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X Randomly Banning Users for "Inauthentic Behavior"

91 points by crmrc114 6mo ago

crmrc114 6mo ago
Posting here since I am curious if any friends on HN have faced the same AI based banning. I have had a Twitter account since like 2008 and they just did this- like folks on reddit are reporting appeals just get robo-rejected. Is there any way to reach a human at X? I have some SWEs and SREs in my linkedin account as second and third person contacts but reaching out there just feels wrong. Putting AI in charge of Auto banning 10+ year old paying accounts is insane. There is another thread on this same issue here https://www.reddit.com/r/twitterhelp/comments/1sfn3l4/has_anyone_managed_to_get_their_account_unsuspend/ https://www.reddit.com/r/twitterhelp/comments/1sfn3l4/has_an...
- altilunium 6mo ago
  My account was also randomly suspended recently, but I regained access after submitting an appeal to X support. [1] An acquaintance of mine was also suspended due to “inauthentic behavior.” probably still suspended even now. [2] [1] https://rtnf.substack.com/p/altilunium-chronoo https://rtnf.substack.com/p/altilunium-chronoo [2] https://x.com/i/status/2043104069259268335 https://x.com/i/status/2043104069259268335
- deleted 6mo ago
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- m00dy 6mo ago
  Nothing is wrong during AI revolution.
- dwedge 6mo ago
  Just to be clear, they are 10+ year old accounts, they haven't been paying for 10+ years, premium has only been available for maybe 3 years
- mhitza 6mo ago
  Automated decision making processing, such as banning, must be avoided under the GDPR. Those facing this issue should throw a complaint at their DPA. I'm sure Musk would love another series of fines in the EU.
- kotaKat 6mo ago
  > Is there any way to reach a human at X? Money. Lots of money. Pay the Advertising chuds. Back before reserved/paid usernames were even a thing I remember at least one recorded phone call kicking around one of my archives of a Twitter employee saying they'd release any handle I needed for a $10k ad commit over 3 months minimum pre-Musk.
- mindcrash 6mo ago
  > Is there any way to reach a human at X? They do read the appeals. I know this because I was falsely permanently suspended, without lawful reasons and without prior notice, with an account in good standing, a few years ago. After writing several appeals over the years, in which I even mentioned article 19 of the UN UDHR (which pretty much mentions everyone has the right of freedom of expression and freedom of speech), and after receiving several rejections with the standard boilerplate text I got a very angry human written reply from somebody working at the Safety and Security team mentioning amongst other things I should never try to appeal again, and that they would automatically reject every appeal if I would. Or at least, that was basically the gist of it. And I tried it once afterwards, and they didn't lie about that. This was after the purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk, by the way. So yes, they do read appeals (even before the Elon purchase likely). But they don't care.
ggm 6mo ago
Good time to heed the signal and leave. It's an anti-pattern for humanity.
- crmrc114 6mo ago
  Yeah I know- I have accounts on bluesky and mastodon as well- but I try not to isolate myself to one network, there are plenty of non-usa accounts that were only on X who I followed for technology and art/photography stuff. shikata ga nai I guess.
- grousewood 6mo ago
  lol yep. Was miffed for about 5 minutes, as I hadn't done anything wrong. Then realized it was probably a good thing. See ya....
shiroiuma 6mo ago
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- aaron695 6mo ago
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- repsilat 6mo ago
  This hyperbole does more to turn people away from Bluesky and other sites more than X to be honest. There are clearly lots of politically moderate, wholesome "politically inert," and international X users. The people who are vocal about having left seem more extreme and less tolerant to me. Perhaps for related reasons, I've also recently heard Elon Musk being described as a "literal Nazi" a lot, and I'm sure that kind of wild rhetoric has a similar backfire effect with anyone who has any familiarity with him.
