Located 9750 results from search term 'Twitter'
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Commented in X unveils new premium subscription plan, including ad-free tier for $16 a month
I'm not into "social media" all too much, because it takes up a lot of time and energy, but never returns anything. There's just one social media account that I cultivate, which is my Mastodon. Not that it brings in any bread or butter, but at least it's less addictive and I can post on servers that fit my needs. For instance, I have just moved my account to a complete new server (specialized in art) from a common one (for beginners). Easy-peasy, no hassles. Never had any annoying ads and the users that post questionable content are easily blocked (and/or reported). And all that is without any subscriptions or ad-streams. I'm free to donate to the maintainers of the servers where I reside, which I will, eventually, when the servers bring me the joy I'm expecting from all of this.
TL;DR: Twitter and its' ilks can shove it. Long live the Fediverse!! :-)
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Commented in Reddit CEO assures employees that API pricing protests haven’t hurt revenue
Well hopefully Reddit will learn the lesson that Twitter, Hasbro, and others have not. When you focus on profit over users desires, then you get F'd. I sincerely hope enough redditors jump ship to other platforms that it kicks their wallet right in the dick.
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Commented in What's What with Open Source Twitter
I'm into open source,I still have no interest in using Twitter,never have,never will.
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Commented in Twitter moves free users to the spam folder and makes a risky bet on its future
How I see it is there is simply no way to have ever increasing,never ending new revenue streams. Eventually you will hit a brick wall. I sssuspect Twitter and said brick wall are about to meet.
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Commented in Elon Musk says he'll resign as head of Twitter
For what it's worth: I think that he planned this all ahead, as in: not being CEO forever and that he planned to appoint someone as soon as he finds one. All the rest what was happening, from the sink wordplay to the voting him out was a carefully planned PR-stunt. Or, as I like to call it, a charade.
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Commented in Twitter suspends Kanye's account again
Twitter lacks the moderation capacity to prevent the chaos we are all fearing. But at least Musk is sending a signal by banning him. Let's hope that a few more signals can at least reduce the impact these fools have, at least until twitter gets its act together and can begin proper moderation again.
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Commented in Mozilla reaffirms that Firefox will continue to support current content blockers - gHacks Tech News
Word!!
On my website I refuse to display advertising or make use of any adservice, which results in a site that contains no cookies or trackers. Another thing, which resulted in said website, is that ads on a site are, to me, something to be ashamed about. I do not feel well that my content is disturbed by ads and other screams for attention by third parties. If they want a place to sell their goods, they should create that and not disturb other people's ideas and thoughts with their, sometimes truely annoying, messages. Let those pesky advertisers have their own platform, like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or some other outlet that is already a sewage.
Also, I think that the use of trackers and intrusive scripts goes against privacy and web-safety, two things that get thrown out of the window first when currency-signs get involved. -
Commented in TikTok is "unacceptable security risk" and should be removed from app stores, says FCC
Probably just as heinous and/or dubious as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other American social media outlets.
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Commented in Everything Elon Musk wants to change about Twitter
Isn't the internet always social and depending on interaction? What's not to like about social media are monopolies of the keyplayers, I think. And I question, for years, the amount of users those keyplayers announce they have. More users mean more advertisement income and reason enough to add a little spice to the actual numbers. The longer I am not using Instagram, Facebook and so on, the more I RE-discover the actual internet with a lot of "substitutes" to the mainstream outlets. And good heavens, there are actual sites that function and blossom without any algorithms or other beatmakers. ;-) Even way better technologies, as in peer-to-peer distributed sites and content or, hold on for this one, actual ad free websites that make a profit by paying their users and taking their (fair) share of the tokens that are traded (Odysee).
The big ass monopolies are on their way down, I guess, just by seeing how fast decentralisation is starting to get a grip on the internet. More and more tools (Signal) and sites like Pixelfed or Mastodon are popping up and growing really quickly. I like that a lot. It's never gonna be like "the old days" again, but there's definitely a renewed and really improved internet for all on its' way. From that point of view, and experience, Musk has made his worst investment to date by buying Twitter (with borrowed money and other forms of debt and by selling some of his shares of the companies he "founded" (read: bought out)).
Like with MySpace and others that are long gone, the current dominant players will deminish if they do not get a hold of that decentralisation and other technological developments, which they will be hesitant towards, since that also means a loss of power, besides income. It's like with banks versus crypto and trading apps: old versus new. And guess what? Old is already going down, kicking and screaming. But this will not go over really peacefully, we're talking about a lot of money and power here that is shifting towards new players , innovators (real ones) and visionaires that do not copycat old shit and call it theirs (I see you Microsoft and Apple). :-)
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Commented in At last, my precious, you're truly FREE
Wow this comic is a wild misrepresentation of what's going on. Twitter was already a wasteland of single-party politics. Rules enforced for one group of people & ignored for others ... Wasn't that part of the reason SnapZu was created in the first place? A big movement away from Reddit for similarly unfair practices?
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Commented in Twitter is reportedly taking another look at Musk takeover bid
But of course..I don't use Twitter,but if I did,I'd leave.
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Commented in People are talking about Web3. Is it the Internet of the future or just a buzzword?
I never have done this. I have no certain page I jump off of. When Fire Fox loads my websites from the night before,I just pick one and go. I've been on line since 1992.
navigating the web no longer means logging onto the likes of Facebook, Google or Twitter.
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Commented in Substack Is Now a Playground for the Deplatformed
Unfortunately, all of the social media and media platforms that have sprung up to offer alternatives to Facebook, Twitter, etc, are either filled with political extremists who have been banned from other platforms or are dead. I like the idea of Substack and Minds and any other platform that allows creators to monetize their content easily. I just wish they weren't populated with the dregs of society.
