All these news about X going to shit feels like that gif of the truck driving towards the pole but constantly cutting before the impact
This one?
I watched two ads just to get rickrolled.
Get Sync for Lemmy. Never get rickrolled again!
Sync is nice but I’m on ios. Currently using Avelon and it shows link previews, but only for the site.
It still shocks me every time I encounter people browsing the internet without an ad blocker. Just why?
Yeah I got rickrolled right away.
How would my mom go about easily blocking YouTube ads on her iPhone?
Install AdGuard pro and replace YouTube app with a shortcut to open YouTube in Safari. Adblockers can’t block ads in the app but can in Safari.
This is the way.
She wouldn’t, that’s why she bought an iPhone, because “it just works!”.
So then it really shouldn’t be too shocking for the person I replied to.
im presuming not many mothers who dont understand the difference between an app and a webpage are on lemmy.
This comment made my Internet today. 🏆
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Wouldn’t it have been amazing if you linked to the same video again to troll everyone, and I comment to confirm that it is the right video while the whole time it is not?
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Imagine getting Rick rolled by a fucking bot.
And somehow you’re scoring downvotes.
Are the bots offended and downvoting now?
Exactly! That’s exactly how it feels!
They really are an infinite content machine, just not thru the website
Musk has continued to place his personal proclivity for right-wing content and influencers over brand – and really overall user – safety. For example, last month, Musk personally intervened to restore a right-wing influencer’s account after they were suspended for posting photos of child exploitation.
Tells you everything you need to know.
- Buy unprofitable application
- Make a series of incredibly shit business decisions
- It’s now less profitable than before.
- ???
- ???
- Profit
Hold on, maybe I’ve figured it out. Endless magical profits, here I come!
Step 4. Be ultra-wealthy. (Bonus for not paying taxes.) Step 5. Do anything. (Bonus for pretending it’s profitable.)
I’ve one the steps is, “use the letter X SOMEHOW, so people won’t laugh at you and will realize you are so cool finally”
Last step is selling it to yahoo!
Nah, it’s selling to Yahoo, then getting your parent company acquired by Verizon, then having Verizon spin your parent company off again.
wow everything is a nazi now including hitler
They never give Adolf Hitler credit- he killed Adolf Hitler.
“Everything that I don’t like (that is or openly supports a nazi) is now a nazi!”
These days mate, if you’re a Nazi, they’ll call you a Nazi! Oh no, when did this come in?
woke mind wizards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvgZtdmyKlI (English subtitles available, 2 funny minutes worth your time)
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Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.
Just FYI: I can see the video on YouTube but piped gets stuck at showing the loading animation.
Safari on iOS with NextDNS and an adblocker. My dns settings are pretty unforgiving, but I wouldn’t expect YouTube to pass the checks and piped to fail.
It’s because piped sucks ass
I got curious about just how bad said Nazi content is, and managed to find an article with some screenshots: https://nypost.com/2023/08/17/x-suspends-pro-hitler-account-after-brands-paused-ads/
Spoiler: very Nazi.
So it’s not just Nazi-compatible ideas. It’s straight out Nazi symbolism.
I really don’t get these people - even if you believe the Nazis were right, you know they are the most hated historical faction in the world. Wouldn’t it be better to advocate their ideas without explicitly associating yourself with them, just to avoid the (completely justified) knee-jerk reaction?
You’re suggesting that Nazi’s use their famous critical thinking skills to understand that 99% of the world hates them and their ideology?
Being evil is one thing, but there is no excuse for being stupid.
Has there ever been any intelligent right-wing movements? Pretty much every white supremacist has the IQ of a fairly cool room. They claim to be the superior race, while providing absolutely no evidence of this.
Yes, lots of them. You can’t think of them because they got what they wanted without you noticing it.
They want the negative reaction. They thrive on being hated. Similar with some of the worst Internet trolls. The hatred validates them.
Your link just shows the blinking X and “someone ‘paused’ (e.g stopped) doing business” with “x”.
Or am I missing something?
Ignore the video, scroll down through the article.
Wouldn’t it be better to advocate their ideas without explicitly associating yourself with them, just to avoid the (completely justified) knee-jerk reaction?
I don’t think raising swastika flags counts as “without explicitly associating yourself with them”.
Lunatics always show up in my For You feed on Twitter. I always tag the company with a screenshot of the offending content with the advertisement. Lately it’s been weird advertisements. Shitty gambling apps, religious and personal accounts promoting their personal brand. So they likely don’t care.
Also I’ll never call Twitter anything but Twitter.
I exclusively am subscribed to porn accounts, so I find it super weird when right ring idiots show up in my feed.
That’s what I use Twitter for too but what intrudes my feed is mostly memes and cat videos. While it may be true my experience however isn’t that they’re pushing right wing content to everyone because I’m not seeing it.
How do you know those aren’t far-right cats?
Also I’ll never call Twitter anything but Twitter.
