Oh noooo…
Stop using fucking Twitter
Can’t believe Biden let the world know his decision first on Twitter, even before the White house Press office.
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.
If it’s a private company that con do what it wants, like blocking political opponents, it should not be under safe harbor protections.
That’s the point in yelling about this. If Elon wants a private forum for him and his mates, he should also be fully responsible when his mates posts child porn on his servers.
Which safe harbor protections?
Section 230 of the CDA
And the EFF has a primer on Section 230, and several opinion pieces about why nerfing 230 would be a terrible idea:
Wanna Make Big Tech Monopolies Even Worse? Kill Section 230 by Cory Doctorow
Holy Unholy, this is written by The Enshittification Guy!
Show a little repsect, “The Enshittification Guy” is Cory Doctorow a very well known author and activist.
You would be shocked to know how many people use TikTok as a search engine
I’m not on tiktok, but I’ll admit to using YouTube as a search engine a lot. Also googling something and immediately hitting the video tab before reading any of the results.
You video guys work different.
Who would have guessed that a social media platform owned by an apartheid-loving fascist would trend conservative?
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.
I don’t think legally the Federal Government is allowed to do that. Maybe if the service is available to everyone. Now that option would be pretty cool. I’m fine with nationalized federated social media hosts.
That sounds pretty shakey. Federal employees have their own email addresses, but you can’t just go ask for a .gov email address, you have to get a job with the government for one. The federal government has plenty of places that only some are allowed to post to. Now, if they were to say, only allow certain people to have accounts with no apperent rhyme or reason that would be grounds for a discrimination lawsuit, but they could simply say “any verified current or former federal elected official, federal department head, or state governor is allowed an account” and expand or shrink the scope as needed. The fediverse honestly makes that so much cleaner than something they host themselves with all of the nuances of what is and isn’t federated, the government could simply configure the federation to meet their legal and liability needs while users can stream in from any fediverse instance
If they build it, will anyone come? Or does private social media only work because the user base is already scrolling endlessly there?
@XeroxCool welcome to fediverse. I’m replying to you from mastodon.
I’m using motion controls!
I’m using the Power Glove!
It’s so bad.
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.
Wasn’t that the case when progressives controlled it? Either way, fk X and all other social media services.
Jack Dorsey was a progressive?
Anything left of “pretend minorities don’t exist” is progressive to certain people.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey: I ‘fully admit’ our bias is ‘more left-leaning’
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said on Saturday that he “fully admit[s]” Twitter employees share a largely left-leaning bias after facing accusations that conservatives are discriminated against on the social media platform.
In an interview that aired Saturday on CNN, Dorsey said his company has a responsibility to be open about its political viewpoints, but to operate without bias when applying content policies to users.
”We need to constantly show that we are not adding our own bias, which I fully admit is … is more left-leaning,” Dorsey says.
Ah.
So you’re a “Libs of TikTok” guy. Conservatives call themselves Liberal and you believe them.
Jack Dorsey is Libertarian, which is Republican-leaning.
lol… Libertarians are classical liberals. They don’t align to a specific side.
Libertarians nominated a degenerate Democrat.
And why the FK are we talking about Jack anyway? I said Twitter was controlled by progressives… as in the majority of the org were leftists operating biasedly against their opposition.
Defending the Libs of TikTok isn’t the flex you think it is.
I’m only responding in the hopes you recognize this eventually and grow a bit of self-reflection over this situation. Good luck man.
I support anyone and everyone that exposes any and all facets of evil. So should you and any other sane human being.
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
What we need to do is: Make it illegal to run a business
Twitter doesn’t owe anyone anything. Kamala could go post anywhere else but she’s not even though the left hates Elon.
The idea that we should pass laws to force twitter to show certain info and expose endpoints to support third party apps is ridiculous. It’s their data and they aren’t putting a gun to anyone’s head.
Passing a law forcing the government to use only FLOSS software for day-to-day activities solves this problem, actually makes sense on a principle level and isn’t a ridiculous overreach of power.
FLOSS software
Lol
‘Lol’ Three simple characters. “FLOSS software? Ridiculous. So DUMB.” He says to himself. Finally a single tap and his snarky comment begins it’s instantaneous travail through countless GPL licensed unix systems to reach his victim - an ignorant commenter on an open-source, federated lemmy instance.
lol
Good. They should abandon twitter and all other racist, misogynist, transphobic, xenophobic, homophobic bigoted platforms. I hope they have a bad time there.
Political parties should host their own mastodon instances, and give their members accounts. Companies should do the same. It removes all the problems of imitation because the organisation stands as guarantor that the account is the official one.
I’m not sure on the capabilities of Mastodon. But companies will never go for this if Mastodon doesn’t support saml or active directory (or other Auth systems). It needs to integrate with their enterprise tools.
There are several mastodon servers that have different feature sets. What you’re saying is like “email must support AD”. Well some email server might do that and another wouldn’t.
I hope she isn’t a Zionist also…
How much can this be abused before it is overdue to treat X as a common carrier?
Edit: why is this being downvoted? given how critical X is it should be regulated by the government(s). Yes we all moved to the fediverse but we are a minority, millions still rely on X for better or worse.
I’m childish and downvote anyone who refers to twitter as “x”. It’s like you’re on your knees licking Elons bum, right after he told you to call it x, you did what you were told lol.
Also I never got on the twitter bandwagon as it just didn’t appeal to me. My social media addiction was reddit.
Twitter sucks. X is a letter. Or a variable in algebra.
Oh dear. If I were I wouldn’t be advocating for the government to effectively seize Twitter. I hated the nepo apartheid baby before it was cool.
