The D1P/Twitter "Rules Of Engagement" Going Forward

[Brian]

This probably results me in posting less because copying a tweet to start a new thread about games is pretty easy and doesn’t take too much time to do. I am interested to see how a tweet heavy forum adapts to the ban. 

[Bacon]

here is what a "twitter" post looks like if you were to go the reddit route lol

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

Just now, Bacon said:

here is what a "twitter" post looks like if you were to go the reddit route lol

Maybe Jason isn’t screwed after all

[Dodger]

Maybe I’ll finally stop seeing Ben Shapiro tweets I never had any desire to see.

[Bacon]

Here. It is mostly a joke but

https://www.reddit.com/r/BaconsLoophole/

 

Edit: While I expect no one to ever use this including myself, this is for videos and gaming only. No political text based twitter links cuz that is cringe. I've never liked going into a thread and seeing Jason posting three twitter links in a row about some shit I ain't gonna read.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

30 minutes ago, Brian said:

 I am interested to see how a tweet heavy forum adapts to the ban. 

 

If anything, that was my fault for allowing that to happen in the first place.

 

What I hope happens is that people start engaging with each other more often just like we did in the "old days".

[stepee]

I bet we figure it out and it’s fine, just a hunch.

[Bloodporne]

1 hour ago, skillzdadirecta said:

Doesn't really effect me that much. I hope Twitter burns to the fucking ground. Along with Meta, Instagram and all the other social networking sites who's negatives outweigh their positives in my opinion. 

My stance as well essentially. I'm pretty much thoroughly anti social media in general at this point I admit. The less the better as far as I'm concerned.

[Brian]

20 minutes ago, stepee said:

I bet we figure it out and it’s fine, just a hunch.

Tweet by Brian “Bud I love your optimism”

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[Biggie]

I spend more time on Twitter anyway

[BasemntDweller2]

I hope this doesn't go for DIscord......

 

you do you though. I cant knock what you do on your own website. But did you ever think it could drive people to post elsewhere? 

 

 

 

[nublood]

I don’t agree with this at all. But I will abide. 

[XxEvil AshxX]

Never liked Twitter... don't even use it. It's been a cesspool for years, but the idea that now it's banned because it might not be the cesspool you prefer is kinda sus... just sayin'.

 

But.. it's your platform. Do what you want. I'd personally prefer to not have to click to Twitter to watch an embedded video to be honest.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

54 minutes ago, BasemntDweller2 said:

But did you ever think it could drive people to post elsewhere? 

 

Yes, and if this relatively mild restriction is what causes people to post elsewhere, then they probably weren't all that committed to engaging with this community to begin with.

[Joe]

This place is why I became addicted to Twitter in the first place , so now to cut it off is pretty rough lol. It will be fine though.

[Ghost_MH]

4 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

 

I would like to think that our users are savvy enough to only post an image or two from the tweet thread and actually write a short summary of its contents rather than sceenshot/post the whole damned thing 

 

Well, I guess it has been a while since someone crashed my mobile browser with 20+ tweets embedded in a single post. Until now, I had just been thanking faster phones phone.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

30 minutes ago, XxEvil AshxX said:

Never liked Twitter... don't even use it. It's been a cesspool for years, but the idea that now it's banned because it might not be the cesspool you prefer is kinda sus... just sayin'.

 

I will not deny that there is absolutely some degree of hypocrisy on my part involved, and I make no apologies for that whatsoever.

 

At the same time, there is a substantive difference between a cesspool that is a publicly-owned entity that has some degree of accountability to its shareholders and therefore has some guardrails (as flimsy as they might have been) in order to protect investor value and a cesspool that is a privately-owned entity subject to the whims of one very powerful, very rich man.

[AbsolutSurgen]

Twitter never had any guard rails. 
 

Given you’re spending your own money on this site, with no attempt at commercialization, you don’t need to justify yourself to anyone. 

