Ah, so he's going to stop posting there? Right?
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Now that the election is over and we won, let's remove our bots. - musk
Oh, c'mon, who's going to tell him he is the best dad? He needs them.
I mean, he will on an alt.
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Ah, but there are still elections in other parts of the world, like Germany, where he is also very active
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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!
This is exactly what he means.
Next up the sanctioned daily hate.
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.
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He’s shutting down his account?
Lol. Free Speech guy!
A cisgender guy.
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free speech absolutist
Free speech abolitionist, more like.
my puppet is in power — everyone be nice now.
Instead of “bad” you have to say “ungood” from now on.
Double plus ungood!
"Maybe if you tell me the bad news in a good way, it won't sound so bad."
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X/Twitter is a misinformation platform. If you know a major influencer that uses, consider informing and directing them to the ActivityPub alternatives, even advertising on their platforms if you can.
Sadly we lost that fight to the other centralised platform in Bluesky
Anything that’s not Twitter is good
Blue sky (and just about anything else) is an improvement, but remember, there is no bottom, things can always be worse. Truth Social and Gab both still exist.
These websites, because they are all centralized, are all ultimately moderated in accordance with the whims of their owners, the effect of which was thrown into sharp relief after Apartheid Willy Wonka bought Twitter.
With a federated platform like Mastodon, no single owner would be able to do this. If an instance suddenly became terrible, they could be de-federated and they'd lose their reach.
Of course, if one instance became particularly large, the 'whims of the owner' problem would come right back, but at least the alternatives would still be readily available.
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Closing the shop will achieve that goal perfectly.
Now that the election is over, he’s hiding the lightning rod.
Right, he should remove the last few humans and replace them with bots.
He's such a fucking baby
Incumbent wants everyone to talk about how great things are.
Project mayhem needs to take his balls
Don't want any Debbie-downers on Shitter once his bestie is in the big chair.
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.
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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.
I'm curious whether Truth Social will acquire Xitter, or vice versa.
And when.
Reading the title I thought he'll retire.
Should just use his AI to turn all the negative comments into positive ones.
Problem solved 🙃
Um, Elon Musk is a... brilliant man with lots of well thought-out, practical, ideas. He is insuring the financial security of this company for years to come. Oh yes, and his personal hygiene is above reproach.
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Elon Musk is a disgusting piece of shit.
Positivity Bot: Elon musk is a silly poop particle 😁
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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.
Now that his pick has won the election there’ll be no need for negativity now!
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