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[Social Media] The Thread
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Twitter Continues To Have A Twitter Problem: Opened October 2017, Closed July 2020
Social Media: The Intersection Of Money, Policy, And Hate: Opened July 2020, Closed February 2022
Social Media: Our Blasted Digital Hellscape: Opened February 2022, Closed November 6th, 2022
The Fall Of The House Of Social Media: Opened November 6th, 2022, Closed December 7th, 2022
It has been a Long year The Last Month in Social Media: Opened December 2022, Closed April 2023, devolved into talking about hops.
A thread plugged straight into [Social Media]'s Brain, It's filled with musk: Opened April 2023, Closed August 2023, Despite my slander, @Commander Zoom had nothing to do with its closing.
[Social Media]: THREAT OR MENACE? ¿Por que no los dos? Opened August 2023, Closed April 2024, has run its course, but is JK Rowlings evil? The answer won't suprise you.
And now we start a new Social Media Thread, because the social media's were a mistake, one we should talk about, hit me up on usenet: alt.talk.penny-arcade.the.wang (For those 3 people still on Usenet: My ISP doesn't support Usenet, and asking for it would only cause confusion for some poor helpdesk worker)
Active discussion seemed to have drifted a bit to J.K. Rowling, where the consensus was: "J.K. Rowling is pretty evil, but is buying the video game?" but on request of @Jacobkosh, that should probably be discussed further somewhere else.
Because here we talk about Them Twitters, Them Fediverses and the bluesky's. We would talk about Threads, but nothing seems to be happening in there.
Also, Instagrams, Tik-toks, China no longer owning Tik-Tok, All these and more... maybe.
Social Media: The Intersection Of Money, Policy, And Hate: Opened July 2020, Closed February 2022
Social Media: Our Blasted Digital Hellscape: Opened February 2022, Closed November 6th, 2022
The Fall Of The House Of Social Media: Opened November 6th, 2022, Closed December 7th, 2022
It has been a Long year The Last Month in Social Media: Opened December 2022, Closed April 2023, devolved into talking about hops.
A thread plugged straight into [Social Media]'s Brain, It's filled with musk: Opened April 2023, Closed August 2023, Despite my slander, @Commander Zoom had nothing to do with its closing.
[Social Media]: THREAT OR MENACE? ¿Por que no los dos? Opened August 2023, Closed April 2024, has run its course, but is JK Rowlings evil? The answer won't suprise you.
And now we start a new Social Media Thread, because the social media's were a mistake, one we should talk about, hit me up on usenet: alt.talk.penny-arcade.the.wang (For those 3 people still on Usenet: My ISP doesn't support Usenet, and asking for it would only cause confusion for some poor helpdesk worker)
Active discussion seemed to have drifted a bit to J.K. Rowling, where the consensus was: "J.K. Rowling is pretty evil, but is buying the video game?" but on request of @Jacobkosh, that should probably be discussed further somewhere else.
Because here we talk about Them Twitters, Them Fediverses and the bluesky's. We would talk about Threads, but nothing seems to be happening in there.
Also, Instagrams, Tik-toks, China no longer owning Tik-Tok, All these and more... maybe.
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Yeah, the threads go wildly up and down, and can get very spicy at times.
I've updated the last 2 with opening and closing dates too, now that I know at least one person appreciates it.
That was the, "Elon did what?" month where he had H1B visa workers held hostage inside the twitter offices and fired every employee who knew how twitter worked
This... seems the wrong way around, you want to make it easy to on board, and then once they're hooked, you start the monitizing.
Elon has stated the official reason being that he wants to do this to stop the flood of bots. Something he, according to his alt accounts, already completely stopped at least thrice.
I really hope it finally puts a death knell on the site. It's already an barely usable cess-pool, and if you aren't logged in, mostly unusable. But it still seems to be flopping along, being all Edgy.
2) Wait three months
3) Profit
On Twitter, it's reported "3 months" while the forbes article just states "Like in New Zealand, every user will just have to pay $1 yearly"
So, since clear communication from his companies is not something "Elon does" we'll see what happens.
If he forces everyone to pay a dollar, he'd lose a lot of people immediatly. I don't know what the bounce rate would be for that, but asking for a CC number is one of the highest barriers you can put up.
