The ongoing X and Elon Musk Transgressions Thread

[Barnet Flame]

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

It seems Musk has fallen victim to the Trust Thermocline

https://twitter.com/user/status/1588115310124539904

[photon]

Users that were on the META team at Twitter are reporting the whole team has been let go. Which is interesting since that team was about finding biases and harms in Twitter's algorithms and investigating tech's harmful impact on society. Kind of what Musk was complaining about.

No one should begrudge Musk doing what he thinks is necessary to get Twitter profitable, but we definitely can criticize moves that don't look like they'll help or may hurt his goals, or that seemingly contradict his past stated goals.

[PsYcNeT]

Originally Posted by Yoho

https://twitter.com/user/status/1587894226695884800

Some food for thought.

I too remember the time when Starbucks gave out frapps for free in an effort to prevent fraud and impersonation.

Hey days they were.

[KTrain]

I would pay $8/month for Twitter if verification gave us the following things:
- Ability to edit tweets
- Hide ads
- Remove suggested tweets, account, people other people follow, etc.
- Schedule tweets natively
- See specifically what accounts clicked on your links, viewed your profile
- Hide the verification badge because it would be embarrassing for people to know I paid for Twitter.

[Mr.Coffee]

Originally Posted by GGG

Reddit is very bubble reinforcing. The way they link articles you see the posters opinion before you see content and you don’t even click the content before you start debating. Mods ability to ban enforces group think. How do you avoid just seeing a very limited range of opinion?

Yeah, I agree. Also, this has happened already to Calgarypuck as well. However, I still like coming and seeing different opinions than mine but there has been a (very) noticeable drop off of once prominent posters that I tended to agree with usually.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by KTrain

I would pay $8/month for Twitter if verification gave us the following things:
- Ability to edit tweets
- Hide ads
- Remove suggested tweets, account, people other people follow, etc.
- Schedule tweets natively
- See specifically what accounts clicked on your links, viewed your profile
- Hide the verification badge because it would be embarrassing for people to know I paid for Twitter.

This seems like the type of thing he should be doing(leave the blue check as is). Have a free Twitter with limited usability, and if you want more, you pay for it.

[Mazrim]

Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee

Yeah, I agree. Also, this has happened already to Calgarypuck as well.

How so? Yoho isn't banned.

[Mr.Coffee]

Originally Posted by Mazrim

How so? Yoho isn't banned.

There's been tons of posters that no longer post here. I don't think Yoho is the litmus test for whether or not CP has turned into one giant circle jerk of group think. If you wanna come read what left leaning people are thinking and believe (and I do, obviously), this is a really great site.

Personally, it is the "thanks" feature that started the decline for this place and started to build up basically like a weird bullying mob mentality.

[pseudoreality]

Originally Posted by GGG

Reddit is very bubble reinforcing. The way they link articles you see the posters opinion before you see content and you don’t even click the content before you start debating. Mods ability to ban enforces group think. How do you avoid just seeing a very limited range of opinion?

To me Twitter is good at getting links to a wide variety of content by following a wide selection of people. Sure you can self censor and just follow those who agree with you but I find of all the social media sites it’s the easiest to escape your bubble and follow people you disagree with. I don’t read comments or participate I use it as a newsfeed.

I agree that a lot of sub-Redits are echo chambers. I try to follow the moderate ones, regularly look at r/popular or what's trending, and sometimes look to the dark side, like r/conservative.

I've never got into Twitter. So I don't know how it works. I thought you just followed people/companies. I sometimes google my favourite food truck to see where and when they are out, but that's it.

It is important to seek information sources other than say cbc.ca/news, which is where I get most of my news from. So I am always looking elsewhere.

[Mazrim]

Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee

Personally, it is the "thanks" feature that started the decline for this place and started to build up basically like a weird bullying mob mentality.

I dunno, I don't miss a bunch of posts quoting a post and saying "this."

[PeteMoss]

Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee

There's been tons of posters that no longer post here. I don't think Yoho is the litmus test for whether or not CP has turned into one giant circle jerk of group think. If you wanna come read what left leaning people are thinking and believe (and I do, obviously), this is a really great site.

Personally, it is the "thanks" feature that started the decline for this place and started to build up basically like a weird bullying mob mentality.

Forums are just dying in general. Its not a CP specific issue or political issue. Very few new users so the normal churn isn't replaced. Social media replaced forums.

[IliketoPuck]

Well jokes on Musk.

I've never needed twitter for hockey updates.

That's what SureLoss's algorithm is for.

[Sainters7]

Originally Posted by KTrain

Hide the verification badge because it would be embarrassing for people to know I paid for Twitter.

Yeah, no doubt. I'm sure they'd get treated similarly to how "Super Followers" get treated now. I've never NOT seen a Super Follower getting dragged in their replies.

[calumniate]

I blocked Musk on Twitter.. just doing my part :d

[Finger Cookin]

Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee

There's been tons of posters that no longer post here. I don't think Yoho is the litmus test for whether or not CP has turned into one giant circle jerk of group think. If you wanna come read what left leaning people are thinking and believe (and I do, obviously), this is a really great site.

Personally, it is the "thanks" feature that started the decline for this place and started to build up basically like a weird bullying mob mentality.

So called "bullying" was way more fun when "Rate this thread" was active

[PsYcNeT]

I would assume anyone who went through Day 1 Orientation at a tech company would know this is absolutely moronic.

https://twitter.com/user/status/1588604007030747136

EDIT: Looks like the tweet author just got bullied off Twitter. Here's the original tweet:



Guess it's time to start moving to Mastodon

[Fuzz]

LOL, oh wow. Is that ever dumb.

[KelVarnsen]

Can we just strap Musk to a SpaceX rocket and launch the ####er off the planet?

[Wormius]

Basically fired everybody who was an efficient coder. Interesting.

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