Facebook, Google, et al

[randylahey]

I never heard any of you criticize Elon until the mainstream media started telling you he was "bad" and now look at you

Wake up. Wake up

[ousdahl]

randy, precisely what do you think we need to wake up to?

also, despite the valid criticism, Elon still prob gets more "good" treatment by the mainstream media than "bad"

oh, and PS - I've criticized that turd for years.

[ousdahl]

Zuck poised to roll out a new platform to rival twitter

[randylahey]

Zuck poised to roll out a new platform to rival twitter

So Facebook/meta,Instagram, and another now?

[ousdahl]

right?

but apparently it's supposed to be a more twitter-esque platform, with 500 character limits to posts and such.

The thing about it tho that Zuck won't get is, what made twitter good was not simply the character limits, but more that the search feature and hashtags and such worked so much better than any Meta product ever has. That's what made Twitter super to Facebook and Insta as a tool for breaking news and current events.

As has been noted in this thread, those features have really gone downhill since twitter got taken over by Space Karen. And, I just don't see how injecting the Meta algorithm to throttle searches and hashtags on a twitter-style platform would make a twitter-style platform any more appealing.

[Shirley]

I'm for anyone who wants to start an alternative, (I know there are a number already, but none seem to have taken hold), that's much-like old twitter, before Leon turned it into a dystopian hellscape that drove away almost 60% of its advertising revenue. It would seem like there's an opportunity, just charge a subscription fee and make people identify themselves, which would serve to weed out the bots and riff raff, (hopefully), and bring the advertisers back. I suggest Mark Cuban...

June 5, 2023: Elon Musk recently said Twitter’s advertising business was on the upswing. “Almost all advertisers have come back,” he asserted, adding that the social media company could soon become profitable.

But Twitter’s U.S. advertising revenue for the five weeks from April 1 to the first week of May was $88 million, down 59 percent from a year earlier, according to an internal presentation obtained by The New York Times. The company has regularly fallen short of its U.S. weekly sales projections, sometimes by as much as 30 percent, the document said.

That performance is unlikely to improve anytime soon, according to the documents and seven current and former Twitter employees.

Twitter’s ad sales staff is concerned that advertisers may be spooked by a rise in hate speech and pornography on the social network, as well as more ads featuring online gambling and marijuana products, the people said. The company has forecast that its U.S. ad revenue this month will be down at least 56 percent each week compared with a year ago, according to one internal document.

...The state of Twitter’s advertising is crucial because ads have long made up 90 percent of the company’s revenue. After Mr. Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion in October and took the company private, he vowed to build “the most respected ad platform.” But he quickly alienated advertisers by firing key sales executives, spreading a conspiracy theory on the site and welcoming back barred Twitter users....

[ousdahl]

soooo

Threads…

[KUTradition]

if the trend continues, twitter will end up being just a bunch of randys circle-jerking themselves and musk

[defixione]

Truth Social has that niche covered.

[pdub]

I’d prefer Twitter in theory if Musk held to his original standards but then he started banning journalists and marking news organizations with labels because he was upset with what they said.

Threads is already too heavy on moderation for me.

The perfect system is one where everyone can post publicly even if it’s really shitty but can be filtered out to where they aren’t visible to the people who have no interest in what they say either from the user initially setting things or from machine learning.

[RainbowsandUnicorns]

I’d prefer Twitter in theory if Musk held to his original standards but then he started banning journalists and marking news organizations with labels because he was upset with what they said.

Threads is already too heavy on moderation for me.

The perfect system is one where everyone can post publicly even if it’s really shitty but can be filtered out to where they aren’t visible to the people who have no interest in what they say either from the user initially setting things or from machine learning.

In other words.... Crim.commie

[pdub]

I’d be even more agnostic if this was paying my bills.

Instead here you may get a temporary timeout for being an asshole in a live sports thread which doesn’t follow the above principles.

[ousdahl]

if the trend continues, twitter will end up being just a bunch of randys circle-jerking themselves and musk

Trick question?

Musk IS a randy circle-jerking himself

[ousdahl]

Threads is already too heavy on moderation for me.

How so?

Not disagreeing, just haven’t even touched threads yet and trying to understand

[pdub]

Meta has come out with a strong policy against sexuality on Threads.

[jhawks99]

Every time I hear "threads", I'm thinking blue jeans and tee shirts.

[ousdahl]

Meta has come out with a strong policy against sexuality on Threads.

Bro did you join another social media just to post a continuous thread of dick pics again?

[pdub]

I haven’t joined Threads.
Meta are bigger data miners than Twitter.

I was speaking about the ideal social media platform of which will never exist.

[ousdahl]

Ah.

But yea, Zuck has always been pretty uptight about sexuality.

Besides, there’s some line between sexuality and nude art.

The lighting is exquisite on that dick pic you took in the sweets aisle of the 7-11.

[ousdahl]

But yea, the issue with threads is Zuck inevitably designed it for optimal data mining, rather than optimal user experience and basic functionality…just like all his other platforms.

Plus, there’s the issue of one evil rich dood controlling pretty much every single social media platform…yuck for Zuck

Tho all Zuck yuck aside, it’s pretty hilarious that somebody’s sticking it to Elon