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Or here's an idea. Just don't purge accounts. Usernames are more useless on Twitter than virtually every other website cause you can set your own nickname whenever you like and you log in with your email. They have no value beyond being able to correctly identify an account to guard against scams and impersonators, and there used to be a checkmark to protect against that. A purge is completely loving pointless and it's dumb to theorycraft good ways of doing it.
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May 8, 2023 18:27
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Mr Scumbag posted:Or here's an idea. Just don't purge accounts. Usernames are more useless on Twitter than virtually every other website cause you can set your own nickname whenever you like and you log in with your email. They have no value beyond being able to correctly identify an account to guard against scams and impersonators, and there used to be a checkmark to protect against that. It really sounds like a low-effort easy win if you're a dumb guy looking at Twitter though, like Elon is
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May 8, 2023 18:30
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Mr Scumbag posted:Or here's an idea. Just don't purge accounts. Usernames are more useless on Twitter than virtually every other website cause you can set your own nickname whenever you like and you log in with your email. They have no value beyond being able to correctly identify an account to guard against scams and impersonators, and there used to be a checkmark to protect against that. Twitter isn't even hurting for user names because who the gently caress is signing up for twitter in 2023?
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May 8, 2023 18:32
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If they do get purged I'm totally gonna try to register @catturd
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May 8, 2023 18:34
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pacerwpg posted:Twitter is indistinguishable from stormfront lol emp ty wuote
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May 8, 2023 18:36
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Are we expecting all social media companies to maintain all accounts that have not been explicitly deactivated for as long as the companies survive?
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May 8, 2023 18:38
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zedprime posted:If we're talking about the feelings of the dead people here they're gonna have the least regrets about failing to keep their account inactive. If we're talking about their relatives then using Twitter as a remembrance shrine is already a bad idea because it's subject to much more random reasons of losing access. Not "evidence store" like for a criminal case, just historical context and reactions as they happened in real time. You know like the 9/11 thread we had here: http://www.truegamer.net/SA_911/911%20SATHREAD/wtc01.html
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May 8, 2023 18:38
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Halisnacks posted:Are we expecting all social media companies to maintain all accounts that have not been explicitly deactivated for as long as the companies survive? sure why not
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May 8, 2023 18:40
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kazil posted:Twitter isn't even hurting for user names because who the gently caress is signing up for twitter in 2023? I just always assume at this point any big changes Musk talks about are done because some right wing rear end in a top hat is in his ear about it and he desperately wants to be accepted by anyone.
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May 8, 2023 18:40
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In other news, Elon is now an expert on *checks notes* immigration along the US-Mexico border https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1655627982852042770 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1655628353620127755
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May 8, 2023 18:46
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Halisnacks posted:Are we expecting all social media companies to maintain all accounts that have not been explicitly deactivated for as long as the companies survive? It's more there should be an expectation of trust your data/files/media/etc will not vanish arbitrarily overnight on a platform. Something like this breaks that implicit trust in the platform, because if it'll happen for one reason, any other reason might be just as valid. (See also; Imgur shooting itself in the foot with a sawn-off double-barrel shotgun loaded with dragonsbreath within the next few days)
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May 8, 2023 18:47
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Halisnacks posted:Are we expecting all social media companies to maintain all accounts that have not been explicitly deactivated for as long as the companies survive? I mean, that's literally the point of a social media company. Certainly the successful ones. Hey, anyone remember 20 years ago when Hotmail would delete your account if you didn't log in for 3 months? Wonder why they never became the dominant free email service.
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May 8, 2023 18:49
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Oh no! Anyway.... On my list of things to give a poo poo about, an imaginary line that impoverished poor brown people cross for better lives is pretty loving low. F_Shit_Fitzgerald fucked around with this message at 18:53 on May 8, 2023 |
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May 8, 2023 18:50
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Halisnacks posted:Are we expecting all social media companies to maintain all accounts that have not been explicitly deactivated for as long as the companies survive? You're asking this like you have to feed and water the poor little database rows or they won't survive? There's no maintenance or effort that has to be expended doing that
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May 8, 2023 18:52
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kazil posted:In other news, Elon is now an expert on *checks notes* immigration along the US-Mexico border i didn't think i could hate elon even. this is groundbreaking stuff.
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May 8, 2023 18:54
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kazil posted:In other news, Elon is now an expert on *checks notes* immigration along the US-Mexico border Ah yes the Texas national guard deployed on border! Famously known for stoping the immigrant invasion over the last year as the governor has deployed them to HOTSPOTS such as large political donors ranches!!! Also famous for increased suicides as the guardsmen say they literally do nothing but sit around away from their families. I was going to make another joke but instead it’s just incredibly sad!
