Twit or Un-Twit?

Which Twit?

  • Original Twit

    Votes: 2 28.6%
  • New Twit

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Un-Twit

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • No Twit

    Votes: 5 71.4%

  • Total voters
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How many Twits can use the Un-Twits?

We have the original Twit starting his own new Twit which apparently is still invitation only.
The ZuckerTwit is unleashing an Un-Twit tomorrow without a EuroTwit.

How many other lesser known ones are out there?

Divide and demise?
 

lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
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Anyone joining bluesky's a fool. You have to be a special kind of stupid to join a service that has repercussions happening while you're looking at it.
 

Charmonium

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Personally, I sorta like being watched.

Well, maybe not while I'm asleep, but then how would I know?

These are weighty issues of our day. Oh, and I can't stand being watched.
 

Kaido

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These are weighty issues of our day. Oh, and I can't stand being watched.

I took Facebook off my phone a few years ago after it started listening to conversations I was having. How do I know that? Because I tested it with multiple extremely specific product discussions without googling anything over the course of several weeks, and the ads would pop up. No idea how it got past Apple's privacy settings. TikTok is doing the same thing now. Except the ads are even MORE targeted and I HAVE SPENT SO MUCH MONEY BUYING CRAP I DIDN'T NEED FROM THAT CURSED APP! lol
 

Kaido

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I mean, I still really like Twitter. The latest antics crack me up...limiting how many posts both paid & free users can see while relying on infinite scrolling to generate ad revenue makes me scratch my head a bit. They perhaps unwittingly also blocked google from searching them:


But at least they finally removed the requirement to sign into Twitter to view tweets, which hilariously affected major news organizations, blogs, etc.:


Unfortunately, a lot of good people I follow have jumped ship from Twitter, which is annoying because there are some really really cool people who do some really cool projects who have now split to all kinds of other platforms. I'm pretty much on ATOT, Twitter, or reddit most of the time, and even reddit has been having struggles with their leadership wanting to change things in order to make more money & the communities are pushing back pretty hard. Even some subreddits like the Instant Pot community have gone full-on private in protest, which is really annoying because I store some of the recipes I link there & now no one can access them anymore:


I'll have to go back to the Geocities days & start my own blog again lol.
 

Red Squirrel

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I only started using Twitter like a year or so ago, and sticking with it. Mastodon looks interesting but if I did join it I'd still use Twitter too.


I took Facebook off my phone a few years ago after it started listening to conversations I was having. How do I know that? Because I tested it with multiple extremely specific product discussions without googling anything over the course of several weeks, and the ads would pop up. No idea how it got past Apple's privacy settings. TikTok is doing the same thing now. Except the ads are even MORE targeted and I HAVE SPENT SO MUCH MONEY BUYING CRAP I DIDN'T NEED FROM THAT CURSED APP! lol

I don't touch SM apps with a 10 foot pole. The sites themselves do spy on you too, but the apps are 10x worse as they have access to mic, camera, your contacts etc. FB is probably one of the worse for that too. I hate that they try to force the apps too, for example you cannot use messenger on the mobile site, it will just force you to install the app. It's BS. There are few situations such as using FB Marketplace where it would have been nice to check messages on mobile but there is no way I'm installing that app.
 
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GodisanAtheist

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More of an Anandtwit Forums kinda guy myself.

Couldn't give a flying fuck at the moon about Twitter or any of the craven anklebitters trying to take it down.
 

WelshBloke

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Jan 12, 2005
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I could never do twitter. I don't want to listen to people I don't know saying short sentences, and people I do know I want to have an actual conversation with.
I can get into Facebook and Instagram but that's just because mine is just people I know well and it's nice to see pictures of what they are up to.
 

Kaido

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I only started using Twitter like a year or so ago, and sticking with it. Mastodon looks interesting but if I did join it I'd still use Twitter too.




I don't touch SM apps with a 10 foot pole. The sites themselves do spy on you too, but the apps are 10x worse as they have access to mic, camera, your contacts etc. FB is probably one of the worse for that too. I hate that they try to force the apps too, for example you cannot use messenger on the mobile site, it will just force you to install the app. It's BS. There are few situations such as using FB Marketplace where it would have been nice to check messages on mobile but there is no way I'm installing that app.

