Free of Blues
[Twitter] https://images.plurk.com/2BV7pZEr37VJFOT9cWueFL.png Longstink's at it again, tell your friends.
Free of Blues
And by that I mean, obviously, tell your friends about plurk, the superior social media with an extremely functional and robust blocking system.
FʀᴏᴍTʜᴇFɪʀᴇ
FʀᴏᴍTʜᴇFɪʀᴇ
this violates an EU law probably
✧ Navigator ✧
oh my god
how bout hohono
this violates apple and googleplay tos lol
✧ Navigator ✧
probably cant afford their fees anymore lol
how bout hohono
not gonna help his case by piling up more violations and lawsuits lmaoooo
𝑆𝑎𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑚 ⚖️
lil baby man is just tired of how often he's been blocked
how bout hohono
https://images.plurk.com/4QGjroCOBwC85oU4wxzBAL.jpg

just so people don't think I was kidding about apple and googleplay requirements
how bout hohono
oops sorry that posted twice, thanks ctrl + v
🎄𝓭𝓮𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓮𝓭🎄
"it makes no sense" elon we don't all just get lightly teased like you
FʀᴏᴍTʜᴇFɪʀᴇ
see the thing about that is that technically there will still be a block system so just saying that it's a violation isn't something I agree with. In spirit it's a violation for sure! but in letter? that's one they'll have a fight over.
🎄𝓭𝓮𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓮𝓭🎄
i bet what it actually is, is a while back they "limited" people who blocked a lot of people, as if you'd broken some kind of actual rule isntead of just were curating your twitter, and he's still mad we can block ads and people who harass us
🎄𝓭𝓮𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓮𝓭🎄
because most of the harassment on twitter is absolutely not via DM to the person lmao, like
FʀᴏᴍTʜᴇFɪʀᴇ
Realistically though what will happen is the block button will be removed from tweets and profiles, but blocked users will remain blocked, because trying to change that part of the site infrastructure is too difficult for the number of devs they actually have left.
the krampus
man this muskrat infestation keeps getting worse
how bout hohono
yeah he won't be able to remove it entirely because he's fucking incompetent
how bout hohono
I'm sure someone will be able to dig in and go "yeah here's how you can still do it"
Le Tits Now
He's probably also mad that people are mass blocking blue check accounts
Ash!!1
Replurking but don't tell ppl about plurk it's nice and quiet here,,,
𝕘𝕣𝕖𝕖𝕟 𝕤𝕝𝕚𝕞𝕖
jcxgjxgjxgjxgjx I bet he's forgotten how many people HE'S blocked
𝕘𝕣𝕖𝕖𝕟 𝕤𝕝𝕚𝕞𝕖
he will reverse this in like a couple days
Catgirl Crimes
One Winged
it's probably because people are mass blocking blue subscribers
Rabbit Witch
its because he's the 1 blocked person
Rabbit Witch
anyway i could tell something was stupid with twitter because bluesky is slow as hell today
Pridepuffs
Does mute still work?
Pridepuffs
Or, I guess, will mute still work?
Pridepuffs
(assuming he actually does this, which I feel is a longshot in and of itself)
Kbity
anyone got any bluesky follows to recommend?
Tillie
how bout hohono : block abusive users ... yeah they will do. They will tell you to report those people and if there's enough reports, THEY will block them, maybe. :-P
Tillie
It is already not working NOW. I am sure many of the right-wing maga dudes get a shitton of reports, and nothing is happening.
how bout hohono
oh of course, that nice report system where people will post dead bodies but no violation will be found :-)
𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑢𝑠𝑡
they only respond to reports of you calling cis people... cis
how bout hohono
yeah, I love that discrimination is legal because of elon musk's religion of uhhhhhhhh muskrinanity
Tillie
I am just waiting for the EU to ban Twitter because of it's illegal content.
Cookie Politics
Cookie Politics
the relevant Google play rules, for those curious
oasis maker ☀️
He's realized millions of accounts block him and he doesn't want that.
Kbity
they also block advertisers
FAFO FOMO
And the big sell of the blue check to his followers was how they would be Important and Influential and people would have to listen to them
FAFO FOMO
Doesn't work if people block them, weirdly.
papermint tiger
i do find it very amusing that the check mark was so universally hated he started forcing it on people in an attempt to get people to stop blocking blue checkmarks
papermint tiger
stupid, but funny from the outside
Pen Again
I tried to look at Twitter accounts relevant to storm preparation for Hurricane/TS Hilary and ... how does anyone use Twitter now? please tell me that if logged in you at least see someone's account page tweets IN ORDERand not the hodge podge I was seeing when looking today?
SPOILER ALERT
hey friends without accounts, have you counted how many tweets you're allowed to look at?
SPOILER ALERT
it hadn't occured to me the last time I searched for something on google so I was surprised when I suddenly couldn't look at the site anymore
Pen Again
lol I did not count them. I just was like WTF this tweet shows on Google News for TODAY why am I seeing 2020 and 2018 as if these are the latest? and hit back
Pen Again
and then it happened again for another account I looked at and I was like... oh, ok. It's just BirdSite, it's not me or these accounts
Cookie Politics
yeah, muskrat broke any ability to view the site without an account
Aewin
Pen Again : You're correct that it's not chronological. I don't think you even see all their tweets if logged out, just the most popular. I checked a game's news page w/o realizing I was logged out and the last post showing was from October despite the fact that they post daily.
