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How much longer is Twitter going to last?
A few weeks
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About as long as the rest of humanity
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Professor Moriarty
May 16, 2007
strong vs. Earth attacks
Gently caress the SA filter :hehe:

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BlueBlazer
Apr 1, 2010
(Galka)(Sausage)(Party)

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

They tapdance not, neither do they fart
Discord to start showing Ads in (what I hope is only) streaming video.
Even if you dont interact with it, you'll have to see notifications of other people in the stream clicking on it.
The Ads are called Quests, because 'gaming'.

There are claims that this is just an April fools joke, but it seems to have started coming up last month, and under Discords Settings>Privacy there is a checkbox already checked for Ingame Rewards/Quests. Supposedly this just turns off targeting and not the Ads themselves.

https://adguard.com/en/blog/ads-discord-blocking-adguard.html
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/discord-starts-down-the-dangerous-road-of-ads-this-week/
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/youll-soon-start-seeing-ads-on-discord-from-your-friends/1100-6522309/
https://www.wsj.com/tech/discord-to-start-showing-ads-for-gamers-to-boost-revenue-bf5848b9


https://twitter.com/reachthefinals/status/1775494813594333647

OgNar fucked around with this message at 20:38 on Apr 3, 2024

Chaotic Flame
Jun 1, 2009

So...


I know that won't be the death of discord or anything but I still really hate that you pretty much have to join a million discords for any kind of game resources now. And you better hope things are pinned or good luck finding anything between the thousands of posts

/old man yelling at clouds

Professor Moriarty
May 16, 2007
strong vs. Earth attacks
Is it time to go back to IRC yet

banned from Starbucks
Jul 18, 2004




Chaotic Flame posted:

I know that won't be the death of discord or anything

One can still hope

Shooting Blanks
Jun 6, 2007

Real bullets mess up how cool this thing looks.

-Blade



Professor Moriarty posted:

Is it time to go back to IRC yet

Are you participating with the GBS trivia team next weekend? :v: Because if so, yes!

Nervous
Jan 25, 2005

Why, hello, my little slice of pecan pie.
We must follow the path Serena Butler revealed to us.

Rappaport
Oct 2, 2013

Chaotic Flame posted:

I know that won't be the death of discord or anything but I still really hate that you pretty much have to join a million discords for any kind of game resources now. And you better hope things are pinned or good luck finding anything between the thousands of posts

/old man yelling at clouds

You're not alone

Arsenic Lupin
Apr 12, 2012

This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.


Shooting Blanks posted:

Are you participating with the GBS trivia team next weekend? :v: Because if so, yes!

It's time?? Where is the thread?

Sexual Aluminum
Jun 21, 2003

is made of candy
Soiled Meat

Chaotic Flame posted:

I know that won't be the death of discord or anything but I still really hate that you pretty much have to join a million discords for any kind of game resources now. And you better hope things are pinned or good luck finding anything between the thousands of posts

/old man yelling at clouds

I miss the days of gameFAQs

Nitrousoxide
May 30, 2011

do not buy a oneplus phone



The good ol' days where you had to co-op some obscure game's forum that no one uses to chat about whatever weird subculture you were interested in.

Fork of Unknown Origins
Oct 21, 2005
Gotta Herd On?

Nitrousoxide posted:

The good ol' days where you had to co-op some obscure game's forum that no one uses to chat about whatever weird subculture you were interested in.

I miss the old Noctis forums for exactly this reason

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

They tapdance not, neither do they fart
Ok, he's gonna do it this time for sure.

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1775902067166445874
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1776036036839145497

PT6A
Jan 5, 2006

Public school teachers are callous dictators who won't lift a finger to stop children from peeing in my plane
Now where on the internet will I find P U S S Y, if not I N B I O?

'Tis a dark day...

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

Would you like to play a game?



Nothing can defeat P U S S Y I N B I O

Dick Trauma
Nov 30, 2007

God damn it, you've got to be kind.

https://twitter.com/jayblackisfunny/status/1775903009106452843

dr_rat
Jun 4, 2001
"remains secure and free of bots".


lol.

