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X Users Can Now Restrict Replies to Verifed Account Only (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by Jat620DH27@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Let's review what Elon Musk has done just in 2023:

Changed Twitter to X.
Plans to implement a small monthly payment for everyone using the X system.
Plans to collect user biometric information, job, and education history for "safety, security, and identification purposes."
Brings back shadowbanning.
Uses user data to train AI models.
Limits replies to verified users only.

Elon has made so many terrible changes to Twitter that I can’t remember what the breaking point was for me.

Fortunately, there’s a lot more competition in Twitter-like social media platforms. Mastodon may currently hold the position as the most established platform, but there are numerous other services competing to become the next preferred place for online users.

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[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 65 points 8 months ago

Great news if you’ve ever looked at your replies and thought “you know what? there are too many non-Nazis here”

[-] randompepsi@lemmy.ml 44 points 8 months ago

People still use Twitter?

[-] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 15 points 8 months ago

People are were the content is, but using this platform after all that's happened to it... Yeah no, I don't get it either

[-] ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

You realize if you weren't surrounded by lemmy zealots how seriously ignorant you folks sound right?

[-] loki@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

These people existed before lemmy, reddit or digg. just annoying to be around.

[-] jsdz@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

I have frequently found myself surrounded by Twitter and Instagram users, and they seem just as deluded as they do from here.

[-] Wisely@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

I don't know anyone in real life who uses it. Even before Musk bought it out. I'm getting older so checked with gen z in my family and they don't use it either.

[-] Toribor@corndog.social 3 points 8 months ago

It's popular among journalists and media types so it gets talked about as if it's a huge public forum for everyone but it's not.

[-] CrypticCoffee@lemm.ee 0 points 8 months ago

Why are you here exactly?

[-] ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

To read and comment on content?

[-] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Way too many massively good artists I follow are still on Twitter with no intention of leaving. Some are on Pixiv or DeviantArt, but most not.

[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Out of interest, what do you get out of following artists you like on twitter?

[-] danielton@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 5 points 8 months ago

Unfortunately, it's still where the majority of the art community resides after the enshittification of deviantART. Fortunately, I have other ways of staying in touch with the "best of the best" among my artist friends now, but there are still many holdouts.

[-] marx2k@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

As someone who doesn't really follow that art scene, what happened with deviantart?

[-] danielton@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 3 points 8 months ago

About 10 years ago, Angelo Sotira ($spyed) fired one of the other co-founders, Spot, and started pitting paying users against non-paying users. Free users had a marker on their profile saying "Needs Premium Membership." The site also marked whether you were a paying or free user everywhere. Sound familiar?

They drew more controversy in 2018 when they hired this marketing firm to come up with a lackluster new logo everybody hated. Because, you know, it's not like they had a bunch of artists using the site or anything.

[-] marx2k@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Free users had a marker on their profile saying "Needs Premium Membership." The site also marked whether you were a paying or free user everywhere.

Big yikes. Goddamn that's dumb

[-] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 months ago

Some of my fave artists have mastodon accounts, that are their main accounts, I urge you to check it out maybe you can find the artists you want to follow there

[-] danielton@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 0 points 8 months ago

I have Mastodon, and I only know one artist on there. The majority of them are still on Twitter even though they hate it.

[-] hyde@lazybear.social -3 points 8 months ago

@breadsmasher @SSUPII it's more about FOMO I guess than having anything useful. Happy to not follow any of them ...

[-] Jat620DH27@lemmy.world -1 points 8 months ago

Agreed.

[-] rayyyy@kbin.social 6 points 8 months ago

They use Twitter because they can't use MySpace

[-] auf@lemmy.ml 0 points 8 months ago

Yeah my classmates do

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[-] mateomaui@reddthat.com 12 points 8 months ago

“Accounts you follow” still the best option.

[-] GenEcon@lemm.ee 11 points 8 months ago

Otherway round would be a lot more useful. Block idiots who pay Elon for his new 'X'.

[-] IzzyData@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

That already exists by leaving Twitter. 👽

[-] morras@links.hackliberty.org 7 points 8 months ago

Humanity will make huge progress once it stop commenting every sh*t originating from E. Misk.

Seriously, there is now way to block all that noise?

[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net 6 points 8 months ago

Lots of lemmy clients have keyword filters

[-] morras@links.hackliberty.org 1 points 8 months ago

Oh, thanks. Didn't notice :)

[-] Ozzy@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago

Free block list

[-] harmonea@kbin.social 6 points 8 months ago

Can't believe you forgot the usage limits on how many tweets you can view and how many DMs you can send. I think some of those might have been walked back, but I know people who were holding back from discord because twitter DMs were enough that now rarely go there.

Also all sorts of API functionality has been killed off - embeds, RSS, bots, etc

[-] Iceman@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago

What a time to be alive!

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It’s funny that all the new features they’re touting over there are really simple changes. Things like a new setting that controls an if statement.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 0 points 8 months ago

What I need for Mastodon is a database of verified users organized by subject matter expertise or your of content.

[-] ragica@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

There are a few attempts things like this. Here is one.... https://fedi.directory

this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2023

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