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@lxo I have not seen the context, but if you've seen #Soapbox, you'll see AP #Fediverse software that imitates #Twitter misfeatures in an attempt to make the network familiar and popular.
I think many of the Fediverse's biggest irritants are such misfeatures applied where they do not fit.
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https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/5-4-2022-working-in-public
#BlueSky is now experimenting with technologies as they work toward implementing their vision for decentralized networking.
They started out as part of #Twitter, but I'm not sure whether they are still corporately related, nor whether T would ever wind up adopting BS's federation protocol.
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@lxo I think #Musk's offer was more than the company is worth, so they fear shareholder lawsuits if they don't pursue it.
I also think they're going to get billions of dollars out of him in order to let him walk away. In turn, if someone else wants to buy, the new buyer will have to pay for the fact that #Twitter will have X billion dollars in the bank.
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#Musk offloads $7 billion in #Tesla stock, supporting belief that #Twitter will succeed in forcing him to complete purchase deal. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/elon-musk-offloads-nearly-7-billion-in-tesla-stock-11660098780 [www marketwatch com]
> “This is really Musk reading the room that with a weak case going into Delaware, the chances that he's going to have to acquire Twitter are increasingly getting higher,” Dan Ives, a managing director at Wedbush Securities, attested to The Daily Beast.
https://nu.federati.net/url/287320?ref=home [www thedailybeast com]
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This is another sign that Elon Musk is not suited to run any publicly traded companies. Investors could try to sue over his implied promise not to sell more stock if the price tumbled as a result of this sale.
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https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-sues-elon-musk-hold-him-44-bln-merger-2022-07-12/ [www reuters com] It is official. #Twitter is suing Elon #Musk to enforce the purchase agreement.
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https://www.reuters.com/technology/elon-musk-terminating-twitter-deal-2022-07-08/ [www reuters com]
Elon #Musk finally backs out of the deal to purchase #Twitter, citing unresolved questions about #bots and #spammers.
> "I'd say Twitter is well-positioned legally to argue that it provided him with all the necessary information and this is a pretext to looking for any excuse to get out of the deal," said Ann Lipton, associate dean for faculty research at Tulane Law School.
Now, I don't know whether this person has expertise in contract law and has read the agreement, so I cannot guess as to the result of the legal battle that will come out of this.
> In a filing, Musk's lawyers said Twitter had failed or refused to respond to multiple requests for information on fake or spam accounts on the platform, which is fundamental to the company's business performance.
> "Twitter is in material breach of multiple provisions of that Agreement, appears to have made false and misleading representations upon which Mr. Musk relied when entering into the Merger Agreement," the filing said.
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https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/06/tech/elon-musk-twitter-spam/index.html [www cnn com]
Musk again threatening to walk away from deal to purchase #Twitter over number of bot accounts.
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#Twitter investors did not re-elect an ally of Elon Musk to the company’s board. https://www.thestreet.com/technology/twitter-investors-deal-a-big-and-humiliating-blow-to-musk [www thestreet com], company remains committed to purchase deal.
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Elon Musk says #Twitter acquisition on hold. https://nu.federati.net/url/286364 [www cnbc com]
CNBC notes he can't just pay the breakup fee and walk away.
He also faces an SEC inquiry over his delayed filing of 5% stock ownersip form.
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@geniusmusing @simsa04
I did find less garbage pushed when I tried Tweetdeck, but "50 columns mode" still has unwanted content, while missing some wanted content.
I went to the main #Twitter site recently and spent the whole time cicking "show less of this" (in my case, it was any post someone I follow had 'liked' and also random posts by unknown people). I had the feeling that there is an infinite pool of garbage waiting to be pushed in front of my eyes.
I really hate the site so much because they fill my timeline with so much unrequested garbage that I cannot even judge whether the people I'm following are still worth it.
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Shareholders sue Musk, #Twitter, seek to slow or stop takeover. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/06/tech/twitter-shareholder-lawsuit-elon-musk/index.html [www cnn com]
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It would be nice to have a big chunk of the people who are using #corpocentric #socnets like #Twitter and #Facebook and #Instagram move some or all of their presence over to the #OStatus and #ActivityPub branches of the #Fediverse, but I'd much rather they come because they want to try something different instead of coming because they are fleeing some change or impending change over there.
Why? Because these networks will never give them everything that those did. I personally believe that these networks can give some benefits that those cannot, but thus far, we've mostly tried to replicate their functionality ... without the benefit of nearly unlimited VC cash and a centralized model which puts $CentralizedNetwork at the center of its users' communications, where benefits built upon centralized knowledge of users' actions / choices / contacts.
Therefore, in 2-3 weeks, I expect 9 out of 10 new users to have have returned to Twitter ... or to some centralized network that springs up to duplicate Twitter without the Musk factor.
This has happened before. Maybe not on this scale, but it has happened. Multiple times. And always, most of them leave.
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Apparently, tens of thousands of panicked #Twitter users have rushed to join the #Fediverse (primarily #Mastodon servers, it sounds like).
There have been reports of employees misusing supposedly private direct messages for years, so it isn't like Elon Musk can suddenly reach into the database and pull up your nude selfies. He hasn't even bought the company and assumed control yet.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/twitter-elon-musk-buy-company-b2064819.html [www independent co uk]
#Twitter may be ready to accept #Musk's offer
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#Twitter's #Bluesky describes what they want from a #federation protocol.
https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/3-6-2022-a-self-authenticating-social-protocol [blueskyweb xyz]
In light of Elon Musk's purchase offer, this may all be moot.
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Elon #Musk not joining #Twitter's board after all. https://nu.federati.net/url/285820 [www msnbc com]
I suspect it is because they reminded him that as a board member, he would have a fiduciary duty to act in the interests of all shareholders, not just himself, and that he could face restrictions on what he could say & write.
Sure, the 14.9% cap probably also bugs him. I just don't think that was enough to dissuade him. While the fiduciary duty is something he may have had trouble with in the past.
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#Twitter finally tells where they're going with #BlueSky. https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/3-6-2022-a-self-authenticating-social-protocol [blueskyweb xyz]
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I would guess that my #Twitter account has less than 200 tweets. It was over 12,000, but then I started deleting. The earliest tweets and the most recent ones are all that are left.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/05/world/yuri-milner-facebook-twitter-russia.html [wwww nytimes com]
NY Times reported in 2017 that a major investor in #Facebook and #Twitter was supported by Kremlin cash.
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Huge #Twitter thread about #COVID-19 long-term impacts. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1478611650760437765.html (I hope I typed that correctly.)