I compromise by having the TikTok app on my phone because:

1. It's absolutely fantastic brain candy for when I'm bored. I've literally learned more from TikTok than college at this point, I kid you not!
2. I hate to admit it, but their ad algorithm is outstanding, and I really like a lot of the stuff it recommends lol
 
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^^^ I block all ads and videos of all kinds from everywhere and my brain is carmelized, so it doesn't need candy.
 

RLGL

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Screw twitter and Musk!!! I don't use any social media and will never use it.
 
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Forums like this might be considered S&M, but I won't use any that require ID verification, or that target you with spam based on what, how and when you post.
 
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lxskllr

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I got a mastodon account when twitter started flaking out, and I've been enjoying it. I would say I never had a twitter account, but for some reason I do. Firefox says I made the account in 2012, but I don't remember why, and I never used it. Might not even work, but I haven't wanted to test it. One less click of support for twitter. I also deleted my reddit account after overwriting all the comments I had access to.

Anyway, I got the mastodon account because I believe in federation, and taking control away from companies. I wanted to see how it worked. Using it, I can interact with reddit type pages, or anything using the activitypub framework. It's a little work, and a little janky, but it can be done, and I expect interoperability to get better with time. A lot of it is incompatible purposes. Mastodon is short form comms, while lemmy is long form. Kbin seems to combine both, but is less developed, and I haven't thoroughly looked into it.

I've met some cool people, and nothing has been recommended to me. If I see it, I signed up for it. No company pushing ads, or promoting users for whatever reason. Might be a little harder if you want to be spoonfed, but the quality is higher, and you get the joy of discovery.
 
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Kaido

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I got a mastodon account when twitter started flaking out, and I've been enjoying it. I would say I never had a twitter account, but for some reason I do. Firefox says I made the account in 2012, but I don't remember why, and I never used it. Might not even work, but I haven't wanted to test it. One less click of support for twitter. I also deleted my reddit account after overwriting all the comments I had access to.

Anyway, I got the mastodon account because I believe in federation, and taking control away from companies. I wanted to see how it worked. Using it, I can interact with reddit type pages, or anything using the activitypub framework. It's a little work, and a little janky, but it can be done, and I expect interoperability to get better with time. A lot of it is incompatible purposes. Mastodon is short form comms, while lemmy is long form. Kbin seems to combine both, but is less developed, and I haven't thoroughly looked into it.

I've met some cool people, and nothing has been recommended to me. If I see it, I signed up for it. No company pushing ads, or promoting users for whatever reason. Might be a little harder if you want to be spoonfed, but the quality is higher, and you get the joy of discovery.

brb I need to go touch grass
 

Red Squirrel

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I compromise by having the TikTok app on my phone because:

1. It's absolutely fantastic brain candy for when I'm bored. I've literally learned more from TikTok than college at this point, I kid you not!
2. I hate to admit it, but their ad algorithm is outstanding, and I really like a lot of the stuff it recommends lol
I don't want that CCP software on my phone (or any social media app for that matter, not even Twitter). I tried to make an account on the website though, not really because I plan to go there much but sometimes people send me links to videos and without an account you have to do a captcha and stuff. Well it seems they force you to use the app because it won't let me login on PC, just says account doesn't exist. Won't be trying any harder than that. :p

I hope Twitter does not go that same route where they decide to force people to use the app. I could see Elon maybe doing that as it would pretty much eliminate all bots. If there is one thing that would make me leave Twitter it would be that though. Not a fan of apps at all. They have too much spying capability vs a website.
 
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I found some stuff that wouldn't work well on a desktop browser for some reason. I have a tablet that does not has a SIM card slot (no phone capability). Nearly all of those things work on that tablet via WiFi only.

I suppose if you really wanted to, you could block the mic, cameras and speakers on a device like that.
 
