Twitter C/D

rip in piece

"All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake 'public opinion' for the benefit of the bourgeoisie."

— Lenin Quotes (@leninquote) April 26, 2022

Yeah, we haven't seen a real friendster->myspace->facebook churn in years, although outside the US, other sites have dominance (especially in Russia/China)

Nostalgic for the era when Portugal was on the Hi5 train with the rest of the developing world.

You could send "fives" bestowing the status of "party animal", "supermodel", etc. on your friends.

Left Twitter a few weeks before Musk joined. It wasn't adding anything positive to my life, just sapping time. It was a simple case of "if something isn't making you happy stop doing it". Whereas here on ILX I do get enjoyment from it and respect the posters and their views.

For communication with IRL friends it is mainly WhatsApp now.

https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/lost-thread/

'a local maximum' is my new favourite description of the site.

lol i reactivated, missed some things too much. unfollowed a bunch of annoying people though, mostly lib politics outrage merchant types.

why did i think that i needed to see judd lugum follow lowe's gop donations like a hawk or whatever for so long jesus

otm

some of the people I've followed were experts on something or another and I felt like.. I wanted to be more informed?

turns out I don't want to know any of this shit

animals (wild/pet), jokes, bands, architecture and the Longreads account, the key to avoiding the worst excesses of twitter

and Instagram

probably TikTok too but so far they let me click on links of puppy videos from friends without needing to set up an account

Love twitte but there's no way I'm paying for it lol

REVEALED: Elon Musk plans to fire 1,000 Twitter staff, quintuple revenue, get 69 million users paying $3 a month and cut reliance on advertising income, his presentation to investors shows https://t.co/xJ6HkLv6MH

— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) May 7, 2022

i don’t even pay for ilx ffs

paywalled social media on that scale does not seem like it will ever be a thing tbh

I'd do a one-off payment for ilx server maintenance but no way am I paying for twitter.

xp = yeah, think it will be a while yet, if ever.

right. have contributed to the server fund for sure, happy to do it again. never signing up for a monthly fee ever

how about metered usage. every ilx post you read to cost 1 cent, with 60% going to “creators”

Basic Twitter remains free, ability to @ anyone - premium tier.

damn just when i was considering rejoining so i could @ megan mcardle

How do I contribute to ILX fees?

Have never done this but would gladly do so.

if necessary a thread appears every so often soliciting funds

It's very wholesome like a telethon

free users only get to see gifs from the Office

Using twitter at this point feels like smoking out of a trache hole because smoking is so awesome and cool tbh.

But it’ll be better once we get Elon’s new Unfiltered Twitter, that pure tweeting satisfaction.

there will be more voices in the conversation, fewer bots, more good conversations and global collaborations in the digital town square that we've all come to count on

If your town sq is suddenly infested with super predator killer bees, the answer is to let everyone get stung a lot by unfettered bees. If anyone is immune to bee venom, they will survive and breed free of abortions and later repopulate yr town sq. Problem solved. The bees will get bored and go away or die down. Just like covid has.

This guy is a Facebook creep but this is admittedly a good thread that breaks it down to an extent

Watching Elon try to openly recreate several decades of trust and safety work by tens of thousands of people from first principles is likely to give me a stroke. https://t.co/QurCunPkrR

— Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) May 11, 2022

Bureaucracies can be maddening, but "Let's let a dumb rich guy make up new rules" is not an optimal solution

it worked for the u.s. government!

that Stamos thread is v otm, esp the fact that Musk seems not to realize Twitter operates in multiple legal jurisdictions

hes just talking its what hes good at telling people what they want to hear

It also sounds totally smart when you just name a round number of jobs you're going to cut

Genuinely shocked he didn't got with 69 million users paying $4.20 a month.

go with

I will buy everyone here a Coke if he actually goes through with the takeover.

on the internal chat there's a channel called #stonks full of idiots like me with no inside knowledge but who are watching things very closely for obvious reasons, and sentiment that the deal will close, and that the deal with close at $54.20 in particular, is definitely on the wane.

reasons include the current tesla stock price (lmao) and https://hindenburgresearch.com/twitter/

(this could all be motivated reasoning/wishful thinking)

not sure ive had a reply do numbers like this, wonder if someone posted it somewhere, twitter should have a button that shows you if your tweet is embedded on a website

lmao you losers wouldve been using this picture as proof of a declining society if youd been around back then

— br◎seph (@on3ness) May 11, 2022

guy who spends all his waking hours blabbering about what life was like before soy

its so crazy and dumb and also bad

I always wonder how much these soy people overlap with creepy white dudes obsessed with Japan.

admittedly this one seems to a slightly more special full-throated british imperialism booster. but anyway, lagoon otm how did we end up with racist psycho "God, King, and Country" imperialists publicly horning for barefoot hippie yanks?

Check out the RTs and replies thanking him for a feature that's been in place for over three years. https://t.co/w7EpEp4oTQ

— Osita Nwanevu (@OsitaNwanevu) May 12, 2022

lol

i'd like a version of twitter where elon just provides technical support in this way, building the foundations of relationships

Unfortunately it doesn't work yet. My tweets are still poorly viewed

— JanuutGrunn (@JanuutGroningen) May 12, 2022

lmao the ceo just fired the head of product and the head of revenue.

loving every minute with this damn crew

I know. Their heads just rolled past.

Devin Nunes has been twisting in the wind, torn between loyalty to the Bossman being back on the Twitter, and his beloved Troof Social, which doesn't care WHO you are, you're welcome to join, PLEASE just join, it's FREE

lmao the ceo just fired the head of product and the head of revenue.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, May 12, 2022 12:53 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

what is going on in escrow seems like a weird time to be doing major housecleaning