Post ASP8BNuGIkhkVnEoIS by rodneylives@mefi.social
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(DIR) Post #ASNKMGRZCNcXgYqmW0 by stefan@stefanbohacek.online
2023-02-05T13:32:48Z
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Ah, so now he wants you to produce free content for his dying, unstable platform, after threatening you, on a whim, to shut off your free access. I see.https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/04/elon-musk-says-twitter-will-provide-a-free-write-only-api-to-bots-providing-good-content/In response, I will be discontinuing all my projects that rely on Twitter's API, and I advise you all to do the same, rather than let him decide their fate. #twitter #TwitterAPI #TwitterBots
(DIR) Post #ASNKMI1lJIASb6nCZU by stefan@stefanbohacek.online
2023-02-05T14:01:24Z
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And hey, if your livelihood depends on Twitter API, I get it, this sounds like good news. But your business is not saved, you just bought a bit more time. You should really start thinking about your exit strategy before he changes his mind again.
(DIR) Post #ASNKMJ9b7e1u5hSyQK by stefan@stefanbohacek.online
2023-02-05T13:41:46Z
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Oh, that's right, he did the same thing when he started firing people and driving them away, only to realize he actually needs them. Hmm.https://futurism.com/panicked-elon-musk-begging-engineers-not-to-leave
(DIR) Post #ASNSAyohC6UhSqnapU by stux@mstdn.social
2023-02-05T18:15:34Z
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@stefan Thank you for that ❤️ Let's all stop feeding the bird dictator 💪
(DIR) Post #ASNbbCjoxN4bl16A6a by lamp@mastodong.lol
2023-02-05T20:01:13Z
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@stefan Wtf is this "Actually Verified" thing now?
(DIR) Post #ASNbgVcQBbdllLAOkS by stefan@stefanbohacek.online
2023-02-05T20:02:11Z
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@lamp Just a really nifty browser extension! https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/109812772068624072
(DIR) Post #ASNbpQSGkp6QLzfbCS by lamp@mastodong.lol
2023-02-05T20:03:47Z
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@stefan ohh lol okay I thought it was something new even more ridiculous
(DIR) Post #ASNbyfLKln1P8PpeRU by stefan@stefanbohacek.online
2023-02-05T20:05:28Z
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@lamp You just never know with Twitter these days!
(DIR) Post #ASNnyVw6wWwrPTjDY8 by shoq@mastodon.social
2023-02-05T18:18:59Z
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@stefan We're going to pay to keep our unreleased extension active, because it will be useful in promoting the next migration exodus. But it's hardly part of our business model. That's all shifting to the fedi, now. We mostly post content there first (or only) now.
(DIR) Post #ASNnyWaWWHH5QodUXY by stefan@stefanbohacek.online
2023-02-05T18:22:02Z
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@shoq Yeah, I'd probably do the same, begrudgingly.
(DIR) Post #ASNnyXEE8f29PxDCQS by shoq@mastodon.social
2023-02-05T18:28:51Z
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@stefan There's also that small but real chance that Elmo bails out, and: a) declares bankruptcy, orb) takes my advice and donates the whole Twitter enterprise to a nonprofit and writes off his $20 billion personal lossIn either case, it could end up in the hands of more competent stewards, and if that happens, I'll want my personal account (and extension) to reemerge. It's a longshot, but still a plausible outcome of this tragic farce.
(DIR) Post #ASNnyY8wjmP6FrkUpk by stefan@stefanbohacek.online
2023-02-05T18:37:40Z
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@shoq Definitely. Personally, I'd love to see the social web move towards the fediverse model.Honestly, I'd love it if Twitter just got sold and the new owner decided to follow Tumblr and Flickr and make it compatible with fediverse. I'm not a purist and I do accept that most people prefer convenience and ease of use. But the rest of us shouldn't be held hostage.
(DIR) Post #ASO7CEf9rOkZ1L3TiC by post@qoto.org
2023-02-06T01:55:18Z
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@stefanI hope this will turn into a more general lesson of not depending on proprietary closed-source silos.
(DIR) Post #ASOf2atdjqHzWSP3Pk by zleap@qoto.org
2023-02-06T08:14:31Z
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@stefan Agreed, Musk and those around him, need to learn actions have consequences. How is he making these decisions alone? Surely the board are meant to overrule poor decision making as part of their duty to hold people to account.
(DIR) Post #ASOogxKycd8eICViW8 by gotofritz@fosstodon.org
2023-02-05T13:50:23Z
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@stefan that's his style, it's "scream testing" as business strategy. Unplug the box and if people scream plug it back in. Sack the team, and if things break hire it back. It's literally the SV mantra taken to the extreme "move fast, break things"To be fair to him, it _does_ work - people are addicted to Twitter and there will always be engineers willing to work for him. If people are so invested into Twitter they built their emotional / economical wellbeing around it, who's the idiot here?
(DIR) Post #ASOogzqFJLL63l9iXA by NomadicNerd@mindly.social
2023-02-05T18:23:54Z
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@gotofritz reminds me of this
(DIR) Post #ASP86adJYZfyXE1a9A by failedLyndonLaRouchite@mas.to
2023-02-06T13:32:29Z
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@stefan is the platform dying ?as far as I know, we have had one (1) report on lowered earnings, and the number of users, based on fediverse growth, is only a few percent of twitter's usersthis isn't robust growth, but not sure platform is dyingalso, all those who predicted the layoffs would lead in a month or so to twitter being unstable - any of those people marked to market ?
(DIR) Post #ASP86bEBLVAONZH1c0 by stefan@stefanbohacek.online
2023-02-06T13:38:44Z
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@failedLyndonLaRouchite I'm seeing headlines now about him apparently staving it off, but it wasn't that long ago when Elon was saying that Twitter is heading towards bankruptcy. https://www.npr.org/2022/11/12/1136205315/musk-twitter-bankruptcy-how-likelyTime will tell, I suppose.
(DIR) Post #ASP8BNuGIkhkVnEoIS by rodneylives@mefi.social
2023-02-05T23:10:08Z
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@stefan @shoq I think Musk passing Twitter off to someone else, a person on (preferably) a group who's a lot less divisive, is willing to walk back his egregious policies, maybe a non-profit in some way, is probably the best possible outcome now.(the best outcome for Twitter, for the world it might be better for it to just die, the energy around Mastodon right now is instructive: when a huge corporation drives folk away, the public good potentially benefits)