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Commented in Redditors Give ‘The Herman Cain Award’ to Anti-Vaxxers Who Die of COVID
I particularly liked this twitter post:
If the vaccine was dangerous they would've given it to poor people first, not politicians and billionaires.
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Commented in Twitter wants everybody on the platform to potentially make more money with, and for, them
Looks like Twitter is getting serious.
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Commented in Parler Users Breached Deep Inside U.S. Capitol Building, GPS Data Shows
were they also on twitter and facebook?
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Commented in Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine
First of all: melodramatic much? “Doomsday device”
A corporation run by a manchild on short leash from investors? Come off it
this tool is as nothing more than the guttennburg press equivalent for the 21st century and nothing more
it could have been a way to torpedo the rich and powerful but that ship has sailed since we sold it out to them (virtually from day one might I add)
this article is so off that mark that it hardly qualifies as an opinion
more like eternal September first ever essay “hai government regulators are like violence - if they are not working it’s because we are not using enough, i can haz into forum post?”
There’s a notion that the social web was once useful, or at least that it could have been good, if only we had pulled a few levers: some moderation and fact-checkingy here, a bit of regulation there, perhaps a federal antitrust lawsuit. But that’s far too sunny and shortsighted a view
Please
that is the sunny outlook? Oh my...
Let me burst that bubble for ya champ: the notion that social web once was good is BS
geeks have been explaining this one from day one of the advent of so-called social media platforms
it’s always been a fallacy and is now standard fair - the dogma that The Problem is the wild, wild west of the worldwide web
nothing could be further from the truth
on the contrary - any system with a single database under the control of a single legal entity is the very antithesis of an open net; it is the subversion of the idea of a free association network where everyone has the right and means to publish uncensored information
that’s fundamental and first and foremost - if your post doesn’t get that right the rest is either self aggrandising drivel or paid-for promo
the fact that people are now trying to regulate this very same database under the watchful eye of oversight committees (under the thinly veiled guise of “public outcry”) is mere endgame political posturing of a long term strategy - over three decades in the making - to reign in free exchange of information that the Pandora’s box of World Wide Web opened up; in spite of every effort by APRANET’s paymasters to design monitoring into the very fabric of the TCP/IP infrastructure
and every advent into the network design to make it more distributed has been downplayed and shot down ever since
just as every advent which makes it more restrictive and corruptible has been promoted and hailed as good
illegal exchange of ideas notwithstanding (drug trafficking; illegal pornographers et al) - all information exchange on a free network would be monitored by law enforcement in any case
this was never in doubt
a single database approach only makes it easier to identify and keep watch over the neutral players which constitute the bulk of the masses and data traffic on the internet; exchanges of garden variety, regular run of the mill information like food recipes and service complaints (interestingly enough about big business and government)
in other words - Facebook-like facilitation of Internet-based communications does nothing to deter or prevent people exchanging harmful information and gives only the power to big player agents to intervene and monitor and/or incite outrage of mass populous when it suits them and for a price
which makes it both profitable and exclusive to those that can afford it
this final nail in the coffin only serves to outlaw all other possible channels which hav...
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Commented in Microsoft files patent to create chatbots from your dead loved ones
But wait, it can become way more disturbing!
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Commented in Facebook’s Oversight Board won’t launch in time to oversee the election — and activists aren’t happy
How hard is it to use another platform or create one of your own to rally and organize? Since the coming of sites like Facebook, Twitter and the likes, "the public" seems to become really lazy. That's what open source is for, baby!! Build that site with a real purpose instead of wanting to be rich from ads!
stumbles over soapbox
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Commented in Twitter flags Trump tweet. Again.
I hope that Twitter boots Trump a week before those elections.
#notgonnahappen #moneymoneymoney
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Commented in Twitter aims to limit people sharing articles they have not read
That's a good idea to try to improve the quality of Twitter, but I feel like it's too little too late. I rarely log in to Twitter now because it's gotten so unprofessional. It used to be a great place to share informative articles and/or to do business networking, but now it's degenerated into "adult content". What's worse is the automated filters are not working well anymore! I've been presented with adult content in my feed despite my settings saying the contrary. So I've kept my account but I just don't bother with it anymore. They've really let it go downhill, IMHO.
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Commented in Trump to sign executive order on social media Thursday
Are we heading for an era where Twitter will be a regular information channel, instead of the presidential puke bucket?
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Commented in Nearly 50% of Twitter Accounts Talking about Coronavirus Might Be Bots
It wouldn't surprise me if a whole bunch of Twitter accounts (regardless of what they're talking about) are bots. Who knows - a considerable portion of the network may just be a bunch of bots retweeting each other.
I barely use Twitter anymore, I have an account but I don't check it much. Not so much because of the bot thing, although there's that, but, it used to be a great for work. Currently I feel like it's not really very professional. I mean Twitter itself is, but the stuff people post isn't stuff I am interested in. I see it more as a work networking tool but lots of ppl see it more that they will post how many times they pooped that day or whatever, which I don't really need to know. So I just kind of gave up, which has given me the bonus of having extra spare time. I'd love to see a Twitter alternative that was geared more toward work use though (preferably without bots!)
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Commented in Facebook’s new design turns your PC into an enormous phone
I don't use fb, or Twitter,so I can ignore them.
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Commented in Facebook’s new design turns your PC into an enormous phone
Sadly this ugly cellphone interface will be mandatory eventually, Twitter started out like this allowing you to turn it off then went full new interface, screw you if you don't like it. The only way to get away from it, don't use Facebook.