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Official #Mastodon account suspended on #Twitter for posting a link to "Elon's Jet" account https://mastodon.social/@caseynewton/109520284997462443
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#Twitter possibly forcing users to share data with advertisers. https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-plans-to-force-users-to-share-data-with-advertisers-2022-12 [www businessinsider com]
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#Twitter is sued for sex/gender discrimination in its mass firing. https://www.axios.com/2022/12/08/twitter-layoffs-gender-discrimination-women-elon-musk [www axios com]
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I should note that we won't add bridges to #corpocentric networks like #Twitter or #Facebook.
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Lenders considering reissuing #Twitter loans to #Musk instead, to reduce company's risk. https://nu.federati.net/url/288900 [www bloomberg com]
And likely to reduce its over $1,000,000,000/year payments
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https://prodromou.pub/@evan/109498060348615260
@evan@prodromou.pub @evan@identi.ca ( and formerly @evan@e14n.com ) has said this a few times, but here it is again.
"Every time you post on Twitter, you produce value for the advertisers.
You tell everyone in your network there that it's OK to stay. That you're all helpless to leave.
You tell the people who've lost their jobs, the people who are being hounded and harassed, that they are not important to you.
You know you're going to be ashamed of it later.
Just stop posting.
Do it here, not there. Connect here, not there.
Don't reply, don't like, don't retweet.
Stop feeding your life into the machine."
This was true before Elon #Musk bought #Twitter, but I guess it wasn't as important before.
I don't fully agree, simply because there may be some advantages to many people who continue to use Twitter instead of moving to the #Fediverse (e.g., #GNU_Social, #Mastodon, #Pleroma, #Misskey, #PixelFed, #Lenny / #Lemmy, etc) or they would have moved over already.
Also, because unless one self-hosts one's own presence, an angry instance admin is all it takes to lose all posts and connections and have to start over. Or, if one has contacts on a different instance, then irate instance admins participating in #blockwars (including #fediblock) can separate the person from some portion of their contacts.
So remember, everything that Twitter is or can do to you, your Fediverse instance can also do. Most instances will never do most of those things, but pretending that one is safe here could result in disappointment in the future.
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Tagging this thread with #Fediverse #Security ... whomever made the script obviously read some protocol docs and some source code. With just a little #JavaScript, they were able to knock some #Misskey and #Mastodon instances to their knees.
This isn't the first, and it won't be the last. Remember when someone posted a humongous image and locked up any #GNUSocial instance that tried to download the image? Remember when someone's instance was replaced by some sort of cryptocurrency site and PuSH es from your site to theirs would crash your site because of their site's response? (I'll bet I still have that domain blocked at the firewall.)
We have to stop being naive about the intentions of those in the current migration. The overwhelming majority will have benign, if not good, intentions. But a select few will have bad intentions. Among those intentions is to colonize the Fediverse with #Twitter's culture, to come here and impose that culture of anger and disrespect upon the inhabitants here ... which already happened once with the first wave of people joining #Mastodon instance, except it was Twitter and #Tumblr at that time.
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https://mastodon.social/@mcc/109429555388543126
This thread and the links in it, should be available in a thread roller / unroller site ( like #threadrollerapp for #Twitter ).
I'm posting this so I can find it if and when $VAPORWARE_SOCNET_PROJECT becomes something real.
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This is about two weeks ago: https://www.tmz.com/2022/11/13/elon-musk-inadvertently-spark-senate-investigation-twitter/ [www tmz com]
Elon #Musk got into an online argument with Senator Ed Markey, who reminded him that #Congress has the power to investigate #Twitter and other Musk-owned companies.
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Unanswered: will his lenders go after him for fraud if he files BK? By him making #Twitter fail so badly so quickly, I think they should be able to prove it in civil court.
Also, I wonder whether they made him put up Tesla and / or SpaceX ownership as collateral. If they only relied on Twitter assets, they'll be lucky to get 50% (and I'd guess 20% is more likely, as most of the company's value was as "a going concern").
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxCRRcWSt4I
Elon bought himself a bunch of lawsuits.
/via @geniusmusing
#Twitter #Musk #lawsuit #bankruptcy #sec #ftc
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@simsa04 I never thought of it that way. I can see it now. People rely on #Twitter to send and receive information during such events and their aftermath.
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I'm not sure when it started, but I'd say #Twitter outlasted the lettuce. https://lettuce.wtf/
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For the record, I liked #Jaiku and #Pownce and #Identi.ca better than I liked #Twitter, but #Plurk's weird horizontal zoomable timeline thing was weird.
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I think it was December of 2007 when I joined #Twitter. I liked it so much that I joined a bunch of similar services, such as #Jaiku, #Pownce, and #Plurk. In 2009, someone on Twitter told me that as an open source person, I should try an open source Twitter clone, #Identi.ca. I did, and thirteen years later, I'm still active here.
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https://aus.social/@thedragstate/109377827512403023
If you're planning to close your #Twitter account, read this first.
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Okay, so it looks like one of the places that is growing because of #Twitter's issues is #Tribel ( https://www.tribel.com/ ). I never heard of it before.
Site seems to be #JavaScrippled.
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https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/18/it-begins-the-eu-summons-musk-to-appear-before-them/ [www techdirt com]
The EU summons Elon #Musk to appear concerning his actions and decisions about #Twitter
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@simsa04 One thing that stood out to me as a former business major is that ... once #Musk followed up his presumably drunk purchase offer with a serious purchase offer, #Twitter management was legally obligated to sell the company and to pursue any and all legal remedies to cause that to be accomplished. They could sell it to him or they could find someone offering a higher price, but they had to sell the company.
If Elon Musk wasn't so sure of his own superiority, he could have said "I was drunk / stoned and not thinking clearly, so the offer I made is rescinded", but instead he followed through (probably because he secretly bought 9% of the company before any of this happened, so making that sort of offer and not carrying it out could have subjected him to civil and criminal penalties).
It really is sad that they had to do so regardless of their belief that he was overpaying and that he would not be able to make the payments on his loans, but present US securities laws require this.
See also: https://nu.federati.net/notice/3414551
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If the #Twitter saga teaches us anything, it is that "going public" with stock is not always the best choice.
A person or group with lots of money can come along and take over, ejecting the prior leaders and employees and changing the company's purpose and direction. They can wreck everything you built.
Sometimes, being a !smallbiz can hide you from corporate predators.
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
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