Come on Tim Apple. Do it. You know it’s the right thing to do
Actually, with Google recently losing in court where Apple had previously won because Google was exempting some developers from its App Store rules; Apple might be actually inclined to actually enforce its rules in X’s case lest they suffer the same fate
Tim Appleis like the only positive thing that came out of Trump’s mouth/presidency, except forvery legal, very cool
perfect phone calls
gushing about chocolate cake while bombing
IraqSyriabig, red button for Diet Coke room service in White House
Former President Drink Bleach was a source of many quips or words, good words for those reading along at a 4th grade level…
Look, he’s got a couple pithy keepers, I’m secure enough in my political orientation to admit that. I always joke about perfect phone calls now lol
Edit: also, thuh BEST/most POWERFUL wordz
He did restore faith that George W Bush decision to finish reading a children’s book when the planes were crashing into the trade centre was the best choice.
Former President
DrinkInject BleachFTFY
Idk man.
Trump was easily the most comedically entertaining president. Like, not in a good way. Like, cofveve or whatever wtf?
I’ll present you with Shane Gillis doing a bit
K I still need someone to sit down with me and explain the whole “Covfefe” thing
Edit: in homeopathic sized doses, he is objectively hilarious and tolerable. But his word salads make me
wannaneeda self-cannabinalizeIt was a tweet. He tweeted this absolute nonsense and everyone was like “wtf is he on drugs?”
That’s it.
But like has anyone tried to explain or postulate what was meant specifically by covfefe, like what was the context?
Edit:
covfefe = coverage
He probably just fat-fingered his phone with a half-written tweet open. If he’d just followed that up with “…coverage I’m actually the awesomest president ever blah blah blah” nobody would’ve noticed.
But instead it turned into this whole thing about how the tweet was meaningful and people were just too dumb to get it. Which just made him look ridiculous as usual.
I’m so glad I have male-ballerina fingers 😊
I mean it was midnight. So, I think he was trying to say something about despite a day of bad press coverage, coffee? Has allowed him to…
Fall asleep face first on his keyboard?
Idk.
Sometimes when you’re getting up of the john you get that Vagus nerve thing where you 1/2-passout when getting up. Maybe that was it
Yes. Many people have tried to explain it. Parts of the qult are claiming that it’s a cure for the covid vaccine, (Co)Cobalt, (V)Vanadium, and two (Fe) iron.
Nah, its simple and I literally just explained it (as evinced by [the context of] his tweet)
He was on episodes of WWE wrestling, im pretty sure he just spelled “kayfabe” wrong
Bush Jr’s asinine ramblings were funnier IMO. “Now watch this drive” lives in my head rent free.
I’m pretty sure he was referring to “kayfabe” and didn’t quite get it right
Meatball Ron is pretty funny. Normally his nicknames for people are fucking stupid.
Please…Im gunna need a list of his greatest “hits”
Covfefe has been a pretty fun word, as well as referring to “Mooch” as a unit of time.
Very stable brain
the stablest
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While you may be right, it’s more likely to be the optics of being associated to this… person that will be the deciding factor.
LOL Apple doesn’t give a single shit about “the right thing to do”, all they care about is money, and Apple is happy to not whack that hornet’s nest that’s actively stuffing their pockets, meanwhile they can continue to (rightfully) blame Twitter for what happens on Twitter.
Apple did remove Parler from the App Store in the past due to lack of moderation. It did not end well for Parler. I don’t know how badly it has gotten over there on Twitter though. Is Twitter reaching the Parler level of toxicity yet?
Musk just hsoted a space with Ramaswamy, Andrew Tate, Matt Gaetz, and Alex Jones
How do you think that went down? My prejudice tells me it was probably racist and xenophobic AF and probably included some dog whistles
Yikes. That’s a four horsemen of deplorables. What a horrible echo chamber of depravity.
Thought Tate was in prison? And WTF would he do that for?
He was under house arrest for a few months for investigation and now he is confined to Romania while the trial is pending. Romanian laws.
Why do you think? He’s a right wing fascist asshole
Just kill it please, People will be much better off on the Fediverse both mentally and to get away from bigots like Musk.
can still be containment zone
Probably joking, but I like this idea, let them have their own little shitty cesspool so we can have nice things elsewhere
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Yea….ok, it was a nice idea for five minutes, but you aren’t wrong there
I think there is some balancing that can be done to prevent bad faith twitter users from claiming space in the larger instances. The day twitter goes down, maybe capping the number of new accounts created daily could be used to prevent ban avoidances and agitate them off the fediverse or into smaller instances.
Also, I think the current model of a fediverse will definitely have cesspools regardless of where the users came from. We do have loli and pedo instances unfortunately.
I just wish the pool pissers could have their own nice contained pool, and the rest of us could swim piss free
In every walk of life the best way to diffuse is separate into the mass. Dilution is key.
I mean, realistically if the fediverse became mainstream they’d still have that, they’d just make their own Mastodon or Lemmy or whatever else instances and most everyone else would defederate with those. If anything I’m kind of surprised they haven’t gone to such platforms already, since while you can certainly be banned from individual instances and instances can be defederated from other instances, you cant be banned from the fediverse as a whole and they could always find a group of like minded jerks and make a little collection of instances for themselves
A cesspool where every 3 letter agency is quietly watching from the sidelines and taking notes.