Or just pay the fee. Spam and related things is big business, and for the larger actors paying posting fees for a few thousand bots is dig-between-the-couch-cushions money.
Sure it got patch really damn quickly before anyone could do much with it, that we know of. It's possible that some number of people did get fucked over. Of course, the dipshit musk fan boys are jumping into the comment sections of that site, accusing the blogger of not liking Musk because "durhurhur it are patched and are done fast!" Missing the whole point that this shit shouldn't have happened to begin with, proper evaluation of how shit works, should have gotten that shit shut down real quick because it doesn't take a brian surgeon to realize that some asshole would register netflitwitter.com really fucking quick, to try and successfully phish up a shit ton of credit card numbers and other user information that could be sold, since Twitter would have happily run with changing that to Netflix.com.
I suspect as I dive deeper into boosting my cybersecurity knowledge, ideally to maybe land a job somewhere. I'll probably see a shit ton of Musk's bullshit showing up in various resources that track current events in cybersecurity. I'm making it a point to build up a library of sources to check and to check a few each day, just to try and stay current.
As for the broader view, it bodes very poorly for how things are going to go if Twitter could make such a blunder and have it go live for any amount of time. Again, even before I started doing self study and making use of free resources, I understood that you don't fucking give scammers easy access to spoofing stuff so it looks legitimate; especially, when you're suppose to be a trusted website. This is fucking like pre-Cybersecurity 100 and Tiwtter failed it real fucking hard.
I get the joke, but it also reads like kind of a jab.
Also since the OP says we're not discussing it here per mod decree.
Tesla built in something dumb to their new monstrosity, point and laugh because that's very effectively segmented from the PCI scoped servers and the company doesn't own any cars.
X had a vulnerability that made links slightly more dangerous. Well, everything on social media is dangerous, and probably not as bad as Google's ad feed. Where someone clicks on a malicious link isn't that interesting, unless it targets your company.
in both cases you mostly just point and laugh, and maybe see if you can get your CISO to okay blocking Twitter.
Security stuff does get posted there, but you would be better served checking Bleeping Computer or whatever, unless their is someone you are specifically interested in. Big security stuff makes the news everywhere, and minor stuff you're better off checking for new CVEs.
Well, that was never the intention, let me know if there is a fun title I can change it into.
WoW
Dear Satan.....
It's almost if seeing something in a social context influences you to internalize and repeat what you've seen and... OH SHIT
See also: pacific rim and kaiju.
You mean what spammers have already been doing on web forums for some 25 years?
And in other news, I'm seeing posts on Threads about Threads that Threads is apparently (on Threads) sending notifications to muted users when you mute them? And possibly also block them?
Awesome.
edit: that seems to be rage bait, until actually proven.
Which is hilarious because I recently saw that video, and put it into the mental 'everyone is saying that word' file folder.
WoW
Dear Satan.....
So true, I keep seeing the word Rim everywhere now.
It's not even accurate! Kaiju just means monster! Bigfoot and the chupacabra would count as a kaiju! Guys like Godzilla are daikaiju! (Big Monster).
Propaganda, scams and scammy advertising. Some people will believe anything they see on social media, if it comes from someone of their tribe, or if they really, really want to.
This can be used to extract money directly, or with a pump and dump, for example.
Hey! If Japanese can have katakana English, then English gets to do the reverse!
Edit: sorry, I think I was having a stroke, or someone is burning toast in the lunchroom, either way I should probably check this out.
You need to sit down and drink your slurp juice so you can get back to having diamond hands.
Propaganda and scams
Are you sure?
There was a good story in the NYT (?) back when Twitter was still Twitter about companies that would farm up hundreds of thousands of "normal" looking accounts and then sell to celebrities, politicians, etc to boost follower counts. So you could pay some amount of money to get an extra 50k, 100k, 500k etc followers to your account, because people thought that metric mattered. There were rumors (I don't know how well substantiated) that up to half of Trumps followers at one point were thought to be bots.
This is the same shit the Russians are up to. It's all part of a strategy of weakening their rivals and discrediting non-authoritarian governance.