That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons bring us some web forums whereupon we can gather
http://garbi.online/forum/
It's global politics. Look at who the Saudis are aligning with/against and what Musk has been doing lately and it becomes clearer.LordMortis wrote: Fri Oct 28, 2022 12:21 pmReally, what's changed between these two?
https://nypost.com/2022/04/14/saudi-pri ... eover-bid/
I came in here to post that one. Nilay nails it. I see no path where this ends well for anyone involved. (Well, aside from the Twitter execs who just got canned--they get to avoid dealing with the aftermath while pocketing many tens of millions of bucks.)
There's a guy that is posting a photo of Musk with Ghislaine Maxwell every day to see how long it takes him to get banned.hepcat wrote: Sun Oct 30, 2022 10:48 am A large number of people should just start posting disgusting things about Musk on twitter. Just keep hammering him with them. See what happens.
And ironically their parachutes were paid for by Musk's inflated purchase money.malchior wrote: Sun Oct 30, 2022 8:13 am Oh I don't feel sorry for them. It's just dumb and they'll probably win. They got him to pay multiples of the real value for the company - they did a great job from a shareholder's point of view. This is pretty clearly about Musk being a sore "winner". I am assuming a bit here that 'thin skin' probably isn't a determining factor into whatever aligns with 'for cause' in the pertinent agreements.
His first two tweets have already been taken down.Smoove_B wrote: Sun Oct 30, 2022 11:41 amThere's a guy that is posting a photo of Musk with Ghislaine Maxwell every day to see how long it takes him to get banned.hepcat wrote: Sun Oct 30, 2022 10:48 am A large number of people should just start posting disgusting things about Musk on twitter. Just keep hammering him with them. See what happens.
This has happened on every post of Musk's for many months.Smoove_B wrote: Sun Oct 30, 2022 11:41 amThere's a guy that is posting a photo of Musk with Ghislaine Maxwell every day to see how long it takes him to get banned.hepcat wrote: Sun Oct 30, 2022 10:48 am A large number of people should just start posting disgusting things about Musk on twitter. Just keep hammering him with them. See what happens.
I thought my red line for deleting my account was Trump's return to Twitter but this might just be it for me.Zaxxon wrote: Sun Oct 30, 2022 10:42 am I'm sure this is all fine.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/158 ... B56ig&s=19
Zaxxon wrote: Sun Oct 30, 2022 10:42 am I'm sure this is all fine.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/158 ... B56ig&s=19
He posted a conspiracy theory about the Paul Pelosi attacker.LordMortis wrote: Sun Oct 30, 2022 4:53 pmZaxxon wrote: Sun Oct 30, 2022 10:42 am I'm sure this is all fine.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/158 ... B56ig&s=19
This has been referenced a bunch here. What did it say?
More specifically, he elevated and spread to his millions of followers the crank theory that Mr. Pelosi was attacked by male prostitute with whom he had had a dispute.pr0ner wrote: Sun Oct 30, 2022 5:09 pmHe posted a conspiracy theory about the Paul Pelosi attacker.LordMortis wrote: Sun Oct 30, 2022 4:53 pmZaxxon wrote: Sun Oct 30, 2022 10:42 am I'm sure this is all fine.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/158 ... B56ig&s=19
This has been referenced a bunch here. What did it say?
Correct.
Well, he was Just Asking Questions.LordMortis wrote: Sun Oct 30, 2022 6:57 pm Wow. One would hope that post would be a 44 Billion dollar mistake but as we all know, none of it matters when you are one of the important people.
That's a few days more than me! Twitter whore.Blackhawk wrote: Sun Oct 30, 2022 2:05 pm Twitter is my 'There is no other way to contact this company' tool. I doubt I'm logged in more than a few days per year.
I signed up for Twitter and Facebook in the olden days, in order to market Curio City. I had some success with FB until they squelched small businesses' ability to reach customers for free. I soon learned that Twitter success required active human interaction. I gave up on it in the mid-aughts and never went back. Stuck with FB even after I deleted my business page.
