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Boris Galerkin posted:Someone explain why removing blocking is a bad thing?  not everyone's account is public. If you have your account set to private, only people you allow to follow you can see your tweets. Great if you're say, a battered ex-wife hiding three states over but would like to use twitter.Also some people block people who follow them around, replying to every tweet with "how DARE you Mr. President Cheeto!!" within seconds, so that at the least they can't get clout and eyes back on their main account from being  on every one of their tweets.
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Aug 19, 2023 03:10
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Boris Galerkin posted:Someone explain why removing blocking is a bad thing? If I block them, then they no longer appear in my replies. Repeat this problem for any other reason someone would want to spam all of someone's followers.
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Aug 19, 2023 03:31
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Boris Galerkin posted:Someone explain why removing blocking is a bad thing? Because people can and will follow you and read your tweets then make secondary accounts that aren't blocked to harass you with when you post something they dislike. They could do that to follow you too but the rage subsidies when you have to switch accounts constantly.
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Aug 19, 2023 03:55
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Boris Galerkin posted:Someone explain why removing blocking is a bad thing? You can't even view comments anymore without logging in at all. Logging out makes 90% of the site non-functional now.
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Aug 19, 2023 04:19
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Boris Galerkin posted:Someone explain why removing blocking is a bad thing? Not anymore, because Musk has deliberately broken most of Twitter's functionality while logged out. If you look at someone's timeline while logged out, you don't see their tweets in chronological order anymore. Instead, they're listed in descending order based on amount of likes, which makes it functionally impossible to see what that person has tweeted recently. Even if you get someone to link you to a specific tweet, you'll only see that one tweet - you don't see any replies, and if it's part of a thread, you don't see the rest of the thread either. And there's nagscreens and login walls everywhere.
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Aug 19, 2023 04:21
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Mischievous Mink posted:You can't even view comments anymore without logging in at all. Logging out makes 90% of the site non-functional now. As always, logging out solves all our problems!
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Aug 19, 2023 04:22
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Captain_Maclaine posted:As always, logging out solves all our problems! If you're still having problems after logging out, try closing the tab with twixxer open.
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Aug 19, 2023 08:45
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Do you think there was ever a point when Elon Musk was under a doctor’s care and able to control his mental illness? I’m divided on him quitting meds at some point vs just being undiagnosed his whole life but losing the ability to manage it himself as he got more and more notoriety and started being the one to make decisions for his various holdings.
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Aug 19, 2023 17:04
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I don't think being a rich rear end in a top hat is a mental illness
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Aug 19, 2023 18:24
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Boris Galerkin posted:I guess I don’t see how this feature even makes sense at all because I can bypass someone blocking me by just logging out? I mute my stalker: 1. As mentioned upthread, stalker continues to reply to my tweets, exposing my *real* followers to their abuse. 2. Stalker can retweet my posts and encourage other people to stalk me. Their linking my tweet makes it trivial for other people to jump into my timeline. 3. Stalker can @ me into conversations. 4. I can't see stalker's post. I block my stalker: 1. Can't reply. 2. Can't quote-tweet. They can tweet screencaps, but a screencap doesn't link directly to my account. 3. Can't @ me. 4. I still can't see their post, yay. And (yes, I feel spiteful about this) whenever they see a thread I'm participating in, they can also see that they're not welcome to see my posts.
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Aug 19, 2023 19:05
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I AM GRANDO posted:Do you think there was ever a point when Elon Musk was under a doctor’s care and able to control his mental illness? I’m divided on him quitting meds at some point vs just being undiagnosed his whole life but losing the ability to manage it himself as he got more and more notoriety and started being the one to make decisions for his various holdings. I think we should have learned by now that malignant narcissism is not a maladaptive personality trait for the rich.
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Aug 19, 2023 19:42
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steinrokkan posted:I don't think being a rich rear end in a top hat is a mental illness Yeah but he’s not even being a rich rear end in a top hat well. He’s destroying tens of billions of dollars of value and making everyone except his immediate social circle hate him
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Aug 19, 2023 19:59
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yes he's much less smart than he thinks is. again, not a mental illness and quite common among the rich
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Aug 19, 2023 20:26
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Nuclear Spoon posted:yes he's much less smart than he thinks is. again, not a mental illness and quite common among the rich
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Aug 19, 2023 20:52
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His whole strategy banks on the idea that twitter has no competition and users will never leave despite how many ads they are forcefed
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Aug 19, 2023 21:14
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nachos posted:His whole strategy banks on the idea that twitter has no competition and users will never leave despite how many ads they are forcefed
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Aug 19, 2023 21:22
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nachos posted:His whole strategy banks on the idea that twitter has no competition and users will never leave despite how many ads they are forcefed Given how despite repeated times in the last year people made a stink about leaving for the latest "Twitter Killer" only to inevitably come crawling back a couple weeks later, this has proven to be a surprisingly effective strategy thus far!
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Aug 19, 2023 22:52
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Tree Reformat posted:Given how despite repeated times in the last year people made a stink about leaving for the latest "Twitter Killer" only to inevitably come crawling back a couple weeks later, this has proven to be a surprisingly effective strategy thus far! Blue Sky seems to be picking up a bit following Musk’s recent announcement. It’s still nowhere close to being as active as Twitter though.
