Twitter purge

[Ab]

"We recognize that many of our users are active on other social media platforms. However, we will no longer allow free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter," Twitter Support tweeted Sunday.

"Specifically, we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms and content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post," the post continued.

The policy will also ban third-party link aggregators, including linktr.ee and lnk.bio, it said, adding that it will also seek to remove users who try to circumvent the rules by spelling out “dot” and sharing screenshots of their handles on prohibited platforms, among other means to get around the restrictions.

And now Twitter has deleted the entire thread, wtf

[Cyberbob]

Elon's obviously already found a replacement CEO to manage Twitter, and will be transitioning shortly.

Or as he puts it:

[blynk]

Pretty easy to use bots to skew it which way you like. But thats an interesting take as well.

He has someone he wants to take over and he knows the likely outcome of asking that question.
And if it does come back as no, then its his own validation.

[sidbo]

My guess is that he's been told to get back to Tesla or else, and this is his attempt to maintain the illusion that he's in control. And a cringey edgelord.

[Cyberbob]

Or he just Thanos snaps everyone that votes “Yes.”

[sidbo]

https://www.fastcompany.com/90826940...off-the-island

top kek

[Ab]

Most likely outcome: Musk has already selected a CEO and the poll is just something to keep his ego in the news for another 48 hrs.

[Ab]

Meme format of the day

[sidbo]

I'll try and find a source, but I swear I read something earlier that said he doesn't have anyone lined up.

[Redneck]

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[DrTiTus]

I watched an interview the other day where Elon basically says the CxO titles are all made up - that only Treasurer, Secretary, President (from memory) are real titles of a C-Corp, and there needs to be one Director. They can all also be the same person. Everything else is bollocks, and his official title at Tesla is "Technoking" just to show that it's all arbitrary.

So he might drop the title of CEO, but does that change anything since he still owns the platform? He didn't conduct a poll on whether he should sell it and/or give up control.

[sidbo]

Looks like we were all wrong, Musk honestly thought he was liked enough that the poll would be in his favour. Now he's gonna re-do it with only those simps who ponied up able to vote.

[Ab]

Irony is dead

https://twitter.com/anammostarac/sta...29155940823042

[Ab]

Sad.

https://blog.iconfactory.com/2023/01...end-of-an-era/

I think that was the first app I ever bought.

[Ab]

Tapbots just released Ivory for Mastodon, which means Mastodon just got a whole lot more attractive:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ivory-...s/id6444602274

I'm [email protected] if any of you use it.

[Ab]

This is hilarious and tragic:

https://daringfireball.net/2023/03/t...n_musk_twitter

https://twitter.com/courtneymilan/st...41759063605251

[wazza]

Originally Posted by Ab

This is hilarious and tragic:

https://daringfireball.net/2023/03/t...n_musk_twitter

https://twitter.com/courtneymilan/st...41759063605251

wow, that's insane

[Lightspeed]

Brilliant.

[Cyberbob]

And of course it ends like everyone thought it would.

With great laywers and furious backtracking.

https://i.imgur.com/4fXEDPR.jpg

[StN]

"Better to talk to people than communicate via tweet"!

I wonder if he had retained the Corporate Communications department at Twitter, that they may have re-worded that sentiment...

[wazza]

Originally Posted by Cyberbob

And of course it ends like everyone thought it would.

With great laywers and furious backtracking.

https://i.imgur.com/4fXEDPR.jpg

hah, gg

[Lightspeed]

[Ab]

This guy, an acquired owner on the "for god's sake do not fire" list, just baited Musk into firing him for being disabled, in public.

There are lawyers jerking off over this. Right now.

[wazza]

skeet skeet skeet

[StN]

And then he got bored, thought of an April fools joke, and applied it 3 days too late.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fsz562pa...pg&name=medium

[Ab]

Twitter no longer exists as a legal entity.

https://slate.com/technology/2023/04...-x-nevada.html

[Lightspeed]

You reckon Jack Dorsey and the likes are loving this? They were holding a very complex bag, and then were just alleviated of it at a great price.

Is the whole "$13b loan for Project X" a hiding-in-plain-sight gambit?

[Ab]

Elon goes full antisemite:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1658291808592629761

[Ab]

Mastodon seems to have a strangely-high number of posts from people begging for money ("I'm a trans lesbian amputee of colour with lupus and I must move house tomorrow before I suffer genocide, click here for my Patreon to pay my expenses").

[DrTiTus]

Mastodon is 100% gay.
Which is cool, unless you want serious responses.

[Lightspeed]

Reddit purge?

Reddit to lay off about 5% of its workforce

Along with upcoming changes to API access, Reddit might going the way of many a nostalgically recalled platform of the past, on its path to making bank.

A more cynical person might wonder about the timing of what's being enabled and unfettered on Twitter, while a platform like Reddit succumbs to higher powers.

[Cyberbob]

If Apollo dies, my Reddit usage dies along with it.

[Lightspeed]

I am trying to puzzle out what outcome the Reddit execs are chasing right now.

Reddit CEO doubles down on attack on Apollo developer in drama-filled AMA

What are they hoping for that's worth all this ill will? That the userbase will grumble, but ultimately accept the new status quo? Perhaps the hardcore will be satisfied with old., the rest will learn to love the ads?

[Ab]

Originally Posted by Ab

Mastodon seems to have a strangely-high number of posts from people begging for money ("I'm a trans lesbian amputee of colour with lupus and I must move house tomorrow before I suffer genocide, click here for my Patreon to pay my expenses").

Today’s:

https://octodon.social/@blkgoddess/110535112237399876

[Ab]

Columnist at Bloomberg:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/ar...tter-from-home


Well, look, if I were the newly hired chief executive officer of a social media company, and if the directors and shareholders who brought me in as CEO had told me that my main mission was to turn around the company’s precarious financial situation by improving our position with advertisers, and if I spent my first few weeks reassuring advertisers and rebuilding relationships and talking up our site’s unique audience and powerful engagement, and then one day my head of software engineering came to me and said “hey boss, too many people were too engaged with too many posts, so I had to limit everyone’s ability to view posts on our site, just FYI,” I would ... probably ... fire ... him?

[Ab]

The events described in this article are fucking insane.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/11/elon...f-urgency.html

[Lightspeed]

Yup, exactly that.

[Know me.]

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rip,_shit_orust

[Lightspeed]

An NYU professor with 560,000 followers says he's been locked out of his X account for over 2 weeks after declining to meet with Elon Musk

Scott Galloway, a marketing professor at NYU who's also known as an author and public speaker, said he was locked out of his X account after a quarrel with Elon Musk.

"A mutual friend reached out and said Elon feels 'unfairly attacked,' by me, and wants to meet," Galloway posted on Threads. "I declined."

[Ab]

Oh lol. Prof G is rich and successful enough to not give a fuck what Elon does. You can bet he’ll be writing and podcasting about this though.