Musk offers to buy Twitter

DigitalOcean (and I imagine more in the near future, like AWS) has a Mastodon image, a "one-click" deployment:


I've used a few of those, pretty nice, I've used them to get a development instance of something up and running super quick.
I've asked my host about it, we're on a VPS but if they don't have a package I would have to set it all up manually. Would be nice to have our own dedicated server for TalkedAbout.
 
This one nailed it. :ROFLMAO:

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Seen on the net while cruising around some mastodon servers

Report: Twitter's content control systems are not functioning, users uploading full movies and more: There are currently numerous anecdotal reports that users are now uploading full movies and other forms of prohibited content to Twitter with apparent impunity. If true, this will go south very quickly.
 
On one site I frequent, they have a firm rule about quoting text. If you go over a couple paragraphs, they will come in and abridge your post because they want no whiff of copyright actions. Movies are going to eat Musk alive.
CC: ALL
"Anyone left who can code anti-copyright infringement meet me on the 10th floor immediately."
 
CC: ALL
"Anyone left who can code anti-copyright infringement meet me on the 10th floor immediately."

It's clear Musk is not in compliance on some aspects of content that are subject to regulation. Not sure why regulators are not already swooping in... unless they are co-investors?! 😵‍💫
 
It's clear Musk is not in compliance on some aspects of content that are subject to regulation. Not sure why regulators are not already swooping in... unless they are co-investors?! 😵‍💫

IIRC, enforcement of copyright is initiated by the copyright owner......and even then, these films are third party content so Twitter has a fair bit of legal protection, although I think they're expected to remove the material upon a copyright owner request
 
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IIRC, enforcement of copyright is initiated by the copyright owner......and even then, these films are third party content so Twitter has a fair bit of legal protection, although I think they're expected to remove the material upon a copyright owner request

So we can expect to bump into not only illegally uploaded regular movies bur probably all manner of stuff that is NSFW and even if that were reported there'd likely be a backlog of reports and probably not many content moderators left working at Twitter by now. Ugh. Uglier and uglier!
 
A minimally regulated site will be ok if the users are comfortable. I suspect a bunch of these people are uploading stuff that they should not be either just because they can or because they are reacting to the idiotic behavior of the owner – some of this improper activity may be happening entirely for the sake of attacking Musk.
 
A minimally regulated site will be ok if the users are comfortable. I suspect a bunch of these people are uploading stuff that they should not be either just because they can or because they are reacting to the idiotic behavior of the owner – some of this improper activity may be happening entirely for the sake of attacking Musk.

Well Musk has re-enabled Project Veritas account. That's an attack on people who like facts...
 
Not sure how true this is, but a friend said he read that one of the main reasons Musk followed through with the purchase is because if it went through with the lawsuit there were a lot of emails that would be made public that reveal Musk really isn’t that bright. It’s like Trump and his taxes. There’s just some things that can shatter your public image and possibly that image was largely cultivated by yourself.

Obviously you can say his behavior since the purchase also reveals he’s not that bright but he probably feels or felt he could be more proactively control that as opposed to defending behavior and things said in the past. He’s gone all in on his own mythology thinking that could save him. The purchase is his "special military operation".

There seems to be a glut of rich people trying to mirror the worst actors in history and apparently they didn’t read the last chapter where it didn’t end well for them. Doesn’t help that they mostly just hang out with each other trying to both gain favor and manipulate each other for top position. It’s like having a great weekend with friends and dread going back to work after it, but for them the dread is commingling with or attempting to control 99% of the population. Just a big bummer that’s part of life.
 
CBS left Twitter Friday.

They made it less than 48 hours before they were back.

I think you're reading way too much into this, i.e., you're implying some sort of musk (and by way of musk, trump ...) "win" by a news organization taking a pause over the weekend, reviewing the security/content/management concerns, and coming back to a service.
 
I think you're reading way too much into this, i.e., you're implying some sort of musk (and by way of musk, trump ...) "win" by a news organization taking a pause over the weekend, reviewing the security/content/management concerns, and coming back to a service.
They made that clear from the gate but I'm sure Fox News is making it into something it isn't and their followers are spouting their given talking points.

The actual story:

CBS News said Sunday it's resuming its use of Twitter after around a 40-hour pause because of its "security concerns" with the platform.

The big picture: It was the first major U.S. news organization to suspend use the social media platform since Elon Musk's chaotic takeover, which has been riddled with layoffs, conspiracy theories, and has raised questions about content moderation.
  • The media company did not say what its security concerns were or whether they were resolved.
What they're saying: "After pausing for much of the weekend to assess the security concerns, CBS News and Stations is resuming its activity on Twitter as we continue to monitor the situation," the new organization's communications team tweeted Sunday.
 
CBS left Twitter Friday.

They made it less than 48 hours before they were back.

Yeah the big corporations (and governmental agencies from the national weather service on down to county sheriffs) don't really know what to do. There are issues beyond potential loss of followers now, with Musk having slashed staff while also letting more bad actors in (not just re-opening accounts but raising risks of security breaches).
[ To me sounds like CBS c-suite did one of those "yeah security matters until it gets in the way of conducting business, and so will the risk compliance officer please now leave the room for a few minutes." ]​

It's like they're all figuring sooner or later some adults will show up and Twitter will "settle down" or something. They don't get the fundamental instability that the platform itself is now enduring and the drip-drip-drip effect of inadequate maintenance.

As for recovery options, Musk has stripped the place of people who only might be able to cope with a total collapse of a huge distributed system making so many transactions per second anyway. Platforms like that aren't meant to shut down totally. Who the heck knows how long it could take to recover... weeks, months, still w/ data losses.

Yet all these big brands, agencies, politicians, influencers... figure "well let's see what happens" because it really is a big step to just move off a platform when you have millions of followers.

It's like watching a freight train slowly approach a river crossing where the bridge has collapsed. Everybody figures well it will stop, right? Twitter's users are driving the train and they're not going to stop because hey it's just the internet and surely someone will fix it if it breaks.
 
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