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X Users Can Now Restrict Replies to Verifed Account Only (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Let's review what Elon Musk has done just in 2023:

Changed Twitter to X.
Plans to implement a small monthly payment for everyone using the X system.
Plans to collect user biometric information, job, and education history for "safety, security, and identification purposes."
Brings back shadowbanning.
Uses user data to train AI models.
Limits replies to verified users only.

Elon has made so many terrible changes to Twitter that I can’t remember what the breaking point was for me.

Fortunately, there’s a lot more competition in Twitter-like social media platforms. Mastodon may currently hold the position as the most established platform, but there are numerous other services competing to become the next preferred place for online users.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great news if you’ve ever looked at your replies and thought “you know what? there are too many non-Nazis here”

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (5 children)

People still use Twitter?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

People are were the content is, but using this platform after all that's happened to it... Yeah no, I don't get it either

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Way too many massively good artists I follow are still on Twitter with no intention of leaving. Some are on Pixiv or DeviantArt, but most not.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Out of interest, what do you get out of following artists you like on twitter?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Unfortunately, it's still where the majority of the art community resides after the enshittification of deviantART. Fortunately, I have other ways of staying in touch with the "best of the best" among my artist friends now, but there are still many holdouts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As someone who doesn't really follow that art scene, what happened with deviantart?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

About 10 years ago, Angelo Sotira ($spyed) fired one of the other co-founders, Spot, and started pitting paying users against non-paying users. Free users had a marker on their profile saying "Needs Premium Membership." The site also marked whether you were a paying or free user everywhere. Sound familiar?

They drew more controversy in 2018 when they hired this marketing firm to come up with a lackluster new logo everybody hated. Because, you know, it's not like they had a bunch of artists using the site or anything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Free users had a marker on their profile saying "Needs Premium Membership." The site also marked whether you were a paying or free user everywhere.

Big yikes. Goddamn that's dumb

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some of my fave artists have mastodon accounts, that are their main accounts, I urge you to check it out maybe you can find the artists you want to follow there

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I have Mastodon, and I only know one artist on there. The majority of them are still on Twitter even though they hate it.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

@breadsmasher @SSUPII it's more about FOMO I guess than having anything useful. Happy to not follow any of them ...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

They use Twitter because they can't use MySpace

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah my classmates do

[+] [email protected] -8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most people don't care

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That right there is the shitty truth

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Shitty but hardly surprising. Twitter has a global reach, a decade+ of experience and momentum and critical mass etc. A twitter exodus isn't going to happen over night.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Artists want their art to be seen by as many people as possible. Their livelihood probably depends on it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's as if it's a big problem to manage one more platform between all the ones they already do. Lot's of apps and options to just automatically cross post content to multiple platforms too or just mirror mastodon to Twitter or vice versa.

At this point, ignoring or avoiding another platform where so many people already are is just laziness.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Braindead comment. It's like people who say shit like this have never been part of an online community

An asshole bought the social media site you use and you haven't convinced dozens of friends and all the other people whose posts you like seeing to switch to a different platform???

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

“Accounts you follow” still the best option.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Otherway round would be a lot more useful. Block idiots who pay Elon for his new 'X'.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That already exists by leaving Twitter. 👽

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Humanity will make huge progress once it stop commenting every sh*t originating from E. Misk.

Seriously, there is now way to block all that noise?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lots of lemmy clients have keyword filters

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, thanks. Didn't notice :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Can't believe you forgot the usage limits on how many tweets you can view and how many DMs you can send. I think some of those might have been walked back, but I know people who were holding back from discord because twitter DMs were enough that now rarely go there.

Also all sorts of API functionality has been killed off - embeds, RSS, bots, etc

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Free block list

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It’s funny that all the new features they’re touting over there are really simple changes. Things like a new setting that controls an if statement.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

What a time to be alive!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What I need for Mastodon is a database of verified users organized by subject matter expertise or your of content.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

There are a few attempts things like this. Here is one.... https://fedi.directory