Lovely article from The Verge. If you're so inclined, you can also sign up for an irregular newsletter (essentially, whenever the author feels as if there's too much Elon in the news) titled "This Week in Elon!"

Fair warning, there's a bit of spicy (or normal, if you're Australian) language used. 😂

https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/28/23428132/elon-musk-twitter-acquisition-problems-speech-moderation

@woohookitty I mean, this is the same guy that's cancelled people's Tesla orders after they wrote a negative review.

He's not just garbage, he's hot, steaming garbage, that I wouldn't feed to a pig (especially not one that's got bacon potential. )

A day like this calls for some mindless ratting in Eve Online.

#cosogaming

Coupla things - gotta echo what so many others have said - lock your birb account DOWN.

To the more experienced CoSoNauts - is there a way to pin/post a link for new users, on how to slow down the community firehose? If the influx I suspect is coming materializes, it might be a bit overwhelming for those not familiar with ways to filter content into columns more friendly to their interests.

@xhtml2 Sorry, should have been more clear, was in a rush to get to a meeting.

To the best of my knowledge, it's not new - but until now, was less of a concern. TBH, was likely to leave the birb soon regardless, this is just accelerating things.

This is my (non) surprised face...

TL;DR - Twitter's privacy policy switches "delete" for "deactivate", which is NOT the same thing.

https://twitter.com/wbm312/status/1585677178674388992

@AkomoCombine @hacks4pancakes

I guess this is also a reminder that I need to change from the Space-X Pirate avatar, lol!

How do I know it's gonna be a great Friday? I just found out (and how did I not know already!?) @hacks4pancakes is on CS!

Gives me hope that if (when) Muskrat burns the birb to the ground, some of the good folks will still be found in places like this.

@frankp fortunately, my lazy ass figured out how to tweak my camera settings to remove crow's feet and scruffy fuzz on Zoom calls. 😉

@zylerzee Hi there, and welcome! The tempo/pace here at CoSo is definitely different than places like Twitter, etc. That's partly due to their design, which tries to "excite" users to keep them "engaged" (and serve them more advertisements). I kind of look at it as taking a vacation from the hustle n bustle of the big city, to a quiet country vacation spot.

To find topics that interest you, try searching for terms and tags, and create a custom column with them. 👍
https://counter.social/userguide.pdf

Hmmm.... Ukraine's apparently been having issues with Starlink since late September, and Musk rejected their request to make it available in Crimea.
https://www.economist.com/briefing/2022/10/06/elon-musks-foray-into-geopolitics-has-ukraine-worried

@tmbrown327 Wait... did another one of Elon Musk's companies build it?

😂

@th3j35t3r Jesus fuck-socks, I'm gonna hafta block both of those bozo's, 'cause they just don't get it.

"Why won't you just do it like I want you to, even though I refuse to try it?"

For fuck's sake, I've had more intelligent conversations when trying to get my 5-year-old to eat their vegetables!!