mangotflu

2y

Definitely feels like Elon is losing touch with the nerd base that made him so wildly popular in the first place. I dont' really get what his agenda is anymore, feels like his ego is hurt and he's just bored as f*** and wants to rattle s*** for entertainment. I don't think this is gonna result in more power for him tbh

YoungNastyShawty

2y

Kinda random, but I got bored on Sunday and went on a lot of the conservative talking heads Twitter accounts and they avoided talking about that Buffalo shooting like it was the plague

Level 5 Goblin

2y

Every libertarian in the country is now dedicating their time to @​ing Elon on twitter to convince him to be on their side

It's amazing that they've completely missed the fact that all his money comes from the government

Fantasy

2y

What on earth are you talking about 🤣

SBMike

2y

He’s just saying s***… making the codebase for Twitter open source would absolutely worsen the problem. There are tremendous open source tools that are developed, but very rarely do platforms open up their source code because that’s basically giving people a basis on how to create their bots to avoid being detected and it’s a security risk.

There’s a reason the code for Tesla self-driving technology isn’t open source, as well as Space X & Starlink. There’s a reason that a lot of the actual platforms companies develop aren’t open source. It’s true they all use open source tools, but the actual important ahit they’re paying developers large sums of money to work on aren’t open source.

Hell I’m pretty sure Tesla even has a GitHub with some tools they’ve worked on up.

Twist Your Cap

2y

This just isn't accurate at all

linux is significantly more secure than windows and the reason is because since it is open source it allows anyone to check and make changes as issues pop up. Everyone can see the code. Think about Wikipedia, sure there are changes that are made which are inaccurate but they're fixed, pretty quickly for the most part.

Sure bots can be made but for each new iteration there can be a change to counteract it

Tesla's, space-x and starlink aren't open source because these are proprietary technologies, chunks of the company's value is based on it. Those things are significantly different than a social media company lol

SBMike

2y

Linux is not more secure than Windows it’s just not as popular in the everyday consumer market. And servers running Linux aren’t exactly that secure anyway, they’re as easy to take advantage of as Windows, maybe even easier to take advantage of.

The only advantage of Open Source in this case is you have as many people looking to potentially find issues to fix as you have to take advantage of. Which still doesn’t mean that the process of fixing those issues is anymore efficient, the Wikipedia comparison doesn’t hold up because every change in Wikipedia is reviewed in retrospect instead of before every change.

Now to make it even worst, Twitter is not a tool which means they’re using a CI/CD pipeline which also means that there would need to be an extremely strict procedure for reviewing PR’s meaning the implementation of bug fixes slows down tremendously. I don’t see how making a platform like Twitter open source would be good for anyone.

0

2y

Look into Lens Protocol sir https://lens.xyz/

SBMike

2y

???

Scratchin Mamba

2y

Called it @SonicNirvana

Fantasy

2y

What’s Twitter hiding here man, this is concerning for social media in general

Imagine if it’s just ALL bots.

Fantasy

2y

What’s Twitter hiding here man, this is concerning for social media in general

Imagine if it’s just ALL bots.

Kenig

2y

Its a simulation been known

Fantasy

2y

What’s Twitter hiding here man, this is concerning for social media in general

Imagine if it’s just ALL bots.

Fantasy

2y

What’s if you’re a bot?

Or he’s a bot?

What if I’m a bot?