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

submitted 2 years 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 2 years ago (1 children)

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 43 points 2 years ago (5 children)

People still use Twitter?

[–] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years 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 13 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

[–] loki@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] jsdz@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] CrypticCoffee@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why are you here exactly?

[–] ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

To read and comment on content?

[–] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] danielton@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] danielton@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 2 years 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 2 years ago (1 children)

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 2 years 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 2 years ago (1 children)

@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 2 years ago

Agreed.

[–] rayyyy@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

They use Twitter because they can't use MySpace

[–] auf@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Yeah my classmates do

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[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 12 points 2 years ago

“Accounts you follow” still the best option.

[–] GenEcon@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] IzzyData@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

That already exists by leaving Twitter. 👽

[–] Ozzy@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Free block list

[–] morras@links.hackliberty.org 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lots of lemmy clients have keyword filters

[–] morras@links.hackliberty.org 1 points 2 years ago

Oh, thanks. Didn't notice :)

[–] harmonea@kbin.social 6 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

What a time to be alive!

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years ago (1 children)

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 2 years ago

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