[ThreePi]

In 6 months there's going to be a half dozen Twitter alternatives and in a year or so one of them will probably be viable.

[Fizzzzle]

I'm all for it. Too many threads on here end up just being a bunch of people posting tweets and not actually engaging.

[Jwheel86]

I was in favor of the no shit head idea discussed before, but given that verified users have to pay for their verification, I support these changes. The number of fake accounts is about to skyrocket. 

[crispy4000]

16 hours ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

 

I will not deny that there is absolutely some degree of hypocrisy on my part involved, and I make no apologies for that whatsoever.

 

At the same time, there is a substantive difference between a cesspool that is a publicly-owned entity that has some degree of accountability to its shareholders and therefore has some guardrails (as flimsy as they might have been) in order to protect investor value and a cesspool that is a privately-owned entity subject to the whims of one very powerful, very rich man.

 

It'll just hemorrhage users if his edicts cause enough friction.  User engagement is ultimately what every social media platform has to answer to.

 

Playing devil's advocate...  If Reddit teaches us anything, we're more prone to handwave cesspools when they're managed by collectives and hiveminds.  People like Musk and Zuckerberg being the face of their shitholes causes more people to question them and pressure change.

[SaysWho?]

18 hours ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

Your site your rules.

 

So much sporting/gaming news is posted on Twitter these days, that Twitter as a primary source is hard to avoid.

Anyone know of any good free image hosting sites?

 

I love Imgur and will toss my opinion in with others who like that.

 

Also agree with @ThreePi. At least I really do feel that people who enjoy Twitter's setup for news will set up an alternative. Either that, or currently existing social media sites will try to adopt is as a way to use theirs (if possible).

[Anathema-]

now I can steal jokes with 0 guilt

[crispy4000]

So there's this gaming news post I'd like to share.  However, it's a twitter video with a one sentence summary that doesn't give it proper context.

 

Not going to bother screen capping it.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

17 minutes ago, crispy4000 said:

So there's this gaming news post I'd like to share.  However, it's a twitter video with a one sentence summary that doesn't give it proper context.

 

Not going to bother screen capping it.

 

Is the Riven Remake announcement?

 

[crispy4000]

1 minute ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

 

Is the Riven Remake announcement?

 

 

Nope, but that's cool.

[ShreddieMercury]

Great news, love this principled stance.  D1P is punk rock and all the phonies can get bent.  Another reminder of why this is the only message board that I interact with anymore.

[Bacon]

I do wonder if tweeter really is doomed. As someone who doesn't really care about topics outside of his own personal life, I thought this was a bunch of nothing. This being Musk x Twitter. I am surprised how many people are, for now, abandoning the platform for something I only perceive as totally insignificant for the vast majority of users. Of course, the vast majority really don't care and it is only very specific people that do, but even the amount of these specific people is not something I expected. 

 

I wonder if, by the end of this year, D1P will be hosting embeds of a twitter remake.

[Biggie]

Don’t forget bullies. People who take shots at certain people who are in a very fragile state. 

[CastlevaniaNut18]

Yeah, I caught a glimpse of that post before it was apparently removed. I don’t understand the need to attack someone like that. Especially when you know they’re not in a good place. 

[sblfilms]

I’m loving how the screenshotting of tweets has replaced embedding them and only served to make a worse experience where one can’t easily verify if the tweet is even real.

 

Just ban all Twitter everything, because this right now is the silliest option

[Bacon]

40 minutes ago, sblfilms said:

I’m loving how the screenshotting of tweets has replaced embedding them and only served to make a worse experience where one can’t easily verify if the tweet is even real.

Huh? Wut?

checks the Musk thread

el oh el

[Keyser_Soze]

2 hours ago, sblfilms said:

I’m loving how the screenshotting of tweets has replaced embedding them and only served to make a worse experience where one can’t easily verify if the tweet is even real.

 

Just ban all Twitter everything, because this right now is the silliest option

 

I think @Brian has the right idea with Nitter. You can verify it's real. Happy sir?