  - rob74 6mo ago
    Maybe describing him as a "literal Nazi" is a bit exaggerated (although there was that thing with the Nazi salute last year), but you only have to remember what he did at DOGE (https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/04/world/lancet-usaid-global-aid-cuts-intl https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/04/world/lancet-usaid-global...) and maybe take a look at what he posts (and reposts) on X to realize that it's not too far from the truth...
  - hsbauauvhabzb 6mo ago
    The dude did a literal Nazi salute on stage. Twice. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to call him a Nazi.
    - eucyclos 6mo ago
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      - troad 6mo ago
        Yes, let's get the protractors out to find out if the man who's turned Twitter into a far right cesspool, and has served in a far right government, and constantly tweets far right things, may just have far right sympathies. /s Ceasing to believe what your own eyes and ears are telling you, in as far as those things may challenge your political beliefs, is generally a road that leads nowhere good.
heavensteeth 6mo ago
Most social media has been has been utterly untenable forever, but Twitter and Discord are the most troublesome in my experience. It's so hard to create and use a new account on those sites without the rigmarole of captcha (due to suspicious activity) -> banned (due to suspicious activity) -> captcha (due to suspicious activity) -> verify email (due to suspicious activity) -> banned (due to suspicious activity) -> verify phone number (due to suspicious activity). Then, want to follow someone, or join a guild? Hmm.. your account reputation is too low. Try again in a week? I don't know how people do it. I can only figure it's my fault for running Linux or Firefox or not Signing in with Google™, upsetting the data harvesting overlords.
- throwawaymobule 6mo ago
  Back when they still had staffed support, and were called twitter, I'd have to spend a week or more back and forth with them when I inevitably hit the demand for a phone number. Most of the time the account got unlocked. This was usually a few weeks/months after they were in the news for selling people's phone numbers.
- dminik 6mo ago
  I needed to create a Facebook account to verify some Facebook posting functionality worked as we wanted it to. Ok, easy. Tried using my work email. No, not allowed. Hmm, try creating a new email. Nope. Tried to create an account on my personal device with a personal email. Nuh-uh. I've never seen a service so opposed to me using it. There's no option for dev accounts either.
- dwedge 6mo ago
  Discord annoys me with this. I tried to ask a question about GrapheneOS on reddit and they auto deleted it and said we use discord now. I don't have discord so I signed up and can't post until I verify my email. So I verified a burner and don't have permission to post in that channel. A couple of days later I did, but the motivation had passed. It's so strange to put your interactions behind a walled garden that demands verification, especially for something like GOS. But even then, making people wait a day or so without telling them is such an antipattern
Myzel394 6mo ago
I've also been suspended for breaking their terms and services, even though I haven't done anything wrong. It was probably my VPN. Luckily, my account got unsuspended, but I ain't using that platform anymore
matsemann 6mo ago
"X" is in a weird place now. The monetization of engagement absolutely wrecked the feeds from my cursory glance. Just ragebaiting, vague posting, abuse (for a while, every female posting would have someone in the replies doing "grok, put OP in a bikini" and it would post sexualized images of them). Someone vent viral by posting a picture of Steve Jobs' daughter (?), and people try to replicate that as that now generates money. Replies to posts are just bluechecks being insane, or farm accounts spamming unrelated stuff hoping to get impressions and generate some dollars. I used to follow only cycling/urban related accounts for the town I live in. Most of them left, so maybe that's making it hard for the algorithm, but my feed is now just far right immigration propaganda by blue checks, or lots of US issues (I'm not in the US). Not a nice place to be, but I can see how it can be addicting / trigger something in the brain.
