Social Media Discussion

[Exodor]

I've been there for awhile as Exodor

It's pretty quiet and there's not nearly as much content as I used to get on Twitter but there are a lot less nazis.

[Holman]

I'm there as pwroberts

[Zaxxon]

Yeah, hoping critical mass comes now that people can explore over there without a patron...

[Kraken]

I'm kraken57.

[disarm]

Just joined as 'disarm'

Never bothered with a twitter account before, so not sure how much I'll use Bluesky, but at least I've locked down my name.

[Zaxxon]

Just joined as 'disarm'

Never bothered with a twitter accident before

Excellent slip there, good sir.

[Alefroth]

Straylite

Most of my follows are pretty quiet.

[Isgrimnur]

The behavior I'm currently seeing as an anonymous viewer on Twitter/X is that I can access an individual tweet if I have the URL for it, but I can't see any replies to that tweet. If I try to view someone's feed, I get redirected to the login page.

Nitter is fully functional again, so I'm just using that to access Twitter/X for anything other than clicking through links to specific tweets.

Twitter front-end Nitter dies as Musk wins war against third-party services

NoLog, a Czech group that ran another Nitter instance, announced its demise today. NoLog operated one of the largest Nitter instances but is a different group than the one that created Nitter itself.

"Nitter is over—it's been a fun ride. Twitter blocked the last known way to access their network without a user account," the NoLog update said.

Users reported that many Nitter instances went down about eight months ago as Twitter (now called X) imposed new API restrictions. Some instances stayed online with workarounds, which no longer work.

"Most Nitter servers were using a technique of generating loads of temporary tokens that were used for accessing the content, but that path is now blocked as well," the NoLog update today said.

[Max Peck]

Yeah, Nitter has been dead for me since sometime in January, IIRC. Which means that Xitter is functionally dead for me as well.

[LawBeefaroni]

Hey, look, Musk's sockpuppet calling in to Alex Jone's Infowars.


(Last 25 mins or so - this isn't a link to Infowars but a podcast about Infowars/Alex Jones)

[Kraken]

Is Facebook down this morning? I'm unable to log in on three different devices. Keeps telling me my password is wrong. (edit) Can't load Instagram either.

[pr0ner]

Is Facebook down this morning? I'm unable to log in on three different devices. Keeps telling me my password is wrong. (edit) Can't load Instagram either.

Yep, down for me too.

[UsulofDoom]

Is Facebook down this morning? I'm unable to log in on three different devices. Keeps telling me my password is wrong. (edit) Can't load Instagram either.

Yep, down for me too.

meta.com is down too. Can't login.

[LordMortis]

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/05/faceboo ... users.html

“We’re aware people are having trouble accessing our services. We are working on this now,” Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said in a post on the social media site X Tuesday.

The hashtags ”#instagramdown” and ”#facebookoutage” were trending on X Tuesday morning. Shares of Meta were down more than 1%.

Additionally, Meta is experiencing “major disruptions” across its Meta Admin Center, Facebook login, WhatsApp Business API and Marketing API, according to a company website that tracks the status of its business products.

It is not immediately clear when the outages will be resolved.

[Kraken]

All better now.

[Rumpy]

Amazing the trouble it causes when Facebook is down... I tried resetting my password, but when that didn't work, ie it didn't seem to even recognize I had put a new one in, I figured it was a login server issue.

I really wish there'd be a way for them to give proper error messages or notify users at the top of the login screen that there's an issue. The standard boilerplate messages just cause confusion and panic.

[Carpet_pissr]

Panic?

[Rumpy]

Well yeah, not being able to login would cause some panic among people. Particularly when paired with the 'password not recognized' message.

[MCQueen2]

Amazing the trouble it causes when Facebook is down... I tried resetting my password, but when that didn't work, ie it didn't seem to even recognize I had put a new one in, I figured it was a login server issue.

I really wish there'd be a way for them to give proper error messages or notify users at the top of the login screen that there's an issue. The standard boilerplate messages just cause confusion and panic.

I was scared to delete facebook and move on to newer Social Media platforms...

Now I have almost a year since I deleted it and never looked back to it since... Such a liberating feeling.