When you consider that at least a couple hundred are people that I work closely with on a regular basis (or did for a number of years before they moved on), many are friends from school/college, and I have a very large family, I don't think it's that's bold at all. I've never been one to accept friends requests from people I don't actually know, and I have a generally very good memory. Are these people really "friends?" I may not see them all frequently, but that doesn't mean that I don't know who they are and something about their lives.Unagi wrote:That’s a pretty bold claim.
...It’s kind of a rite of passage for any new social media network. They show up, insist that they’re the “platform for free speech” without quite understanding what that actually means, and then they quickly discover a whole bunch of fairly fundamental ideas, institute a bunch of rapid (often sloppy) changes… and in the end, they basically all end up in the same general vicinity, with just a few small differences on the margin. Look, I went through it myself. In the early days I insisted that sites shouldn’t do any moderation at all, including my own. But I learned. As did Parler, Gettr, Truth Social and lots of others.
Anyway, Elon’s in a bit of a different position, because rather than starting something new, he’s taken over a large platform. I recognize that he, his buddies, and a whole lot of other people think that Twitter is especially bad at this, and that he’s got some special ideas for “bringing free speech back,” but the reality is that Twitter was, by far, the most successful platform at taking a “we support free speech” stance for content, and learned over time the many nuances and tradeoffs involved.
And because I do hope that Musk succeeds and Twitter remains viable, I wanted to see if we might help him (and anyone else) speed run the basics of the content moderation learning curve that most newbies run into. The order of the levels and the seriousness of each can change over time, and how it all fits together may be somewhat different, but, in the end, basically every major social media platform ends up in this same place eventually (the place Twitter was already at when Musk insisted he needed to tear things down and start again).
Level One: “We’re the free speech platform! Anything goes!”
Cool. Cool. The bird is free! Everyone rejoice.
“Excuse me, boss, we’re getting reports that there are child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSAM) images and videos on the site.”
Oh shit. I guess we should take that down.
Level Twenty: “Look, we’re just a freaking website. Can’t you people behave?”
Congratulations, you have completed the game…. Just kidding! It never ends. It only gets worse, and you will make mistakes, and people will get mad and personally blame you and insist that you are deliberately trying to “censor” their brilliant ideas, and advertisers will get mad, and politicians will pressure you into doing their bidding, and the media will criticize every mistake. You own a social network. Isn’t it fun?
Same here. Between people I know and hobby groups I have somewhere in this range too and I know each one of them. I don't talk to all of them regularly but I typically can remember the last time I saw them generally, etc. If I was to count across platforms it probably is a little higher. I don't think it's that unusual nowadays. We had a friend living with us who had a friends list with 2000+ people. That's where it gets into wacky/excessive to me.disarm wrote: Thu Nov 03, 2022 9:56 amWhen you consider that at least a couple hundred are people that I work closely with on a regular basis (or did for a number of years before they moved on), many are friends from school/college, and I have a very large family, I don't think it's that's bold at all. I've never been one to accept friends requests from people I don't actually know, and I have a generally very good memory. Are these people really "friends?" I may not see them all frequently, but that doesn't mean that I don't know who they are and something about their lives.Unagi wrote:That’s a pretty bold claim.
I seem to have 361 "friends." Many are Filipinos, who friend me and I only accept when they are connected to one of my wife's family members. Or are ridiculously cute. Not so much the latter anymore.Kraken wrote: Thu Nov 03, 2022 12:05 amI signed up for Twitter and Facebook in the olden days, in order to market Curio City. I had some success with FB until they squelched small businesses' ability to reach customers for free. I soon learned that Twitter success required active human interaction. I gave up on it in the mid-aughts and never went back. Stuck with FB even after I deleted my business page.
Speaking of FB, a stranger sent me a friend request last week. She was friends with another FB friend that I just barely know. This woman already has nearly 800 FB friends so I would've just been another scalp for her belt. Why on earth would anybody want 800 FB friends? I have 85 and I feel like that's a lot, but I can at least identify all of them.