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Should I step down as head of twitter
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Yes 420 4.43%
No 69 0.73%
Goku 9001 94.85%
Total: 9490 votes
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Catastrophe
Oct 5, 2007

Committed to burn twice as long and half as bright

Riven posted:

Lol on that because kids nowadays have MTB pedals with pins that will gently caress you up.

I still have a permanent scar from a pin on a pedal whipping into my knee when my foot slipped off. There was like a nerve or something hanging out that I couldn't touch without the pain making me feel like passing out and I couldn't kneel on that knee for years afterward.

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heard u like girls
Mar 25, 2013

Bronze Fonz posted:

Lovin' the vibe from the main Twitter bg:



noice

Vegetable
Oct 22, 2010

keep punching joe posted:

Apparently Threads also doxxed a sex worker by scraping her real name off an unrelated site and adding that to her profile instead of her professional alias.
I doubt that happened

JUNGLE BOY
Sep 23, 2019

Vegetable posted:

I doubt that happened

Given that nothing from my profile was pre populated other than suggesting I use the same username as Instagram yeah that doesn’t sound like a thing that happened

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

Die Satan!

Vegetable posted:

I doubt that happened

Maybe maybe not, let's get snopes on the case.



Edit: though actually it's FB she claims did the doxing.

Wee
Dec 16, 2022

by Fluffdaddy

keep punching joe posted:

Maybe maybe not, let's get snopes on the case.



Edit: though actually it's FB she claims did the doxing.

This didnt happen.

AKA Pseudonym
May 16, 2004

A dashing and sophisticated young man
Doctor Rope
After waiting several hours for the email I finally figured out Instagram wouldn't let me reset my password on a VPN, reset it, confirmed my identity three or four times, and now I finally have a Threads account. Now I just have to manually copy over all 1,200 accounts I follow and I'm golden.

Wee
Dec 16, 2022

by Fluffdaddy

AKA Pseudonym posted:

After waiting several hours for the email I finally figured out Instagram wouldn't let me reset my password on a VPN, reset it, confirmed my identity three or four times, and now I finally have a Threads account. Now I just have to manually copy over all 1,200 accounts I follow and I'm golden.

weird

Halisnacks
Jul 18, 2009

keep punching joe posted:

Maybe maybe not, let's get snopes on the case.



Edit: though actually it's FB she claims did the doxing.

Obviously a Musk-orchestrated psy op to discredit Threads.

Catastrophe
Oct 5, 2007

Committed to burn twice as long and half as bright

keep punching joe posted:

Maybe maybe not, let's get snopes on the case.



Edit: though actually it's FB she claims did the doxing.

Also, aliens put dairy into my order of a vegan smoothie from the local juice bar and Tom Selleck has x-ray vision and hangs out outside of my apartment spying on me.

greatBigJerk
Sep 6, 2010

My final form.

keep punching joe posted:

Maybe maybe not, let's get snopes on the case.



Edit: though actually it's FB she claims did the doxing.
Facebook poo poo in my pants! Won't somebody stop Mark Zuckerberg!?

Looks like Threads is up to 30 million users now. I don't care if it succeeds as a platform, only that it hastens Twitter's death.

istewart
Apr 13, 2005

Still contemplating why I didn't register here under a clever pseudonym

Was Facebook messenger ever federated through Jabber/XMPP? I want to say I remember that being the case, but I haven't used Facebook in so long that I can't be sure. I know Google chat was, but I think I've had < 10 conversations that weren't spambots over Google chat, ever.

My point being, they might be trumpeting ActivityPub integration for Threads right now, but I wouldn't be surprised if that fades into the background and eventually loses support over time. Instead of the old Microsoft "embrace, extend, extinguish," it seems like these newer federation protocols end up being "embrace, extend, eh, wander off and forget about it after a while..."

Wee
Dec 16, 2022

by Fluffdaddy

greatBigJerk posted:

I don't care if it succeeds as a platform, only that it hastens Twitter's death.

Wee
Dec 16, 2022

by Fluffdaddy

istewart posted:

Was Facebook messenger ever federated through Jabber/XMPP? I want to say I remember that being the case, but I haven't used Facebook in so long that I can't be sure. I know Google chat was, but I think I've had < 10 conversations that weren't spambots over Google chat, ever.

My point being, they might be trumpeting ActivityPub integration for Threads right now, but I wouldn't be surprised if that fades into the background and eventually loses support over time. Instead of the old Microsoft "embrace, extend, extinguish," it seems like these newer federation protocols end up being "embrace, extend, eh, wander off and forget about it after a while..."

Yeah I used it through Pidgeon on Linux years ago

Context
Sep 11, 2006
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/ this post from John Mastodon hits on both those points. Tldr: even if Meta abandons it, Mastodon will be in the same place it is today (small, but not nothing).

Darchangel
Feb 12, 2009

Tell him about the blower!


kazil posted:

Roko's Divorce. It's when your loser energy is so great it travels back in time and you get divorced before you even get married.