- leosanchez 6mo ago
  > every female posting would have someone in the replies doing "grok, put OP in a bikini" I get these tweets randomly in my Timeline as well. What I don't understand is why does Twitter think I should know about someone asking Grok to put xxx in Bikini
  - fabian2k 6mo ago
    This is a command to the Grok bot and used to generate an image based on the post and that specific prompt. After significant outrage they disabled it for non-paying users at least, not sure if they changed more about this later.
    - blitzar 6mo ago
      If the "algorithm" thinks that I want to see <command to the Grok bot> from random accounts so jams lots of them into my feed then it is a pretty dumb algorithm
      - ZeroGravitas 6mo ago
        Maybe X thinks X users might be unaware of the ability to pay money to see other random X users naked, so it's basically an advert for non-consensual sexual image generation.
Mario9382 6mo ago
I created an account in X yesterday because I'm trying to get more involved into building in public and the social aspect of development and I was shocked to see nowadays you can pay for X premium where the more you pay, the more interactions you get to your tweets. At the end I just deleted it and created an account into Bluesky instead.
- charcircuit 6mo ago
  >X premium where the more you pay, the more interactions you get to your tweets. You are confusing X ads for X premium or you are mistaken.
  - matsemann 6mo ago
    It's probably not "the more you pay the more interactions you get", but there definitely is "if you pay, you get more interactions". Blue checks are boosted in top of replies etc., and is ironically often the exact people you don't want to see.
  - croes 6mo ago
    Doesn’t matter what it is called. You can buy interactions, that’s like buying fake followers.
    - lynx97 6mo ago
      > You can buy interactions You're describing advertisment in general. Same with FB. If I throw enough money at a posting ad, I will gain interactions.
      - matsemann 6mo ago
        You're missing the point. There's a difference between buying an ad, something that's clearly marked as an ad and inserted as an ad, vs having your normal posts appear organic but still getting put in front of more people. Or, it's mainly the opposite. If you don't pay, you no longer get the organic, not even from your own followers.
blitzar 6mo ago
Free speech absolutism ladies and gentlemen.
m00dy 6mo ago
looks like the incident happened a month ago ?
jerrygoyal 6mo ago
my business account got banned as well 7 days ago. I created an appeal but didn't receive any response. crickets.
xyzal 6mo ago
I use my account only to mock @realDonaldTrump. Real discussions with friends happen in group chats, without all the crap and noise.
ponyous 6mo ago
As far as I know reddit does the same thing. If you don’t follow normal human patterns you will quickly get banned. I read some guy’s report where he got banned 8 times detailing each behaviour and indeed it was nothing crazy.
mentalgear 6mo ago
I'm not touching seedy X any more - if there's someone linking to it the 'toXcancel' extension shows me the content while shielding me from Musk's actual sht pit.
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level09 6mo ago
Same here. Premium account, years old, barely post, banned with no explanation. What’s worse: no way to notify followers or export data after a ban. Lesson here: Never outsource your identity or communication to a platform you don’t control, treat them as disposable channels, that might disappear any day.
mcv 6mo ago
"Inauthentic behaviour"? Did Simone de Bouvoir take over X?
kkfx 6mo ago
We simply need open, decentralized or distributed platforms. Nostr is not that excellent, but it works, and have a potential to became "unified personal web platform", take a look at it.
- nar001 6mo ago
  Isn't that just Mastodon? Why would I use Nostr instead?
  - sph 6mo ago
