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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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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

I AM GRANDO posted:

What’s the exception for “cross-posting”? Screenshots of somebody else’s facebook?

Reposting the same content, I think.

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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
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604626103326253056



He bought it in late April.

SimonChris fucked around with this message at 08:53 on Dec 19, 2022

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

From GBS:

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

Ghost Leviathan posted:

IIRC that person is kind of a nut who is describing bog standard social media policies in a misleading way. The inability to delete your account at will is one of those things that the GDPR would come down hard on, though.

She is also misrepresenting her qualifications:

https://twitter.com/ashleygjovik/status/1651762490605182976

Here is the response from Bluesky:

https://twitter.com/iamrosewang/status/1651705402441203713

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

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

Nitrousoxide posted:

READ limits? Not POST limits?

I've... not heard of a social media website do that before.

Don't worry, he has listened to the feedback:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1675214274627530754

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

Mercury_Storm posted:

Also, Facebook's "steal literally all your data" Threads app comes out in two days, so I'm sure people will be jumping all over that. At least until their iPhone tells them that it's going to steal all their data, maybe.

https://www.independent.ie/business...1927220337.html

Not in Europe, we won't. This also makes hard to steal Twitter's user base, at least right away.

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

Shrecknet posted:

Since it's pulling from all of Instagram's users, it already knows who are "brand" accounts, and heavily promotes them. And since there's no way to curate your timeline or even see "just people I follow," the default/forced experience is "you must scroll by @Wendys to have a chance to see your buddy's surfing photos."

They added a followers feed a few days ago. You have to tap the logo at the top to see it.

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
https://firesky.tv/

Speaking of firehoses, did you know that Bluesky has a public API, and you can read every skeet in real time at the link above? All we need is for someone to code a public web client using the API.

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
Crossposting from GBS:

Talorat posted:

Posting this again for the new page:

Goon feed with goons from the thread.

Add yourself to the goon feed

Added everyone who submitted up till now. I'm doing the adds manually for now so they might take a sec to show up. I'll figure out some way to automate this poo poo later.

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

Professor Moriarty posted:

Embed is already dead or post removed. Gotta add screenshots when it comes to TwiX posts

https://twitter.com/DaveLeeBBG/status/1703814998626111785

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 will launch in Europe in December

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

Eric Cantonese posted:

Wow. That took them a really long time.

Is Threads gained any traction in the US? It seemed like a pretty premature launch.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/25/23932473/mark-zuckerberg-threads-100-million-monthly-users-earnings

They have 100 million active users, according to Zuckerberg. Twitter has around 250m.

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

That Italian Guy posted:

That doesn't sound bad, considering that there are 750k people in Europe.

Opening up to Europe should also make non-Europeans more likely to join since they can reach more people. It will be interesting to see the effect.

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 is available in Europe now :toot:.

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
https://fediversereport.com/bluesky-opens-the-network/

https://bsky.app/profile/det.bsky.social/post/3kkw2edhtc527



BlueSky becoming the new Misskey wasn't on my card. Apparently, a ton of Japanese artists feel that they are being censored on Twitter.

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
https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/post/C3IjTzGvk6_


https://www.threads.net/@keithedwards/post/C3I1y9Wuqbk


So much for Threads being a serious alternative to Twitter.

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

FlamingLiberal posted:

People were still using Threads?

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/01/threads-now-reaches-more-130-million-monthly-users-says-meta-up-30m-from-q3/

130m active monthly users, according to the latest earnings announcement. Less than Twitter, but far more than any other competitors. Bluesky has around 4.5m total accounts.

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
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/14/bluesky-and-mastodon-users-are-having-a-fight-that-could-shape-the-next-generation-of-social-media

TL;DR A guy wrote a bridge that allows Bluesky to federate with Mastodon, and Mastodon users are not happy.

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

https://friendster.com/ posted:

Rediscover the enchantment of the early social network era, now rejuvenated with a contemporary twist. Friendster is better than ever and for the people.

Now is the perfect time for a comeback! I wonder what the contemporary twist is.

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
Remember Cohost, the non-profit Twitter replacement that received a lot of hype back in the day? Turns out they were funded almost entirely by loans from a rich friend, and now the friend has stopped responding to e-mails.

https://cohost.org/staff/post/5023717-march-2024-financial posted:

as discussed above, we have been dependent on a single funder throughout ASSC's history. the way funding is structured is through a series of promissory notes issued by the company to our funder — essentially collateralized loans from them to us. they DO NOT own any actual equity in ASSC (this is important to us as a worker-owned co-op); we’re ultimately responsible only for paying the principal on the loans as well as a small amount of interest, then we own the company free and clear. the collateral on these loans is IP rights on ASSC's output. barring a renegotiation on these terms, if we default on the loans then our funder will have ownership over the cohost software.
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here’s the most urgent problem right now: our funder has been completely incommunicado for over a month right as we’re drawing on the last of our funding from them. we’ve been friends with them since before ASSC was a thing, so not only is this is a matter of paying the bills, but also unexpected, unusual, and leaving us concerned for their personal welfare on top of everything else.
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the rest of us would have to get other jobs to pay rent and like. have you seen the job market?? it’s not great

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
https://cohost.org/staff/post/5101727-end-of-week-financia

I can't stop following the Cohost drama. They've managed to secure enough new subscribers and funding offers to keep the lights on for another six months. Instead of trying to save money in any way, they plan to scale up revenue to keep paying themselves competitive tech salaries. Within six months. I wouldn't bet on it, but who knows!

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.

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
https://archive.md/20240423170616/https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-threads-more-daily-us-users-twitter-elon-musk-x-2024-4

Threads allegedly now has more active daily users in the US than Twitter.

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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

https://www.threads.net/@statedept

https://www.threads.net/@secblinken

https://www.threads.net/@joebiden

https://www.threads.net/@potus

https://www.threads.net/@usaid

https://www.threads.net/@europeancommission

https://www.threads.net/@housedemocrats

I can't help you with embeds. Resetera has beautiful Threads embeds, so it's definitely supported.

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