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Aug 19, 2023 23:11
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BlueSky can’t replace Twitter until it a) has open registration and b) you can see posts without an account
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Aug 19, 2023 23:41
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whydirt posted:BlueSky can’t replace Twitter until it a) has open registration and b) you can see posts without an account
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Aug 19, 2023 23:45
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Tree Reformat posted:Given how despite repeated times in the last year people made a stink about leaving for the latest "Twitter Killer" only to inevitably come crawling back a couple weeks later, this has proven to be a surprisingly effective strategy thus far! Not really, Twitter has less users now. Like, some did what you said, but others really did leave for good and there aren't a lot of new users coming in.
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Aug 20, 2023 01:59
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Monterey Bay Aquarium had the best farewell tweet of all the other day. https://twitter.com/MontereyAq/status/1691918497708994915 https://twitter.com/MontereyAq/status/1691918503899742582
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It's a great aquarium.
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FlamingLiberal posted:It's a great aquarium. Can confirm
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Aug 20, 2023 03:57
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Yes, but those are not the hell their whales
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Professor Beetus posted:Yes, but those are not the hell their whales So did Captain Kirk cause the extinction of humpback whales in the Star Trek 80s in the first place by taking the last ones into the future?
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Can confirm Yupperrooo. And while you're there, do go to the section that explains why Monterey was briefly a leading sardine cannery, and how the economy collapsed when the sardines moved on. Not as cool as the fishies, but nonetheless fascinating.
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whydirt posted:BlueSky can’t replace Twitter until it a) has open registration and b) you can see posts without an account I think Threads is more likely to succeed solely for that reason, if they would hurry the gently caress up with the web version.
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OneEightHundred posted:Everything I've seen suggests that the first point is going to be the main roadblock because they built the entire dumb thing on a technological base that is just not scalable at all. What's wrong with their tech?
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koolkal posted:What's wrong with their tech? If I remember the numbers from the other day, a few thousand registrations brought the site to its knees. They need to work on scalability if they're going to compete.
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Twitter's early code scaled horribly too, so jack clearly sees that as key to the success of a website
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I haven't looked at a single Bluesky... post(?) yet because they don't let you see them without being logged in. Everyone rightly complained when Twitter blocked access to tweets without being logged in and yet dipshits keep scrambling to join this stupid Jack-sponsored alternative which does exactly the same thing. They're even worse than Twitter in some ways from what I understand in that they have the users making their own blocklists rather than doing their own moderation. I've been using Mastodon and been pretty happy with it. Firefish is also a promising alternative to Mastodon, built on same Activity pup api. It was branched from the japanese Misskey project a bit ago. It has a much more modern UI than Mastodon, though there's a few features it's missing, so I've not migrated over yet.
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I feel like if Mastodon were going to overtake Twitter, it would have by now. As it is the decentralization theme just makes it overcomplicated and... decentralized. Threads somehow launched without a bunch of stone age basic features, like a desktop app, which is simply wild. Might have something to do with the music stopping on interest rates that a lot of these companies can't seem to launch anything correctly. It's also run by a guy who really only delegates better than Musk, other than that they are roughly the same person ideologically. Imagine even entertaining having a boxing match with Musk. It takes a lot to push Meta out of the papers for stories about sheer executive incompetence/malice, and Musk did it.
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Aug 20, 2023 13:33
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it was not until very recently that you could even upload to instagram from their desktop website lol
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Name Change posted:I feel like if Mastodon were going to overtake Twitter, it would have by now. As it is the decentralization theme just makes it overcomplicated and... decentralized. Everybody likes the idea of decentralization in concept, but it turns out in practice no they don't. People want everyone lumped together in one giant public square, and then have all the people they don't like barred from it explicitly as punishment. When folks want smaller decentralized chat, they get on Discord or whatever. Twitter/Bluesky is for farming dopamine hits and brand building from the masses.
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Elon's latest great idea is not going over well with the CHUDs, and I'm talking about the biggest, loudest CHUDs. https://twitter.com/Humbowumbo/status/1693227937707753494?s=20 https://twitter.com/halomancer1/status/1693240713755152540?s=20  
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Elon blocked Catturd, the irony of everything... https://twitter.com/oliver_drk/status/1693248856111100115?s=20 If you're not remembering who Catturd is, he's a big Trump Twitter user who was banned under original Twitter management but brought back by Elon and Elon used to take his advice on how to run the site. But there was a falling out as Catturd realized that Musk was slowly wrecking the site with his incompetent actions. He was also one of the few big time chuds who didn't get paid off when Elon was throwing around the payola from his ad-revenue-sharing scheme. It looks like the last straw was Catturd mouthing off about keeping the block feature. According to another reply in this thread, it looks like Musk blocked James Woods as well and a lot of people who were directly asking to keep the block feature. e:fb
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Did Jenny Tightpants used to post on SA? That name sounds so familiar to me for some reason.
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Who’s catturd? I only know catturd2
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