Social Media Thread of Social Media Drama

[Red Cyclone]

My entertainment expectations are sky high at this point.

[chronovore]

The app I use, Apollo, has been transparent about interactions with Spez and staff. The new fees were were implemented quickly and have onerous fees attached. It’s clear that Reddit is trying to kill off 3rd party apps. 

They retroactively made exceptions for accessibility focused apps, because they were about to universally destroy access for sight impaired users. 

They could adjust the API to retain advertising even in third party apps. There are options. This is just shortsighted bullshit.

[Uncle]

turns out reddit admins are more willing and able to quash this protest than I'd expected

r/interestingasfuck decided to protest by becoming a NSFW sub (technically fine, there are lots of NSFW subs) and inviting users to post lots of porn, because if a bunch of major subs became full of porn the site becomes less marketable in a public IPO

admins kicked all the mods and changed the sub back, and now it's a free-for-all on requests to claim mod positions there (with some users going tongue in cheek and promising they'll respect users' wishes by keeping it full of porn)

r/mildlyinteresting was planning on doing something similar, and the admins cleaned house there too...only to restore them after a few hours, sending them mail to say they'd been caught up in a list of other subs promoting NSFW content (in other words, threatening them)

[TylenolJones]

[BIONIC]

Jannies getting blown the fuck out

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$5000+

oh god in the replies he says $50K:

also:

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Does anyone mind if we expand this thread to overall corporate social media drama or something? Feel like we need somewhere for the Twitter addicts constant meltdown at Elon to where they'll say completely stupid things constantly:

[Eric Cartman]

thats what the newswire is for idiots

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Don't worry though, all the independent thinkers are still getting the same exact thought out there so you know they'll believe anything:

[Potato]

The irony of these idiots complaining that they no longer have access to journalists because Elon decided to take away their special little tick...

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Regular disinformation sources on Twitter continue attacking Elon's war on whatever:

This idiot is one of my top favorites on Twitter:

Spoiler: actual information, update your API to the new one idiot (click to show)(click to hide)

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[Uncle]

"sEe ThIs JuStIfIeS oUr ShItTiNeSs!!!!!1!"

https://imgur.com/gallery/3WBOto9

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[MJBarret]

Frankly I'll always prefer gallows humour to self righteous pearl clutchers.

Joking about dead people is a time honoured tradition from ages old.

But it's a bit rich when it's coming from the kind of people who spent the last decade screeching at everyone for daring to tell jokes they don't like.

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But it's a bit rich when it's coming from the kind of people who spent the last decade screeching at everyone for daring to tell jokes they don't like.

Their best routine is when they tell you all about how they used to be edgy and racist and homophobic and maybe even a fascist but they have since come to Jesus wokeness and now know better and are trying to get you to understand how you need the Good Word too. They seem to get really mad and insist you're a sinner if you claim that just because they were stupid and easily blindly led by others (and still are apparently) and bigoted and so on that doesn't mean you are. Then you definitely need forced conversion, for your own good. They're just trying to save your soul from eternal damnation, why are you being so difficult? Don't you understand the existential stakes here?

[Eric Cartman]

I can't help but notice that most of those titanic posts were at least a week after the incident after some of the facts had come to light, not day-zero lulz, so they did in fact have some concept of 'too soon'.

[Uncle]

this is real:

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the intent is to piss off the user so much that they reply with literally anything to the mod, so the mod can cry to admins and upgrade the ban from just one sub to site-wide for harassment

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Remember those studies, probably from chud "scientists", about how the left is worse at understanding how their opponents think than vice versa? Anecdotally, the internet proves it every day.

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edit: lol from a few hours ago:

[Nintex]

Patrick trying to stop a Russian tank with a bucket of paint

"here they are, get ready to toss the paint"

*Russian tank rumbles*

"Wait till it gets close*

*Russian tank fires shell at a 20 mile distance*

*Russian tanker notices pink paint on his tracks after driving over the destroyed trench with dead bodies*
"blyat"

[Polident]

Twitter keeps making lurking worse. These past two days, it stopped showing “more like this” posts. Was always interesting to observe how the algorithm grouped trending posts.

[BIONIC]

[tweet]https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1675187969420828672?s=46&t=JPGKEBNYMJUqJDkxKVmPjA[/tweet]

[Boredfrom]

HOLY SHIT WTF?

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[Nintex]

[tweet]https://twitter.com/ElonMuskAOC/status/1675268446089773056?t=o30kAk7kqOLn7g9CP2N4mA&s=19[/tweet]

[tweet]https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1675365001836593154?t=vbDfhPFhKJVS_MXcG_NjeA&s=19[/tweet]

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[Uncle]

but...Occupy Democrats...it's crashing because it's sending requests to itself that go unfulfilled, because of the new limits that were implemented

he didn't implement new limits in order to make it crash so he could say the limits are for data scraping

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