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May 8, 2023 18:55
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I mean the kind of person who joins the Texas national guard is probably incredibly sad that they're sitting around doing nothing away from their family instead of getting to actually mow down crowds of invading foreigners so i can't say I'm too sad for them
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May 8, 2023 18:57
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Parkingtigers posted:I mean, that's literally the point of a social media company. Certainly the successful ones. Hey, anyone remember 20 years ago when Hotmail would delete your account if you didn't log in for 3 months? Wonder why they never became the dominant free email service. I have a soft spot for Hotmail in my heart because I could plausibly tell my parents the browser autocomolete was a typo for my email.
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May 8, 2023 18:57
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https://twitter.com/krassenstein/status/1655553288945778690 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1655630136677392387 hey gently caress elon musk
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May 8, 2023 18:58
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Neddy Seagoon posted:It's more there should be an expectation of trust your data/files/media/etc will not vanish arbitrarily overnight on a platform. Something like this breaks that implicit trust in the platform, because if it'll happen for one reason, any other reason might be just as valid. Yeah, Elon is botching it for sure. But if he was deleting dormant accounts en masse with a thoughtful sunset and comms plan, and due consideration for how to treat deceased people’s accounts, I don’t see a problem in principle with a company purging inactive accounts. If we think maintaining old posts/threads is a matter of public interest or useful to future historians, then regulate the companies to require this. It’s naive to assume a private-sector enterprise will do this without compulsion just because you’ve given them unwarranted trust.
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May 8, 2023 18:58
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Yeah, why keep old accounts that aren't being used? If you're a relative of the deceased and you want to memorialize them, make a shrine or something. Print out their tweets and put them on a wall or whatever.
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May 8, 2023 19:00
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big black turnout posted:I mean the kind of person who joins the Texas national guard is probably incredibly sad that they're sitting around doing nothing away from their family instead of getting to actually mow down crowds of invading foreigners so i can't say I'm too sad for them I assume your not from Texas or know anyone here but people who join the national guard are usually poor immigrants themselves, and they do it for some bonus pay because the claim is you only get deployed for “emergencies” and train a few weekends a year. Every now and then to get mustered for a natural disaster response but your regular day job boss is probably cool with that. And if you stick it out 20 years you can get a pension. People who want to kill brown people join active duty infantry. Most of these people have jobs that pay more than they get for deploying on this boondoggle. And although their regular employers are legally obligated to keep their job for their return, they sure as poo poo don’t get paid for it while they are gone. If your family makes 65k a year if there is even a 10% differential in pay from your day job to guard deploy pay your family is in trouble.
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May 8, 2023 19:04
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priznat posted:lmao literally dying Now you'll lose your Twitter account. 
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May 8, 2023 19:05
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Tarkus posted:Yeah, why keep old accounts that aren't being used? If you're a relative of the deceased and you want to memorialize them, make a shrine or something. Print out their tweets and put them on a wall or whatever.
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Konar posted:You're asking this like you have to feed and water the poor little database rows or they won't survive? This attitude is representative of everything I hate about our society trying to cut out librarians because server go whizzzz, just add racks and keep complicating the search algorithm till the illusion of important information comes out of the unmanageable 50 terabyte depths. zedprime fucked around with this message at 19:20 on May 8, 2023 |
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May 8, 2023 19:17
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elon's startin to get that half-centaur pose like ol' trump
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May 8, 2023 19:20
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Future generations must be forced to read my poo poo posts. No deleting me pls.
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mobby_6kl posted:Because it costs nothing and they're parts of other conversations. Deleting your account should be an option of course, obviously. Nah, I'm a data hoarder but sometimes you gotta let poo poo go. Delete old accounts and archive stuff that's older than 5 years old just in case that post about 'muh kids gettin transed' is historically significant.
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May 8, 2023 19:27
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Oh look, it's the same guy who was complaining about population collapse the other day.
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May 8, 2023 19:32
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https://twitter.com/hwill31300111/status/1655639936156983308?t=8hQxGueHIDAVA_ORCoMqEQ&s=19 Looking into it, Mr. Sex Trafficker, sir!
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May 8, 2023 19:34
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Twitter dot com looking good (i have no account and this was incogito)  right at the top of the homepage, lol
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May 8, 2023 19:39
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Literally the only reason I want my account back would be to read dms from my dead friends but now that the option is gone it's just time to watch the building slowly go up in flames while doing other things
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May 8, 2023 19:40
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morningdrew posted:Twitter dot com looking good
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May 8, 2023 19:46
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morningdrew posted:Twitter dot com looking good !
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May 8, 2023 19:47
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That's just good content you won't be seeing on The Lame Stream Media
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May 8, 2023 19:49
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Reminder https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1655315576057741312?s=20 https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1655629160956538896?s=20
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Machai posted:I have tweeted directly at him multiple times, calling him an idiot and an rear end in a top hat, and nothing happened. No block, ban, probe, nothing. Call him cis. Ur acct might be suspended for hate speech tho.
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Almost like journalists do things
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morningdrew posted:Twitter dot com looking good Too few people understand this!
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