@luckytran@med-mastodon.com Because actual news and reality carry an "unfair" bias against billionaires .... ​:blobfoxwink:​

@luckytran @glennf That Threads story is particularly heinous to me. Mastodon picked a good time to rollout proper platform wide search, I suppose.

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the twitter one is already going well
https://mstdn.social/@murphyslawyer/111182337374723094

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everyone has the choice of staying with x, so who cares

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In Canada you're not allowed to share links to any reliable news source on any Meta platform. (How much of that is the government's fault and how much is Meta's is not something I want to get into. Just stating the current reality.)

@luckytran This is where official channels for information (eg Government bodies, public services, charities and new publications) need a pass on this sort of stuff.

One plus side - it may block misinformation.. until people find workarounds.

@luckytran These sorts of shenanigans, more than anything else, will drive people towards federated social media platforms sooner or later. The #fediverse is steadily growing, hell even #Usenet is seeing a bit of a resurgence.

I don't care what side of the political isle you're on: right, left, center, libertarian or authoritarian, viewpoint discrimination and censorship are wrong.

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Prediction: tons of journalists are taking to Twitter right now to rant about this.

@MastodonEngineering They are blinding their users to every thing but their algorithms

We already know that living in a silo changes people’s framing, including journalists. Worse though are the consequences of media stripped of moderation. A society hurtling towards a cliff with no guard rails

https://youtu.be/L4iTKgs7LO4

@luckytran@med-mastodon.com I tried to search something unrelated but spelt similarly to a current event, and google search told me 0 results.. so google search is restricting too.

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Billionaires are dangerously restricting people’s access to news?

no, they are not. people are free to leave those shitty platforms. their own fault, if they refuse.

@luckytran This is horrible. A travesty for public health.

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How posts with links to media stories look like in the Fediverse vs twitter.

Why do journalists continue to take the punishment on twitter?

#X #twitter

@luckytran People are able to get their news from a variety of sources. If they don't, that is their choice.

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Isn't this better than the trash-heap people would generally find when doing a search on Threads?

"When users went to Threads to search for content related to “covid” and “long covid,” they were met with a blank screen that showed no search results and a pop-up linking to the website of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."

@luckytran Fascist billionaires gonna fascist billionaire.

@luckytran Mastodon it's just better over here.

@luckytran Maybe social media was never the best place for news? Maybe it was a terrible place for news?

Maybe we don't need to get news and information from the circus?

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And thus with banners waving and the band playing, we move back to the Middle Ages --
[more or less the words of Clarence Darrow] #culturewars

@luckytran I’ve quit them all and crept Instagram and Madtodon. Instagram will be next to go…

@luckytran so like the last 20 years we’re those dirty hippie progressives have been screaming their heads off about billionaires are the ultra rich and mainstream Dems have said “tut tut we can’t be extreme now”
🤷‍♂️

@luckytran Yeah, it's pretty clear by now that capital won't promote truth or reason. If anything, the opposite is true - https://mronline.org/2022/06/26/capitalism-is-the-real-information-war/

@luckytran anyone using rat site at this point for informational may as well be smacking their head on their desk instead.

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I thought the conservatives in the US were mad that Twitter was silencing them on Twitter. And now Elon is silencing them on Twitter.

@luckytran No one is requiring these news orgs to be there. Instead of complaining they could just leave and the site will go away.

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How about we reserve “billionaires” for those that actually do some benefit to humanity, and reserve “oligarch” for the universal enemies we need to eat before they enslave us all.

@luckytran Not even sure what Twitter is trying to achieve by removing the headline, it just seems to make the site hard to use.

@luckytran Just tested the COVID/Vaccine search on Threads. On the other hand, instead of leading me to misinformation, it provides a link to Health Canada for accurate information. So not all bad.

@luckytran And if I use my VPN to make it look like I'm in the US, it provides a link to the CDC.