    No heavy-handed moderation - as well as no algorithms of course; for some, it’s a pro, for others it’s not.
  - kkfx 6mo ago
    For several reasons: - Nostr is generally much lighter; it can even be served behind Tor without having a public IP, there's no need to maintain a web server etc. There are compact, self-contained relays like Haven, for example, which are a single go install-able app that includes everything needed on the server side, with practically zero setup. - There are various clients, including mobile and web as well as desktop, which is enough to satisfy pretty much everyone's tastes. - There's also an economic model that could be the future of journalism: everyone publishes what they want, and those who enjoy it can make micro-payments, if they wish, to support the publisher. For now, it's a toy with many abandoned experiments, while Mastodon is a walking dead, having never really taken off. In other words, as they stand, neither of them is working. But Nostr has the potential to become the communication hub for many; for instance, there's already a Matrix-like service (0xchat and potentially whitenoise) that supports chat, audio, and live video, requiring only Coturn and a Nostr relay. There's also "long form" support, meaning personal blogs all on the same technology. In other words, in a short space of time, on Nostr you can have: - A personal blog-style site - A personal Twitter/X - Personal chat with audio and video - Private notes if you need to jot something down on the go - A search engine and address book that could allows with different access levels, a real address book usage for personal contacts. Potentially all in a single, complete and lightweight deployment. There isn't the burden of federation, which makes many hesitate to activate it because, depending on who they federate with, they find a massive amount of resources consumed. It's essentially text, binary blobs, and near-real-time communications all in one. Haven is the first piece of the puzzle, MOAR is the successor in the making, but eventually, there will be one that integrates 0xchat and a web client, all-in-one. The Fediverse hasn't achieved this and doesn't have the characteristics to do so. Then again, if we're honest, the old Usenet did it better, but it's dead to most people, whereas Nostr is alive. People only dislike it because it comes from a crypto community, and many are biased against anyone from that world regardless.
NewCzech 6mo ago
My X account was banned about a week ago. I use X in an unusual way: I open up fifty tabs a day of people I want to read and see what they've posted in the past day. But I don't use the default feed at all. I often 'like' posts, but I very rarely post anything myself. I don't think I violated any X rules. But I can see why an algorithm think I look a little bit bot-ish. I appealed the ban but AI declined my appeal. I couldn't circumvent the ban by using a VPN plus a different browser. I thought that would change my fingerprint enough to not be detectable, but perhaps I'm still detectable or perhaps my fingerprint through the VPN just looks suspicious. Now I'm using something called "Gologin" that gives me a browser with a less unique footprint plus a residential IP in the USA. I have to pay for it. But at least I can use X still.
- text0404 6mo ago
  Ngl, this sounds like addiction. You don't have to use the site, man.
- The_President 6mo ago
  You'll be banned again - using a "residential IP" to appear domestic is a primary method used for accessing compromised accounts. We dissuade use of "privacy VPN" services for all users, as some of those services use the host as an exit node for unknown VPN traffic.
  - verzali 6mo ago
    Do you work for them?
nticompass 6mo ago
Sorry, but Twitter is only for bots now. Real humans need not log on. /s That being said, I assume that it flagged the amount/frequency of likes or whatever other activity and thought it was suspicious. Probably used Grok to do that and it obviously isn't good at that.
josefritzishere 6mo ago
X has been dead to me for years now. It's all Nazi propaganda, rage bait and CSAM. I honestly think it should be banned. Under Musk it became as bad as the ugly side of 4chan.

