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27 votes
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How social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit
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The "X Factor" was never going to work
Of all the changes Elon Musk brought to Twitter, the one I'm quite skeptical and cringed about is the renaming of the platform itself to "X". I don't know who advised him that this name could even...
Of all the changes Elon Musk brought to Twitter, the one I'm quite skeptical and cringed about is the renaming of the platform itself to "X".
I don't know who advised him that this name could even work at all. X is so generic a name that it doesn't really mean anything because it already stands for a lot of things, how can one even think that a whole new brand can be built out of it? For example, one of the first picture that comes to my mind is "X-Men" movie series and the famous Professor X. But from what I gather, Elon is more of an Iron Man fan boy than Prof X, right?
The X-Men brand isn't some fluke, the Marvel folks have put some decent effort in creating that story line, plot, dialogs, sound and video effects, etc. to build the legend that it is. If me sitting here in India knows so much about X-Men series, I can only imagine the kind of cult it must have built in US, UK, etc.
And who can forget the "X" variable in mathematics? It is often used for equations like (X2 + Y2). X is also very commonly used in discussions to denote an unknown quantity or factor. For example, "Let us assume that X is the demand factor for this new product.".
I don't know about other parts of the world but at least here in India, almost every person I've talked to still calls the platform "Twitter" and not X! Indeed, as long as the domain
twitter.com
still works, one might be even correct or justified in calling it so. But who knows how long that domain is going to work.However, one of the noblest things for Musk to do in 2024 is to just revert or rollback this decision and restore back the "Twitter" brand. This is not just a popular demand but if I recall, Elon himself had often said that they will experiment with twitter and roll back what doesn't work? At least his top advisors or generals must strongly advice Elon to consider reverting this. Maybe they can come up with a slightly modified version of the Twitter logo with a different color and a bit of what Elon has in mind with respect to X? I'm sure there is no dearth of creativity in either Silicon Valley or Elon's team!
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Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos
109 votes -
Threads is blocking servers on the Fediverse. Here's how we unblocked ourselves.
26 votes -
Substack turns on its ‘Nazis Welcome!’ sign
89 votes -
Flipboard begins to federate
21 votes -
The work of online volunteers - Moderators’ work on Reddit and Facebook is crucial but not paid. We should be creative in how we compensate them.
32 votes -
Twitch's new sexual content guidelines updated to include 'artistic nudity' after viral topless stream
45 votes -
Threads is starting to make content available on the Fediverse
33 votes -
YouTube likely lowering resolution of videos if it detects you using Firefox on Asahi Linux
39 votes -
The year Twitter died: a special series from The Verge
26 votes -
Bluesky says it will allow users to opt out of the public web interface after backlash
23 votes -
Ex-Twitter exec claims X fired him for raising security concerns
21 votes -
Plagiarism and You(Tube)
74 votes -
New Mexico attorney general sues Meta for allegedly failing to protect children from predators on Facebook, Instagram
21 votes -
Reddit moderators of r/law and r/scotus filed an amicus brief in US Supreme Court first amendment case Moody v NetChoice LLC
62 votes -
Can a social media post change public opinion? Researchers weigh in.
14 votes -
Across the ASMRverse
10 votes -
Gaza and the future of information warfare
7 votes -
Six months from now this channel stops
27 votes -
Silicon Valley vs. teenage girls
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Accused of violating kids' privacy, Meta sues US Federal Trade Commission, hoping to block ban on monetizing kids’ data
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Former Twitter employees give advice to companies who want to replace it
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Meta’s Threads to launch in Europe in app’s biggest expansion since debut
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TikTok pledges €12B European investment over ten years as work on Norwegian data center begins
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The internet is worse than ever – now what?
28 votes -
Meta designed platforms to get children addicted, court documents allege
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Facebook does not let me delete my account
I did not use facebook for ages, i always thought i need it for my international contacts, but now this new pay or say yes to ads window showed up I realised I did not use it for a long time. So I...
I did not use facebook for ages, i always thought i need it for my international contacts, but now this new pay or say yes to ads window showed up I realised I did not use it for a long time. So I was like, tech is like clothes, if you don't use it for a year it's time to let it go.
So i tried to delete my acc.
After some research (wtf????) I finally found this page
https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account
where I can click my through a menu, until I can enter my password to delete my account, and it just does not let me.
""Sorry, this feature isn't available right now""
wtf? how is deleting my acc not available????
fuck this, fuck them. this is one of the "leading" tech enterprises. this is one of the biggest fucking companies in the world.
I don't know how that is even legal.
I'm so fucking angry. Fuck this fucking fuckers!
does somebody know what i can do? can i send them an angry real life letter? do i need a lawyer?
I'm not really in the EU, but the GDPR still applicates to me. so what do I do now to get rid of this fucking fuckers?ps. looking in the internet does not help nothing, it's just 100s of links to facebook help center. fuck the fucking modern web as well.
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A Spanish agency became so sick of models and influencers that they created their own with AI — and she’s raking in up to $11,000 a month
27 votes -
China tried to keep kids off social media. Now the elderly are hooked.
27 votes -
Yup hacks together a cross-posting app for X, Threads, Bluesky and others
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‘Reddit can survive without search’: company reportedly threatens to block Google
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Twitter’s former head of trust and safety finally breaks her silence
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Why do people make inflammatory posts and comments on LinkedIn?
I go to LinkedIn to find work. My real name is there. My picture is there. My career history is there. There are many places on the Internet where I can anonymously post inflammatory opinions...
I go to LinkedIn to find work.
My real name is there. My picture is there. My career history is there.
There are many places on the Internet where I can anonymously post inflammatory opinions without endangering my job, my career, or my reputation in my field.
I kind of feel like that is the situation on for everyone else on LinkedIn too.
So... why do some people post inflammatory opinions about politics and other non-career related subjects on that site?
All risk and for zero gain.
30 votes -
Elon Musk’s poisoned platform
18 votes -
Norway's privacy battle with Meta is just getting started – regulator says it's investigating the company's new ad-free subscription services
28 votes -
US Ninth Circuit judge allows social media lawsuit to proceed. Section 230 doesn't automatically protect against liability for platform design defects
16 votes -
In Canada’s battle with Big Tech, smaller publishers and independent outlets struggle to survive
15 votes -
Every mistake I’ve made since 2014
24 votes -
International YouTube Premium price increase underway in some countries
40 votes -
Omegle was forced to shut down by a lawsuit from a sexual abuse survivor
39 votes -
Desert Bus For Hope 2023 begins in half an hour
21 votes -
RIP Omegle 2009-2023
82 votes -
How to use the YouTube website?
Youtube has become rather broken of late. The nagware popup complaining about my ad blocker can no longer be removed. I don't want ads and I certainly aren't going to pay. So far, I download the...
Youtube has become rather broken of late. The nagware popup complaining about my ad blocker can no longer be removed. I don't want ads and I certainly aren't going to pay. So far, I download the videos via Jdownloader. Is there a less bothersome way? How do you go about it?
25 votes -
YouTube’s anti-adblock and uBlock Origin
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X runs unblockable ‘timeline takeover’ ad promoting anti-trans film
96 votes -
A Meta engineer known as an expert at curbing online harassment saw his own child face harassment on Instagram. Now, he’s testifying before the US Congress
19 votes -
Online vitriol could undo decades of political progress, warns Dutch deputy PM
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Social media algorithms can be redesigned to bridge divides — here’s how
18 votes