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Re: Rough times for Twitter
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Jacob Hrbek |
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Re: Rough times for Twitter |
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Tue, 08 Nov 2022 10:47:07 +0000 |
It only took one middle age crisis of a bilionaire to make people
realize how much of a garbage twitter is... glory to the fediverse!
-- Jacob "Kreyren" Hrbek
-------- Original Message --------
On Nov 7, 2022, 17:25, Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss <
libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org> wrote:
On 06/11/2022 22:44, Akira Urushibata wrote: > Twitter, now owned by
Elon Musk, is going through a major upheaval. > According to Musk
the company is losing 4 million dollars a day. > Half of the
workforce will depart in a massive layoff, raising > concerns that
there may not be enough staff left to monitor harmful > content. > >
Twitter is also exploring new venues of raising money. One is >
making authorized accounts, previously available to celebrities and
> public officials for free, open to all for a charge. Some are >
worried that imposters make take advantage of this feature. >
Twitter, with its urgent need to raise money, may prod a small team
> to implement it as quickly as possible. > > I request fellow list
members to be on the alert. Someone may > set up an account
pretending to be Richard M Stallman or some other > influential
programmer, and be granted verification. The account may > not last
long but significant damage can be done with no more than a > few
tweets. > > Elon Musk paid 44 billion dollars to acquire Twitter.
Many observers > now feel certain that the unreasonably high price
has led to savage > cost-cutting measures. What people don't notice
is that Musk got much > free software as well. More accurately he
got access thereto in the > form of experienced engineers who know
what free tools are available > and how best to apply them. Many of
them are now leaving Twitter > and that means the firm is losing
access to free software. > > Because free software is free (as in
"free beer") the loss does not > immediately show up in the
accounts. Neither does the effect of any > inappropriate tweet made
by the maverick owner. Being invisible loss > of this nature evades
the attention of most observers, especially > financial experts. It
is possible that even Elon Musk fails to > understand the extent of
the problem, for as we all know, he is one > character especially
fond of the money that he can count. > There has been a huge exodus
to mastodon over the past few days, something like 60,000 users, so
this really does open up opportunities for the free software
communities to help and support. 1. More instances to even the
overall user load 2. Opportunities to help people develop the skills
needed to run their own instance 3. Opportunities to open up
discussions around free software, given that much of mastodon is
based on GPL or similar licensing structures 4. Lets just share
news, content etc on Mastodon, peertube etc and help each other
share this content to these new users We have the opportunity to
make sure the conversation around any free software is positive, so
promoting LibreOffice or BBB or Jitsi as alternatives to teams /
zoom etc. Paul _______________________________________________
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