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Watch them go nowhere in two weeks.

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how does it feel to be absolutely wrong you frickin gay shark

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lmao just saw this

Just some quick thoughts, given the news today that Twitter’s board has agreed in principle to become a privately held company again.

  1. There seems to be universal consensus that you know who will fundamentally ruin the core product if he gets his way, and I think that’s true. But, there aren’t good options for holding off a hostile takeover right now, since the reality is Twitter makes decent income but is deeply uninteresting to billionaires who only want to supercharge its advertising surveillance.

  2. We always have the option to leave. I am keeping my finger on the delete button for a long while should this deal go through, and you should too. Start building alternatives: group chats on Signal or iMessage, start a newsletter (I’d migrate off of here, obviously, but I have been so busy this semester there’s nothing to migrate), maybe look at a privacy-respecting app like Snapchat. But do not be sentimental about a dumb website even if you like it and it’s been good for your career.

  3. Something to keep in mind about you know who: his values are antithetical to Twitter’s values. One of them has to change. It’s most likely the values of the site will change, but those values are its key feature and it will impose a steep cost. Look for how he tries to make up for that cost, possibly by trying to siphon users back from Gab/TruthSocial/Parler, etc.

  4. If he starts allowing open fascism on the site by re-platforming OAN personalities and the former president, you know who has no argument for not allowing worse stuff. Having the power to enforce free speech absolutism is very different from just blathering about it all the time.

  5. You know who has a history of going after critics – canceling orders, illegally firing them, swatting them. If he goes after critics, he loses the free speech label & ruins the key advantage of the platform. Again, look for what he does to make up for it.

  6. If he implements a full edit button, he ruins their real time data analytics and targeting systems (they make most of their income from that).

  7. I don’t doubt that you know who wants to do these things. I also don’t think he’s above doing any of these things. I just think if he does it will destroy the company. There are no upsides to staying on it.

  8. I also think he’s so desperate to be popular and validated he won’t do it for a while at least. For the time being, changes will be slight.

  9. Deleting old tweets is going to be a question mark. Old tweets are useless to users; they are the most common fodder for coordinated mass harassment. I strongly suggest everyone delete their back history. Download your data if you want to keep it, but don’t let it stay public.

The biggest thing I’m worried about is something I have expressed before: the extremely malicious β€œgroomer” blood libel being directed at LGBT+ people. You know who went to court to defend his β€œright” to accuse random people who displeased of being p-dophiles just for kicks. He is a proud transphobe and dozens of LGBT employees have accused him of fostering an anti-LGBT work environment and of personally mocking them for being queer.

Even more than the speech thing, you know who’s homophobia and transphobia happen at scale at his companies, and he goes to lengths to deny the targets justice or accountability. Twitter has made very good strides the last several years at tamping down on homophobic harassment – not enough, but they’ve been going in the right direction. For example, reporting people who use the β€œgroomer” blood libel has resulted in deletions and suspensions. I have no confidence that that will continue. If it ends, I leave, full stop.

This whole thing just isn’t good. A favorite social platform is going to be changed fundamentally, disrupting what has become a key journ*lism platform. I’m not thrilled with it, but I don’t think it spells immediate disaster for most users, especially not until the transaction is completed and he has a chance to take over.

But, in the meantime, why don’t you delete all of your old tweets and DMs? Just to reduce the amount of ammunition he has for behaving as he always does: like a bully.

https://www.getrevue.co/profile/jrfoust/issues/understanding-the-public-sphere-surviving-the-new-twitter-if-it-happens-1151121

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He is a proud transphobe and dozens of LGBT employees have accused him of fostering an anti-LGBT work environment and of personally mocking them for being queer.

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The fact that he has "dozens of LGBT employees" is a pretty clear indicator that he doesn't hate gays lol

Trans lives matter

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Nothing wrong with loving bussy. The BTs are the real problem IMO.

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The G doesn’t exist. Anyone on the receiving end of a peepee is a woman by definition.

!blackjack101

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Rookie numbers, gotta get that groomer number up

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you know who will fundamentally ruin the core product

This would require a core product that could get worse.

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privacy-respecting app like Snapchat

The lack of computer literacy some people have never ceases to amaze me.


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This has to be bait. No real human can believe this.

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It's privacy-respecting because the messages disappear after you send them!

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The real schizo apps are not meant to be user friendly...

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They mention Signal which is schizo enough.


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I use signal with my normie friends. I manually construct and send encrypted packets to single use sockets my homies.


:#marseytwerking:

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I'm relativity certain that even OTR on Pidgin is broken. I think only one-time-pads are not pozzed at this point :marseydoomer:


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obvious glowie is obvious

this post brought to you by RFC 2549 gang

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I think someone got that to work IRL lol.


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Deleting old tweets is going to be a question mark. Old tweets are useless to users; they are the most common fodder for coordinated mass harassment. I strongly suggest everyone delete their back history. Download your data if you want to keep it, but don’t let it stay public.

Hide the grooming :marseyschizowall:

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they are the most common fodder for coordinated mass harassment

The same way we clapped all those chuds off the face of the earth because of shit they said 12 years ago? Huh

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Wew lad I read this whole thing as if you were posting it as your own unironic thoughts. Scrolled down so fast to light you up I almost missed it was supposed to be a quote post.

