Elon admits that any post on X with a link is throttled
He advises you to upload content directly to X instead, where he can monetize it
Musk is the richest person in the world and his view is everyone should work for him for free
He advises you to upload content directly to X instead, where he can monetize it
Musk is the richest person in the world and his view is everyone should work for him for free
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Now its all noise and knives out
Websites have always tried to encourage people to stay on them, so they disincentivize going to other sites.
Think about it like this: a TV station saying "don't touch that dial". Websites likewise don't want you to "change the channel", basically.
Terms of service are changing too.
But IDK man, I have eyes.
I remember Twitter employee’s at events I attended tell me to my face they didn’t do it and when I show them the proof the response was “the content of the tweet needs to be better I guess”
It was a link to a charity…
Meantime over here on BlueSky we have Blue Skies.
We know who is going to come out on top, right?
All nice ppl will be on BlueSky and all the haters will be on Twitter. The low information users will stick to Facebook and Threads.
I press "X" for doubt. If I learned something from the Rob Reiner and Mark Hamill situation is that the most toxic ppl from Twitter are the ones who migrated to BlueSky after the election.
As you said right wing ppl are now on Twitter since that is their turf. The ones who mass migrated after the election are left leaning libs, those indiviuals are the ones who pushed Hamill & Reiner out of this platform.🤷
But ex-twtr is just a graveyard now. Like, what's the point anymore...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/online-news-act-meta-facebook-1.6885634
Like Big Brother.
It has to be “best platform wins” or the way it is now. You can’t compete with purely engineering against people with shady business practices.
Which is dumb unless you don't wanna people sharing links but you also want to be able to say "we don't downrank links"
It's what Crawford & Joler, borrowing a concept from Marx, call the "triangle of digital labour". The aim is to increase the pull of the social network singularity so that the cost of opting out from these platforms will eventually become too high for content creators.
I won't even use WhatsApp
There is no penalty for including links in your posts.
If his 3 platforms also throttle links in order to monetize the actual data instead, it would be another layer of sociopathic tendencies by the world's worst introvert.
For doing NOTHING but liking and replying with a damn heart! I hate all of those META sites.
Incorrect.
We should worry.
1. Selling eggs to my neighbors.
And
2. For offering to sew facemasks for free to anyone that needed some at the beginning of the pandemic.
FB is terrible.
People can re-home (sell) kids on there.
#MythofSuccess
I run ads for other books, but not that those.
Given all the garbage ads that fill my FB feed, I feel mildly insulted.
Ahem.
This techbro nonsense has to stop now. It's leading humanity off a cliff.
Support Bluesky 🦋✅️
This is ridiculous.
Zuckerberg is no better than Elmo. Only a tad quieter.
He is, afterall, a card-carrying member of the Billionaire/Oligarch Class.
You know this, Ruth, but they can't continue to wrest power from the hands of the citizenry as long as they know they can fight back.
The purpose of a system is what it does
People never learn. You cannot satisfy the right wing, and especially not Trump. It is NEVER enough. Never.
Huh.
Quit dedicating anything to X.
Focus instead on Bluesky.
He's a silly, silly man...
I’m thinking along the lines of SEO and users just doing retweets w the links to boost.
Not that I had a lot of views from other sources to begin with, but 1 out of 2000 followers was really, really sus.
She wants the ad revenue from those plays, Musk! She's not going to just give them to you.
He wants you to pay him a monthly fee to work for him
Even the radical right commentators miss our meaningful engagement.
Give it a month before he changes his mind and "posts that have a top level comment by the author that contains a link are downranked".
>Compresses the shit out of it
If Twitter's supposed to be the primary source it should be at original quality, otherwise the obvious use is to link to where the good stuff is. Two goals are fighting here
You can set up a reminder:
Go to your profile settings, click "Accessibility" under Basics, make sure "Require alt text before posting" is toggled on.
No cattle
No self awareness
Damn...
Also Tesla is already obscenely overvalued. I mean by what conceivable logic is it worth $250 billion more than Toyota, Ferrari, GM, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Ford, BMW, Volkswagen, Honda, Hyundai, Suzuki, Renault, Subaru, Rivian, Nissan, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Suzuki and Polestar COMBINED?!
Paying for stuff is something only we normal human beings are expected to do
- be like-
I Am Your Retribution = Campaign Promise
No suffer those two are so aligned.
We shall see.
He will have Alaska by the end of 2025.
He downloaded his brain to the cloud hoping he'll live forever lol
Spoiled little brat he is.
I wanna know if he’s monetizing both or mot?!
And an asshole.
No one should use it
He cheated us for years
I mean I'm glad more people are seeing it now, at least.
