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X (formerly Twitter) has been experiencing international outages for a second time in a week. (programming.dev)

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Downdetector is currently reporting that user reports indicate problems at X/Twitter

X/Twitter developer platform site’s incident history log.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I'm sorry but can't we just leave most of them there?

If they come to the good platforms they'll just make them shitty as well.

Quite frankly, at this point I really want Musk to achieve his goal of getting humans to Mars. That way, he can take all his horrible followers and leave the rest of us here so we can actually work to fix this place.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

Not necessarily. The main problem with Twitter is the platform itself. It encourages rage bait and controversial takes for engagement. And there's little or no moderation for hate content. This is by Elon's choice. If the users go to another platform, they may find that they are not similarly rewarded for harmful activity.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

Not every current Twitter users are aware of Elon stuff, huge chunk of them are even never heard who is Elon Musk.

Not everyone are aware of American politics. America is not the center of the world.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That sounds like a good plan, except for the cautionary tale of the Golgafrinchams from Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:

Golgafrincham was a planet, once home to the Great Circling Poets of Arium. The descendants of these poets made up tales of impending doom about the planet. The tales varied; some said it was going to crash into the sun, or the moon was going to crash into the planet. Others said the planet was to be invaded by twelve-foot piranha bees and still others said it was in danger of being eaten by an enormous mutant star-goat.

These tales of impending doom allowed the Golgafrinchans to rid themselves of an entire useless third of their population. The story was that they would build three Ark ships. Into the A ship would go all the leaders, scientists and other high achievers. The C ship would contain all the people who made things and did things, and the B Ark would hold everyone else, such as hairdressers and telephone sanitisers. They sent the B ship off first, but of course, the other two-thirds of the population stayed on the planet and lived full, rich and happy lives until they were all wiped out by a virulent disease contracted from a dirty telephone.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

They become shit when doing so makes them more money - eventually temptation wins. There is less temptation when a platform is open source (libre) because someone else can come along and host practically the same platform but minus the anti-features.

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

Good thing blue sky isn't a good platform, it's just anti musk