Technology

Twitter is not a utility. We really need to stop treating techbro services like utilities. If we feel they actually are utilities, the government can step in and make that claim and the appropriate changes.

Imagine trying winning chess when the board itself plays against you. Twitter/X must be dropped immediately, it's a censorship-propaganda machine which is now only works for those who control it.

If only the federal government could implement some sort of server that would allow them to self-host social media for officials and prominent candidates. I wish there were some well-known and tested service that other governments were using and they could just implement in the USA.

Free speech and so on.

Oh noooo....

Stop using fucking Twitter

Sigh. Not surprised.. given that Musk is a hypocrite on free speech completely. It's getting wild. I use this place now because after years of no issues.. suddenly I'm shadow banned on Reddit. Instead of getting mad I just left. Screw those who would stifle others but pretend to believe the opposite.

Yet another reason to ditch that platform.

do the entire world a favor and delete twitter already

What are these fucking people doing on Twitter anyway? Why they hanging out with the Nazis? You're still on Twitter this point I have some healthy suspicions about your character.

Good. They should abandon twitter and all other racist, misogynist, transphobic, xenophobic, homophobic bigoted platforms. I hope they have a bad time there.

This reminds me that someone set up a donation link via actblue where donations via that link come with the message that she and her campaign should set up their own mastodon server.

They are up to $40,000 as I type this.

So if you were thinking of donating anyway, you can go through here to point that money to a “cause” you want her to consider. May not happen, but at least we might get it on their radar.

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodon-for-harris

The originator of this started with this Masto post:

https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/112831902073897712

Why don't they use mastodon also?

Yeah, I have a problem too! No, wait. It's because I don't have an X/Twitter/whatever account.

I used to think "Elon Musk" was some type of fancy French perfume. I miss those days.

Who would have guessed that a social media platform owned by an apartheid-loving fascist would trend conservative?

I'm not down with the perpetual victim-blaming against X/Twitter users here on Lemmy.

Sources like campaigns, news outlets, authors, studios, engineers, actors, comedians, etc. post on there because they basically have to -- if they want to get the word out, that is.

Consumers go there to read from the sources because they basically have to. While each source may have their own separate blog or whatever, X/Twitter is pretty much the only place that unifies those feeds. (I know, I miss the heyday of RSS too.)

Expecting people to just "take the hit" and go dark on their communications so we can build up alternatives to X/Twitter is not an acceptable recommendation.

What we need to do is:

• Make it illegal to block third-party clients from interoperating with services
• Compel providers of a certain size to expose a first-party API
• Make it legal to reverse-engineer APIs so they can't just make the first-party API suck and call it a day
• Then we integrate X/Twitter into the fediverse, so you can start using something else and still keep your X/Twitter stuff

Because the butthurt south african shitstain wont let them. Crybaby cannot abide differing ideas

I'm surprised she even has one, given that Musk would shadow ban it anyway. Seems like wasted effort.

Fuck Twitter for doing this shit. Musk should just jump in a hole with all his money as we bury him with it, Sunset Riders style.

I can't see her facebook or instagram, either!

Yet somehow I continue on voting straight ticket Democrat without asking or telling those billionaires what I am going to do first.

Unloved, alone, and linkedout. Hardly human. I am become life not worth life.