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stopthatgirl7 OP , 6 months ago to news in ‘Black bodies are not for sale’: the battle over an African American cemetery

No, but given how much of a dumpster fire some of the replies were turning into, I can see why they did.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 6 months ago to news in Prosecutors to seek death penalty for white supremacist who killed 10 at Buffalo supermarket

…what

stopthatgirl7 OP , 6 months ago to technology in Elon Musk's X claims it's now a 'video-first platform' as it tries to reverse an advertiser exodus that has cost it billions in value

Facebook is probably as close as we’ll get to a western “everything app.” They kind of missed the window, though, which is another thing Elon doesn’t seem to realize - the big eastern “everything apps” were there as people were starting to switch to doing things on their phones, so the ecosystems grew around them as things were developing (especially WeChat). Elon’s coming in trying to turn Twitter into an everything app nearly ten years too late.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 6 months ago to news in Milwaukee kindergartner left behind on school bus, found honking horn Monday night

…oof, that’s a bad typo there. Might want to fix that one.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 6 months ago to technology in Elon Musk's X claims it's now a 'video-first platform' as it tries to reverse an advertiser exodus that has cost it billions in value

The big difference between Twitter and all those other apps, as someone who has used both KakaoTalk and Line, is that they didn’t start out as social media posting apps - they were just chat messaging apps for talking to your friends, not the world. Then they added payment for things like buying stamps or sending friends money. From there, once they had established payment methods and users that trusted them, they started slowly adding services people thought were useful. The ecosystems built up organically over time. No one planned for them to be everything apps or tried to force it on the apps and users. They became those because they adapted to how people were using the internet on their phones.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 6 months ago to worldnews in A top U.N. court opens hearings on genocide charges against Israel

Al Jazeera is streaming it live on their site and YouTube.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 6 months ago to technology in Elon Musk's X claims it's now a 'video-first platform' as it tries to reverse an advertiser exodus that has cost it billions in value

Thing is, it probably won’t. MySpace is still around. LiveJournal is still around. Big social media platforms don’t tend to stop existing. But they do stop being culturally and socially relevant, and that’s what I hope comes sooner rather than later to Twitter: irrelevancy.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 6 months ago to news in X's fresh temporary ban of several prominent journalists raises alarm

Yes. Because people go where other people are. Until people start coalescing on a specific site, Twitter is still going to be relevant.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 6 months ago to news in SpaceX executives worried Elon Musk was on drugs during 'cringeworthy' all-hands meeting, WSJ reports

Did you just miss the reply to you where I said point blank I linked to BI instead of WSJ because of a paywall, or naw?

stopthatgirl7 OP , 6 months ago to news in SpaceX executives worried Elon Musk was on drugs during 'cringeworthy' all-hands meeting, WSJ reports

So is the Wall Street Journal also “Daily Mail level tripe”? Because they are the Business Insider’s source for the story.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 6 months ago to news in SpaceX executives worried Elon Musk was on drugs during 'cringeworthy' all-hands meeting, WSJ reports

This is based on a Wall Street Journal report (which I didn’t link because it’s paywalled), so your strange anger at BI is a wee bit misplaced.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 6 months ago to news in Harvey apartments boarded up amid safety concerns; some residents say they were still inside

According to some of the residents on TikTok, none of them received the notifications that supposedly went out in October.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 6 months ago to news in SpaceX executives worried Elon Musk was on drugs during 'cringeworthy' all-hands meeting, WSJ reports

Which means this must’ve been really bad for it to stand out so much.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 6 months ago to news in X Kicked Off 2024 by Screwing Up During Japan's Earthquake Emergency

Twitter did eventually get its shit together and lift the API limits on NERV’s accounts, but people on JP Twitter were furious, and “Elon” in Japanese (イーロン) was trending, with people basically cussing him out for effing up Twitter by limiting NERV and getting rid of the chronological timeline. Folks were also upset at all the “reply zombies” (blue check bot accounts) commenting complete garbage like “nice” and “happy new year” in posts about the earthquake.

As for misinformation, the evening of the quake “人工地震” (manmade earthquake) was trending on Twitter, and NHK news yesterday actually had a segment on last night explaining that no, the quake was not manmade, and that misinformation was being spread on Twitter.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to news in Japan Airlines plane in flames on runway at Tokyo's Haneda airport

Oh, it very much is.

And in case the picture doesn’t show, here it is.