• @[email protected]
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    1266 months ago

    No no, guys, you’re misunderstanding. He MEANS there’s too much negativity from people saying things like “X sucks since musk bought twitter…”

    He’s going to change those people’s tweets to say “X is great!”

    And by that I mean he’s going to have a team to edit tweets that he doesn’t like!

    If that’s not free speech, then Musk doesn’t know what is!

    • @[email protected]
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      This has nothing to do with Twitters image. He could have enforced that decision sooner if it was. This is about Trump. The negativity was helpful during Bidens presidency. Now that Trump is about to take over everything has to look like the world is happy again. It’s political manipulation.

    • Alphane Moon
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      56 months ago

      Big Macs, M4 Macbooks and AI Slop about the danger of woke to human civilization.

  • @[email protected]
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    136 months ago

    I mean in principle this is just a matter of moderation being different from censorship.

    But really, an “algorithm tweak”? I am still wondering when or why who decided that we needed to have “algorithms” that someone could “tweak” on the Internet at all. The first kind of “social media” I ever used was web forums where the entire “algorithm” was thread bumping, and even if you insist that we need to have the structure of a microblog: Mastodon does fine without an “algorithm” beyond reverse-chronological sorting.

    • tb_
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      46 months ago

      But you had all these rightwing weirdos complaining they were being censored because “the algorithm” didn’t promote their weird little ideas enough!

      Back when.
      So tweaking the algorithm is quite literally censorship!

      Not that this “free-speech absolutist” has proven particularly true to his word.

      • @[email protected]
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        16 months ago

        I strongly agree with the point made in the linked article that censorship is when a sender wants to send something, the receiver wants to receive it, but a third party (government, social media platform, whoever) keeps them from doing so.

        If I want to see “weird little ideas of rightwing weirdos” (or of leftwing weirdos or any others), I should be allowed to. If I don’t, I shouldn’t have to.

    • @[email protected]
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      56 months ago

      I think Mastodon does fine, too, but I’ve often heard people complain about the lack of an algorithm. Like, they don’t know how to find things if they aren’t being shoveled into their feed

      • @[email protected]
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        66 months ago

        Personally I follow slightly more than 100 accounts plus less than 10 hashtags and feel I’m already getting plenty of things into my feed, nowadays I tend to unfollow things that post too many irrelevant things more than I follow new ones.

  • Dr. Moose
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    646 months ago

    my puppet is in power — everyone be nice now.

    • burghler
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      56 months ago

      Wish I could know what this said before it was censored

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        Check out the mod log.

        Just looked: regardless of your personal opinion the comment is a breach of the terms of posting. It essentially said Musk should permanently retire himself from life.

      • @[email protected]
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        26 months ago

        It said basically the equivalent of musk should piss on the 3rd rail. Mods arbitrarily removed my comment, probably because it included the phrase ‘kill himself’, while allowing these various replies that aren’t qualitatively different. Mods do need to feel important.

        • burghler
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          16 months ago

          Esteemed fellows as regarded as they are do have to show a presence I guess. There are no good billionaires afterall

  • @[email protected]
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    96 months ago

    Yes, that town square needs to be happy. That’s a happy democracy!

    Mate, the bunting looks awfully like swastikas…

    But happy, less negative swastikas, right?

    Sure.

    What an unserious human Musk is.

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    My bet is on a scenario where Elon is going to ban people for using ‘cisgender’ term rather than downranking them.