@majorlinux, I suppose forcing Twitter users to implant them in their brains, so that they do what Musk wants. It is a good method so that X does not lose more users (the chips explode when the user unsubscribes from X)
RTS Info sur X : "La RTS a décidé de fermer le compte RTSinfo sur X dès aujourd’hui. Ce choix vise à privilégier nos plateformes propres. Il est aussi lié à l’évolution récente de X, qui ne correspond plus à nos valeurs journalistiques. Le compte d’entreprise RadioTeleSuisse reste actif." / X https://x.com/RTSinfo/status/1797859318936850550
It's been suggested that with Elon Musk turning #Twitter into an X ... -rated pit of right wing disinformation and pornography, we're all actually living in a nearby timeline of the "Back to the Future Part II" forked timeline where Biff Tannen had turned 1985 Hill Valley into a pit of depravity.
I wonder to what extent the Fediverse is at risk of misinformation supersharers. On Mastodon specifically, if you follow someone whose original texts you want to read but whose boosts you don't want to read, you can block their boosts while continuing to see their own posts. Adding an opt-in instance-level or account-level (or both) option to limit the number of boosts to N per day might be useful.
Nitter is not dead. The alternative twitter/x front-end,is still working. Yes, now there are just a few public instances (nitter.poast.org is one of them), but with just a basic linux and docker knowledge you can self-host your own private instance.
I'm not exactly sure how it's happened, but it's pretty cool I can see Bluesky accounts talking on here.
It seems a shared interest in the misfortunes of the Nazi Bar has bridged the technical divide somewhere. #Twitter#Mastodon#Bluesky
@Lazarou One very hardworking open source developer (not affiliated with Bluesky) made a "bridge" thing which let people post from one side to the other (basically it creates kind of "mirror" accounts on the other side which clone the posts, translating links, mentions etc.): https://snarfed.org/2024-05-04_52915
Click on link to read a tweet. Get the following page which not only contains my favorite warning (the disable privacy settings which means your site is doing something bad) but also a mysterious square in the corner that does nothing. Oh also retry does nothing.
Remember when the executive world was calling Musk a genius for firing everyone because the site didn’t immediately break? Sure seems amazing now. #twitter#elonmusktwitter
It's also great that I'm still reading about whether the fediverse will continue to work in tech news while I guess we're just all skipping that twitter is now effectively broken.
At this point, Twitter and BlueSky are virtually identical, except there's a bit more public info about users. So maybe it's worse? In any event, the whole plan all along was to create the illusion of difference and "starting over" by simply swapping a platform. Fascinating how gullible most people are.
I feel increasingly angry/frustrated at how academic conferences insist we 'join them on XTwitter' to follow the conf. Why should we have to do that? Why arent they providing an open social web alternative? Why are they so beholden to private monopoly Big Tech? This happened recently for the Networked Learning Conference, an initiative that claims to be dedicated to open networks of learning. How can they possibly think it is ethically acceptable to only use XTwtr?
#AmericanAirlines#twitter support (which is fantastic) is literally the only reason I am still on the #birdsite. I haven't posted in over a year, never check it, but have DMed AA regularly.
Their app, chat, phone, website, all shit. Couldn't even order a veg meal, but Twitter support fixed it in minutes.
@ncoca Yeah, with many email providers, you can append "+whatever" to your username and filter on that. I have done so in a number of places, but when a legitimate business starts spamming me, I will push back. The burden should be on the businesses to maintain their systems properly (and US law more or less says the same), not on people to be tech-savvy.
It's also astonsihing to me that companies think that sending out several emails a week about their BIG SALE is a good idea.
This article nicely sums up my suspicion about the state of 'Xwitter'…
"Twitter is now a siloed attention roulette machine just like TikTok. That was the plan when Elon took over and they succeeded. There's no going back."
Bin bei der #rp24 auf einen Panel zu #Twitter und merke, dass das Thema nur noch wenig Platz hat in meinem Aufmerksamkeitshaushalt hat.
Ich möchte gern auf das Jetzt und in die Zukunft schauen. #Twittreristtot#republica
@tasmo@stk Find ich nicht. Selbstselektion hat hier prima funktioniert. Der ganze anstrengende Teil ist zu bsky rüber, die Sympathischen habens auch hier her geschafft.
Immer mehr Organisationen wird klar, das wir dort aktiv werden müssen, wenn wir die in unseren Mission-Statements verfassten Ziele nicht nur in schönen 🌞 Sonntagsreden vor uns her tragen wollen.
So z.B. auch der Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin: https://bewegung.social/@zlb_berlin
Seit letztem Monat betreibt die #ZLB ihren Mastodon-Kanal: @zlb_berlin
und wir heißen sie herzlich WILLKOMMEN ! 🙋♀️ 🙆 💁
Mögen sich auch die noch nicht im Fediverse aktiven #Hochschulen von diesem Beispiel inspirieren lassen.
Helft mit, dass dieser Umdenkprozess zügig voran kommt und unterschreibt die Petition:
👉 https://openpetition.de/unisinsfediverse