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

They tapdance not, neither do they fart

https://kansasreflector.com/2024/04/04/facebook-has-blocked-kansas-reflector-heres-what-were-doing-and-how-you-can-help/

"This morning, sometime between 8:20 and 8:50 a.m. Thursday, Facebook removed all posts linking to Kansas Reflector’s website.

This move not only affected Kansas Reflector’s Facebook page, where we link to nearly every story we publish, but the pages of everyone who has ever shared a story from us.

That’s the short version of the virtual earthquake that has shaken our readers. We’ve been flooded with instant messages and emails from readers asking what happened, how they can help and why the platform now falsely claims we’re a cybersecurity risk."

"We were not hacked, and our website does not pose a cybersecurity threat. You and your devices are safe while reading our stories and sharing them. Facebook won’t let you do so at present, but other, non-Meta-owned platforms should be fine."

"Coincidentally, the removals happened the same day we published a column from Dave Kendall that is critical of Facebook’s decision to reject certain types of advertising: “When Facebook fails, local media matters even more for our planet’s future.”"

"UPDATE: Facebook appears to have restored Kansas Reflector’s ability to share links to our website and our past posts, approximately seven hours after the problem was first reported. We have not received an explanation about why our stories were blocked.

Meta spokesman Andy Stone offered the following response on Twitter: “This was an error that had nothing to do with the Reflector’s recent criticism of Meta. It has since been reversed and we apologize to the Reflector and its readers for the mistake.”"

Suuure, it was all totally coincidental.


If you never read it.
The Marion County police raid story was some hosed up poo poo concerning the paper doing a story about a local restaurant who happened to be friends with the local police chief.
Then suddenly the paper gets raided and all their computers and phones confiscated.
The owner of the papers mother lived with him and she had a heart attack in the midst of the raids and died.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/01/us/marion-county-record-raid-police-chief-suspended/index.html
Just your average story of small town police corruption.

OgNar fucked around with this message at 02:42 on Apr 5, 2024

Dick Trauma
Nov 30, 2007

God damn it, you've got to be kind.
https://twitter.com/JoshLipnik/status/1776263970577387669

Arsenic Lupin
Apr 12, 2012

This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.


OgNar posted:

[tMeta spokesman Andy Stone offered the following response on Twitter: “This was an error that had nothing to do with the Reflector’s recent criticism of Meta. It has since been reversed and we apologize to the Reflector and its readers for the mistake.”"

Suuure, it was all totally coincidental.

Via Bluesky:` Marisa Kabas put up a mirror of the Kansas story on The Handbasket. Meta has now disabled all links to The Handbasket.


The above was posted ten minutes ago.

Arsenic Lupin fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Apr 5, 2024

OgNar
Oct 26, 2002

They tapdance not, neither do they fart
"I applied for "Community Notes" access 6months ago and was finally accepted today. I can therefore see the proposed community notes on Elon's posts like this.

There are three proposed notes. Two point to high quality sources debunking the notion that your tax dollars are paying for such flights (immigrants must pay for their own flights on commercial airlines).

However, enough Musk supporters are voting them down that they don't appear publicly, even though they are factually correct. They are only visible to Community Notes people.

There is a third post, citing partisan sites, that supports Elon's claim.

The point is this: because of partisan defenders censoring community notes, obviously false statements like the one below from Musk are not getting Community Noted."

https://twitter.com/ErrataRob/status/1776296101382894027

SimonChris
Apr 24, 2008

The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.
Grimey Drawer
Threads also blocks links to https://friendster.com. They know their days are numbered.

davecrazy
Nov 25, 2004

I'm an insufferable shitposter who does not deserve to root for such a good team. Also, this is what Matt Harvey thinks of me and my garbage posting.
Now that’s a name I have not heard in a long time. A long time.

