discussion Anti-Social & Lurker - Hideout spot

[magicace]

Twitter isn't "good", but it's better than it was and for a time it was better than it was now, but then he went and hired Linda Yaccarino. It still capitulates to over 80% of censorship requests despite Elon claiming to be a free speech absolutist so he's a hypocrite, but he at least has freer speech.

He's just using the platform to spew his own style of crazy. Elon is a man-child. I hop onto Twitter from time to time and I just feel sad for the bulk of those people. Not trying to generalize, but the stuff I see on there is vile.

 

[Flaming1]

I bought my cat an excercise wheel, but I don't think she quite understands the concept.

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[Arachel]

He's just using the platform to spew his own style of crazy. Elon is a man-child. I hop onto Twitter from time to time and I just feel sad for the bulk of those people. Not trying to generalize, but the stuff I see on there is vile.

I'm not a fan of Elon and the people that think he's some sort of messiah seems to forget he used to be a darling of the left-wing which he has kind of turned against. I'm saying there is "less" censorship on X than there was on Twitter. I agree though he's a narcissistic hypocrite and Rumble is doing what Elon claims he'd do far far better than what Elon is actually putting forward. "Better" is a far cry from "good".

 

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[DoverDad]

Bungle shit the bed again this is from there Twitter account
This morning, we shared an important update with the Bungie team on the difficult decision to eliminate 220 roles at Bungie. You can read the full statement below.

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[Underlord]

Bungle shit the bed again this is from there Twitter account
This morning, we shared an important update with the Bungie team on the difficult decision to eliminate 220 roles at Bungie. You can read the full statement below.

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Bungie who are those guys haha?

 

[jsmith666]

Well shit, I come back from packing to see all the love from @Happy Time in the reacts but no posts. Miss you sir. I hope you are well.

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[toroidal]

I bought my cat an excercise wheel, but I don't think she quite understands the concept.

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ADORABLE CAT
did you keep the box? She might appreciate that even more. Standard stuff for cats really

 

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Spoiler: Raccoonus Maximus

Oh algeo, you magnificent raccoon with the wisdom of a sage, the luxurious fur of a dream, and not to mention the modesty of a monk!

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Spoiler: Past Slum

I will beat you one day. You will rue the day you decided to become my nemesis!

Spoiler: Kuma of the mono

It's always a pleasure to have you skulking around!

Spoiler: Mime

But I thought he was a middle-class/humble lurker!??!

Spoiler: Arachel

I agree! Identity theft is EXTREMELY serious!! I'm glad it's never happened to me...

Spoiler: Micmitja

Ok, this one is actually not a joke reply.

Read the text that pops up when it asks you for a donation and you'll figure out why you don't need incognito.

It's completely free, you only need to donate if you want to get rid of the watermark. You just need to steal some candy every few gifs you make.

Spoiler: Flaming

Oh, you!

Spoiler: Clank

We always praise me in this household!

Spoiler: Jsmith

Hey J!

Spoiler: Bonki

How's my bonki doing?

Spoiler: Summoning mods

@Guz89 @Shawnchapp @BeowulfKnight @mime
Take a break from whatever you're doing, and come in here.
I, the legitimate and actual slum am summoning you!

Summoning is complete!

Oh and by the way, has anyone seen algeo around today? He is suspiciously absent...

GUZMEISTER HELP ME! I DON'T KNOW WHO THAT IS, BUT IT'S NOT ME!
Or has the Hivemind decided that we needed to Slumdums?

Double the slum, double the fun I say.

 

[Underlord]

I bought my cat an excercise wheel, but I don't think she quite understands the concept.

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I thought real pussy was not allowed here haha

 

[Mahbu005]

Bungle shit the bed again this is from there Twitter account
This morning, we shared an important update with the Bungie team on the difficult decision to eliminate 220 roles at Bungie. You can read the full statement below.

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Nuthin pisses me off more than seeing shit like this, I don't play a single bungie game yet i hear D2 is massively successful and they are seriously raking in the dough, yet here they are suppossedly breaking into the red?

 

[kuraiken]

Twitter isn't "good", but it's better than it was and for a time it was better than it was now, but then he went and hired Linda Yaccarino. It still capitulates to over 80% of censorship requests despite Elon claiming to be a free speech absolutist so he's a hypocrite, but he at least has freer speech.

Is it?

I think it's objectively worse.
If you're Elon, you paid 44$B for what's estimated as of Dec last year to be only worth $12.5B. That's nearly a quarter of the original value.
Due to the large amount of misinformation, desinformation, hate speech, insults and other for advertisers undesireable communication, ads are now worth almost nothing and almost no one buys any. Revenue is in the cellar.

If you're an advertiser, there is no end to the unfortunate screenshots of your product being advertised next to - and in context of - material you don't want connected to your brand.
As a result, most don't advertise. Not even for the ad space twitter offers for now almost nothing. Lots of supply, zero demand.

And if you're the product (the user), you now get an oceanload of misinformation and lies broadcast everywhere. Underneath every trending tweet are endless off-topic tweets from people trying to cash in on the visibility by posting their own unrelated nonsense to the point you often cannot find additional info on the original tweet without combing through hundreds of trash tweets. And thanks to twitter blue people who don't have anything to say are shown first, posting inane or stupid things no one needs to read.
It's a stinky garbage pile.

