twitter user?

[Lobster]

Dear Friends of Puppy News, Twitter and fakir news,

I am back on twitter

I am trying to follow the real imports for example ...

As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left to us, in a bad time. I shall get up Sunday morning and wind the clock, as a contribution to order and steadfastness.
https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/05/0 ... note-book/

Seems like a plan ... what is yours?

[s243a]

I got suspended from twitter in Febuary and the reason was possibly for using the #learntocode hashtag. Ironically, I did it to try to prove that you couldn't be suspended for using a hashtag .

Anyway, twitter won't tell me why I was suspended or even let me use it just to follow people (no posting) unless I give them my phone number. I refuse to give them my phone number and I don't want to support a platform that relies too much on artificial intelligence for moderation. They say that you can get a human review by appeal but based on their responses I doubt that my suspension ever got a human review.

Anyway, I moved to minds instead of twitter:
https://www.minds.com/ns_tidder/

Unfortunately there aren't many big name people on the left that use minds but at least on minds everyone is on an equal footing rather than on twitter where there is a privileged journalist class.

[nosystemdthanks]

I moved to minds instead of twitter:
https://www.minds.com/ns_tidder/

i tried that platform recently, because you promote it. it is way too busy, way too much js, way too much everything. its more like a coked up facebook than twitter.

not that im happy with the alternatives either. diaspora barely works, mastodon is a veritable mountain of censorship and hall monitoritis, i finally joined gab (constantly weeding through nazi/wp stuff, but its definitely not all that is there) because i find the idea of a mastodon instance that isnt about censorship amusing.

plus im not a terf, or id join spinster. its a shame that the so-called fediverse is larger on balkanisation than a 1950s school cafeteria, but whatever.

diaspora sucks the least, but it still sucks. all that money to crowdsource features, and many years later, they still cant seem to fix or maintain anything.

[s243a]

I moved to minds instead of twitter:
https://www.minds.com/ns_tidder/

i tried that platform recently, because you promote it. it is way too busy, way too much js, way too much everything. its more like a coked up facebook than twitter.

not that im happy with the alternatives either. diaspora barely works, mastodon is a veritable mountain of censorship and hall monitoritis, i finally joined gab (constantly weeding through nazi/wp stuff, but its definitely not all that is there) because i find the idea of a mastodon instance that isnt about censorship amusing.

plus im not a terf, or id join spinster. its a shame that the so-called fediverse is larger on balkanisation than a 1950s school cafeteria, but whatever.

diaspora sucks the least, but it still sucks. all that money to crowdsource features, and many years later, they still cant seem to fix or maintain anything.

Have you given zeronet a try (e.g. zerome) ? The content is better than minds but the downside is there are no recognizable media personalities there. At least with minds you have some recognizable media personalities like:

schestowitz, Joe Rogan Clips, slashdot, daisycousens, subverse, LaurenChen, TheAmericanSpectator, Unity4J, scottcbusiness, ElizabethLeaVos, anonofficialdotcom, Styxhexenhammer, ActOut, leecamp, PaulJosephWatson, ProjectVeritas, Timcast, Sargon_of_Akkad, MintPressNews, theantimedia, abbymartin, CorbettReport, RT
** Note that I don't necessary agree with all of the possible people listed below nor do I think they are all necessarily credible.

As for minds being like facebook well...facebook has a newsfeed and facebook also has it's own cenorship issues. The only difference is facebook is more likely to shadowban one of your posts than outright suspend you.

I haven't brought myself to try gab yet. The dissenter plugin sounds interesting but I suspect that the platform might be too right-wing for me.

[nosystemdthanks]

The dissenter plugin sounds interesting but I suspect that the platform might be too right-wing for me.

my main interest is finding out how long it takes me to filter that, and whats still there when i do.

its a somewhat working interface to mastodon. i am trying to follow schestowitz but he hasnt accepted (probably hasnt received) my request. we talk on a regular basis, i havent mentioned it. the real significance is the imperfect functionality (likely intentional) between gab and the fediverse. but there are people talking about free software, so, thats useful.

