"The only way to save you is to kill you all!" *deranged laugh*
Musk bought Twitter, what hasn't gone wrong?
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"The only way to save you is to kill you all!" *deranged laugh*
As an aside, I decided to set up an account on BlueSky the other day to see what it was like in comparison to the hellsite that Musk is turning twitter into.
Initially, it was a bit clunky and I wasn't receiving notifications of followed posters in the feed, but it seems to getting up to speed now. Most of the people whose posts I look at on twitter now have BlueSky accounts and, indeed, many of them have departed twitter altogether, or almost completely. One or two haven't moved across yet - mostly the ones who are avowed right-wingers but have interesting expertise in certain fields which makes it worthwhile wading through the dross - but it's not too bad at all.
One thing I would say is that it is a bit of an echo chamber at present which is better than the overwhelming rubbish from bots and trolling on twitter, but there don't seem to be many contrary replies to many posts, just a nodding of heads and agreement with the posted. Intelligent debate is good, but Elmo has destroyed much of a chance of that on twitter, so I hope that the serious right-wingers (some do exist!) will shift across there in due course so we can see a bit more of a to and fro.
How long the pretty much bot-free/troll-free experience will last remains to be seen.
I've set up an account without any personal information, haven't bothered with an avatar and haven't made any posts. All I've done is follow many of the posters whose tweets I've been reading over the past year or two. I've already got 3 or 4 followers! I'd imagine these will be the bots/trolls setting themselves up for the future. Let's hope for some reasonable moderation on this platform, at least.
Initially, it was a bit clunky and I wasn't receiving notifications of followed posters in the feed, but it seems to getting up to speed now. Most of the people whose posts I look at on twitter now have BlueSky accounts and, indeed, many of them have departed twitter altogether, or almost completely. One or two haven't moved across yet - mostly the ones who are avowed right-wingers but have interesting expertise in certain fields which makes it worthwhile wading through the dross - but it's not too bad at all.
One thing I would say is that it is a bit of an echo chamber at present which is better than the overwhelming rubbish from bots and trolling on twitter, but there don't seem to be many contrary replies to many posts, just a nodding of heads and agreement with the posted. Intelligent debate is good, but Elmo has destroyed much of a chance of that on twitter, so I hope that the serious right-wingers (some do exist!) will shift across there in due course so we can see a bit more of a to and fro.
How long the pretty much bot-free/troll-free experience will last remains to be seen.
I've set up an account without any personal information, haven't bothered with an avatar and haven't made any posts. All I've done is follow many of the posters whose tweets I've been reading over the past year or two. I've already got 3 or 4 followers! I'd imagine these will be the bots/trolls setting themselves up for the future. Let's hope for some reasonable moderation on this platform, at least.
xD it could happen. This guy is everywhere, sharing his opinion on politics, videogames, culture, energy, etc etc. It's all very distressing. I deleted my twitter account months ago.
Here's an interesting article about neuropathology which may or may not be relevant to Musk. And Trump. And Zuckerberg, Thiel, Bezos etc etc etc...
substack.com
Certainly sounds like it could be a valid hypothesis.
The Neuroscience of Greed.
Seems like an appropriate time to review the science behind the greedy personality trait and what we can do to guard against it.
substack.com
Certainly sounds like it could be a valid hypothesis.