I don’t know, I think there’s room for appropriate change here;
- Twater
- Twit’er
- Twixlers
I admit, my suggestions could use more help, but surely we must admit they’ve devolved from Twitter!?
You just accidentally named 3 mastodon instances.
Slap a .moe or .xyz or a .social and you’re federatin baby
Moe moe, kyun~
Sorry, wrong subreddit, err, community.
Xittter with the x using ‘sh’ pronunciation
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The glory of instances. If enough people dont like it, they can just block it!
It’s a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, it’s easy to block out communities with racist, homophobic, and xenophobic views. On the other hand, it allows communities like that to become echo chambers and freely further their abhorrent ideals completely unchecked.
I don’t think the ban hammer is the most effective method of shutting down nazi shit, but it’s a hell of a lot better than shutting it out of sight and trying to forget about it.
Problem is that if we don’t kick out the Nazis, sooner or later this will become a Nazi bar.
Moderation is different from censorship.
I am not ever opposed to moderation. If you don’t want to see something, you shouldn’t have to.
I am opposed to most censorship. People who want to discuss their bad ideas with each other and everyone who wants to read them should be allowed to.
Echo chamber will live no matter what. If they cant do it on reddit, they will do it on someplace else. Blocking them is the best we can do, as long as people that I dislike are still alive and have access to internet.
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User calls for far-right content to be removed whilst using far-right terminology. The cognitive dissonance must be excruciating.
It’s bizarre to see isn’t it? Trying to insult people by accusing them or being… you.
But they can’t see it. The entire depth of thought seems to be “Nazis are bad and I am good therefore I can’t be a Nazi”.
It doesn’t matter that their list of undesirables is virtually identical, or that their violent solutions are virtually identical, or that the guy standing next to them has a SS tattoo.
They don’t want to be a Nazi, so as far as they’re concerned, they’re not.
The what?
I’ve never seen the word before, but calling Ukraine’s president – who is Jewish – a “nazi” was a staple of Putin’s propaganda to support his war of imperial re-conquest.
You see, when Russia says they want to cleanse Ukraine of Nazis they actually mean Ashkenazis
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Just love how we all refer to it as “the company formerly known as Twitter”
Feels like “the artist formerly known as Prince”
It may have been implied.
Huh? That’s quite a leap, don’t you think? /s
Just keep calling it Twitter without acknowledging the name change. It’ll piss him off even more.
It’s still hosted on twitter.com, so idk what the deal is.
How to kill a company in 3 easy steps
Feels more like a 300 cuts
How to kill a company in 300 easy cuts
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Let Elon buy it
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???
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Company destroyed
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Can’t see any company, let alone something family friendly being remotely okay with any of this. Who wants to pay to be right next to Nazi content besides maybe MyPillow?
It’s amazing there are still so many brands and social media strategists who seem in denial about what’s happening even as they watch their customer engagement on Twitter/X evaporate before their very eyes.
shouldn’t have fired the brand safety team
I mean, in all reality, this could be why he fired the brand safety team. He’s had aspirations of burying himself with X for decades.
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Set a filter for capital ’ X ’ (with a space on either side) as well as ’ X.’ (left space + period)
Eh, it’s not that simple… There’s a windowing system on Linux, and an old punk band from LA, and a whole generation…
Running away from the X windowing system might not be that bad though 😉
But for some stupid reason, most Linux users have nvidia, which doesn’t play well with Wayland (or X, for that matter…)
Unix Blasphemy!!
I do love X though (not the Twitter rebrand - Motif for life!!). A simple X program is/was so portable, but I guess not many people care anymore.
Not to mention the phrase, X marks the spot.
Also, how am I going to look for MDMA pills in the late 90s US?
It’s not a perfect solution, no, but it’s a solution.
Personally, none of those would hold me back, but to each their own.
Just keep calling it Twitter and campaign for other people to do the same.
I still deadname it and call it Twitter. I refuse to call it X.
Turns out, money is very much anti-free speech.
I don’t think hate speech necessarily falls into the domain of free speech. It falls into the domain of people don’t like it so we don’t want to be associated with it.
Anyway yet again, free speech only exists between you and the government. If corporations want to disassociate themselves with the business or individual because they allow people to say things they don’t like, that’s not violation of free speech.
If I have the right of free speech then surely I have the right to decide when, where, and with who my speech is delivered at
Furthermore, one organization that had ads placed on this content claimed that it wasn’t an X advertiser at all. In a statement provided to CNN, University of Maryland’s associate athletic director told the outlet that Maryland Football hasn’t run a paid ad campaign on X since 2021.
Interesting snippet. It would be very interesting to know how and why that happened.
If a small portion of ads keep repeating, it’d show the shallow pool of advertisers left on the website.
That or there’s no one at the helm for advertising.
Either way, looks incredibly shabby.
Are there legal implications for this? Is X guilty of misrepresentation or any such related case.
No idea. It is a kind of defamation but I think you’d struggle to prove it. You could, however, get shedloads of free publicity by banging on about it for clickbait.
