Yes, it was one of the more contreversial changes he did. Before, you had to be “vetted” by xitter staff as being both notable and who you said you were. That wasn’t a great system, and was effectively a nepotism/who you knew game, but you wouldn’t see blue checkmarks for fake accounts.
what I find shocking is that the website still exists and has so many users; I even know a user IRL who hasn’t noticed it has gotten any worse since Elon took over …
Nah, it’s probably because not everyone cares about the political stuff so if for example you only follow cosplayers or whatever, you never get to see the nazis. At worst you might notice more creeps leaving weird comments but I dunno, I don’t actually use it. Maybe I’m way off.
he has been accidentally sending me fascist propaganda without realizing it’s fascist, like that Italian sculptor’s video that was making the rounds, the guys who made that controversial Joan d’Arc statue with government funds?
Oh, I was aware of this, just didn’t know it had made international news. Statue was decided to stay despite the whole thing. And yeah, the sculptors are macho cunts in the vein of Andrew Tate but I wouldn’t have classed them as fascist propagandists. But the shoe fits, tbh, you’re right.
they are affiliated with the far right, and the qualities in their propaganda match literl neo-Nazi propaganda videos I have seen: men working in plains-clothes doing manual labor, in this case glorifying the Christian West, expressing a kind of cultural / identitarian supremacy that is common with Islamophobes and racists.
It’s not for no reason, it allows longer posts, increases visibility and is required to monetize your account. If you care about any of those things (I don’t) you might consider paying for a blue check (I don’t). I’m definitely not the target market.
Before, you had to be “vetted” by xitter staff as being both notable and who you said you were.
This made me think of an easy-ish way to do it for the fediverse:
You must have a Wikidata page, with at least one Wikipedia page associated with that Wikidata page
On the Wikidata page, you must have a P4033 property with that account
Add some ActivityPub metadata for “Account owner’s Wikidata Item”
When there’s a two way correspondance (Fediverse Account <-> Wikidata entry), show a Wikipedia logo which brings you to the corresponding Wikipedia article about the person.
Yes, it was one of the more contreversial changes he did. Before, you had to be “vetted” by xitter staff as being both notable and who you said you were. That wasn’t a great system, and was effectively a nepotism/who you knew game, but you wouldn’t see blue checkmarks for fake accounts.
It used to be a sign of trustworthiness.
Now anyone can get one for a monthly fee.
what I find shocking is that the website still exists and has so many users; I even know a user IRL who hasn’t noticed it has gotten any worse since Elon took over …
If someone using xitter hasn’t noticed it got worse, it’s probably because they don’t think the Nazis are a bad thing.
Nah, it’s probably because not everyone cares about the political stuff so if for example you only follow cosplayers or whatever, you never get to see the nazis. At worst you might notice more creeps leaving weird comments but I dunno, I don’t actually use it. Maybe I’m way off.
he has been accidentally sending me fascist propaganda without realizing it’s fascist, like that Italian sculptor’s video that was making the rounds, the guys who made that controversial Joan d’Arc statue with government funds?
Oh, then yeah… guy sounds clueless. Also what video? Trying to find it but nothing that matches your description.
here is the exact video: https://x.com/AtelierMissor_/status/1925680032115998915
Atelier Missor are the group of French sculptors
here’s an article about the controversy around their Joan d’Arc statue:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/france-statue-nice-joan-of-arc-b2682765.html
Oh, I was aware of this, just didn’t know it had made international news. Statue was decided to stay despite the whole thing. And yeah, the sculptors are macho cunts in the vein of Andrew Tate but I wouldn’t have classed them as fascist propagandists. But the shoe fits, tbh, you’re right.
they are affiliated with the far right, and the qualities in their propaganda match literl neo-Nazi propaganda videos I have seen: men working in plains-clothes doing manual labor, in this case glorifying the Christian West, expressing a kind of cultural / identitarian supremacy that is common with Islamophobes and racists.
Now, it just marks you as somebody stupid enough to give Elon money for no reason.
It’s not for no reason, it allows longer posts, increases visibility and is required to monetize your account. If you care about any of those things (I don’t) you might consider paying for a blue check (I don’t). I’m definitely not the target market.
yeah, but blue check mark!!!
This made me think of an easy-ish way to do it for the fediverse:
Crazy…so the responder is NOT wrong lol