[Rumpy]

Amazing the trouble it causes when Facebook is down... I tried resetting my password, but when that didn't work, ie it didn't seem to even recognize I had put a new one in, I figured it was a login server issue.

I really wish there'd be a way for them to give proper error messages or notify users at the top of the login screen that there's an issue. The standard boilerplate messages just cause confusion and panic.

I was scared to delete facebook and move on to newer Social Media platforms...

Now I have almost a year since I deleted it and never looked back to it since... Such a liberating feeling.

I've often thought about it, but it's the only way I can connect to friends and family.

[Moliere]

Amazing the trouble it causes when Facebook is down... I tried resetting my password, but when that didn't work, ie it didn't seem to even recognize I had put a new one in, I figured it was a login server issue.

I really wish there'd be a way for them to give proper error messages or notify users at the top of the login screen that there's an issue. The standard boilerplate messages just cause confusion and panic.

I was scared to delete facebook and move on to newer Social Media platforms...

Now I have almost a year since I deleted it and never looked back to it since... Such a liberating feeling.

I've often thought about it, but it's the only way I can connect to friends and family.

That and FB Marketplace is still a good place for buying and selling stuff. It often outperforms Craigslist and OfferUp when I am trying to sell items.

[Rumpy]

Amazing the trouble it causes when Facebook is down... I tried resetting my password, but when that didn't work, ie it didn't seem to even recognize I had put a new one in, I figured it was a login server issue.

I really wish there'd be a way for them to give proper error messages or notify users at the top of the login screen that there's an issue. The standard boilerplate messages just cause confusion and panic.

I was scared to delete facebook and move on to newer Social Media platforms...

Now I have almost a year since I deleted it and never looked back to it since... Such a liberating feeling.

I've often thought about it, but it's the only way I can connect to friends and family.

That and FB Marketplace is still a good place for buying and selling stuff. It often outperforms Craigslist and OfferUp when I am trying to sell items.

I've never used the Marketplace, but I could see how it would be useful due to the expanded userbase.

[Kraken]

That, and the Dull Men's Club is endlessly entertaining if you're a dull man. Those are my people.

[Rumpy]

For some reason, I have a number of those groups appearing on my feed. I'd never seen any of them until about a month or so ago.

[Alefroth]

Just after Kraken started mentioning it?

[Rumpy]

No, slightly before he first mentioned it. Now it's showing them at least once a day.

[Jaymann]

No, slightly before he first mentioned it...

But he was thinking about it.

[Rumpy]

That's some powerful algorithm then

[Isgrimnur]

It's just a letter. Words are cheap. It's just...silly? Pathetic? Gutless? All of the above...

Suit filed in California. Which has a very strong anti-SLAPP statute. I wonder if this is going to go the way Musk thinks it will...

X, the company formerly known as Twitter, is suing a research group that investigated hate speech on the social media platform, alleging that researchers violated its terms of service in a “scare campaign to drive away advertisers.”

In a lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, X alleged that the American and British operations of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) “engaged in a series of unlawful acts designed to improperly gain access to protected X Corp. data.”

Tossed

A lawsuit that Elon Musk's X filed last year against a research group was thrown out Monday, with US District Judge Charles Breyer saying, "This case is about punishing the Defendants for their speech."
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But Breyer wrote "there can be no mistaking" that the real motive of the suit was to bully X's critics into silence.

The decision cited a survey that found "social media researchers have canceled, suspended or changed more than 100 studies about X" as a result of Musk's policies as CEO.
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In his scathing dismissal, Breyer said the CCDH exercising its First Amendment rights was the fundamental issue, despite X's attempt to sidestep it with arguments about data privacy and security.
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"It is apparent to the Court that X Corp. wishes to have it both ways," Breyer wrote, "to be spared the burdens of pleading a defamation claim, while bemoaning the harm to its reputation, and seeking punishing damages based on reputational harm."

In a footnote, he added: "If there is any question about the 'punishing' part, X Corp. filed a similar suit, not before this Court, in November of 2023 against Media Matters, another non-profit media watchdog, for 'reporting on ads from major brands appearing next to neo-Nazi content.'"