this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2023
1311 points (97.5% liked)

News

23305 readers
3709 users here now

Welcome to the News community!

Rules:

1. Be civil


Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.


2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.


Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.


3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.


Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.


4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.


Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.


5. Only recent news is allowed.


Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.


6. All posts must be news articles.


No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.


7. No duplicate posts.


If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.


8. Misinformation is prohibited.


Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.


9. No link shorteners.


The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.


10. Don't copy entire article in your post body


For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] mvilain@infosec.pub 166 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I'm waiting for Apple and Google to pull the X client from their app stores.

Then the fun really begins.

[–] yoz@aussie.zone 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not going to happen as all these companies work together. these companies are notorious to trick regulars into thinking they are helping the society.

[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 62 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)
  1. SocialMediaPlatform™ does something horrible

  2. Make a huge deal about pulling ads from SocialMediaPlatform™ to get consumers on your side

  3. Quietly return ads to SocialMediaPlatform™ after PR team determines everyone has forgotten

  4. SocialMediaPlatform™ does something even worse

  5. GOTO 2

[–] yoz@aussie.zone 14 points 11 months ago

Lol so true. Its not just Twitter though, most of the companies do the same thing. However its on us to not make noise and boycott the shit outta these companies.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Why don't people just stop caring about whatever the fuck is going on at Twitter/X? I consider it in the same realm as truthsocial or OANN comment sections. Sure, musky had enough money to buy a platform, but that platform is elevated by it's users. If people just stopped doing that, it would be irrelevant. Literally nothing important has happened on twitter, ever. We don't need it. Just discard it and let it wither in the dark.

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Panem et circem.

Meet the circem.

They keep the panem.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

something would have to be seriously wrong for that to happen

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

In the EU, App stores already have a legal responsibility to remove apps that promote hate speech. While both Google and Apple are sitting on the sidelines while the EU is going through the legal motions to tear Musk a new one, I wouldn't be surprised if they kick X out just before someone forces them too, just to pretend they actually care.

[–] sickmatter@fedia.io 5 points 11 months ago

Just in time for the EU to also force third party app stores through, and X attempting to make one sounds plausible even if they get nowhere with it.

[–] FiFoFree@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

[gestures vaguely]

[–] 520@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

They already have no problem pulling other apps for shit that Xitter is known to pull. Even when said other apps have a similar lack of control (or even less) over said content.

[–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

And the users will migrate into the welcoming arms of the 粪 client instead.