yeah. this is just giving up the game: 1. keep folks only on his site 2. get people to offer their reporting to him for free 3. reward folks who aggregate reporting (and do so w/ minimum crediting). It's a shitty user experience. It also should incentivize reporters/outlets to move elsewhere - ThreadSky

samsteindc.bsky.social • 92 days ago

yeah. this is just giving up the game:

1. keep folks only on his site
2. get people to offer their reporting to him for free
3. reward folks who aggregate reporting (and do so w/ minimum crediting).

It's a shitty user experience. It also should incentivize reporters/outlets to move elsewhere

Reposted from Judd Legum

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

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pcsherry.bsky.social•91 days ago

Elon Musk is Afrikaans for "shit of the Musk Ox."

francescadiasio.bsky.social•92 days ago

It’s mind-boggling to me that anyone who isn’t a Nazi is still on that toxic hell hole of an app.

I don’t get it.

ralphhhenson.bsky.social•92 days ago

Just another clever way these shit-birds plan to destroy a free press.

And it doesn't really matter if he's called out for this behavior, as we learned in the last election.

It's what 'the majority' wants as an outcome and it's what we all shall get.

elonsamuskydouche.bsky.social•88 days ago

Just another reason ppl should finally #LetTwitterDie

coolerking49.bsky.social•92 days ago

You think that’s bad, wait until you start bending over for Trump!

sunzion.bsky.social•92 days ago

He will continue to do things in his best interest with a take it or leave it attitude born of entitled arrogance.

lavowhel.bsky.social•92 days ago

Plus, BlueSky is the only app I’ve ever used that asked me if I wanted to see links in my actual browser-what a concept-where it’s easy to save and refer back to them.

emmabrody.bsky.social•92 days ago

Let's build an Elon dossier.

Name all the ways he swindles taxpayers then does everything to monetize their brains.

Even Trumpers will hate it.

dagrtnpwrflmrfixit.bsky.social•88 days ago

lisa-catara.bsky.social•88 days ago

Take a real good look at those brand new terms that rolled out immediately following the election. They have every intention of using whatever you post (your name, likeness, photos, stories, videos, ART, WRITING, everything...) however they want, so long as you choose to use their FREE apps.

hoptimusprime.bsky.social•92 days ago

frontrunner for best story of 2025: news organizations that have largely remained on X, and what their internal motivations are for doing so

pathost.bsky.social•92 days ago

News outlets and journalists and other "influencers" like Super70sSports who insist on sticking it out

shadodow.bsky.social•92 days ago

When I was still using X, this was my modified app icon. Thank you Apple.

acombites.bsky.social•92 days ago

Agreed. Any legitimate journalist should walk away from Twitter ASAP. Stop giving it ANY credibility.

francescadiasio.bsky.social•92 days ago

Should’ve been done a long time ago.

s1lverlinings.bsky.social•92 days ago

I was banned (for a week last time) on ig for posting a link to HCRichardson: Letters from an American.

newsandcoffee.bsky.social•92 days ago

Apple does the same thing. They enshittified the UX for interacting with non-Apple users (green text, photos don't work properly, etc).

I have both Apple iphone & a Google Pixel, and the Pixel is a superior product in every way I care, except for being excluded from group texts by apple users

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newsandcoffee.bsky.social•92 days ago

Facebook did the same thing too.

Posts used to display to 100% of followers. Then it was 50%, now it's 4%.

They faked ad data to lure ad dollars to the platform away from print/TV/radio news outlets.

Then completely nuked news off their platform for Canadians. No news links allowed.

Dicks. 2/

radiobill.bsky.social•92 days ago

4. Revoke his citizenship in 2028

alexanderr.nafofellas.com•92 days ago

Also, by disincentivising the use of links, this normalizes "reporting" without fact or substantiation.

billbuchman.bsky.social•92 days ago

I'm incredulous how many MSM news outlets haven't made this jump wholesale. Aren't they remotely curious why their traffic has cratered?

stupidokie.bsky.social•92 days ago

We have no idea here who sees what or why. The solution is unstable. A censor will emerge based upon political, religious or financial strata people (reporters) desire. Every poster here wants to be heard same as you Sam. We don't have a youtube presence to funnel followers to a different platform.

dlrush.bsky.social•92 days ago

And he’s oblivious to the origin of the symbiosis between media / social in the first place.

Back in the day all the media sites hosted on-site comment feeds w every article.

Tech & moderation challenges are the reason Twitter / FB became the defacto public square for extended conversation.

hmfic.bsky.social•92 days ago

Why is anyone even there? And stop with the "I owe it to my followers". YOU ARE CONTRIBUTING TO THE PROPAGANDA MACHINE!

femsocphd.bsky.social•92 days ago

It's also Pavlovian rewarding. For example, big magats get photocopied, signed letters from him, fElon pays them, and they get magat famous.

They feel successful and powerful with brains full of Grok shit.

I guarantee behavioral scientists worked on this to maximize harm to the blue world.
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