[Lobster]

I got suspended from twitter in Febuary and the reason was possibly for using the #learntocode hashtag. Ironically, I did it to try to prove that you couldn't be suspended for using a hashtag .

You can get your twitterings suspended? HH The Dali Resident T-rump has not been suspended despite his incredible efforts ...

Anyway guys, thanks for alternative zombified news feeds.

Will look into them

[s243a]

I got suspended from twitter in Febuary and the reason was possibly for using the #learntocode hashtag. Ironically, I did it to try to prove that you couldn't be suspended for using a hashtag .

You can get your twitterings suspended? HH The Dali Resident T-rump has not been suspended despite his incredible efforts ...

Anyway guys, thanks for alternative zombified news feeds.

Will look into them

That's because there are two classes of people on twitter. Twitter's argument is that the Presidents nonsense tweets are in the public interest. I'm not so sure!

My point is the rules aren't universally applied. If you aren't in the blue check mark club, then it is much easier to get suspended from twitter.

BTW Bidden said he went into the hood and told people to #learntocode and nowbody cared. However, when some nobody uses the hashtag on twitter it is a harassment campaign. Context be damned!

Joe Rogan Experience #1242 - Tim Pool
2,940,217 views on Feb 8, 2019
https://youtu.be/02ux1dKNPXo

Joe Rogan Experience #1258 - Jack Dorsey, Vijaya Gadde & Tim Pool
3,663,901 views on Mar 5, 2019
https://youtu.be/DZCBRHOg3PQ

[tallboy]

I am not present on 'social' media, and only register that news media follow the madmans ramblings.

Twitter's argument is that the Presidents nonsense tweets are in the public interest. I'm not so sure!

Are you kidding?? The idiot is entertaining the whole world with his brainfarts of the day! Look to America, where any dork with a fat bank account can be president! And where people don't seem to care...

[nosystemdthanks]

Look to America, where any dork with a fat bank account can be president!

and pay no attention to "boris" johnson. (yes, i realise he isnt the prime minister of norway.)

make fun of trump all you want, i support impeachment. i think its funny though, when europeans think their countries are SO different. sure, in a way.

i dont think trump is trying as hard as the eu to destroy the internet though.

assange? yes, and thats why i support impeachment. anybody who goes after the 1st amendment rights of journalists should be kicked out of the country. deport trump! but dont forget about rich, toffee-nosed corruption in other parts of the world. it would be a terrible shame if trump wrote a blank cheque for everyone else.

[Computer semi-expert]

make fun of trump all you want, i support impeachment

If Trump has committed criminal acts, I would be in favor of impeachment. However, the USA is having an election in 13 months, and I think that impeachment so soon to an election is kind of pointless.

Just my 2 cents (BTW, I'm not a politician)

[nosystemdthanks]

I think that impeachment so soon to an election is kind of pointless.

its entirely possible youre right.

[s243a]

I moved to minds instead of twitter:
https://www.minds.com/ns_tidder/

i tried that platform recently, because you promote it. it is way too busy, way too much js, way too much everything. its more like a coked up facebook than twitter.

not that im happy with the alternatives either. diaspora barely works, mastodon is a veritable mountain of censorship and hall monitoritis, i finally joined gab (constantly weeding through nazi/wp stuff, but its definitely not all that is there) because i find the idea of a mastodon instance that isnt about censorship amusing.

plus im not a terf, or id join spinster. its a shame that the so-called fediverse is larger on balkanisation than a 1950s school cafeteria, but whatever.

diaspora sucks the least, but it still sucks. all that money to crowdsource features, and many years later, they still cant seem to fix or maintain anything.

Have you tried scuttlebutt? I would consider trying ot if I knew people on the platform.

https://github.com/ssbc/

[s243a]

The dissenter plugin sounds interesting but I suspect that the platform might be too right-wing for me.

my main interest is finding out how long it takes me to filter that, and whats still there when i do.

its a somewhat working interface to mastodon. i am trying to follow schestowitz but he hasnt accepted (probably hasnt received) my request. we talk on a regular basis, i havent mentioned it. the real significance is the imperfect functionality (likely intentional) between gab and the fediverse. but there are people talking about free software, so, thats useful.