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MuskRant


Twitter sends Meta cease-and-desist letter over new Threads app: Sources

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ABC News|27 minutes ago
Twitter sent Meta a cease-and-desist letter over the newly launched Threads app, sources familiar with the letter's existence told ABC News. The letter was sent by Twitter's legal team Wednesday,
 

Kaido

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I don't want that CCP software on my phone (or any social media app for that matter, not even Twitter). I tried to make an account on the website though, not really because I plan to go there much but sometimes people send me links to videos and without an account you have to do a captcha and stuff. Well it seems they force you to use the app because it won't let me login on PC, just says account doesn't exist. Won't be trying any harder than that. :p

I hope Twitter does not go that same route where they decide to force people to use the app. I could see Elon maybe doing that as it would pretty much eliminate all bots. If there is one thing that would make me leave Twitter it would be that though. Not a fan of apps at all. They have too much spying capability vs a website.

I mean, I get it. It's like reddit; they need to find a way to make their business profitable, but at the same time, the changes alienate the existing userbase. For example, right now, many subreddits are closed indefinitely in protest of the changes. I point a lot of people to links on the Instapot subreddit, where I have recipes, photos, and R&D threads, which is currently closed. I have no way of accessing that knowledge "indefinitely" as a result of the protests. So reddit wanted to be more profitable, which made a lot of subreddits close in protest, so now the end-user resources are cut off, which is SUPER frustrating! But I also understand that stuff costs money to run & sometimes things have to change in order to keep things going in the long run. Makes me really glad I'm not in charge of managing a social media site, haha!

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Red Squirrel

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The stuff going on on Reddit is interesting. I think they are losing lot of people because of that. TBH I never even realized that many people used their phone for Reddit and maybe even themselves didn't realize it when they did the changes, but companies always stick to their guns even when there's backlash.
 

Red Squirrel

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May 24, 2003
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I found some stuff that wouldn't work well on a desktop browser for some reason. I have a tablet that does not has a SIM card slot (no phone capability). Nearly all of those things work on that tablet via WiFi only.

I suppose if you really wanted to, you could block the mic, cameras and speakers on a device like that.

I sometimes think of doing just that, so many things require apps now, even cars, so it's going to get harder and harder to get away from. At that point I'd just get a separate tablet and run those apps on that tablet, so it's still separate from my phone. The tablet would only get turned on when I need to use those apps.
 

gorobei

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I got a mastodon account when twitter started flaking out, and I've been enjoying it. I would say I never had a twitter account, but for some reason I do. Firefox says I made the account in 2012, but I don't remember why, and I never used it. Might not even work, but I haven't wanted to test it. One less click of support for twitter. I also deleted my reddit account after overwriting all the comments I had access to.

Anyway, I got the mastodon account because I believe in federation, and taking control away from companies. I wanted to see how it worked. Using it, I can interact with reddit type pages, or anything using the activitypub framework. It's a little work, and a little janky, but it can be done, and I expect interoperability to get better with time. A lot of it is incompatible purposes. Mastodon is short form comms, while lemmy is long form. Kbin seems to combine both, but is less developed, and I haven't thoroughly looked into it.

I've met some cool people, and nothing has been recommended to me. If I see it, I signed up for it. No company pushing ads, or promoting users for whatever reason. Might be a little harder if you want to be spoonfed, but the quality is higher, and you get the joy of discovery.
some streamers i watch have switched to mastodon, mainly because it is non-centralized and your data cant be mined by the head corporation (musk/zuck/dorsey). navigating the individual servers takes some learning but apparently it all works the same as the other platforms as far as interoperability goes.

on the wan show podcast Luke mentioned that comp sci students are regularly assigned the exercise of coming up with a twitterlike platform, so he wasnt surprised at how long it took for threads to come out.
 
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jpiniero

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I mean, I get it. It's like reddit; they need to find a way to make their business profitable, but at the same time, the changes alienate the existing userbase. For example, right now, many subreddits are closed indefinitely in protest of the changes. I point a lot of people to links on the Instapot subreddit, where I have recipes, photos, and R&D threads, which is currently closed. I have no way of accessing that knowledge "indefinitely" as a result of the protests. So reddit wanted to be more profitable, which made a lot of subreddits close in protest, so now the end-user resources are cut off, which is SUPER frustrating! But I also understand that stuff costs money to run & sometimes things have to change in order to keep things going in the long run. Makes me really glad I'm not in charge of managing a social media site, haha!

You could try complaining to Reddit Admins to see if they would force it back open. It's probably not a big enough sub for Reddit to care about.