The ongoing X and Elon Musk Transgressions Thread

[afc wimbledon]

we did fine without twitter a decade or so ago, somehow we managed get trade deadline news or have violent insurrections, I'm sure we'll survive when it collapses (as all social media will at some point) if nothing replaces it

[Mr.Coffee]

Originally Posted by afc wimbledon

we did fine without twitter a decade or so ago, somehow we managed get trade deadline news or have violent insurrections, I'm sure we'll survive when it collapses (as all social media will at some point) if nothing replaces it

We didn’t just do fine, our societies were far better off. It’s a net negative.

[FormerPresJamesTaylor]

Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee

How is that a dumb take? It’s literally the best take in this entire thread.

Social media is the scourge of everything. It’s quite literally the driving factor of extremism in both directions and a prime contributor to depression. Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat and all the other stupid A F sites and apps can die in a fiery death trap as far as I can tell and humanity will emerge from that 1,000,000% better off.

Believe it or not, before social media, people still talked to people and had friends, knew what was going on in their communities and were actually way more interested and versed with the news. Now we have Twitters limited character windows creating false impressions of knowledge on everybody.

Like, can you actually tell me what it’s good for?

It's really dumb because users are just complaining about a experience they once enjoyed being gone, that's it. The misguided arrogance around being on a social media website while complaining about another is pretty funny too. It's not a big deal, and you're little old man rant was ridiculous but silver's original post was silly, just simply silly.

People still have friends, sorry you don't

[Mr.Coffee]

Hahha Yes, Twitter being a net negative platform to society means I have no friends. Good logic.

[Burninator]

As a twitter user who doesn't recommend it to anyone. My opinion is that twitter was bad before Musk and will continue to be bad with him and after him.

[jammies]

I think the next big platform should have a 40-character limit on posts. All that extraneous verbiage just delays the dopamine by several agonizing seconds.

More emojis, fewer words of multiple syllables!

[Sainters7]

Meh, yeah Twitter is weird, you gotta get used to it. But pre 2016 when politics wasn't at the centre of absolutely everything, it was pretty fun if you followed the right accounts. It's just annoying and super polarized now, like everything these days.

[JohnnyB]

Originally Posted by jammies

I think the next big platform should have a 40-character limit on posts. All that extraneous verbiage just delays the dopamine by several agonizing seconds.

More emojis, fewer words of multiple syllables!

A version of Twitter where posts can only be published in the form of Haikus would be the best.

"Vaccines are so bad,
I'll take my chances with flu,
Anti-vaxxer pride!"

"Anti-vaxxer fool!
Your ignorance endangers.
Get vaxxed, you moron!"

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee

Hahha Yes, Twitter being a net negative platform to society means I have no friends. Good logic.

I think it’s valid to question this notion that in the “before times” people had friends! knew their neighbours! were aware of the news! etc. People still do that. You could even argue it’s easier than ever. That can be good and bad, as an individual who would otherwise be lonely and without a community can find one. Those communities can have a hugely positive impact on people (saving them from suicide, for example) or a hugely negative one (pushing them towards extremism).

You can argue the bad outweighs the good, but it doesn’t make sense to pretend it’s all bad with some lazy “back in my day” half-truths about the world. If social media has no redeeming qualities at all, why in the world are you here?

[afc wimbledon]

Originally Posted by Sainters7

Meh, yeah Twitter is weird, you gotta get used to it. But pre 2016 when politics wasn't at the centre of absolutely everything, it was pretty fun if you followed the right accounts. It's just annoying and super polarized now, like everything these days.

that's all because of twitter

[Mr.Coffee]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

I think it’s valid to question this notion that in the “before times” people had friends! knew their neighbours! were aware of the news! etc. People still do that. You could even argue it’s easier than ever. That can be good and bad, as an individual who would otherwise be lonely and without a community can find one. Those communities can have a hugely positive impact on people (saving them from suicide, for example) or a hugely negative one (pushing them towards extremism).

You can argue the bad outweighs the good, but it doesn’t make sense to pretend it’s all bad with some lazy “back in my day” half-truths about the world. If social media has no redeeming qualities at all, why in the world are you here?

Good post and good points. I think a board such as this is way better than Twitter because, like you did in your post, sometimes coherent rational discourse requires more than a limited number of characters and words.

Agree that before social media people had friends and still do, of course. But without doubt social media is more of a net negative to society than net positive although I’d be happy to learn and have that debate. Does social media, to use your example, save more people from suicide than it pushes to suicide? That’s something we will never know but I’m willing to bet it pushes more to suicide. Cyber bullying for teenagers? Way easier, for example.

[PsYcNeT]

Statistically, the Canadian Suicide Rate (per capita) peaked in 1983 and is notably lower today. Social Media doesn't seem to have moved the needle much either way, if at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Canada

[Sidney Crosby's Hat]

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

Statistically, the Canadian Suicide Rate (per capita) peaked in 1983 and is notably lower today. Social Media doesn't seem to have moved the needle much either way, if at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Canada

Somehow I feel that was related to interest rates.

[KelVarnsen]

This hasn't been said in a while.

Elon Musk is a piece of ####.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by KelVarnsen

This hasn't been said in a while.

Elon Musk is a piece of ####.

Speaking of Elon. Has he been reigned in a bit by Twitter/Tesla? This thread of late seems to be lacking moronic Elon tweets.

[Fuzz]

Well he did recently post this ridiculous poll.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1615753259972702208

Just chum in the water for the crazies. Keep them engaged!

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

Speaking of Elon. Has he been reigned in a bit by Twitter/Tesla? This thread of late seems to be lacking moronic Elon tweets.

I think he is in the midst if a lawsuit trying to convince a judge that his “taking Tesla private” tweet was not stock manipulation.

[photon]

Twitter has updated its developer rules to ban third-party clients, almost a week after it unceremoniously blocked the apps’ access to its platform, offering almost no explanation to what was going on (via Engadget). The new rules state that you can’t use Twitter’s API or content to “create or attempt to create a substitute or similar service or product to the Twitter Applications.”

The rules, updated on Thursday, make it clear what that means: “Twitter Applications” refers to the company’s “consumer facing products, services, applications, websites, web pages, platforms, and other offerings, including without limitation, those offered via https://twitter.com and Twitter’s mobile applications.” The clause banning alternative services was added to the rules with the most recent update, according to the Wayback Machine.

...

There seemingly hasn’t been any official announcement of the rule change, either from Twitter Dev or Elon Musk. Twitter doesn’t have a communications department to contact.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/19/2...ific-ban-rules

[kermitology]

Is the tapatalk plugin that stopped rendering tweets related to APIs that Musk turned off because he didn't think they did anything?

[Roughneck]

As much as I dislike Elon, if I hear a problem that involves Tapatalk, I’m going to assume it’s on their end every time.