It remains unclear if X can detect nonconsensual sex images at scale.
  • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    So since Deviantart, Imgur, and Tumblr died by banning porn, he’s hoping X will come back to life!?!?

    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      No thanks, the fediverse is better at it, with way less nazis and tankies, those that are here are in their own containment zones.

      • kava@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Twitter is way better for certain topics. I haven’t been able to find the quantity or quality of OSINT stuff almost anywhere else at the level that Twitter has it.

        If you want to know what’s happening on the ground day to day in Ukraine or Middle East, there’s no better place (edit: I lied. Telegram is pretty good, I forgot when I was writing this)

        Like there are people who geolocate pictures to determine GPS coordinates and then get satellite scans to determine the effects of missile strikes or what have you

        Foe example remember the Iran missile/drone salvo? There was an Israeli response to it? Claimed they blew up some Iranian radar for an air defense system with a missile?

        Satellite images showed that was a lie. The damage on the ground implied only a small explosion that looks like other drone explosions. I only knew about it because I was on Twitter following specific people.

        There’s a lot of shit you have to tread through, lots of bots and spam and crazies and propaganda accounts and what have you

        But if you look around there’s a lot of gems

    • StaySquared@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      X is… dead? That’s news to me.

      As of 2023, there are approximately 556 million active monthly users on X. As of April 2024, X receives around 6.1 billion visits per month.Apr 25, 2024

      What… reality do you live in?

      • miridius@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Glad I got to see this comment before the Lemmy hivemind downvoted you to oblivion for posting data that contradicts their world view!

        • StaySquared@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          I could be wrong, but I thought Elon had a campaign to eliminate bots from X? Not sure if that ever took place though or if it’s in the process of.

          • Lumisal@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            1 year ago

            Cool.

            But until you call tell me how many bots, your claim isn’t evidence that it’s actually as active as you imply it to be - at least by humans.

            • StaySquared@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              1 year ago

              No one knows. Apparently all the bigots on X are the bots.

              That’s the best that has been done /shrug

              Plus, who really gives a fk about X if you’re not even using X? I don’t know why the hardon for the community size of X.

      • Zacryon@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I think it’s more a twitterix is dying thing, as user count was declining last time I checked.

  • db2@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It’s probably so he can say that it’s too hard to tell nude children from adults.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      In 2019 I replied to a funny video on twitter.

      I replied “Oh man, this kills me.”

      Instantly banned, no warning, no explaination. Just…banned.

      At least thats why I think they banned me. I have no idea. Instead of telling me why, I had to google likely reasons for an autoban, and found thats a common reason. Its the only thing I can think of.

      That being said, I wasn’t threating murder, or suicide. I was saying “this video is funny” in different words.

      So I don’t find the bots obnoxious now. I never see them!

  • Cyborganism@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I thought they were already allowed… There’s tons of adult performers already on there showing full frontal nudity and pornography.

  • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Can’t wait for three days from now, when they roll that back in a panic.

  • Zip2@feddit.ukEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Is this old news? There’s been massive dicks on there for ages.

  • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Class, sophistication, and above all a sense of the dignity of the written word are all things that make Twi- I mean “X” - the foremost social media app on the Interwebs.

    Now show us your naughty bits. Barely legal teens to the left.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    1 year ago

    So, I don’t use Twitter. But as I can tell, here are some of the the sources of friction:

    • The rebranding to X threw out brand value.

    • Policy shifts didn’t make some people – who wanted the other policies, which I understand to generally be more-content-restrictive – happy.

    • Twitter laid off a bunch of expensive human moderators who were censoring content.

    So, speaking personally, I’m pretty hard in favor of speech being permissive. I don’t want someone preventing me from seeing someone’s speech. I want to make those decisions myself.

    However, there are people who don’t agree; they’d prefer to have their environment have content moderation.

    What the changes did was basically force people into a more-permissive environment, which some did not like.

    With the benefit of hindsight, what I think Twitter should have done is the following:

    • Keep Twitter active.

    • Start charging for or otherwise monetizing Twitter sufficiently to cover human moderator costs.

    • Start up X.com. Provide a seamless migration path to X.

    • Gateway all Twitter content to X.com. Don’t do the reverse (or maybe do so on a limited basis, like having particularly popular content flow back, but filtered or human-curated).

    That solves a number of problems:

    • People who want a place that have censored content have that option. The default is for the environment to remain the same.

    • People who don’t want heavy moderation can have that, and aren’t having to pay for someone else’s moderation.

    • If a country wants to ban X (like, most of the regulatory yelling I hear about X seems to be coming from the EU) they can do that. People in the EU can still use Twitter.

    • It’d even be possible to make other content-filtering variants attached to X, because I guarantee that some countries have different ideas of what they think should be permitted in public discourse.

    I suggested that something earlier might be a good idea, back when the EU started passing some of their content restrictions.

    Like, the problem here is basically that there are different social norms and regulatory regimes around the world. Trying to create one global identical set of policies is invariably going to make some users and some countries annoyed. But…that’s not really necessary to have at least some level of global intercommunication.

    • OsaErisXero@kbin.run
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      1 year ago

      See, the problem is that this all would have required retaining all those expensive engineers that were either terminated or bailed the second he got hands on the platform.

      • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Sure, you’d have to not lay em off, but only the people who are actually making use of their services are paying for them. So users get the “censored” or “non-censored” option.

    • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      You make good, considered suggestions. But even if Musk would read them, he’s not the sort of person to make considered, rational, moves.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    So he is that desperate already? His user numbers must be close to the ground to try this in the US.

    • bionicjoey@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Adult content has always been defacto allowed on Twitter AFAIK. That’s why the article uses the word explicit. They’re just making it dejure allowed.