Twitter is Still Throttling Competitors’ Links—Check for Yourself. (themarkup.org)
from 111@zerobytes.monster to technology@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 2023 21:05
https://zerobytes.monster/post/1861793

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thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 2023 21:15 next collapse

Twitter?

Anyway.

Buffalox@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 2023 19:14 collapse

The thing formerly known as Twitter.

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 2023 21:20 next collapse

This has got to be illegal somewhere, right?

there1snospoon@ttrpg.network on 15 Sep 2023 21:45 next collapse

It was, when we had net neutrality.

E: I have been corrected. FCC net neutrality only applied to ISP’s.

admiralteal@kbin.social on 15 Sep 2023 21:51 collapse

Twitter is not and never has been an ISP or anything resembling an ISP.

there1snospoon@ttrpg.network on 15 Sep 2023 21:53 collapse

Fair, you are correct.

Synnr@sopuli.xyz on 15 Sep 2023 21:57 next collapse

Twitter also has a broken unsubscribe link in their floods of email updates. I tried so many ways to click that link, I just had to block them. I know that breaks laws and think they can be charged a big amount every day that it’s not fixed. Maybe someone can look into that.

Trebach@kbin.social on 16 Sep 2023 01:34 collapse

Report it to the FTC.

Synnr@sopuli.xyz on 16 Sep 2023 07:37 collapse

Downvote the piss out of me, I deserve it, but I am lazy and under a great deal of stress at the moment. I hope putting this out there will let someone else do it.

HelloHotel@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 2023 18:56 collapse

0 downvotes as of writing this, your nowhere near being out of line. Your okay

Pratai@lemmy.ca on 15 Sep 2023 22:22 collapse

It’s twitter. Who really cares? It’s like…. A store that’s got a few weeks left before closing down. There’s nothing of any real value in it, and no one that’s relevant in any way goes there.

zoostation@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 2023 21:25 next collapse

Old people who still use Twitter are the new old people who still use Facebook.

Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de on 15 Sep 2023 21:59 next collapse

Is the authoritarian platform acting like an authoritarian platform? How odd.

BlinkerFluid@lemmy.one on 15 Sep 2023 22:15 next collapse

Twitter.

Insanely popular online yet I’ve never met a single soul in real life who even has an account. My cousin literally just made his first one to promote his band, like a week ago.

imo, Mastodon replaces Twitter, and effectively would if everyone moved at once. Most news, if it isn’t there is mirrored there.

There is the whole trans porn and titties situation on any default account, tho, same as lemmy.

yukichigai@kbin.social on 15 Sep 2023 22:51 next collapse

I am literally only on Twitter for the porn at this point. If I want actually intelligent microblogging I just peruse Mastodon via my Kbin account.

hddsx@lemmy.ca on 16 Sep 2023 16:17 next collapse

I have a Twitter account. I haven’t used it in at least 7 years.

I also tried to make one a few years ago called realDonaldTrumpParody, but Twitter wanted my phone number so I gave up on that

sheogorath@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 2023 18:51 next collapse

People that are still on xitter today are mostly terminally online people that doesn’t have a social circle outside of their xitter circle. Yea Mastodon feels like early day Twitter with lots of people just replying to what they found while exploring shit. However, it won’t reach critical mass if the influencers don’t move to it. Part of the reason Twitter got big in the first place is you can see lots of celebrities being candid there. I remember Hamilton’s meltdown on Twitter because he didn’t see his teammate in his follower list.

HelloHotel@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 2023 18:52 collapse

titties situation

Umm, what? (im not anywhere near twitter and feel verry ignorant)

Jaysyn@kbin.social on 15 Sep 2023 23:05 next collapse

No, because using Twitter is supporting a #fascist sympathizer.

FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 2023 23:08 next collapse

No thanks, I’ll just take your word for it.

[deleted] on 16 Sep 2023 02:42 collapse

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originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com on 15 Sep 2023 22:58 next collapse

who the fuck cares. its ded

IHaveTwoCows@lemm.ee on 16 Sep 2023 08:04 next collapse

I really like having joined Lemmy to replace reddit just to see content about xitter which I never visit or have an account for

snek@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 2023 09:09 next collapse

I think the position and positive effect that Twitter had for years, especially for journalists, is what makes these news surface more and more often now. Twitter had its bad side but it did what it did well, maybe quite well until they fried to introduce voice chat groups (to mirror Clubhouse if anyone remembers that abomination). Now with their transition to X, we are witnessing the shit era and it will soon be over so hold on tight.

ripcord@kbin.social on 16 Sep 2023 17:01 next collapse

soon be over

I have zero confidence in this.

Fedizen@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 2023 19:16 collapse

people still use myspace

IHaveTwoCows@lemm.ee on 16 Sep 2023 18:48 collapse

Individual ownership always leads to that kind of corruption.

Buffalox@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 2023 19:12 collapse

This is the way.

Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca on 16 Sep 2023 19:38 next collapse

I feel like Elon Musk is of the same mindset I was on during my adolescent years cyber-sexing on mIRC. Surely adding an X at the end of my handle makes me sound way cooler than I am.

Snowpix@lemmy.ca on 16 Sep 2023 20:47 collapse

Spamming X’s in a username gives me massive Xbox Live squeaker vibes.

schestophrenicwitz@leminal.space on 16 Sep 2023 20:27 collapse

That’s why I use Pkteerium.xyz!