And twitter is already going to have to deal with the slow-buildup of legal consequences to their decisions these last two years. Once that reaches the "we've had enough level", twitter will just implode under the fines.

 

[Flaming1]

I thought real pussy was not allowed here haha

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[Underlord]

Is it?

I think it's objectively worse.
If you're Elon, you paid 44$B for what's estimated as of Dec last year to be only worth $12.5B. That's nearly a quarter of the original value.
Due to the large amount of misinformation, desinformation, hate speech, insults and other for advertisers undesireable communication, ads are now worth almost nothing and almost no one buys any. Revenue is in the cellar.

If you're an advertiser, there is no end to the unfortunate screenshots of your product being advertised next to - and in context of - material you don't want connected to your brand.
As a result, most don't advertise. Not even for the ad space twitter offers for now almost nothing. Lots of supply, zero demand.

And if you're the product (the user), you now get an oceanload of misinformation and lies broadcast everywhere. Underneath every trending tweet are endless off-topic tweets from people trying to cash in on the visibility by posting their own unrelated nonsense to the point you often cannot find additional info on the original tweet without combing through hundreds of trash tweets. And thanks to twitter blue people who don't have anything to say are shown first, posting inane or stupid things no one needs to read.
It's a stinky garbage pile.

And twitter is already going to have to deal with the slow-buildup of legal consequences to their decisions these last two years. Once that reaches the "we've had enough level", twitter will just implode under the fines.

What is tweeter is that some platform like X?
I am to young to know what that is haha

 

[Arachel]

Is it?

I think it's objectively worse.
If you're Elon, you paid 44$B for what's estimated as of Dec last year to be only worth $12.5B. That's nearly a quarter of the original value.
Due to the large amount of misinformation, desinformation, hate speech, insults and other for advertisers undesireable communication, ads are now worth almost nothing and almost no one buys any. Revenue is in the cellar.

If you're an advertiser, there is no end to the unfortunate screenshots of your product being advertised next to - and in context of - material you don't want connected to your brand.
As a result, most don't advertise. Not even for the ad space twitter offers for now almost nothing. Lots of supply, zero demand.

And if you're the product (the user), you now get an oceanload of misinformation and lies broadcast everywhere. Underneath every trending tweet are endless off-topic tweets from people trying to cash in on the visibility by posting their own unrelated nonsense to the point you often cannot find additional info on the original tweet without combing through hundreds of trash tweets. And thanks to twitter blue people who don't have anything to say are shown first, posting inane or stupid things no one needs to read.
It's a stinky garbage pile.

And twitter is already going to have to deal with the slow-buildup of legal consequences to their decisions these last two years. Once that reaches the "we've had enough level", twitter will just implode under the fines.

Yes it is. Let's see when the left had control of it they censored right wing commentary and labeled it as disinformation. Yeah so where did Covid come from again? China, oh I thought that was "disinformation". They entirely made up the 6 feet rule. Faucci had financial incentives to push the vaccine to children which didn't need it, but they used old Twitter to do it anyway.

Community notes helps regulate the lies expounded by the leftwing propaganda news sources. You're getting slightly more balanced takes on the platform than you were, but hey there's always Mastodon or Threads for the left wing. How'd that work out for them?

You think it's obectively worse because you're left leaning and pro-censorship is what's really going on complete with NPC talking points about hate speech, disinformation, misinformation etc.

 

[Amman]

Hello everyone

I have a bit more time today

 

[scdev]

Hello everyone

I have a bit more time today

 

[Amman]

 

[toroidal]

this gif reminds me of an off-road recovery youtube channel for some reason

 

[kuraiken]

Yes it is. Let's see when the left had control of it they censored right wing commentary and labeled it as disinformation. Yeah so where did Covid come from again? China, oh I thought that was "disinformation". They entirely made up the 6 feet rule. Faucci had financial incentives to push the vaccine to children which didn't need it, but they used old Twitter to do it anyway.

Community notes helps regulate the lies expounded by the leftwing propaganda news sources. You're getting slightly more balanced takes on the platform than you were, but hey there's always Mastodon or Threads for the left wing. How'd that work out for them?

You think it's obectively worse because you're left leaning and pro-censorship is what's really going on complete with NPC talking points about hate speech, disinformation, misinformation etc.

Nah, and you may have noticed that I didn't need to draw things into the political for my arguments. You're inventing reasons that fit your bias and come up with things you say I am because it's convenient for your argument. You didn't even check in with me or ask me, did you?

Here's the truth why twitter is bad, and I don't use it - and none of the people I know do either.

It's a negative emotion hole.
I log into this thread, what do I see?
Algeo impersonating Slumdum, Underlord getting bonked by Bonk. People having fun, laughing, teasing each other.

I log into twitter what do I see? The latest outrage. The next thing to be angry about. Every tweet is something where people complain, insult, radicalize, are angry, on every political spectrum. And it pulls you in, and it makes you miserable and it doesn't let go.
It's an endless negative emotion spiral, a vortex of misery.

And for what? On twitter, you're not the customer. You're the product.
The algorythm pulls you in, gets your attention, and then pimps you out to the advertisers. Twitter's a bordel, Elon's the pimp, and they whore you out to the advertisers for a couple pennies.
When I realized that, I left. And that's why I'm not using twitter.

Instead, I log on here and watch people post funny memes with dogs pulling on ropes, chuckle and have a beer.
No outrage, no misery.

Go where life's good, not where it's miserable.

Now where were those dog memes?