:#marseylongpost2:

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Wew lad I read this whole thing as if you were posting it as your own unironic thoughts. Scrolled down so fast to light you up I almost missed it was supposed to be a quote post.

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No, don't reply like this, please do another wall of unhinged rant please.

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quick thoughts

wall of text

of course he looks like this

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Bong mike shinoda

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i thought this was actually you saying that, and not a quote and i was like chiobu who?? :marseyhmm: :marseyhmmm:

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Twitter’s values

Lmao

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It’s hilarious to me that no one even seems to be considering moving to Mastodon

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that's just how shit mastodon is

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this type of person is not aware that computers and the Internet is anything more than 10 top social media websites

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If he manages to run off the far leftoids and bring back normal rightoids but not like Storm front rightoids he may make the site more profitable and usable. Wing nuts suck and the Twitter ones don't realize that they suck.

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But, in the meantime, why don’t you delete all of your old tweets and DMs? Just to reduce the amount of ammunition he has

Do they think Elon is going to personally bully every train on twitter?

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I know what I'm dreaming about tonight.


:#marseytwerking:

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Long posts contribute to global warming, how dare you! :marseymad:

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Start building alternatives

Bruh just delete Twitter and touch some grass for once. It's not that hard

maybe look at a privacy-respecting app like Snapchat

Holy shit lmao. These people are something else

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What happened to, it's a private company, they can make their own rules?

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No no no, you don't understand. Trains use it to cry post and people that make fun of them get banned, so it's no longer a private company its a public utility and safe space for marginalized communities that must be protected from evil capitalist facists who want to restrict free speech by not banning people for the things they say

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Imagine a world where we could freely speak our mind. How horrible.

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b..but that’s my only SAFE SPACE!!!!

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make this website that much more dangerous

Hahahahahahahaha How The Frick Is Cyber Bullying Real Hahahaha Train Just Walk Away From The Screen Like Train Close You're Eyes Haha

Trans lives matter is no longer Twitter policy

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Until he removes the block button (which he might) people should try using that

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I doubt he will remove the block feature. I'm sure even Elon likes to block people. He will probably remove the "only certain people can respond to this tweet" tools.

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No. Blocking is not enough. I need the corporation to censor my enemies so no one can see them, CHUD.

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I disagree. Leaving is a great way to send a message. When Musk starts losing money I'm sure his opinion will change even if its halfhearted.

The delusion these people have...

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Does the bird app even make money?


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It finally started breaking even around ~2020 iirc.

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we're going to see groomer rhetoric turned up to 11

Speaking of 11, how about you stop sending private messages to 11 year olds offering spiro and maybe the groomer stuff wouldn't be sticking so much?

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what the heck do they mean by β€œunsafe”?? just log off??

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Is Musk even transphobic

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He's cis so yes.


:#marseyklennycross:

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He’s transracial though (African-American to Rich)

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Loads of basketball-americans are rich, we even have a marsey of my favorite one

:#marseyyeezus:

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if he wasn't before, he definitely is now that manning stole his rat GF from him

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Not even out of jealousy but because he'd never admit to himself that he turned his girlfriend into a lesbian.

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Yes

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He has gone on record denouncing the trans lives matter movement.

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how can twitter be dangerous like just delete your account lmao

if you say β€œdoxxing” or β€œharassment campaign” you can get those on kiwi farm or pastebin or chapotraphouse.club already targeted toward twitter users

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elon's gonna put all the trans people in a big bubblin' witches cauldron and cook em up! :marseywitch2: we gotta stop this cretin at any cost (to you i'm neurodivergent sorry)

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The easy solution is to move to a Mastodon instance. It’s already infested with :!marseytrain:s and has many features they would like.

The fact is their egos are too big for this.


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Elon Musk should start dating J.K Rowling just to max out his dramacoin

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It's 43% now

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I thought Elon was cringe when he was about space exploration and reddit sucked his peepee, but me being a contrarian, i have to say i'm starting to like him now

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Good bye strags. Don't let the doorknob hit your on the way out.

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I do not want to be reminded of straight people's existence. I do not want to see straight people. I do not want to interact with straight people. I don't want straight people to see, award, or reply to my posts.

I am dead serious, this is a real feature that real social networks have, and i really want it on rDrama too.

Snapshots:

https://twitter.com/RealHintKeeper/status/1518673180784832512:

https://twitter.com/ErinInTheMorn/status/1518670501287186432:

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So they at least agree twitter was a :marseytrain: safe space

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the biggest fear I have is this site will become analogous to the youtube comment section and unusable. At some point this platform may just lose its utility.

oh no...

anyways

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Damm i might actually make a twitter now.

Do you need to use your phone #?

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I know he's only one person, but dare I say that @ACCOUNT-FOR-SALE / @LLM (or at least people like him) helped push this to happen, however indirectly. He helped stoke the furnace of the trains which in turn made them go faster and faster, shout louder and ultimately overshoot, in turn stirring up drama and getting Twitter to cuck and enforce their rules more strictly, which resulted in making certain relatively innocent people and companies the target of the badmins.

Babylon bee included.

(who Elon likes).

In turn coaxing Elon to buy it all up.

Thank you LLM. Thank you for your service. Your work at Twitter is complete.

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eh they will be back in 2 weeks

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I'd pay $200 to see Keffals say , "Ratio" and for Elon to say, "Actually, no" and undo it.

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Keffels r-slurred ratio nonsense might actually be worse than Sal

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