Questions like "why are you still on #X/ #Twitter?" ignore the obvious.
Because much of the content I enjoy and the things I want to see are there, not here on #Mastodon
There's tons of stuff I want to see and interact with that just does not exist here. Niches of mine that are aren't filled here. Conversations that aren't happening here at all.
🔴 #Germany has uncovered a major "pro-#Russia#disinformation campaign" using thousands of fake accounts on X to try and stir anger at #Berlin's support for #Ukraine, a media report said on Friday
The revelations come amid growing concern about the impact increasingly sophisticated #disinformation campaigns could have on elections ⏩
↪ Experts commissioned by the #German foreign ministry used specialised software to monitor posts on the online platform X, formerly known as #Twitter, between December 20th and January 20th, news weekly #DerSpiegel wrote
Another image widely shared by pro Israeli bots and accounts on #Twitter and #Instagram
This is so ridiculous that proves that almost everyone sharing this have never talked to a Muslim or seen a Muslim pray or even asked a Muslim about it before sharing it.
Wearing shoes and glasses when praying is just so ridiculously stupid that only an idiot would believe its authentic.
If your link takes us to #X#Twitter, I won't click or share. Please screenshot that stuff. Many of us here deleted our hellsite accounts for good reasons and avoid returning like we avoid the plague now. 😷
I've been thinking about the #Apple at least 27% on all transactions policy. I think one (of the many) things #Musk got wrong with #Twitter and his idea for X as an "everything app" is that we already have an everything app -- our phone.
Any corporation that wants to get a cut of every facet of life needs to be in the phone platform business.
google images is filled with ai-generated garbage. news is stuffed with twitter/x links and a ton of other non-news results. searches often give you back a bunch of useless seo-optimized pages made for ad revenue. it’s a failure, and they want us to believe a chatbot is the fix.
If you've ever read about design, you've probably encountered the idea of #PavingTheDesirePath. A #DesirePath is an erosion path created by people departing from the official walkway and taking their own route. The story goes that smart campus planners don't fight the desire paths laid down by students; they pave them, formalizing the route that their constituents have voted for with their feet.
But this pattern is even more pronounced in the digital world, because it's much easier to update a digital service than it is to update all the tractors in the field, especially if that service is cloud-based, meaning you can modify the back-end everyone is instantly updated. The most celebrated example of this co-creation is #Twitter, whose users created a host of its core features.
Elon Musk spent 44 billion dollars on buying Twitter, only to change everything which made Twitter brilliant. And now, as Twitter is on the verge of failure, Musk claims it is all the advertisers’ fault.
But is it?
Watch my deep dive into Elon’s business decisions and see how even a professional company can be killed by amateur leadership.
Whoopsies! "Free speech absolutist" "accidentally" suspends the accounts of journalists who are critical of him, and people whose political views he disagrees with.
He seems to have quite the habit of firing or banning people he disagrees with, doesn't he?
Via Gizmodo:
"X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, purged an unknown number of prominent accounts over the last 24 hours with little to no explanation, and then restored the accounts minutes after this article was published.
"The list includes popular accounts belonging to journalists, writers, and podcasters. Among them are Ken Klippenstein of the Intercept, writer and podcaster Rob Rousseau, Texas Observer correspondent Steven Monacelli, the account for TrueAnon, a left-wing politics and news podcast, and a number of others.
"One thing the accounts have in common is recent criticisms of the Israeli government.
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"Musk, who calls himself a “free speech absolutist” has previously said no one should be banned from X unless they break the law.
"Update, 1:12 p.m.: Shortly after this article was published, Musk responded to a question about the issue from far-right influencer Jackson Hinkle. Musk promised to investigate, and the accounts went back up soon after. Musk later blamed the “mistake” on X’s spam algorithms. The Hamas account is still suspended."
We, the Aktionsbündnis neue Soziale Medien (New Social Media Action Alliance) today appealed to #universities in Germany to shut down their #X (formerly #Twitter) accounts as soon as possible.
The appeal points out that the presence on X/Twitter does not do justice to the universities' remit to provide information because of the #disinformation and political agitation practised there. At the same time, presences should be established on #Mastodon and other services in the #Fediverse, whose decentralised and moderated design is much more compatible with the rules of democratic and sustainable coexistence.
It’s incredibly dangerous how the richest man in the world — deluded by paranoia, narcissism, and far-right conspiracies — can get arms of the state to go after his perceived enemies instead of holding him to account as they should be doing.
I feel like the reason #Mastodon, and the #Fediverse at large, aren't taking off has to do with the fact that they're actually social networks. People don't seem to want a social network, they want content platforms. People aren't using #Twitter or #Threads or #TikTok to keep up with their friends these days, they're using these apps to entertain themselves. And since #Facebook and every other platform that used to be a social network began pivoting toward content promotion, I think society has forgotten what a social network is supposed to actually be anymore.
The classified documents case will make use of a recording which indicates that #Trump had a highly sensitive document which he knew was NOT declassified.
The chain of evidence looks strong and while there is much news media spinning, a court of law is more rigorous environment where focus on fact is primary
From the guy that thought #ElonMusk would be a good leader for #Twitter, an endorsement for a candidate who has descended into the swirling conspiracism
After seeing what happened at #twitter, after seeing yet another round of nonsense layoffs across so many good people at so many companies, we need unions and we need them yesterday.
If you are in a union already, build strength. We are going to need it.