Putting the single in singularity

:drat:
:golfclap:

holtemon
May 2, 2019

Dancing is forbidden
Oh that definitely happened. All the billions of users on Facebook but her account was singled out, her personal info was scraped and then they changed her display name lol

greatBigJerk
Sep 6, 2010

My final form.
Is it possible that someone on the internet was lying?

Convex
Aug 19, 2010

greatBigJerk posted:

Is it possible that someone on the internet was lying?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P5qbcRAXVk

Bar Crow
Oct 10, 2012
It probably happened exactly as described.

JUNGLE BOY
Sep 23, 2019

Facebook scraped a search I meant for pornhub and posted it as my status

holtemon
May 2, 2019

Dancing is forbidden
Even Elon hasn't done that (yet) and he's the most petty bitch on the planet lol

Tarkus
Aug 27, 2000

greatBigJerk posted:

Is it possible that someone on the internet was lying?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWdD206eSv0

Kale
May 14, 2010

F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:

What kind of a loser do you have to be to get dunked on by Zuckerberg of all people?

:laffo:

I think Mark actually kind of wants to have a successful business model and achieve world domination possibly while Elon just wants to tell lovely jokes, comment on LGBT issues and own the libs with his right wing buddies. Also a paranoid conspiracy theorist who makes rash decisions every month or so like what happened this week with the restrictive utility of the free speech app.

Kale
May 14, 2010


As long as you only say mean things about LGBT people yeah we know Yakity Sax

keep punching joe posted:

Has Elon done a public meltdown yet, or at least a rolling with the punches "I'm not mad" post?

I'd bet any money he's too busy hate scrolling memes about LGBT people or how the world is unfair to White men to care right now. He may in fact be very concerned. Surprised he hasn't gone off yet about that supreme court decision on affirmative action.

Kale fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Jul 6, 2023

kazil
Jul 24, 2005

Derpmph trial star reporter!

JUNGLE BOY posted:

Facebook scraped a search I meant for pornhub and posted it as my status

Sex gifs?

kazil
Jul 24, 2005

Derpmph trial star reporter!

https://twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer/status/1677025704838565890
ahahaha there it is

Grey Cat
Jun 3, 2023

Doing stuff and things



Please drain elon dry

holtemon
May 2, 2019

Dancing is forbidden
Funny how there's no lawsuit threat against BlueSky lol

Pox
Feb 16, 2015

Kale posted:

I think Mark actually kind of wants to have a successful business model and achieve world domination possibly while Elon just wants to tell lovely jokes, comment on LGBT issues and own the libs with his right wing buddies. Also a paranoid conspiracy theorist who makes rash decisions every month or so like what happened this week with the restrictive utility of the free speech app.

I think the right wing tech nerd cohort is obsessed with twitter as a propaganda tool, and he paid a wildly inflated price because he thinks it’s that important. Then he panicked, because the thing doesn’t really make money. Also the entire premise is stupid, because I don’t think people are going to start voting Republican en mass just because you blast them with a firehouse of David Sacks and ‘cat turd’ posts. They will probably just get annoyed and leave, which is what they are going to do now.

People have been incorrectly predicting Elon being hosed for a long time, but I think he might actually be hosed now.

trucutru
Jul 9, 2003

by Fluffdaddy

istewart posted:

My point being, they might be trumpeting ActivityPub integration for Threads right now, but I wouldn't be surprised if that fades into the background and eventually loses support over time. Instead of the old Microsoft "embrace, extend, extinguish," it seems like these newer federation protocols end up being "embrace, extend, eh, wander off and forget about it after a while..."

If at any point in time threads becomes popular they will immediately begin enshitifying their service and stuff like activitypub integration will be among the first to go.

JUNGLE BOY
Sep 23, 2019

quote:


Spiro accused Meta of hiring dozens of former Twitter employees who “had and continue to have access to Twitter’s trade secrets and other highly confidential information.”

Geez how they heck did Meta manage to hire dozens of former Twitter employees???

Jelly
Feb 11, 2004

Ask me about my STD collection!

JUNGLE BOY posted:

Facebook scraped a search I meant for pornhub and posted it as my status
Ted?

holtemon
May 2, 2019

Dancing is forbidden
lol @ "continue to have access to trade secrets"

That's not their fault you idiots you buffoons

E the Shaggy
Mar 29, 2010
LOL Elmo couldn't even wait under 24 hours. He's so scared.

Catastrophe
Oct 5, 2007

Committed to burn twice as long and half as bright

theyre scared

Grey Cat
Jun 3, 2023

Doing stuff and things


JUNGLE BOY posted:

Facebook scraped a search I meant for pornhub and posted it as my status

I was searching "there's a vagina on your neck" on Xvideos but facebook sent it to my entire family instead!

JUNGLE BOY
Sep 23, 2019

Someone stole the piece of paper labeled “passwords” that I threw out the window of my car

Propaganda Hour
Aug 25, 2008



after editing wikipedia as a joke for 16 years, i ve convinced myself that homer simpson's japanese name translates to the "The beer goblin"

They stole our intellectual property of being able to post words online!

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E the Shaggy
Mar 29, 2010
I don't get it. I thought Elon was going to settle this in the Octagon?

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