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Sagebrush posted:it wasn't even supposed to be just noteworthy people. the idea was that anyone could get the checkmark by sending in their driver's license or w/e and then people know it's Really You tweeting. yeah, their wholly inconsistent use of verifications makes it noteworthy when they verify known neo-nazis
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Rex-Goliath posted:yep I’m deleting my twitter account. gently caress them I killed my Twitter then realized it was how I got all my news, and realized that as stressful as getting news was not getting news was much more stressful so I reactivated. 
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i still have a facebook account but haven't read or been active on it in like four years. it's nice to be rid of that. i do have an instagram account which is still facebook lol but i like the format a lot better. scrolling list of pictures from people i know IRL and nothing else -- that's not mentally exhausting. don't use twitter.
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Schadenboner posted:I killed my Twitter then realized it was how I got all my news, and realized that as stressful as getting news was not getting news was much more stressful so I reactivated. and really there are better sources. even aggregating google.com/news, or local npr website like https://www.kqed.org no reason to use twitter
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look, jack said there would be new rules around violent groups, he never said what the rules would be https://twitter.com/jack/status/919028956333879296
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one hypothesis that i heard is that they use Philippine contractors for the actual verification step you may have noticed the Philippines going pretty fash in the past year or so
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Xaris posted:lol if you dont get all your news from yospos/sa and john oliver (formerly daily show in stewart-days) I basically ported my Google Reader use-case to Twitter when Reader 
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https://twitter.com/DennyVonDoom/status/928398928743206918 https://twitter.com/DennyVonDoom/status/928400653357117441 love to stream a video game for my on line pals
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I think in retrospect giving everybody a "free" platform and then trying to monetize what they do on it will go down in history as a super bad idea
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Improbable Lobster posted:twitter is a nazi company
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FMguru posted:ockham's razor is really, really pointing in that direction the levels of incompetence necessary to achieve the effect of malice they consistently display is technically achievable, albeit incredibly difficult
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the only things I post on twitter now are ps4 screenshots/videos because its an easier export path than loving with usb drives I haven't visited my personal feed in years and only read tweets recommended through other channels
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Sagebrush posted:that would be believable and fine except that twitter refuses to verify some people who want it despite them confirming their identity (*cough* lowtax) and also removes verifications as a punishment that is pretty messed up Pinterest Mom posted:https://twitter.com/DennyVonDoom/status/928398928743206918 ok i'm going to need a new scale for messed up
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Pinterest Mom posted:https://twitter.com/DennyVonDoom/status/928398928743206918 https://twitter.com/Gen_Ironicus/status/928676240013385730
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i still can't get over the facebook nude thing, jfc lol its like im in a waking nightmare also shamelesly stolen: Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need naked pics of hot chicks Zuck: Just ask Zuck: I have over a million pussy shots and a few mil titty pics [Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one? Zuck: People just submitted it. Zuck: I don't know why. Zuck: They "trust me" Zuck: Dumb fucks
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qirex posted:I think in retrospect giving everybody a "free" platform and then trying to monetize what they do on it will go down in history as a super bad idea yeah the concept of media was a mistake
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qirex posted:I think in retrospect giving everybody a "free" platform and then trying to monetize what they do on it will go down in history as a super bad idea only in the sense that they were never able to monetize it
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bob dobbs is dead posted:one hypothesis that i heard is that they use Philippine contractors for the actual verification step that seems like a surreptitiously racist way that valley techlords can avoid admitting that one of their god-CEOs, Jack Dorsey, Is A Nazi
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Xaris posted:i still can't get over the facebook nude thing, jfc lol its like im in a waking nightmare it reminds me of when the TSA first installed naked airport scanners except that they did it with the full force of government and threat of horrible death and all facebook is doing is saying pretty please
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anyway also let's not forget what the zuck posted on his blog as he was developing facebook back at harvardquote:I’m a little intoxicated, I’m not gonna lie. So what if it’s not even 10 p.m. and it’s a Tuesday night? What? The Kirkland dormitory facebook is open on my desktop and some of these people have pretty horrendous facebook pics. I almost want to put some of these faces next to pictures of some farm animals and have people vote on which is the more attractive … Let the hacking begin.
