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X down – latest: Twitter and Grok not working in another major outage (www.the-independent.com)

submitted 7 months ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 179 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is a net good for society.

Side note: I installed rustfs yesterday, and it has an X link at the top of the admin page you can’t remove.

I’ve uninstalled it. That’s bullshit.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

rustfs

Was wondering what this is, but it doesnt even have a wikipedia page. Is it not open source / self hosted?

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

https://github.com/rustfs/rustfs

[–] thejml@sh.itjust.works 44 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Time for a pull request to remove it!

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago

I love open source

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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 53 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't use twitter, but the reason people still do is the same reason people still use reddit.

It's where the people are. Normally this is the part where I use some big exaggerated example of what COULD be happening on twitter and they'd still use it. However, saying "They would still use use it if it catered to pedophiles and nazis" is not only true, because they are, but it's also the most exaggerated example I can think of.

No matter what twitter does, people will still use them, BECAUSE people use them. Twitter has something like 375million people, while Mastadon has varying reported numbers, but I'm seeing 7million, 10million or 12million depending on who's talking. That's still a far cry from 375million.

The hard part is figuring out how many of those 375million are bots.

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[–] thejml@sh.itjust.works 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I stopped when it became X. However it was full of racist, bigotry and hatred before then as well.

I used it to keep up with some content creators and tech companies but I did so by getting an API key and running a cli that only pulled down messages from who I followed. Made it much more bearable and useful.

Since the Xittification, API keys are expensive and I've either followed them elsewhere, or mostly just given up. Some dropped it, but when you have thousands to millions of followers on a platform, from their side, it's hard to lose that audience.

I used to like Twitter when it started, following people and small companies/communities was super easy and the 140char limit nice and terse for both the posters and the ones following. Then it shat the bed and then it got bought out and while some still post there because of followers, most have left or just disappeared.

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[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

In the case of content creators, you go where your audience goes. Almost all of the content creators I watch went back to twitter and almost exclusively post only live notices and social updates. I don't have one that has a good opinion of the platform but, there's a much larger audience there so therefore they stay.

Visibility is everything, and there are many steps between following you off the platform and not engaging with your stuff. Many will not follow a creator to an alternative platform if it means having to juggle an additional network, they will just let that creator fall out of their interest group.

I know for a fact I wouldn't be on lemmy if I still used reddit, so any content creator I followed there I dropped. It is too annoying having to juggle multiple social media platforms.

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[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I don't use twitter either, its blocked by choice on my DNS blocker but, the majority on the platform are not a pedo, regardless of the owners of it. It's still really the only valid mainstream option for content creators. Do you have a better option? Because I know bsky or lemmy sure as hell aint going to get the job done for them (they have already tried that and went back due to lack of usage.)

its a circle, creators aren't going to leave the platform because consumers are there, consumers aren't going to leave because creators are there. The only real hope of that changing is either twitter screwing up so hard that they can't stay, or a superior alternative being made that allows both the creator and the viewer to leave at once, so far bsky has come to be the closest but has still fallen short.

edit: changed tone and wording to be less aggressive.

[–] limelight79@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Twitter was useful for getting updates about sports during games - for example, an update on whether a player who was injured might return to the game, or sometimes, more detail on something weird that happened (you'd be shocked at how poorly informed people in the arena are, compared to those watching on TV). A lot of this depends on who is feeding the info, though, and the more recent beat reporters for our favorite hockey team haven't been as active on Twitter, so I closed my account after Musk bought it. Haven't really missed it.

But even today, every article about something that happened in a game will embed a Twitter link for video. Like there's no other possibility - just Twitter.

I'm not defending this, just saying that sports use it extremely heavily.

[–] hactar42@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago

I kept mine active but haven't used it since Musk took over. I just changed my name and bio to my Mastodon account so people could find me. I used it for work and had a lot of people find my content through it, so I didn't want to just kill it. I also didn't want someone claiming my username because I use the same one on pretty much all of my work socials. It got to the point last week that I'd rather not be associated with the site, even if people know it's just to point you to my Mastodon. Hitting that delete button felt good, but I wish I had done it back in 2022.

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago

They are pedophiles and Nazis. Remember half voted for the guy so there is at least that many that don't care.

[–] sepi@piefed.social 2 points 7 months ago

Different people like different things. Some people are lame and like things that are lame.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

FOMO related to the people on the platform, FUD about other platforms, people thinking if they left would make Elon even more right wing, people being shamed into being apolitical thus leaving X would mean a political stance, etc.

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I use it to promote my pron site. No offense to lemmy users but we're not the type of people that pay for such content.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Artists I follow post mostly either on X or Instagram, which I don't find to be much better of an alternative. All that have mastodon or bluesky accounts I've switched over, but many do not because there aren't enough users.

But I haven't actually tweeted anything for something over a decade now?

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[–] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 50 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

They went to stop it from nudifying kids and it took the whole site down lmfao

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 19 points 7 months ago

Grok has infected every file, they have lost control of MecaHitler.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure

[–] vegeta@lemmy.world 38 points 7 months ago

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 33 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh no. /s

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 22 points 7 months ago

Anyway...

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 31 points 7 months ago

Good I hope it’s hackers and I hope they destroy it

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 30 points 7 months ago

Nature is healing

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 26 points 7 months ago

Aww, I love this for them.

[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 25 points 7 months ago

Y'all don't come back now, y'hear?

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago

Life uh.... Finds a way?

[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 17 points 7 months ago

Let’s fucking GO!

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 15 points 7 months ago

Keep it down this time.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 11 points 7 months ago

I mean, he did fire the majory of the people keeping it running.

[–] Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Bleed money please

[–] TehWorld@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Money isn’t a thing. I saw that Musk is at 700B now. He can spend a million dollars a DAY for nearly two thousand YEARS.

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

Love this! Fuck musk!

[–] l3ored@piefed.social 9 points 7 months ago

Let that sink in.

[–] vermaterc@lemmy.ml 8 points 7 months ago

Let this sink ~~in~~ down

[–] Ron@zegheteens.nl 8 points 7 months ago

Keep it that way

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 months ago

Now most world governments won't be able to have their discourse surveilled.

[–] tehsillz@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

doesn't work here either.. mostly because i've completely blocked it from my network

[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Oh well

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

What’s that?

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Stupid idea selling the damn thing in the first place without the consent of its userbase.