Wow, not too long after Facebook adopted the same tactic. They chose to drop their previous processes in favor of having their users take care of it.
Sounds like this is just Twitter struggling to run their platform in the wake of a data center fire though.
Oh no, nuance??
Why would anyone with any hint of common sense “raise questions” about this. There are no questions here.
Because the notes were not removed, they’re just not working due to data center problems right now. Or, at least, that’s enough of a possibility to raise questions.
Working for me now
I’ll take this opportunity to encourage you to limit your Twitter use as much as possible, you know why.
Serious question, why is any non-nazi posting on twitter?
It such a large network and great at blasting information out. Lots of youtuber/livestreamers still have to eXcrete on x or less they loose their audience. And it’s not just video, writers also depends on the big ole X megaphone to aunuce book releases, beta reader applications etc etc.
Honestly furry artists are probably the freest from X since they have so many of their own social media sites.
You X following even is part of the reason for publishers to pick up your book.
Add to that some police departments actually use to send amber alerts.
You just have the world’s largest public megaphone in an attention based economy. People can’t leave for anything smaller.
Great points, except:
People can’t leave for anything smaller.
They can and some do. It’s still a choice.
technically yes but if leaving means you loose half your income then is it really a choice.
Great, so make it a public utility.
critical mass probably
- Non-Westerner that never have or realized alternative platform exist.
- Artist that dependant on mainstream social media reach. (some artists already have 100K+ followers there, fedi also have limited reach due to instance blocking, e.g. you’re on Mastodon.art and want to reach Japanese audience (mainly misskey.io, but t was defederated on most of Western instance.)
- People with social network bubble outside Westernsphere, they only have exclusively local feed on their Twitter.
- People outside Westernsphere that already tried fediverse, but moving back as fediverse is still Western-centric or does not have their own community on feidverse.
- Community that does not have monetary power to invest on their own fedi instance.
Some friends of mine also think Twitter just has better content to consume when scrolling through. Too comfy & don’t care enough about who runs it & the issues to jump off. It gives them what they want.
It’s becoming like Facebook, which is were people’s parents, uncles and aunts and even grandparents (as well as technically inept organisations) are, but you yourself either moved on or are too young to have ever wanted to be there (“because nobody my age is there”), only whilst Facebook is merelly a Propaganda outlet for the Far Right, Twitter is openly Nazi.
Oh noes: a private company that has no duty to challenge falsehoods has given up any pretense of giving a fuck.
They asolutely should and likely do have a duty to challenge falsehoods.
The word private makes people feel like it isnt anyone’s business but that isnt the case.
I’d rather “trust” a company that cuts the bullshit with notices like
The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood.
Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.to remind the user that trusting noncredible information from unreliable sources is a ridiculous concept.
Except for the users presenting shit as facts and it being promoted through their platform.
Nobody should use that app. It is a scurge to humanity.
Folks need to make the switch to literally anything else
Eu please put up or shut up. Either hold X accountable, or just say they are big to regulate and can do whatever
ban it already
If you still use twitter (no, asshole, you don’t get to own a letter of the alphabet - fuck off) then you are part of the problem.
I prefer to call it Xitter, with the X pronounced the Chinese way
elon has never liked community notes; they were just a holdover from old twitter and he’s been desperate to get rid of it.