I was just reading about mastodon today because I was looking for an android ap that might be a good alternative to either pearltrees or delicious both of which don't perform well on my phone anymore. I discovered some fediverse aps.

And by reading about this I learned about the connection between mastodon and gab. To use the fediverse ap I need a suitable ID (e.g. a gab ID) but I don't think that gab is a good choice for this because many mastodon servers might block gap IDs.

From wikipedia:

Gab, a controversial social network with a far-right user base, changed its software platform to a fork of Mastodon and became the largest Mastodon node in July 2019.[36]Gab's adoption of Mastodon allowed Gab to be accessed from third-party Mastodon applications, although four of them blocked Gab shortly after the change.[37] In response, Mastodon stated that it was "completely opposed to Gab’s project and philosophy", and criticized Gab for attempting "to monetize and platform racist content while hiding behind the banner of free speech" and for "paywallingbasic features that are freely available on Mastodon".[38]

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... 2840#Forks

I think that is the weakness of something like mastodon. It is too easy to censor people on mastodon. I prefer more censorship resistant platforms like freenet and zeronet. Zeronet has the advantage that it works well on ones phone, especially if it is setup via termux.

edit 1 I found a review of some mastodon aps here.

https://medium.com/@KUKxFT3T/a-whole-lo ... dd91e5b625

I'm going to give subway rooter a try and create a mastodon.social account. If I do this perhaps I can fi d your gab handle on the fediverse. I need to see which mastodon servers blocked gab.

edit 2: I applied for an I'd at:

https://mstdn.io/

since they are one of the few mastadon servers that hasn't blocked gab.

edit 3 I found another one that doesn't block gab:

tenforward.social
source of this info: https://gist.github.com/Angristan/2f2f3 ... 29f4d02487

Interestingly enough mastadon was supposedly created to give Twitter users a so called "NAZI free" platform. Some say that gab went to mastadon litterly to troll them.

Note that the above links lists some other servers that don't block gab but may filter out less of the extreme content.

[nosystemdthanks]

And by reading about this I learned about the connection between mastodon and gab. To use the fediverse ap I need a suitable ID (e.g. a gab ID) but I don't think that gab is a good choice for this because many mastodon servers might block gap IDs.

that is exactly why i chose gab. i wanted the mastodon instance that the fediverse does the most to silence, that cares the most about censorship.

Gab, a controversial social network with a far-right user base, changed its software platform to a fork of Mastodon and became the largest Mastodon node in July 2019.

i also wanted to know how far-right it is. its basically like being surrounded by people who love fox news (though not all of them actually do) though that stopped bothering me years ago.

I think that is the weakness of something like mastodon. It is too easy to censor people on mastodon.

i agree very, very strongly with this, and that is why i never bothered with mastodon for more than a day until gab came along.

and lets not kid ourselves that this is all about nazis either. as i reposted 13 days ago:

mastodon.social supports witchhunts but censors any possible defense #fediverse #censorship

Lohan G@lohang@mastodon.social

Yesterday I received a warning email sent by http://mastodon.social after the thread I posted about #RMS . By the look of it, my account has now been silenced / shadow banned. My posts cannot be found through hastags or searches.

this is appalling. there is no free software without free speech!

i havent tried scuttlebutt. alex oliva seems to be a fan, i would say try it. tell him i suggested it on his recommendation.

[Lobster]

Thanks everyone for advice and experiences

I have found features on twatter aka twiterror or whatever it is called ...

• - promoted/vested interests [yawn] - I block on principle
  - retweeting so many useless features I forgot how to use it
  - pretty pictures can be added
  - Puppy has a twitter account who runs it. Not me. Might be Raffy?
  - 'influencers', a sort of professional idiot
  - Chirp runs on Puppy as a twitter program