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Did #Twitter break? I don't see it working on my PC or phone. Might just be temporary.

Anyone else notice it has been quite rickety recently?


Anyone still on #Twitter?

  • Yes (33%, 2 votes)
  • No (66%, 4 votes)
6 voters. Poll end: 1 year ago


On #Twitter, I just tried to do an emoji reaction.

#Soapbox is feature rich in a way that neither #Twitter nor #Mastodon are.


Before Tesla, Elon Musk launched a company called X(dot)com that he hoped would upend the banking system. It didnā€™t, but he never gave up on the idea.

In November, he outlined a vision for Twitter that effectively tries to replicate his old vision by grafting it onto the ailing social media platform. I explain why itā€™s doomed to fail and what it tells us about Elon Musk.

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/elon-musk-wants-to-relive-his-start

#tech #elonmusk #twitter


It looks like the #Twitter API changes towards a mostly paid model have been pushed from today to February 13th, but I didn't want to take any chances and I went forward and deleted all my tweets yesterday night, as well as severing my #Friendica connector.

It definitely feels different than when my #Facebook account was frozen in 2016 for using this pseudonym I've worn for 17 years now. Back then, I was just brutally faced with the facts, I didn't have any agency which made the move to the #Fediverse straightforward, I didn't have any other choice.

This time, I've had to actually make up my mind about leaving Twitter and stick to my plan in the face of an ever-volatile platform constantly backtracking their most unpopular decisions. It wasn't an easy decision, I had made a few organic connections on there, but I guess even I had to draw a line in the sand.


Planning to move your friendly #bot over to Mastodon once #Twitter shuts down free API access on the 9th?

Please make sure to mark your new account as type ā€œbotā€ to meet the expectations of instance operators.

We hope your transition over is smooth and everyone appreciates the diversity in bot functionality!


this panel in the comic I'm reading ("the voyeurs" by Gabrielle Bell) made me smirk. šŸ˜

this chapter is set in 2010 BTW.

#twitter #twitterMigration
panel from a comic with dialog between two characters:
"so what did your other guest lecturers talk about?"
"our last one was social networking"
"you mean like Facebook?"
"and Twitter. tweeting and re-tweeting."
"re-tweeting other people's tweets?"
"no, re-tweeting your own. so it shows up at the top of the feed again."
"isn't that cheating?"


Free Speech Absolutist Elon Musk Pulls Down Documentary About India PM Modi

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/01/26/free-speech-absolutist-elon-musk-pulls-down-documentary-about-india-pm-modi/

#narendramodi #documentary #censorship #freespeech #twitter #youtube #india


This one goes out to recently arrived or aspiring Twitter refugees



Recent changes to #Twitter's developer agreement imply they may soon ban third-party clients from posting to the service. We value our freedom too much to run their nonfree software and our followers shouldn't be required to either. Find us at @endDRM on #Mastodon


Recent changes to #Twitter's developer agreement imply they may soon ban third-party clients from posting to the service. We value our freedom too much to run their nonfree software and our followers shouldn't be required to either. Find us at @fsf on #Mastodon


#Medium ā€“ the proprietary, #SiliconValley equivalent of free and open #fediverse app #WriteFreely, by the #billionnaire co-founder of #Twitter ā€“ now has a #Mastodon server.

It might be a good time to take a look at WriteFreely (https://writefreely.org/) and their hosted services Write.as (https://write.as/) and WriteFreely Host (https://writefreely.host/) and consider owning your own #blog on the fediverse instead of contributing to the walled gardens of the folks who bequeathed you Twitter.


Look beyond the obvious similarities of #Mastodon to #Twitter and realize the phenomenon it is riding is not only bigger than a single piece of software, it's bigger than a single category of software. #JoinMastodon https://blog.opensource.org/the-fediverse-unlocks-a-world-of-composable-distributed-apps/


Do you engage less with #mastodon accounts when they use #twitter links?

Please Reboot - as I wish to gauge if my narrow observations, thus far are right.

  • Yes (73%, 1451 votes)
  • No (26%, 518 votes)
1969 voters. Poll end: 1 year ago


There are a few clips from #ladygaga interviews that I keep on hand to just to keep me from going insane. On a few occasions her insight is so piercing that it justifies the five separate accents she says things in. #twitter #fediverse


After just a month away from #twitter, I'm only now starting to appreciate how extremely damaging these content delivery #algorithms are. The more I talk to younger people about their relationship to #SocialMedia, the more lean towards #policy which would put substantive constraints on companies who knowingly manipulate the human reward/dopaminergic system. The wholesale import of all the vile tools of the casino industry into the distribution of information is truly wrecking our brains.