91 points by crmrc114 6mo ago

Posting here since I am curious if any friends on HN have faced the same AI based banning. I have had a Twitter account since like 2008 and they just did this- like folks on reddit are reporting appeals just get robo-rejected. Is there any way to reach a human at X? I have some SWEs and SREs in my linkedin account as second and third person contacts but reaching out there just feels wrong. Putting AI in charge of Auto banning 10+ year old paying accounts is insane. There is another thread on this same issue here https://www.reddit.com/r/twitterhelp/comments/1sfn3l4/has_anyone_managed_to_get_their_account_unsuspend/ https://www.reddit.com/r/twitterhelp/comments/1sfn3l4/has_an...

altilunium 6mo ago
My account was also randomly suspended recently, but I regained access after submitting an appeal to X support. [1] An acquaintance of mine was also suspended due to “inauthentic behavior.” probably still suspended even now. [2] [1] https://rtnf.substack.com/p/altilunium-chronoo https://rtnf.substack.com/p/altilunium-chronoo [2] https://x.com/i/status/2043104069259268335 https://x.com/i/status/2043104069259268335
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m00dy 6mo ago
Nothing is wrong during AI revolution.
dwedge 6mo ago
Just to be clear, they are 10+ year old accounts, they haven't been paying for 10+ years, premium has only been available for maybe 3 years
mhitza 6mo ago
Automated decision making processing, such as banning, must be avoided under the GDPR. Those facing this issue should throw a complaint at their DPA. I'm sure Musk would love another series of fines in the EU.
kotaKat 6mo ago
> Is there any way to reach a human at X? Money. Lots of money. Pay the Advertising chuds. Back before reserved/paid usernames were even a thing I remember at least one recorded phone call kicking around one of my archives of a Twitter employee saying they'd release any handle I needed for a $10k ad commit over 3 months minimum pre-Musk.
mindcrash 6mo ago
> Is there any way to reach a human at X? They do read the appeals. I know this because I was falsely permanently suspended, without lawful reasons and without prior notice, with an account in good standing, a few years ago. After writing several appeals over the years, in which I even mentioned article 19 of the UN UDHR (which pretty much mentions everyone has the right of freedom of expression and freedom of speech), and after receiving several rejections with the standard boilerplate text I got a very angry human written reply from somebody working at the Safety and Security team mentioning amongst other things I should never try to appeal again, and that they would automatically reject every appeal if I would. Or at least, that was basically the gist of it. And I tried it once afterwards, and they didn't lie about that. This was after the purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk, by the way. So yes, they do read appeals (even before the Elon purchase likely). But they don't care.

ggm 6mo ago

Good time to heed the signal and leave. It's an anti-pattern for humanity.

crmrc114 6mo ago
Yeah I know- I have accounts on bluesky and mastodon as well- but I try not to isolate myself to one network, there are plenty of non-usa accounts that were only on X who I followed for technology and art/photography stuff. shikata ga nai I guess.
grousewood 6mo ago
lol yep. Was miffed for about 5 minutes, as I hadn't done anything wrong. Then realized it was probably a good thing. See ya....

shiroiuma 6mo ago

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aaron695 6mo ago
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repsilat 6mo ago
This hyperbole does more to turn people away from Bluesky and other sites more than X to be honest. There are clearly lots of politically moderate, wholesome "politically inert," and international X users. The people who are vocal about having left seem more extreme and less tolerant to me. Perhaps for related reasons, I've also recently heard Elon Musk being described as a "literal Nazi" a lot, and I'm sure that kind of wild rhetoric has a similar backfire effect with anyone who has any familiarity with him.
- rob74 6mo ago
  Maybe describing him as a "literal Nazi" is a bit exaggerated (although there was that thing with the Nazi salute last year), but you only have to remember what he did at DOGE (https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/04/world/lancet-usaid-global-aid-cuts-intl https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/04/world/lancet-usaid-global...) and maybe take a look at what he posts (and reposts) on X to realize that it's not too far from the truth...
- hsbauauvhabzb 6mo ago
  The dude did a literal Nazi salute on stage. Twice. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to call him a Nazi.
  - eucyclos 6mo ago
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    - troad 6mo ago
      Yes, let's get the protractors out to find out if the man who's turned Twitter into a far right cesspool, and has served in a far right government, and constantly tweets far right things, may just have far right sympathies. /s Ceasing to believe what your own eyes and ears are telling you, in as far as those things may challenge your political beliefs, is generally a road that leads nowhere good.

heavensteeth 6mo ago

Most social media has been has been utterly untenable forever, but Twitter and Discord are the most troublesome in my experience. It's so hard to create and use a new account on those sites without the rigmarole of captcha (due to suspicious activity) -> banned (due to suspicious activity) -> captcha (due to suspicious activity) -> verify email (due to suspicious activity) -> banned (due to suspicious activity) -> verify phone number (due to suspicious activity). Then, want to follow someone, or join a guild? Hmm.. your account reputation is too low. Try again in a week? I don't know how people do it. I can only figure it's my fault for running Linux or Firefox or not Signing in with Google™, upsetting the data harvesting overlords.