Did you mean “echo chamber”?
The problem with restricting the nutbags to one platform with no one calling out their bullshit, Is that they start to believe their own lies.
can still be containment zone
I thought that’s what “truth” social was
Yeah but rather it not become a breading ground for people like that with Elon’s plans on adding dating into the mix.
Speaking as a former reddit mod still atoning for my sins, I can say with confidence that the answer to the question: “what would happen if a reddit mod had actual power that mattered?”
Is simply this: Elon Musk would happen.
“Stoning for my sins” see now this is how you get people excited about a religion.
It was a strange autocorrect at the time of writing, but I am properly stoned now so perhaps it was prophetic.
Were you a super mod? Why would you want to be a mod? Is it because your lacked enough control over your life so moderating gave you a sense of power you didn’t maintain in your own life?
If we’re doing a bit, it’s because all forms of pornography have lost their appeal for me after years of slapping myself silly in my landlady’s basement (who is yes my mom technically), and eventually I could only achieve an erection, much less climax, by acting as a capricious and temperamental God among the mere mortals cursed to find themselves under my power. But eventually even that wasn’t enough and I’ve since moved on to direct marketing in the crypto space.
If we’re being humans, it’s because a small community I was a part of, and for which I had some emotional skin in the game, needed help and I decided to give it a shot. I only ever did the one subreddit, and we never grew larger than… I don’t know 250k, and then I burned out and moved on.
Most people just use pills for that. Though some buy twitter.
Most people mod because they love a community and don’t want it to die. If it weren’t for mods the forums you are currently using would devolve into spam and hate speech immediately. Sure some mods are bad, some are terrible, but the majority are good.
I’ve never even thought of Twitter’s reliance on App Stores. It’s hilarious how many hands Elon is biting. It’s impossible to keep track of.
Cue Phony Stark making his own X Phone.
Doubtful. I don’t think he wanted Twitter any more than Trump actually wanted to be president the first time around.
I think he wanted to fuck with them to tank their stock for the lolz and he got himself harnessed to them like a dumb ass, and now he’s killing it as artlessly as he acquired it.
He made the claim back in 2022
Granted, still doesn’t mean anything exactly.
Although, it would make the most sense for him if Xitter got banned. He could have all of his shitcoin financial doings on there, and have Grok as its AI assistant. Truth Social built right in, Alex Jones built in, Cucker Tarlson content built in; all that. Instead of having everything China has all in one app, just put it all on the X phone.
The Far Right would buy them in droves and droves.
That’s after he was already saddled with it, so it’s all part of the larp. Making an X phone only makes sense if you want to extract value out of X, but he doesn’t want to extract value out of X, he wants to destroy Twitter beyond all recognition, and for now that means talking grandly about all of the ways that he will fight to make X work, all of which are doomed and designed to fail.
That’s my theory at least.
He’ll just buy some Chinese OEM phone and slap the dumb logo on it. And his audience of moronic fans erupts…
It would be very similar to the Wayne Industries mobile phones from The Dark Night, listening to everything and building a database.
I’m not holding my breath here. People seem far too willing to put up with stuff they wouldn’t otherwise because it’s Twitter. Far too many news orgs still point people to Twitter accounts.
Even my favorite email newsletters and blog sites still point to twitter.
It’s kinda frustrating to click a link then immediately, a giant “log in to see more”.
Here’s a link to the archived article.
Can we just fucking hold these people accountable already? Stop being afraid of taking them to task…especially when you’re one of the very few entities on the planet who have the resources to do so.
Generally the reason why it is like this is because you know others have resources to do the same to you and you don’t want to start a trend of doing that thing. Also, it’s their leverage against the people it could be used against. You’re asking an amoral group of individuals to act morally - that flies against everything they stand for.
That makes sense, sadly.
If i’m seeing this article on Bloomberg, someone peeped off the record. Xitter is in for a world of pain.
Not really seeing anonymous sources cited here. This looks like good old fashioned speculation.
X marked the spot
Hold it in place, Tim, and I’ll get my hammer.
Someone should make an app that post Alex Jones tweets. Nothing else either, no fancy U.I either, just text messages matching tweets from twitter. If Apple banned the app or never released it, the developer could in theory sue Apple because they aren’t doing anything to prevent it on twitter.
Such an app would violate the App Store rules:
4.2 Minimum Functionality: Your app should include features, content, and UI that elevate it beyond a repackaged website. If your app is not particularly useful, unique, or “app-like,” it doesn’t belong on the App Store.
Probably a pretty big grey area, considering how many mobile websites are for all intents and purposes an app. I’m sure you’d be able to do it with some minimal added “functionality” to satisfy the requirements.
Ok fine, adds public tracking of all Alex Jones court cases and money laundering.
I’d love this. Musk doesn’t have the money to buy Apple and do to it what he did with Twitter.
I just reported the X app in the store for hateful content.