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haveblue posted:it reminds me of when the TSA first installed naked airport scanners except that they did it with the full force of government and threat of horrible death and all facebook is doing is saying pretty please also not a job i'd want
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Sagebrush posted:that seems like a surreptitiously racist way that valley techlords can avoid admitting that one of their god-CEOs, Jack Dorsey, Is A Nazi didnt jack leave twitter for like 5 years to go do some other bullshit
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Shaggar posted:only in the sense that they were never able to monetize it that's my point, the things the platform needs to do to make money distort the platform itself and the things your users need to do to make money distort what they create for it and it all averages towards some weird stew of advertiser friendly and insanely toxic
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facebook isn't a horrible experience for me but i also don't have family on there so it's mostly just friends (and some friends' family lol) and it's good times. we share links and sometimes get up to some comment threads. i've got a couple of token far-right guys on there. one of them is a high school classmate who is hilariously ultra-libertarian, he finally argued for child labor last year (it was very FYGM too, he straight-up said "don't worry it won't be our children having to toil"). the other is basically a South Park-style concern troll.
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qirex posted:that's my point, the things the platform needs to do to make money distort the platform itself and the things your users need to do to make money distort what they create for it and it all averages towards some weird stew of advertiser friendly and insanely toxic i meant more that people will be like "lol we never made any money, why did we think this would work?" you could absolutely make money on a twitter that was advertiser and family friendly. it wouldn't have everyone in the world on it and it wouldn't be a very interesting place, but it would have everyone you need to make money and everything those people want. like litterrally a Disney social network.
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Sagebrush posted:anyway also let's not forget what the zuck posted on his blog as he was developing facebook back at harvard what's the zuck's family history? i'm guessing his parents are some kind of loaded but does he come from rarefied new england bluebloods, or what
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:what's the zuck's family history? i'm guessing his parents are some kind of loaded but does he come from rarefied new england bluebloods, or what his parents are doctors from connecticut or something but i havent traced the ole zuckerburg family tree back further than that because my ancestry.com free trial expired.
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e:nm too crass burn silicon valley to the ground, kill and eat the rich.
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Shaggar posted:like litterrally a Disney social network. reminder that disney considered buying twitter but decided that cleaning it up would be more trouble than it was worth
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my bitter bi rival posted:his parents are doctors from connecticut or something but i havent traced the ole zuckerburg family tree back further than that because my ancestry.com free trial expired. Connecticut is a myth and anyone from there isn't real so it all makes sense
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haveblue posted:reminder that disney considered buying twitter but decided that cleaning it up would be more trouble than it was worth yeah it would have been a good idea for them if the cleanup wasn't such a nightmare effort
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bitcoin heated toilet
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Powaqoatse posted:e:nm too crass same but the rest of California, and the pacific coast. except alaska.
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hifi posted:bitcoin heated toilet bitdet
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haveblue posted:bitdet hahaha
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fishmech posted:There's a reason most car companies use one of a few seat builders to provide the seats rather than build their own yeah it's cuz they're not disruptive enough and are stuck doing things like they did in the 19th century!!!
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my question the last like, 3 times this same idea has come up still stands: who's paying for the electricity
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quote:“People who mine cryptocurrencies use big miners. And they just heat the atmosphere,” said Dmitry Tolmachyov in a Quartz video, embedded below. “And we say, ‘No, the environment! We shouldn’t heat the atmosphere. We have a nine-month long heating season. We should heat our homes. The miners should not be concentrated in one place. They should be in various places, in private homes. The technology allows it nowadays.” No, the environment! also love how "the technology allows it nowadays" unlike the bad old times of Big Bitcoin mining hogging all the bitcoin machines in their giant factories!!!
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