throwawaymobule 6mo ago
Back when they still had staffed support, and were called twitter, I'd have to spend a week or more back and forth with them when I inevitably hit the demand for a phone number. Most of the time the account got unlocked. This was usually a few weeks/months after they were in the news for selling people's phone numbers.
dminik 6mo ago
I needed to create a Facebook account to verify some Facebook posting functionality worked as we wanted it to. Ok, easy. Tried using my work email. No, not allowed. Hmm, try creating a new email. Nope. Tried to create an account on my personal device with a personal email. Nuh-uh. I've never seen a service so opposed to me using it. There's no option for dev accounts either.
dwedge 6mo ago
Discord annoys me with this. I tried to ask a question about GrapheneOS on reddit and they auto deleted it and said we use discord now. I don't have discord so I signed up and can't post until I verify my email. So I verified a burner and don't have permission to post in that channel. A couple of days later I did, but the motivation had passed. It's so strange to put your interactions behind a walled garden that demands verification, especially for something like GOS. But even then, making people wait a day or so without telling them is such an antipattern

Myzel394 6mo ago

I've also been suspended for breaking their terms and services, even though I haven't done anything wrong. It was probably my VPN. Luckily, my account got unsuspended, but I ain't using that platform anymore

matsemann 6mo ago

"X" is in a weird place now. The monetization of engagement absolutely wrecked the feeds from my cursory glance. Just ragebaiting, vague posting, abuse (for a while, every female posting would have someone in the replies doing "grok, put OP in a bikini" and it would post sexualized images of them). Someone vent viral by posting a picture of Steve Jobs' daughter (?), and people try to replicate that as that now generates money. Replies to posts are just bluechecks being insane, or farm accounts spamming unrelated stuff hoping to get impressions and generate some dollars. I used to follow only cycling/urban related accounts for the town I live in. Most of them left, so maybe that's making it hard for the algorithm, but my feed is now just far right immigration propaganda by blue checks, or lots of US issues (I'm not in the US). Not a nice place to be, but I can see how it can be addicting / trigger something in the brain.

leosanchez 6mo ago
> every female posting would have someone in the replies doing "grok, put OP in a bikini" I get these tweets randomly in my Timeline as well. What I don't understand is why does Twitter think I should know about someone asking Grok to put xxx in Bikini
- fabian2k 6mo ago
  This is a command to the Grok bot and used to generate an image based on the post and that specific prompt. After significant outrage they disabled it for non-paying users at least, not sure if they changed more about this later.
  - blitzar 6mo ago
    If the "algorithm" thinks that I want to see <command to the Grok bot> from random accounts so jams lots of them into my feed then it is a pretty dumb algorithm
    - ZeroGravitas 6mo ago
      Maybe X thinks X users might be unaware of the ability to pay money to see other random X users naked, so it's basically an advert for non-consensual sexual image generation.

Mario9382 6mo ago

I created an account in X yesterday because I'm trying to get more involved into building in public and the social aspect of development and I was shocked to see nowadays you can pay for X premium where the more you pay, the more interactions you get to your tweets. At the end I just deleted it and created an account into Bluesky instead.

charcircuit 6mo ago
>X premium where the more you pay, the more interactions you get to your tweets. You are confusing X ads for X premium or you are mistaken.
- matsemann 6mo ago
  It's probably not "the more you pay the more interactions you get", but there definitely is "if you pay, you get more interactions". Blue checks are boosted in top of replies etc., and is ironically often the exact people you don't want to see.
- croes 6mo ago
  Doesn’t matter what it is called. You can buy interactions, that’s like buying fake followers.
  - lynx97 6mo ago
    > You can buy interactions You're describing advertisment in general. Same with FB. If I throw enough money at a posting ad, I will gain interactions.
    - matsemann 6mo ago
      You're missing the point. There's a difference between buying an ad, something that's clearly marked as an ad and inserted as an ad, vs having your normal posts appear organic but still getting put in front of more people. Or, it's mainly the opposite. If you don't pay, you no longer get the organic, not even from your own followers.