@luckytran don't know how anyone thought jumping from Musk's service to Zuckerberg's would be an improvement

@luckytran The #enshittification continues 🙄

@luckytran billionaire corporation owned news media and social media may turn out to be a key factor in the collapse of our civilization.

The narrative surrounding climate and public health - really all humanity has at the end of the day - is totally distorted or silenced by a tiny group of unhealthily rich men.

@luckytran Elon is definitely doing that just do hard drive mag can't dunk on him so easily

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That's exactly why we don't need them and why I have never used the likes of zuck and musk for any source of news.
The only one worse is google.

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PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT:
GET OFF TWITTER, FACEBOOK, THREADS, INSTAGRAM, TIKTOK, ETC.

@luckytran Dont use fascist platforms dont win fascist prizes

@luckytran this is perfection. Dr Hypocrite here is on Twitter 24/7 and occasionally dual posts tweets here so he can, I don't know, get street cred? Bro, either put up or shut up. You're on the Nazi site, eat your fucking lunch. You choose it every day you don't leave.

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When will thee pathetic immature billionaires GROW UP.

A good algorithm for HR

IF previous employer = X, Meta, microsoft, google :
move RESUME to bin
:

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Another case of billionaires joining with fascists to maintain their power, I suppose
@DemocracyMattersALot

I blocked the IP space for X/Twitter/Meta from my home network.

@luckytran this happens on facebook's main site too, can't search for "covid" in a group i'm in related to an event even though the topic comes up and gets discussed. wouldn't be surprised if the algorithm stifles posts about it too

@luckytran I wonder if threads blocking covid searches relates at all to them not wanting to carry news articles. Maybe it's an overly aggressive automated moderation system flagging covid as news related content.

@luckytran Yet another reason to never trust the pet projects of these billionaires.

@luckytran we were supposed to die and beg for food and a roof, but their plan failed.

@luckytran I guess Elon Muskovite notices people run away from X. He hot a suggestion that people for decades used it mostly for memes and to share links, and as you can easily do exactly this at any other platform, and therefore it is necessary to force people post the content directly there at X, (read "write long posts which available only for paid accounts"). This also part of strategy to make isolated bubble where users will not see links but mostly the content directly, "no legacy media"

Gotta disagree. Billionaires certainly aren't helping, but people who fail to comprehend that there are many other, better places to get information besides dumpster fire social media platforms run by sociopaths, are dangerously restricting their own access to news. It's out there. But they're either looking in the wrong places, or not at all.

@luckytran if some people are intentionally not wearing their masks it'll reflect badly on other people (the trail of tears continues)

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* also https://pod.link/kremlinfile/episode/e48d0da7d62c1c4fa1d9a3deb840b3ef

@luckytran - that's why we're here :brain: :vaccinated_skintone3:

@luckytran Nah, this is universal. They're just joining the game that partisan governmental parties have been playing for centuries. Ever hear about the council of Nicea?

@luckytran Both Musk and Zuck are monsters. I'll tell ya that.

#FuckElonMusk
#FuckMarkZuckerberg

@luckytran e o engraçado é ver que o Twitter foi comprado na pretensão de ser o ambiente da liberdade de expressão... Do Threads não tem nem o que falar. Capitalistas sendo capitalistas, nada de novo sob o Sol

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if he hated Twitter so much why couldnt he just have started a new website.. It would have been so much cheaper

@luckytran ....what is Twitter? X?

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Billionaires are restricting people's access to the news, yes. The news that push agendas created and approved by other billionaires.

Good news: we don't need either.

@luckytran They will pry my RSS feeds from my cold dead hands.

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They are trying, but you can get your news here.

On time, or ahead of schedule.

@luckytran That's what billionaires fucking do.

@luckytran I am so happy that after 15 yrs I deleted my bird account 3 days ago. Now just trying to reconnect to those I followed there.

@luckytran long live the #fediverse

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Keep 'em docile. Are you not entertained?
#xitter