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Twitter has suspended the accounts of a prominent Tesla and Elon Musk critic, PlainSite founder Aaron Greenspan (www.cnbc.com)

submitted 2 years ago by LollerCorleone@kbin.social to c/news@kbin.social

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Before he bought Twitter, Musk remarked, "I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means."

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[–] exohuman@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

My Twitter account was suspended out of nowhere which was odd because I had not posted anything in months.

[–] 1chemistdown@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Head over to bluesky. It’s not a shit show.

[–] mephiska@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Can’t. Submitted request to join over a month ago and nothing.

[–] LollerCorleone@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Or sign up to a nice little Mastodon instance and stop promoting centralised social media platforms which can go the same way as Twitter.

[–] QHC@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is that federated? If no, why not promote Mastodon or Kbin's microblog, or something else within the Fediverse?

[–] 1chemistdown@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Totally fair comment, but some people like an app and a similar experience to what they’re used to and their is nothing wrong with that.

[–] QHC@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I disagree. Low-effort users that are just wanting to get a dopamine hit are not helping build something new and valuable.

[–] 1chemistdown@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That’s why you need to point them towards things like bluesky. Send them to what they want.

[–] QHC@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Haha, fair enough. You were also specifically replying to someone asking about Twitter vs Mastodon, so providing an alternative that isn't owned by a total shitheel is still better.

I apologize profusely for being snarky on the Internet.

[–] 1chemistdown@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

We’re cool!

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

They're posting on lemmy... 🙂

[–] kobra@readit.buzz 2 points 2 years ago

I don’t think it’s open yet. Mastodon.social is though!

[–] GunnarRunnar@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

No invite sadly. Though I'm not sure it will be any better than Twitter.

[–] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

careful. BlueSky is headed up by Jack, of Twitter fame, and he's cut from a similar cloth as Musk.

[–] 1chemistdown@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Jack is on the board but Jay Graber is the ceo. So far they have put tools in to squash alt right trolls, report and cut out nazi’s, misogynists, repost bots, growth hackers, transphobes, anti-LGBTQIA’s, enlightened centrist, reply trolls, and bigot defenders.

They brought in mastodon and activitypub advisors to help them decentralize, and went open source.

But, they are a corporate entity. But they’re trying for now.

[–] fear@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

This happened to me before, likely because I logged in from a VPN that they had an IP flag for. They wanted me to provide my phone number to unban the account. Hard pass. If I want to try Twitter again, I'll start looking at Mastodon.

[–] nottheengineer@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

Twitter mods were probably rolling a dice at some point to meet some ridiculous goal set by Elon.