Pen Again
I'm not creating an account again so without a direct link to a tweet the site is unusable for me. oh well
papermint tiger
it's both astonishing and sad that Muskrat ruined that site so fast
Pen Again
truly
Jaydee
Said it before, I'll say it again. I'm hoping this is what finally kills Twitter.
transilience
somewhere in someone's attic, there's a portrait of this man that has saved the world multiple times
❝marti❞
i'm cxurrently in the middle of making sure i have everything i want that i've written off of there so i can delete the timeline contents
❝marti❞
i'm having trouble with a javascript that's supposed to make the t.co / Twitter links in your archive resolves
❝marti❞
it won't work
ʟɪɴᴀღ
texelations: where's the script? i can take a look. it's probably just a styling thing preventing the script from running or something
❝marti❞
the comment at the bottom is me, so that explains what i'm getting
ʟɪɴᴀღ
well, it looks like this was made in 2021. since this is relying on async stuff, it probably doesn't work on twitter at all anymore since the muskrat tried to "remove bots" or whatever by constantly ddos'ing his own site that one time. if this is working on other browsers or has worked for you recently, though-
ʟɪɴᴀღ
then it's hard to say without trying to use it myself and recreate the error and i don't have the time tonight :-(
ʟɪɴᴀღ
but if i had to guess, i'd say elon broke it...
❝marti❞
oh, shoot, i know i saw it recommended somewhere that was posted recently - that's why i was trying it - but maybe it was something that was just change or something? and i'm not sure where the rec was now. i've been googling and looking at recs like mad
❝marti❞
actually i was trying to get this one to work first - the in-browser tool that's linked - but it just sits there when i hit the button
GitHub - nornagon/twitter-bookmark-archiver: Downloa...
🎄𝓭𝓮𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓮𝓭🎄
t.co / Twitter links have been nuked along with all media from before 2014
Timothy Burke on X
for ... some reason.
❝marti❞
oh.
❝marti❞
ell,, that's certainly a way for this to have become moot!
❝marti❞
well*
❝marti❞
🎄𝓭𝓮𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓮𝓭🎄
welp
papermint tiger
that is absolutely the end of things
papermint tiger
oh wait that's just for verified users
Pen Again
can't imagine even many of the diehards will consent to that.
papermint tiger
but still, why would you do that
zoki.
yup x.x I really wish there was a comparable real-time storm warning feed for a whole region on some other site
zoki.
but in the meantime, for non-account-holders, nitter dot net is working again for now. if you replace the twitter dot com with nitter dot net in links, you can read profiles chronologically and whole threads instead of a single tweet
papermint tiger
it's honestly a problem, Twitter became such an important part of our world in many ways whether you like it or not. And one guy with a complex and more money than sense is just destroying that so casually
Pen Again
papermint tiger : yup. the number of public services that post to twitter to keep you up to date on in the moment things... is just lost now
zoki.
yup...I have my local NWS official site bookmarked, but it doesn't have the feed of warnings so I can see if they're approaching or going away from my town like Twitter did
Jay
the more he does, the more I believe that destroying it as a means for real time communication, news and organizing was the goal
Kbity
i just think of all the things $44bn could have been used for and just get so angry.
Pen Again
Jay : ngl after everything the last few years, not a bad theory
papermint tiger
honestly i could believe that, out of all the theories i've heard
papermint tiger
one of the ways humans get better and become greater is by learning about each other more, if people want to keep us stupid docile little sheep first they have to take away our means of talking to each other
Jay
and all his Saudi funding/connections? No doubt they would love to see the loss of a means of real time, on the ground organizing
Jaydee
On one hand, I don't believe in that theory because it would involve tanking your own reputation, due to other rich people not being happy about you falsifying a bid for Twitter, trying to take it back, buying it, and then tanking a company less out of malice and more out of stupidity.
Jaydee
Don Mattrick, after burning the Xbox brand to the ground back in the day, quit to Zinga, and then quit entirely and vanished off the grid. That's how many bridges the guy burnt.
Jaydee
But, on the other, there are cases of golden parachutes, and "favors" given and granted, alongside forgiveness. I think it greatly depends on how big are the bridges to destroy Twitter... and how much credit are we giving these people, when in that they are are just dumb.
Jaydee
There are too many cases in which, after a new boss takes over, said new boss is incredibly unaware of how the machine and system is supposed to work, so when he tries changing stuff he thinks is useless, he only breaks it. Chester's Fence at its core.
Jaydee
Chesterton's Fence*, apologies.
236 bees
while all this is true, at the same time i've got a mantra of never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by stupidity
Jaydee
Agreed.
236 bees
it is possible that this is an elaborate conspiracy theory and this is all a game of 5 dimensional chess, i guess
zoki.
I think...it's like, a mix of blunders and genuine malice
236 bees
but quite frankly it seems a lot less likely to me than no, elon is genuinely just 100% a moron
zoki.
he is absolutely making a lot of moves deliberately calculated to bolster his political ideology and silence the opposition
236 bees
who has never once has to deal with the 'real world' in quite this manner because he's had too much money to have to
236 bees
i'm not gonna say that he's not also doing that but yeah i mostly think he's just a moron lol
papermint tiger
Lol fair
Catgirl Crimes
There's a fine line between moronic and malicious and this man has both feet on the sides
Streets of Edo
he wants to make twitter more rightwing, he also has ideas on how to make more of a profit which are very dumb ideas, and it might be that he's also come to the point that he gets so much criticism and blowback that he'd rather nuke the sight than backtrack on anything
Streets of Edo
i'm not sure if he wanted to destroy it from the start, i think rather he thought he could "improve it" in a rightwing direction. but i think by now he doesn't mind if it all goes down.
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