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Ya sure about that? If you went to a restaurant and an employee called you a "fat bastard" or "****ing idiot" to your face and got fired for it, do you think that employee would have a legal case about "wrongful termination"? Would that company be forced to give that employee back his job?
If an employee at a Fortune 500 company joked (but not really) on social media that he'd like to have sex with young children, but got fired for it, do you think he should get his job back? Ditto with people who bring politics into work (whether you're registered with one party or another). In the US, folks are hired "at will", and don't have protection against these sorts of remarks (something from the Reagon administration).
Well none of that happened.
People were banned for political views and dissent against the covid vaccine so why not address that ?
Instead of creating a single unified platform, the Mastodon protocol allows anyone to use open-source software to boot up a server that hosts a Twitter-style community with its own rules. Together those servers form a collective of interlinked communities dubbed the “Fediverse.” People can join a server that matches their interests and community standards, but also connect with users on other servers, or block all content from a particular server completely.
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What did you make of Elon Musk poking fun of Mastodon in a recent tweet?
Honestly, it was really a good thing for us. It's free advertising, and he's just making a fool of himself.
Communities are still subject to Mastodon’s overall server rules as well as their own community rules and are responsible for moderation of their own community. Apparently maintaining a Mastodon community on a server can cost as little as $6 per month.
Oh, and there is no advertising on Mastodon.
These are the server rules:
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* No incitement of violence or promotion of violent ideologies
* No harassment, dogpiling or doxxing of other users
* No content illegal in Germany
* Do not share intentionally false or misleading information
People were banned for political views and dissent against the covid vaccine so why not address that ?
Humor me. If a restaurant worker were to call a customer a "****ing idiot", do you think he'd keep his job? Do you think he could use "free speech" to get his job back?
The people who got banned were spreading falsehoods about the COVID vaccine. Simple as that.
Is twitter really worth all this discussion? I mean how many people here really post there? It really doesn't have that many members. Press likes to quote it and build entire articles around a twitter post, it's getting ridiculous. Maybe the world would be better if it were made irrelevant or reconfigured by Elon Musk into something unrecognizable, just like Ted Nugent years ago tried to buy the musically soulless Muzak for the sole purpose of destroying it. When it comes down to it, it serves no purpose except for ads, outbursts, and for lazy reporters to build articles.
Anyways the current news is that Musk is subjecting his employees to, brace yourself - NO MORE FREE LUNCH!
Oh the humanity. Used to be a perk for employees in the SF office but no more. Of course the twitter threads from employees regarding this new inhumane travesty are endless, one complaining that he is subjecting his employees to starvation. How dare Musk subject his employees to such mistreatment where they actually have to brown bag or buy there own lunch like the masses.
It's not so much the lunch by itself, but that he is instituting instantaneous changes right off the bat. Ending remote work "effective immediately", not even giving people a chance to find child care, etc. Just like the pundits say about abortion being overturned, people rebel when you take things away from them. ANY employee in any company would rebel at someone coming in, firing half the staff, re-hiring half of those, and changing things all at once. It is a recipe for a toxic culture. I am sure if someone came into my company or yours, and the first thing they did was take all your benefits and perks away, we'd rebel about it, too.
I'm not really clear why you - or anyone else - has any business much less is qualified on declaring what Musk is doing. Why are you attacking so vociferously? Liberals loved the guy before he attacked a few key liberals and sided with Republicans on a few issues. Then suddenly liberals are searching and blasting out every single negative point they can. Liberals aren't raging against Bezos or Gates. You think they are any less ruthless in demanding performance from employees?
I don't see where I have attacked him at all. I have mostly posted links and given brief summaries of the links. My opinions have not one thing to do with left or right. Is that why you seem so offended, you see him as some hero of the Right? I just think he's imploding Twitter and can't even conceive of a worse start.
It's not so much the lunch by itself, but that he is instituting instantaneous changes right off the bat. Ending remote work "effective immediately", not even giving people a chance to find child care, etc. Just like the pundits say about abortion being overturned, people rebel when you take things away from them. ANY employee in any company would rebel at someone coming in, firing half the staff, re-hiring half of those, and changing things all at once. It is a recipe for a toxic culture. I am sure if someone came into my company or yours, and the first thing they did was take all your benefits and perks away, we'd rebel about it, too.
If your new company that you purchased with your own money was losing $4m a day i bet your griddle you would not waste one minute to cut expenses. The employees have a choice to work there under new rules or leave whether those rules changes in a month a year or day.
It's not so much the lunch by itself, but that he is instituting instantaneous changes right off the bat. Ending remote work "effective immediately", not even giving people a chance to find child care, etc. Just like the pundits say about abortion being overturned, people rebel when you take things away from them. ANY employee in any company would rebel at someone coming in, firing half the staff, re-hiring half of those, and changing things all at once. It is a recipe for a toxic culture. I am sure if someone came into my company or yours, and the first thing they did was take all your benefits and perks away, we'd rebel about it, too.
Twitter has always been a toxic culture of lazy, self-entitled, self-righteous, spoiled snow flakes. Elon is trying to turn it into actual business. Totally agree when he called it an "adult daycare center". Use the analogy of a cancerous tumor .......do you just slowly ride it out OR do you cut out the tumor as quick as possible and move to growth / healing?
I just think he's imploding Twitter and can't even conceive of a worse start.
He is. At this point you have to wonder why he just didn't start his own social media platform from scratch, rather than spending billions to implode a functional system.
If your new company that you purchased with your own money was losing $4m a day i bet your griddle you would not waste one minute to cut expenses. The employees have a choice to work there under new rules or leave whether those rules changes in a month a year or day.
Of course they have a choice, but you wouldn't be happy about it and neither would I. The assumption seeming to be from some posters that they are entitled or something for complaining about all these rapid changes. I don't think that's the case at all. I think any of us would be unhappy about it and complaining about it.
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