The Vanishing Timestamps
I was just hearing the chatter about that, such an odd change elmo did
Must say, I'm finally warming up to bluesky and avoiding twitter
Someone surmised it might have due to that graph that showed all the times Elonia posted at night and hard to be a credible source of news without timestamps..
i'm less worried about elmo's late-night fever-posts, and more concerned about how this could be used to spread even more disinformation on that hellscape:
While editing posts is a novel feature for paid users, it also opens up the possibility of misinformation being spread. Bad faith users could publish a post saying one thing and derive a ton of reactions and responses only to change it afterwards. Without any recognizable paper trail, this opens up the possibility of abuse on the platform. (
source)
elmo didn't buy twitter as a financial investment. the changes he's brought* are for political purposes - killing moderation (notably around hate speech and disinformation) thus allowing any and all BS, putting links to trump's campaign on the homepage that disappeared the day after the election, removing pronouns, remove ability to block, removing certain topics from the For You page (Ex: Ukraine War no longer exists as of about a week ago), etc etc etc
*some changes he made were in response to twitter's declining financial situation, ex: staff cuts... but the financial situation was a result of the political changes
i'm still on twitter because that's where the info war on Ukraine is taking place, but gawdamn i'm deleting that app the second that the war is over.
