legend Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 9 hours ago, Jason said: A lot of sites will have you select some topics you're interested in when you create an account. Not like you can't add and remove topics you have set as your favorites later, but the point is to get some basic curation in to make sure you'll have a decent first impression before they let you jump in. I haven't set up my Mastadon account yet but from what you've said above it sounds like something like that would go a long way toward fixing things. It would. Another thing would be to just have more tutorial bubbles or something that will pop up when you start explaining what you should do and why. E.g., "Here is you home timeline, unlike other social media, your home timeline does not include any content that you haven't followed. The best way to to get more content you care about it is to follow *hashtags* so that you get content you care about even from people you don't follow. Would you like to add some hashtag interests now?" And "Here is the federated timeline. This timeline..." Etc. I'm sure someone who actually works on UX could come up with better ideas. But right now it's just like "Here it is." 9 hours ago, Jason said: Also apparently the admin of whichever server you select has full access to your DMs and this isn't really made obvious to you at any point during signup. You know whoever runs a site has that unless it's proper E2EE for the messages, but there's a big difference between say Google in principle having access to your emails and whichever random guy is running your instance having access to your DMs. Not just in terms of they can look in, but if law enforcement comes knocking the random guy will probably just fold (and may not even know it's in principle possible to fight the request/demand a warrant). Yeah that does seem like a problem. They should absolutely implement E2EE to messages to avoid this scenario. (They will likely have to change how messages work in general to do it, but they should just do it!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 The people have spoken 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 8 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outsida Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 Musk’s alleged stalker identified; no evidence of ElonJet tracking, report says “the incident occurred approximately 23 hours after Musk’s jet landed at an airport near a gas station in south Pasadena. The gas station is about 26 miles from the airport” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ort Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 I had to spend like 10 minutes explaining to a couple of my 13-yo son's friends why I don't like Elon Musk. These kids seriously believed that Musk was personally responsible for inventing electric cars and space X rocket ships. I was like, yeah, no, he's a business man, not an engineer. He didn't invent jack or shit. He might be a smart business man, but he's not an inventor. He's not a super genius. They were literally in shock. They seriously imagined him in a lab coat like Tony Stark or something, crawling around wiring up breakthrough prototypes for his rockets and electric cars. The conversation was started because one of the kids was annoyed that his twitter feed was full of Elon Musks tweets even though he didn't follow him. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 For those not in the know, TheQuartering is a right wing, misogynistic, sophomoric twat and should be deplatformed everywhere. The fact that he’s got better ideas about how to run Twitter than Elon is really something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TUFKAK Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 43 minutes ago, ort said: I had to spend like 10 minutes explaining to a couple of my 13-yo friends why I don't like Elon Musk. These kids seriously believed that Musk was personally responsible for inventing electric cars and space X rocket ships. I was like, yeah, no, he's a business man, not an engineer. He didn't invent jack or shit. He might be a smart business man, but he's not an inventor. He's not a super genius. They were literally in shock. They seriously imagined him in a lab coat like Tony Stark or something, crawling around wiring up breakthrough prototypes for his rockets and electric cars. The conversation was started because one of the kids was annoyed that his twitter feed was full of Elon Musks tweets even though he didn't follow him. Why do you have 13yo friends? 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ort Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 I edited it. These were the friends of my 13 year old, in a discussion driving back and forth to hockey practice. (Or, if it's more interesting, these are neighbor kids I'm grooming to be transgender communist sex slaves for George Soros.) 1 4 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subzwari1987 Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 Looks like Twitter blue is back, but now for $11/month 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osxmatt Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 4 minutes ago, Subzwari1987 said: Looks like Twitter blue is back, but now for $11/month Are you viewing on an iPhone? I believe Twitter Blue is $11 via App Store to account for 30% Apple tax, but still $8 direct via Twitter website. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finaljedi Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 4 minutes ago, Subzwari1987 said: Looks like Twitter blue is back, but now for $11/month All of that says coming soon except the blue check Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subzwari1987 Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 2 minutes ago, osxmatt said: Are you viewing on an iPhone? I believe Twitter Blue is $11 via App Store to account for 30% Apple tax, but still $8 direct via Twitter website. Yeah, this is on an iPhone. Wonder what will happen to the existing blue check people when it was for verified users Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 Come on Brandon, use this as a national security pretext to take Twitter away from Elmo. Elon Musk was spotted with a sanctioned, pro-Putin Russian TV presenter at the World Cup final in Qatar WWW.BUSINESSINSIDER.COM Nailya Asker-Zade, who posted a selfie of her and Elon Musk to Telegram on Sunday, has been sanctioned by both the UK and Canada. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chakoo Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 Don't use it as a reason to take twitter away, Take SpaceX from him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b_m_b_m_b_m Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 Twitter can pound sand but space x actually is useful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uaarkson Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 2 minutes ago, chakoo said: Don't use it as a reason to take twitter away, Take SpaceX from him. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 I think elon is actually doing a good job taking twitter in the direction I want to see it go, let him keep it but ya to kick him out of SpaceX would be cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwinIon Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 I think Elon was always going to hand Twitter off sooner rather than later, regardless of the poll. At this point I'm not even sure if I hope he saves the platform or if he kills it with all his erratic decision making. The rate at which he continues to make terrible decisions and roll them out, only to roll them back, is quite astonishing. I can't think of an example of any other company doing anything similar at such a large scale. Startups do this kind of thing all the time, but once you've got hundreds of millions of users and billions in revenue, it seems like you wouldn't want to act so rashly. As an aside about the whole jet tracking thing, I feel like there's a very obvious solution that isn't proposed nearly often enough: just don't fly private. I think it's perfectly acceptable that the trade-off for owning your own jet and flying it around the world is that people know where that jet is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwinIon Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 Just now, stepee said: I think elon is actually doing a good job taking twitter in the direction I want to see it go, let him keep it but ya to kick him out of SpaceX would be cool Is that direction towards irrelevance and bankruptcy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 Just now, TwinIon said: Is that direction towards irrelevance and bankruptcy? yep! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwinIon Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 1 minute ago, stepee said: yep! Fair enough! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricofoley Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 4 hours ago, finaljedi said: All of that says coming soon except the blue check Tesla will currently sell you a preorder for a truck that doesn't exist yet and take $10k from you for a self-driving feature that doesn't work yet. This dude is not going to have qualms about charging an $11 subscription to people before all the features are rolled out. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkStar189 Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneticBlueprint Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 2 minutes ago, DarkStar189 said: What happens when the two blue users vote differently though? How do they break the tie? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ominous Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 Paying for Twitter is almost as bad as paying for Sirius XM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 2 hours ago, Ominous said: Paying for Twitter is almost as bad as paying for Sirius XM. In my Fiat the radio and Bluetooth connection didn't have different volume levels, the Bluetooth required a higher setting on the volume dial than the radio, and it would default back to the radio every time you turned the car on. This resulted in blasting your eardrums out every time you turned on the car. It was a blessing when the Sirius promo subscription ran out because I could make that the last radio option used and set it to this silent channel so I had time either for the Bluetooth to connect and switch over to that, or to turn the volume down before flipping over to the FM radio for NPR. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 2 hours ago, Jason said: So glad we can finally at least all admit that crying about free speech on twitter was always about wanting there to be hate speech. Edit: fake, but comment is still v accurate 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reputator Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 52 minutes ago, Jason said: Must be deleted because I can't find it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amazatron Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 It's not a real quote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 I’ll give credit where credit is due they made that quote very believable! edit: I shouldn’t give Jason so much credit though and assume he is checking to see if it’s real or not Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 6 minutes ago, stepee said: I’ll give credit where credit is due they made that quote very believable! edit: I shouldn’t give Jason so much credit though and assume he is checking to see if it’s real or not It's supposed to be a deleted tweet, and it's hard to keep up with because he's been posting and deleting a lot. However yes, Snopes says this one is fake, my bad. No, Musk Didn't Tweet That Banning Reporters Is 'Pretty Innocuous' | Snopes.com WWW.SNOPES.COM A fake tweet compared "banning reporters I don't like" to journalists being murdered in other countries. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkStar189 Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 2 hours ago, Amazatron said: It's not a real quote. Pretty sad/funny when no one can really tell the difference. Seems like something he would have said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaysWho? Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 Elon Musk says he will resign as Twitter's CEO when he finds a replacement WWW.NBCNEWS.COM His announcement comes after users in an informal poll on the social media site said that he should step down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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