I wonder what, if anything, Elon will do about this?
8 thoughts on “The Subversive Foreign Bots”
I hope he leaves the location data visible.
Instead of having to “click click” through a couple of menus to see this I would prefer every profile by default display a flag of origin right by the profile name.
I dunno. It’s way too easy to spoof social media sites with anonymizers, etc.
At this point I assume at least 80% if not more social media posts are fake or bought. So this isn’t news to me. It’s all crap.
What’s most interesting is the crap now is prevalent way over posts by friends. I think it has gotten to the point that no one really posts things anymore, because they can’t be seen over the trash.
Most ‘social’ posts these days are IMs to friends.
It posts a caption if the account might be behind a VPN and then it says what regional app store they used to install X.
It might say based in USA but then also Turkish App Store.
I am sure there are ways to sideload different app stores too
“In what is assumed to have been a mistake, everyone’s origins and current locations were made public for about an hour before disappearing.”
Not sure why the terminally online Bonchie would assume it was a mistake when X said many times that this would be happening.
It is imperfect, but a step in the right direction and always important to remember X isn’t representative of reality and the reason why X is important is influence.
I’ve come to think the online commentariat consists largely of shitheads and/or assholes. I don’t mind the assholes, kind of my peeps, but it’s amazing how many supposedly well-educated people are some combination of ignorant and stupid. This revelation explains a lot!
Not above the occasional bit of asshole-ry my own self.
Social media has probably performed a public service by revealing the width of the yawning chasm that often separates well-credentialed from well-educated these days.
I hope he leaves the location data visible.
Instead of having to “click click” through a couple of menus to see this I would prefer every profile by default display a flag of origin right by the profile name.
I dunno. It’s way too easy to spoof social media sites with anonymizers, etc.
At this point I assume at least 80% if not more social media posts are fake or bought. So this isn’t news to me. It’s all crap.
What’s most interesting is the crap now is prevalent way over posts by friends. I think it has gotten to the point that no one really posts things anymore, because they can’t be seen over the trash.
Most ‘social’ posts these days are IMs to friends.
Wikipedia link for the day:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
It posts a caption if the account might be behind a VPN and then it says what regional app store they used to install X.
It might say based in USA but then also Turkish App Store.
I am sure there are ways to sideload different app stores too
“In what is assumed to have been a mistake, everyone’s origins and current locations were made public for about an hour before disappearing.”
Not sure why the terminally online Bonchie would assume it was a mistake when X said many times that this would be happening.
It is imperfect, but a step in the right direction and always important to remember X isn’t representative of reality and the reason why X is important is influence.
I’ve come to think the online commentariat consists largely of shitheads and/or assholes. I don’t mind the assholes, kind of my peeps, but it’s amazing how many supposedly well-educated people are some combination of ignorant and stupid. This revelation explains a lot!
Not above the occasional bit of asshole-ry my own self.
Social media has probably performed a public service by revealing the width of the yawning chasm that often separates well-credentialed from well-educated these days.