Twitter C/D

ghost feels like mastodon to me.. seems like it’s for linux people

idk man, I’d recommend using all the different things a little as a reader and maybe make a little blog/newsletter to see what the experience is like

I think the main substack pitch is the email-friendly formatting and their handling of bulk email which is trickier than you might think. lots of energy trying to pretend it’s an old-timey newsletter

i’m agnostic about what site the stuff is hosted on, afaik a couple newsletters im on are ghost ones, and there’s no noticeable diff. but it does sound more complicated to set one up

are you basing that on the part where you can install it yourself? hosted ghost just looks like every other product https://ghost.org/publishers/

personally i use blogspot and tumblr

like you can sign up for these things and poke around for a half hour and then delete them it’s kind of fun

blogspot is just blogger with a custom domain right

I think erstwhile ilxor max has some decent thoughts on why a person may want to pay for a social media platform in a recent substack newsletter of all things

xps mh- sry i don’t follow what you’re talking abt. my post was based purely the time i tried to set up a ghost newsletter for a friend for 15 min over a year ago and we found it complicated and gave up. maybe we missed that feature

i like max’s newsletter. also i like how he wrote a long essay about being “the guy who famously quit twitter” and then 99% of his posts are about twitter and he’s obviously super up to date and links to like 15 fresh tweets each post. can’t get away

thinking about the “twitter doesn’t drive traffic” thing. at first it felt counterintuitive to me since so much of twitter is links but then upon further introspection i realized i rarely click on links, the feed is just too mesmerizing gotta keep scrolling

sorry for the confusion, I was just trying to remember if blogger and blogspot (and by extension, blogspot.com) were all the same thing and it looks like they are, under the Google umbrella

x[ Well, also, Twitter has a relatively small user base. I don't know that Facebook is any better at getting people to click on links to NPR stories, but there are many more Facebook users than there are Twitter users. So for most mainstream media outlets, which also get a lot of referrals from search, Twitter is never going to make up a significant *share* of their overall traffic.

Lets just wipe it all out and go back to Geocities.

great bunch

This has the same vibe as when that Green party person tweeted "disillusioned labour voters PLEASE DO NOT JOIN US".

was content moderation an issue on other plaintext platforms like wordpress or blogspot or medium? there are/were definitely many super sketchy far right blogs on all those sites. i guess it’s a bit different w substack bc of the money

― flopson, Thursday, April 13, 2023 8:50 PM (yesterday)bookmarkflaglink

Yes the money and hosting in fact makes them more ethically and possibly legally accountable for content moderation than tools that don’t do the hosting or don’t pay for content.

― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, April 13, 2023 9:50 PM (yesterday)

i don't know if that's necessarily true under section 230

I’m just making stuff up on the law but I think as an ethical matter I am correct that the makers of Wordpress are only accountable for what users of hosted Wordpress post, not what people who host their own Wordpress post

lag00n you getting api suspension notices? my (write-only) bots just got theirs:

Hello,

This is a notice that your app has been suspended from accessing the Twitter API.

Please visit developer.twitter.com to sign up to our new Free, Basic or Enterprise access tiers.

More information can be found on our developer community forums.

Regards,
Twitter Developer Platform

nothing so far guess i shd switch them over tho

what r your bots tho

mine are all on api v1 maybe they will forget about me

https://twitter.com/dwxnyc and another one for LA. they actually broke on march 31 when apple shut down the dark sky api. but now the keys they would use to post don't work either. they use v1.

the api keys for my personal account (which i used to save and delete old posts etc.) still work 🤷🏻‍♂️

if u switch yrs over plz tell me how to do it thx

i absolutely will not switch them over haha

cmon

can’t search it up easily on my phone but could you just intercept the phone client’s auth call to get the jwt refresh token and keep one active?

why yes I did have to implement several oauth flows against janky providers in multiple programming languages why do you ask

lord that sounds just awful why do we even need auth cant we just use the honor system

looks like something is rolling out today

Welp, that'll be the last thread that I send via my Last Tweet in AWS Twitter thread creator I suppose.

Genius plan, folks. pic.twitter.com/TnENinL5l6

— Corey Quinn / @quinny✧✧✧@awscommun✧✧✧.soc✧✧✧ (@QuinnyPig) April 14, 2023

Such genius

perversely we probably do owe elon a gotta hand it to em for taking twitter from a place you’ll miss out on if you step away from it for a few hours to a boring ass website you can log off from for weeks without feeling you missed a thing https://t.co/y8T6fNIRXp

— kilgore trout, blue check free since 2003 (@KT_So_It_Goes) April 14, 2023

otm. "won't shut up but is also incredibly boring and unlikeable on a purely personal level" was one of my cons when i wrote down a list of pros/cons when i was deciding whether or not to quit.

It’s 100% true, I’m on there less than 40 minutes a day now. Hasn’t been that low in a decade.

lmao

I got an email that @year_progress has been suspended from Twitter API, and I have to re-sign-up. At least I know where I'm at. (There was no communication till now.)

My bot is eligible for the free tier, I think, but the sign up form doesn't work. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sorry folks. pic.twitter.com/j8AImo0ULw

— Filip Hráček (@filiphracek) April 14, 2023

view the tweet on web for this magnificent bug before they fix it pic.twitter.com/HdLt1L0RGt

— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) April 14, 2023

This is just sad.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ftt_HrRXgAACtJv.jpg

I'm coming around to the idea that he was told to destroy Twitter by Thiel et al b/c it was too woke, the rest is just for show

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FtuDHQwXgAMg39e?format=png&name=small

locked out of my account for unknown reasons. the "arkose challenge" i'm doing right to unlock it is bullshit. what a joke. oh well!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ftx4iCnXsAgGqPq?format=jpg&name=900x900

They probably deserve each other

definitely

An ilxor bot I registered aeons ago was disabled today as well, rip ilx system

I really thought this was a parody

zoom call from a ceo who cancelled all employee bonuses but took a $6.4 million bonus herself pic.twitter.com/SMZP6QQYCX

— Warren Commission Test Skull (@conzmoleman) April 17, 2023

People don’t become CEOs by treating staff well. What a weapon.

Yeah CEOs are like this person.

Not surprising to me, that clip

I don't find it surprising that CEOs think stuff like this, but you'd think some basic self-preservation instinct would inhibit them from saying it in public

Nah

In America if you are “successful” you’re allowed to be self important

over/under on how much longer she'll be at her job - I'd say a week?

an old boss of hers taught her that if you ever get to sit in that CEO chair, take the bonus every time, because the money doesn't remember if you earned it or not

Ghoulboss