x/Twitter (from Anime Limited Discussion Thread)

Seems to be put behind the "Age-restricted adult content" wall requiring someone to give Elon personal details, so he can sell to the highest bidder.

Anyhow back to the gamble to which AL title will get delayed next
 
HellCat said:
It's a funny visual gag about a series AL have continuously promoted.
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If it was specifically about AL's release of the series then sure that'd be relevant but on its own I don't think it should be in the thread. The general anime thread is probably best for that kind of thing
 
Regarding Twitter itself (or 'X' as Elon wants people to call it). In my eyes it's gotten a lot worse this year, lot more spam accounts trying to get your money for the latest scam (including those accounts who pay for a blue tick).
With him introducing a fee for new accounts in New Zealand, I can see him restricting use for free accounts worldwide by this time next year. You will still be able to use it but only allowed to post a limited number of times a day with no media, just to encourage users to give him money as he massively overpaid for it.

Come 2025 I reckon it will be like the next Myspace & countless other social networks which have died with a death feedback loop of less companies paying to advertise due to the fall in genuine active users.
 
I have my disagreements with the man (mainly that I would in fact like AI to be given ultimate power and for humanity to die out) but Musk buying the platform formerly known as Twitter has been worth it if only for the number of people outed as hypocrites by their previous smug parroting of "free speech doesn't apply on private platforms, the company that owns the service has the right to kick you off" but now that Musk owns that private company and is making the decision to not kick people off, that's not his right, that's dangerous borderline fascism and he should be forced by law to remove content. So what those people really meant was that they like it when private companies censor people they disagree with, and if they don't then the government should.

Frankly, the fact platforms feel the need to have to be "decent" in order to to attract advertisers is just a sad state of affairs in general which leads to censorship for profit, as we've seen Google happily engage in for years with China and YouTube demonetisation. What I'd really like to see is a social media network where you can connect with people who are actually interested in the same things, rather than having to wade through an ocean of mundane "trending" crap you're not remotely interested in and where anything goes provided it's not illegal. Tumblr used to be decent until the porn ban (which ironically wiped out 99% of its value, work that one out, anyone who thinks social media websites have to be clean to be profitable), Mastadon currently seems to be making a decent go of it.
 
Lots more spammy adverts these days I'm finding. Both for legal (Chinese drop shippers selling the latest best product) and dodgy sites (porn/scams).

As well as the bot accounts whom pay for Blue (or whatever it's called) for adverts which are basically a post with that account name with 200K+ views in an attempt to fool the system into giving them money as a share of advert revenue. Reading news stories from the main media sites is a minefield of comments of shocked smilies or pointless responses like "Why" or responses which basically repeat the headline.
 
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