Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Do we HAVE to talk about Twitter?”.
Uh speaking of hot takes and things should we talk about this week in Twitter, I can go through it sure, okay, cool. We are going to go through in chronological order, starting on Friday. The 18th Elon tweeted out new Twitter policy is freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach, negative slash, hate tweets will be Max dboosted and also demonetized. Elon clarified that this applies to the individual tweet.
Not the account and what is a negative tweet question mark was asked um and it doesn’t 100 seem like anyone can really answer that right. So basically, it’s exactly the same problem that we’ve had with Twitter. All this time, nice, nice nice there is um Twitter – did have some stuff that defined hate speech and he has not changed that.
So maybe that’s what they’re using this is a guess completely out of the air from me. I have no reason to actually believe this. Maybe that’s what they’re using I don’t know.
Another option is that they’re using nothing and this system doesn’t exist, which is, I think, is what’s more real because he didn’t say it said new Twitter policy. Is this thing? It doesn’t say that the tools to do this have been made and are being used, and I suspect that they have not been made and are not being used, got it um. But I don’t know Saturday, the 19th Elon reads: can I just can I can I hold on I’m.
So sorry. Can I jump in for a second absolutely so the whole freedom of reach thing yes and and suppressing? So I don’t. I don’t think it’s someone asked in Flipline chat and I think this is where you’re going as well. I don’t think this is Shadow Banning well and it isn’t it’s it’s shadows as close to Shadow Banning as you can get without just saying Shadow Banning pretty much, because I think you could go to this person’s.
My my guesstimation yeah is: you could go to this person’s account and see it, which means it’s not Shadow band yeah. Well, I mean, but I think it’s just not gon na be promoted on the the home feed well yeah, but if it’s, if it’s algorithmically suppressed, isn’t that exactly what many of the groups who were so happy about, Elon taking over have been mad about on other Platforms, algorithmically suppressing what they’re saying so then we all agree that that’s bad and that there should be um. You know what I I don’t know. I just can’t anymore it’s at the very least not not what he was uh theoretically coming in for right, but yeah anyways Saturday, the 19th.
Immediately after that, he says, he’s reinstating a number of prominent suspended accounts along with trumps after 15 million users voted on a Twitter poll with 51.8 percent voting, yes and 48.2 percent voting no Elon claims, 134 million of Twitter’s. Nearly 400 million users have seen this poll. Democracy Sunday was the Sabbath. Nothing happened on Sunday uh.
There is something that’s not in here that there’s many things don’t know too much about. There was a whole thing with like um uh. There was a whole thing discussing like uh child exploitation, hashtags, or something like that. I don’t know enough about it, because there’s a lot of stuff that went down with Balenciaga that I know enough about to talk outside of dogs yeah, that we can that we can talk about a little bit later. But no. This was a separate thing. It was like hashtags that are apparently used for sharing uh compromising material, um and Twitter for a long time had not done enough to to block those hashtags and they’ve actually done something and have actually done something about it now, so I want to make sure that In all of this, chaos would recognize things that at least seem to be going well as well yeah. So I heard about that during the reading about the Balenciaga thing that went down um and so yeah. That is actually that’s. That’S fantastic. The fact that is something that I hated about Twitter in the past was that they were just like openly refusing to deal with obvious pedophilia on the platform yep, which is just ridiculous and unacceptable, and now it has been dealt with, which is great, at least some Well right, at least somewhat I mean to say it’s it’s dealt with.
I think it’s too much of a pretty optimistic yeah uh, but at least some amount of Step has been done to make it not as bad as it was I’ll say that much uh Monday, the 21st Elon uh delays, relaunch of blue verified previously set for November 29Th uh until there is high confidence of stopping impersonation mentions using different colored check, marks. Good luck with that uh yeah uh Wednesday. The 23rd bunny tweets another poll asking if Twitter should offer General amnesty to suspended accounts three million votes 72.4 saying yes, 27.6 saying no! It’S interesting that he’s tweeting it and it’s not a poll that the platform is sending out, because I wonder what the demographics following Elon are moving forward Friday, the 25th Elon tweets. What he’s now calling verified is tentatively set to launch Friday December 2nd now with fun new colors companies get gold government Representatives, get gray, individuals get blue and can also have a secondary, tiny logo, whatever that means showing that they belong to an orc. All verified accounts will be manually, authenticated before check.
Activates have fun sending your personal identification to Twitter. That is already something you had to do, but still also, if Apple slash, Google boots Twitter from their app stores. Elon will just make a phone. What yeah that went? Really well for the Zuck cool discussion question: can any social media platform owned by a private Corporation really be a Town Square, or do we need a almost certainly worse government-owned platform? I just threw it from my mouth a little bit. I have said that before too no there’s problems across the board, it has to be decentralized and it has to actually be outside of any individual’s control, at which point it will turn into a cluster, and basically it doesn’t work. We should all abandon social media nice.
Well, I thought I was going to be with one with the hot takes today. I hate it all you just won. You just won the hot take yeah Olympics yeah as much as Mastodon is not going to work. Mastodon’S idea of joining servers, I think, is the end like Facebook’s thing, where you, theoretically just interact with people in your friends group, Google’s old thing, where you, theoretically only interacted with people in your circles stuff like that.
I think that’s the only form that is really going to work Mastodon to be very clear tons of massive issues. I saw some people tweeting out recently, like I wish people didn’t talk down on Mastodon being hard to use, because it’s not that hard to use and people should use it. So we can get off of Twitter yeah if you join someone’s server thing as weird as that is they can read all of your personal messages by the way hope you knew that there’s lots of problems with Mastodon. It’S garbage, don’t use it.
In my opinion, that is entirely just my opinion. Wow he’s spicy today they all suck they’re all terrible. Just because Twitter is stopping Fire, doesn’t mean the rest aren’t on fire as well. Okay, come on! Oh, we don’t need this type of thing. People act like the only possible way you can get news in the modern era is to look on Twitter. That is not true.
There is lots of other ways that it can work, including Reddit, which has been around this whole time. You think people don’t get news on Reddit. Are you crazy? You think Reddit isn’t fast as heck.
Would you have ever in a thousand years imagined yourself saying no Reddit will be our savior. We did it Reddit, I just it’s better than Twitter. Oh man yeah.
I don’t know: okay, we don’t need Twitter, it is not a requirement just because you can’t get off. It doesn’t mean that we need it. Okay, .