Young Freud
Nov 26, 2006

In 2022, Brazilian courts ordered a bunch of accounts on Twitter that spreading election misinformation to be blocked and suspended or placed under severe restrictions. Today, Musk decided to lift the restrictions on these accounts and users, under the guise of "free speech", which will potentially lead to a loss of income and shut down their offices in Brazil (although it sounds more like Musk is shutting down access to avoid court fines in Brazil). So, Brazilian users already see the writing on the wall and are abandoning the platform.

https://x.com/GlobalAffairs/status/1776729732970594483

If you want to know how significant this is, that's 24 million users, something like the Twitter's 4th largest userbase, following the U.S. (95 million), Japan (67.5 million), and India (27.3 million). It's like 6.8% of the total worldwide userbase, gone, overnight.

This is probably a preview of what will happen if Europe sanctions Twitter for GDPR violations: Musk is just going to take his ball and go home.

The problem for Musk is that people can largely live without Twitter than Twitter can live without people.

PhazonLink
Jul 17, 2010
oh saw that in the GBS Musk lol thread, but wasnt sure if Brazil actually had offices and musk was just barking nothing. like didnt he fully or mostly close Japan's offices ?

Prism
Dec 22, 2007

yospos

PhazonLink posted:

oh saw that in the GBS Musk lol thread, but wasnt sure if Brazil actually had offices and musk was just barking nothing. like didnt he fully or mostly close Japan's offices ?

I don't know about that, but I do know he had a bit of a problem with calling it X Japan.

Boris Galerkin
Dec 17, 2011

I don't understand why I can't harass people online. Seriously, somebody please explain why I shouldn't be allowed to stalk others on social media!
Heh, a post on Reddit got to the front page this morning. It was a picture of a modern day american nazi pictured from the back so his face wasn't even visible. And we know he was a nazi because his shirt literally said "Waffen SS" on it but with the runes instead of S, and it had 88 written in big numbers.

It got removed for violating some policy lol.

Wayne Knight
May 11, 2006

thanks for the update!

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
Twitter has embraced the "this MF paid for twitter" meme by removing the option to hide your blue check if you got premium (or were a big enough celebrity to have premium thrust upon you). You'll wear your scarlet azure letter and like it

Nervous
Jan 25, 2005

Why, hello, my little slice of pecan pie.

haveblue posted:

Twitter has embraced the "this MF paid for twitter" meme by removing the option to hide your blue check if you got premium (or were a big enough celebrity to have premium thrust upon you). You'll wear your scarlet azure letter and like it

Surprised to see someone with a username like haveblue being critical about people being forced to show their blue. Seems sus...:tinfoil:

Dick Trauma
Nov 30, 2007

God damn it, you've got to be kind.
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1778812405180518748

Shooting Blanks
Jun 6, 2007

Real bullets mess up how cool this thing looks.

-Blade




The true doomscrolling.

Jesus III
May 23, 2007
That right there should disqualify him from the presidency. He's a drat social media addict! Disgusting.

feedmyleg
Dec 25, 2004

Jesus III posted:

That right there should disqualify him from the presidency. He's a drat social media addict! Disgusting.

Legit excited for out first terminally online from birth president

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal

feedmyleg posted:

Legit excited for out first terminally online from birth president

We had that in 2016, it didn’t go great

Dick Trauma
Nov 30, 2007

God damn it, you've got to be kind.
And the feedback loop is completed.

https://twitter.com/kyliebytes/status/1778839551949295944

https://twitter.com/kyliebytes/status/1778839978417828048

haveblue
Aug 15, 2005



Toilet Rascal
Do I still get revenue share if my high engagement tweets were written by Twitter itself and I just put my name on them?

evilweasel
Aug 24, 2002

grok make ten thousand variants of pussy in bio, but intelligent-sounding

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Staluigi
Jun 22, 2021

thermodynamics cheated
"i post on x and i need to come off as smarter" i ask of grok. it says "it is done" and deletes my account. monkeys paw dont even curl up a finger for that one, it's a freebie

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