Can you imagine trusting a car made by the fool who runs Twitter?

https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-driver-watched-in-horror-tesla-crashed-burst-into-flames-2022-12

#tesla #elonMusk #twitter


Itā€™s not only engagement people here share more ideas and real comments. Not like #twitter that is one sad joke or dunk after the other. Conversations expand and make sense.


please build in a 12-step / group therapy subpage for #twitter refugees.
#mastodon #twittermigration


Image/photoMastodon wrote the following post Tue, 20 Dec 2022 19:30:12 +0200

#Twitter suspends #Mastodon account, prevents sharing links: Our statement

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2022/12/twitter-suspends-mastodon-account-prevents-sharing-links/


#Twitter suspends #Mastodon account, prevents sharing links: Our statement

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2022/12/twitter-suspends-mastodon-account-prevents-sharing-links/


If you voted "step down as CEO" in Elon Musk's phony poll, you did something wrong.

His motivation to buy #birdsite was not to run it, but to implement his version of #freespeech. Passing the mantle now means:

* Return to being a user
* Have someone else to pull the potatoes out of the fire
* Transfer #legal responsibility to that someone
* Stop the main drive for #twittermigration
* Recover biz cred
* Being the owner, still keep #twitter as a personal mouthpiece!

In short: he gets it all.


@Angle I do not share your worry. Most of the #Twitter experience is summed up by having access to all the people all the time, and this was only possible because of the centralized nature of the platform. You simply can't recreate the same paradigm on the #Fediverse for network structure reasons. Not even on mastodon.social that now gets routinely defederated, cutting into the access some people crave.


Mastodon isn't a twitter alternative, it's its own space. This isn't twitter 2.0 so please embrace mastodon, rather than trying to rebuild twitter.

#TwitterMigration #Twitter #Mastodon


@binarytango whatā€™s more shocking are these journalistsā€™ oft-repeated ā€œIā€™ll still go back to #Twitter if they unban meā€ and rationalizing it as some form of ā€œsaving free speechā€ ā€¦ I just call it Social Media Stockholm Syndrome


Jokes and snark aside. With #Twitter banning links to any other social network now, the window for using tools like https://fedifinder.glitch.me and https://www.movetodon.org is closing rapidly. Better run them again in the coming days to find any stragglers.

#twittermigration #twitterexodus



This is apparently the tweet that led to my suspension from Twitter. Right as I was reinstated they announced a new policy that they apparently found me to have retroactively violated
#twittermigration #twitterexodus #twitter #news #elonmusk #tech #technews #technology
Links of my social channels
New policy saying you canā€™t promote other social channels


Beware of billionaires peddling ā€œdecentralisationā€.

Anyone seeking a decentralised world would never allow themselves to do the things it takes to become (or remain) a billionaire. Billionaires and trillion-dollar corporations are the epitome of centralisation.

Decentralisation begins at decentring yourself.

#JackDorsey #BlueSky #billionaires #capitalism #twitter #fediverse #centralisation #decentralisation #corporateCapture #embraceExtendExtinguish #warning


Earlier today Elon Musk said that my ban was temporary, 45 min later he denied my appeal to reinstate my account and confirmed that I am *permanently* banned. The email I just received says the decision cannot be reversed.
I have never once violated Twitters rules or terms of service. Iā€™ve never had a single tweet flagged, my account was permanently banned with no warning and with no reason, after I reached out to Musk for comment.
#twittermigration #twitterexodus #twitter #tech #news #technews
Email saying Iā€™m permanently banned from twitter



On Musk, and democracy, neofascism, and Thiel:

Whatā€™s happening with #Twitter now is very similar to how Trump built the MAGA GOP: dominance.
Musk is forcing #journalism to scrape and beg. Reinstated accounts are tweeting happiness to be back.

Thatā€™s the ā€œdominance politicsā€ playbook. The authoritarian, #neofascist playbook. The way to fight is to pull out.

@joshtpm re: Trump, 2017:

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/reporters-need-to-pull-out-of-trumps-dominance-rituals


ā€œI think itā€™s important that we learn from this experience and donā€™t put all of our eggs in one basket againā€¦ā€

ā€œWhen we treat #Twitter as something that can be replaced by one network, I think we fail to recognize the nuances of each platform, and the fact there shouldnā€™t be any one replacement, that instead we need to be trying to find different homes for different parts of our online lives.ā€

ā€” A. Samuel (@awsamuel) on #CBCā€™s On The Coast (Dec. 16, 2022)

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-46-on-the-coast/clip/15955618-twitter-suspends-journalists-accounts-blocks-mastodon-links


Respect. šŸ«” After a mere 13 years, I nuked most of my 92K tweets, set private, and only remain on #Twitter to direct more people here at this point.

We now have nearly 1,000 lawyers and law professors on Mastodon per a sheet tracking them/us. #TwitterMigration


We see a new fascist platform takeover happen in real time.


Do we react or do we just swim with the flow?
#twitter #twitterpurge #freespeech #Politics #Musk #Fascism

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