And Elmo sees all of us Americans as the guinea pigs for his stupid DOGE experiment.
hoping you can follow back when you have a chance (can't hurt to ask, right?)
@larrymark212.bsky.social
His morals are in the earths core.
https://archive.ph/zVZab
Let's hope the Oligarch wars start in the U.S. and Elon is the first casualty but I suspect Trump will be first.
These boys are not going to tolerate the dysfunction, stupidity, chaos that Trump thrives on.
Volatility is the enemy. And that administration will be quite volatile.
They'd have paid more taxes under Harris
But in 3 months they'd have figured out how to pass the cost to consumers & make even more $$
If they hate volatility
Why invest in stocks?
Why rape women when hoes will fuck for free?
I think they're addicted to risk taking
Men don't have to rape women.
I respect sex workers
I respect women
Do what ya like!
I'm an absolute slut
I just like losers
& hate money😂
There are women who fuck for the clout
Hoping to be seen
Rape is a ridiculous risk
Ruins lives
It's about power
Cause sex is easy to get
Rich people will invest in volatile stocks, but normally as a smaller part of their portfolio.
Not touching the hoes comment.
It's an easy way for them to get richer or maintain while we swirl the bowl
It makes them selfish, lazy & unimaginative
Asshole oligarchs-
The lot of them!
No matter how much they raise prices
If people are let go in mass firings, & underpaid there's no one to make, sell or buy their products cause they're broke
Or dead from lack of healthcare, 2A nuts, pseudo science remedies & pre 1950s viruses
What's the end game?
1. make everyone homeless
2. make homelessness a crime
3. throw everyone in prison
4. endless labor for pennies a day
Rich men who rape when wonen fuck for free?
THE most illogical human behavior ever ir proves my point
Hoes want proximity to power. They run up their own debt to look appealing & require very little but clout
Rape is needless risk taking they ENJOY
At a party he asked Joseph Heller how he felt that their host, a hedge fund manager, made more money in a day than he had earned from Catch-22 over its whole history.
Heller responds,“Yes, but I have something he will never have. ENOUGH.”
JOE HELLER
True story, Word of Honor:
Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer
now dead,
and I were at a party given by a billionaire
on Shelter Island.
I said, "Joe, how does it make you feel
to know that our host only yesterday
may have made more money
has earned in its entire history?"
And Joe said, "I've got something he can never have."
And I said, "What on earth could that be, Joe?"
And Joe said, "The knowledge that I've got enough."
Not bad! Rest in peace!
-- Kurt Vonnegut
The New Yorker, May 16, 2005
He needs to be the center of attention, so much that when President Biden’s Superbowl tweet got more impressions than his own he ordered twitter/1
That’s not a happy person who’s enjoying life./2
Those who enact unjust policies are as good as dead,
those...instituting unfair regulations, to keep the poor from getting fair treatment, & to deprive the oppressed among my people of justice, so they can steal what widows own, & loot what belongs to orphans...
For some people all the money and power in the world is never enough (Trump, Musk, Putin) and that is what makes them all so dangerous to the rest of us.
(Theoretically.)
It's a real paradox of a phenomenon. I wish their was a better term for it..
A camel will pass through the eye of a needle before a rich man enters The Kingdom.
His soul is a black hole
No matter how much money attention children you throw in it
He's going to devour it and want more
some "Genius"
Got nothing to do with ethics (if it did, they'd have left 2+ years ago).
It's all about who can monetize the platform most effectively, and the papers realized it wasn't them.
Why do smart folks continue to enslave themselves to Elon's moneymaking scam?
He sucks off other people's ideas. He sucks off taxpayer dollars. He's pushing Trump to decimate the government so he won't be regulated. All for $$$s
I won't do his dirty work.
Definitely squelches speech.
Yeah, that's the ticket. Blueskys ahead. Spoutible, of course. Substack- 100%
Elon found a country where ENOUGH people are racists and bigots, he wooed them, got them to give him TAXPAYER money for SpaceX, which he will use for his and his fascist friends’ benefits.
#resist
I have been trying and trying and now I see I’m not the only one that gets an error message and can’t deactivate their account. It’s pissing me the hell off! I want off that platform NOW. #FX
Just stop going there.
The effect will be the same.
Not only is he a fascist billionaire with quite the power to his name but he’s all of that and his brain cells and gray matter is actively dying
You cannot add a link in a post on Twitter or else they make sure hardly anyone sees it. FORCING you to upload the data to Twitter, so, obviously, they can train their AI on it.
SO HAPPY BlueSky is soaring, we all left Twitter in the dust, some longer than others.