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
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?
@hirad Yes, I totally agree with you. The reach is the most desirable property of every social media. It’s a petty I still need to open #X#Twitter to read #webdevelopers I follow
El gobierno de ultraderecha hace 6 meses retiene en almacenes COMIDA. No la reparte a pesar que 6 de cada 10 argentinos son pobres y 2 de cada 10 son indigentes.
El gobierno anterior distribuía comida a miles de comedores barriales pero este gobierno decidió que los pobres ni comida merecen.
Y aunque siempre habrá justificaciones para la maldad, siempre habrá también gente dispuesta a combatir la maldad.
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
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
Auf der Suche nach einem Publikum gehen einige Medien den Schritt ins Fediverse. Ein Versuch, unabhängiger von den großen Gatekeepern zu werden.
#Twitter is a Nazi hellscape. I went there to complain to a brand and learned that there was no racism in the 1990s and that Barack Obama invented racism itself.
"Just 10 "superspreader" users on #Twitter were responsible for more than a third of the misinformation posted over an eight-month period, according to a new report.
In total, 34% of the "low credibility" content posted to the site between January & October of 2020 was created by the 10 users identified by researchers based in the US & UK. More than 70 per cent of posts came from just 1,000 accounts.
I am a tiny bit sad. If only because now I will remember a number -- 23149880 -- that is truly and completely obsolete. I really need to conserve brain space for more important things.
Also, if ICQ can last, what, 15 years? after it became irrelevant, what does that say about how long we're going to have to suffer with Twitter/X if people ever actually leave en-masse?