The mastodon team banned people that hurt their feeling. So no thanks.
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Twitter to Increase Tweet Character Limit to 4,000, Elon Musk Says
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Ultra triggered when Your safe space is threatened?
that's how they appeared to do it before elon took over. again, twitter was hardly stable before elon came in.
kubernetes solves a ton of ops problems.
Don’t hold your breath. Elon loves helming Twitter. He loves the notoriety
No breath holding here. But on Sunday NASA questioned SpaceX if Twitter is distracting SpaceX’s mission, so it’s a reason concern. I just assumed SpaceX is his pet project but don’t really know. I can’t imagine he can remain involved in the day to day operations but he’s pretty amazing entrepreneur so who knows.
This seems to be a trait of Twitter CEOs.
Jack Dorsey was the CEO of Twitter and Square... and people had worries about that too.
Maybe Twitter should have a full-time CEO who doesn't have other companies to run.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
False. Mastadon has instances. Anyone can run an instance and each one has their own owners and mods.
There’s no “Mastadon team” banning people from signing up or starting an instance.
Learn how the internet works.
I’m sure it’s been said before but really, who cares? Twitter is increasingly irrelevant. Now it’s just a Musk vanity project. The real question is whether anyone should bother being involved with it at all at this point. It’s clearly a cesspool of trolls, racists, white nationalists, neo-Nazis and every other type of heinous outcasts you can imagine. Does it help your product or your journalistic integrity to have this content appear alongside yours? As an individual user does it really benefit you watching people dunk on each other over trivial nonsense?
Most social media has proven to be a net negative to society as a whole and “news” about Twitter isn’t really Mac related enough to warrant headline coverage here.
My two cents only as always.
Most social media has proven to be a net negative to society as a whole and “news” about Twitter isn’t really Mac related enough to warrant headline coverage here.
My two cents only as always.
Exactly. 👍
I'll also add that there are only around 250 million people on Twitter.
But there are around 5 billion people on the internet.
I never understood how Twitter can be considered the "Town Square" when only 1 in 20 people are on it.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Jeez that is such a dumb comment to make, not even your mother would love you for it. You just demonstrated you haven't got a clue what you are talking about.
It has the potential of solving tons of problems, yes, but it comes with its own big suite of new issues. Not one solution is the answer to it all, and especially not in this context where it is running on their own bare metal.
I'm not sure if current computer users know of that old "640K is enough for anybody" statement from Bill Gates in the 1970's.640 characters should be enough for anybody.
The reason why I want the limit: this ensures Twitter still works well in low-quality cellular connections.
On one hand I like the idea of it as a better version of medium, substack, dev.to etc. etc. On the other hand, I feel twitter's value is the discouragement of long-form content by making it clunky with bad threading support. It's perfect for short attention span hot takes. I've got better places to read long-form content than twitter. That's for sure.
Given the "quality" of the "content" on Twitter (not just now, but pre-Elon as well, but it's most certainly headed in the wrong direction) the last thing most reasonable people would want to see is more room for drivel, angry keyboard warriors, and just general vapid rapid-fire commentary...
Everyone complaining about Elon Musk taking over Twitter are the reasons why we needed Elon Musk to takeover Twitter.
Musk is giving the people what they want, free speech and transparency of Twitter's past transgressions.
Elite is another cray cray right winger who predictably whine "its rigged"
- the people
- the people
Thank you, Papa Elon! How can I lobby my city to contract with the Boring Company to build some Musk Holes across the city?
Sadly, I think some people actually believe that nonsense. But Twitter isn’t a free speech platform. It’s a private company.
But is it still a "tweet" if it's 4000 characters long? Gonna have to rename the service to "Bitch-Session" or the "Crowing Karen."
It is the only social network that can actually make a comeback with the right changes to its core workings.
There are other decent things going on at Twitter besides political discourse. It is that, and people not taking things seriously and making a joke out of everything that is the problem.