cause of circumstances a decade+ ago

it's backward compatible and if they ever turn sms notifications back on it's legible (lol)

that should be musks next move going back to sms and 140 chars

i think twitter usernames are still limited to 15 chars because sms is limited to 160 chars and tweets used to be 140 + a couple of bytes for "RT ", etc.

its kinda like how the entire consumer financial architecture in the US is built around a piece of plastic from the 60s

when is the government gonna need to start recycling social security numbers?

We should invite this Ned guy to ILX

Well you know.