As much as X can get bent
The eradication of human sexuality from mass media culture is a clear sign of intense rot at the heart of our civilization.
How can such a fundamental element of thr human experience can be so conspicuously absent for almost all art and media. A clear sign of the omnipresent censure and purge of dissenting opinion in our supposedly "free" society.
Time to drop a ton of photoshops of Musk with a diseased micropenis until he changes his mind about this. Maybe shops of Zuckerberg and Musk heads onto gay porn stars so it looks like Mark is dominating Elon's asshole in the literal sense rather than just the figurative sense.
X has been toying with the idea of fully embracing adult content and has even planned a feature for adult creators that could position X as an OnlyFans rival. That plan was delayed, Platformer reported in 2022, after red-teaming flagged a seemingly insurmountable obstacle to the launch: "Twitter cannot accurately detect child sexual exploitation and non-consensual nudity at scale."
Non-consensual porn had also been a serious problem for PornHub, eventually they just nuked all unverified accounts.
Hmm, maybe that's the plan for X too. It's been going in that pay-to-play direction for a while now.
Class, sophistication, and above all a sense of the dignity of the written word are all things that make Twi- I mean “X” - the foremost social media app on the Interwebs.
Now show us your naughty bits. Barely legal teens to the left.
Porn is actually a good indicator of a social site's success. Early Twitter pre-algo had a lot of furries and low quality hentai, now it has lots of high quality OC. The fediverse is past the very early stages but we're still playing catch up. Algorithms help (in general too) but we don't really have any yet.
Well this makes sense. elon musk wants to be able to show his face on twitter/x. And he couldn't do that before, because elon musk is an ass. I'll say it again to really drive the point home.
elon musk is an ass.
elon musk is an ass.
elon musk is an ass.
I just wish Lemmy were popular enough that this would get back to him. People trashing elon musk (is an ass......sorry, it's habbit now) in a place that he can't buy because there's no singular owner. On a platform that would relentlessly boo him harder than that time he was onstage with dave chapelle.
I PROMISE you guys, whenever the republicans are done with this trump experiment, we're getting desantos vs musk in the republican primaries. Both have an ego that wouldn't let them be VP.
The only good news is that they both can't win. There CAN BE ONLY ONE!!!!......shitbag.
So, I don't use Twitter. But as I can tell, here are some of the the sources of friction:
The rebranding to X threw out brand value.
Policy shifts didn't make some people -- who wanted the other policies, which I understand to generally be more-content-restrictive -- happy.
Twitter laid off a bunch of expensive human moderators who were censoring content.
So, speaking personally, I'm pretty hard in favor of speech being permissive. I don't want someone preventing me from seeing someone's speech. I want to make those decisions myself.
However, there are people who don't agree; they'd prefer to have their environment have content moderation.
What the changes did was basically force people into a more-permissive environment, which some did not like.
With the benefit of hindsight, what I think Twitter should have done is the following:
Keep Twitter active.
Start charging for or otherwise monetizing Twitter sufficiently to cover human moderator costs.
Start up X.com. Provide a seamless migration path to X.
Gateway all Twitter content to X.com. Don't do the reverse (or maybe do so on a limited basis, like having particularly popular content flow back, but filtered or human-curated). Maybe have some mechanism for Twitter users to request that X feeds be gatewayed back to Twitter.
That solves a number of problems:
People who want a place that have censored content have that option. The default is for the environment to remain the same.
People who don't want heavy moderation can have that, and aren't having to pay for someone else's moderation.
If a country wants to ban X (like, most of the regulatory yelling I hear about X seems to be coming from the EU) they can do that. People in the EU can still use Twitter.
It'd even be possible to make other content-filtering variants attached to X, because I guarantee that some countries have different ideas of what they think should be permitted in public discourse.
The brand value doesn't go away; I've seen many people point out that Twitter is a very-recognizable brand.
I suggested that something vaguely similar might be a good idea, back when the EU started passing some of their content restrictions. Didn't involve the X.com stuff, though; that came later.
Like, the problem here is basically that there are different social norms and regulatory regimes around the world. Trying to create one global identical set of policies is invariably going to make some users and some countries annoyed. But...that's not really necessary to have at least some level of global intercommunication.