blitzar 6mo ago

Free speech absolutism ladies and gentlemen.

m00dy 6mo ago

looks like the incident happened a month ago ?

jerrygoyal 6mo ago

my business account got banned as well 7 days ago. I created an appeal but didn't receive any response. crickets.

xyzal 6mo ago

I use my account only to mock @realDonaldTrump. Real discussions with friends happen in group chats, without all the crap and noise.

ponyous 6mo ago

As far as I know reddit does the same thing. If you don’t follow normal human patterns you will quickly get banned. I read some guy’s report where he got banned 8 times detailing each behaviour and indeed it was nothing crazy.

mentalgear 6mo ago

I'm not touching seedy X any more - if there's someone linking to it the 'toXcancel' extension shows me the content while shielding me from Musk's actual sht pit.

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level09 6mo ago

Same here. Premium account, years old, barely post, banned with no explanation. What’s worse: no way to notify followers or export data after a ban. Lesson here: Never outsource your identity or communication to a platform you don’t control, treat them as disposable channels, that might disappear any day.

mcv 6mo ago

"Inauthentic behaviour"? Did Simone de Bouvoir take over X?

kkfx 6mo ago

We simply need open, decentralized or distributed platforms. Nostr is not that excellent, but it works, and have a potential to became "unified personal web platform", take a look at it.

nar001 6mo ago
Isn't that just Mastodon? Why would I use Nostr instead?
- sph 6mo ago
  No heavy-handed moderation - as well as no algorithms of course; for some, it’s a pro, for others it’s not.
- kkfx 6mo ago
  For several reasons: - Nostr is generally much lighter; it can even be served behind Tor without having a public IP, there's no need to maintain a web server etc. There are compact, self-contained relays like Haven, for example, which are a single go install-able app that includes everything needed on the server side, with practically zero setup. - There are various clients, including mobile and web as well as desktop, which is enough to satisfy pretty much everyone's tastes. - There's also an economic model that could be the future of journalism: everyone publishes what they want, and those who enjoy it can make micro-payments, if they wish, to support the publisher. For now, it's a toy with many abandoned experiments, while Mastodon is a walking dead, having never really taken off. In other words, as they stand, neither of them is working. But Nostr has the potential to become the communication hub for many; for instance, there's already a Matrix-like service (0xchat and potentially whitenoise) that supports chat, audio, and live video, requiring only Coturn and a Nostr relay. There's also "long form" support, meaning personal blogs all on the same technology. In other words, in a short space of time, on Nostr you can have: - A personal blog-style site - A personal Twitter/X - Personal chat with audio and video - Private notes if you need to jot something down on the go - A search engine and address book that could allows with different access levels, a real address book usage for personal contacts. Potentially all in a single, complete and lightweight deployment. There isn't the burden of federation, which makes many hesitate to activate it because, depending on who they federate with, they find a massive amount of resources consumed. It's essentially text, binary blobs, and near-real-time communications all in one. Haven is the first piece of the puzzle, MOAR is the successor in the making, but eventually, there will be one that integrates 0xchat and a web client, all-in-one. The Fediverse hasn't achieved this and doesn't have the characteristics to do so. Then again, if we're honest, the old Usenet did it better, but it's dead to most people, whereas Nostr is alive. People only dislike it because it comes from a crypto community, and many are biased against anyone from that world regardless.

NewCzech 6mo ago

My X account was banned about a week ago. I use X in an unusual way: I open up fifty tabs a day of people I want to read and see what they've posted in the past day. But I don't use the default feed at all. I often 'like' posts, but I very rarely post anything myself. I don't think I violated any X rules. But I can see why an algorithm think I look a little bit bot-ish. I appealed the ban but AI declined my appeal. I couldn't circumvent the ban by using a VPN plus a different browser. I thought that would change my fingerprint enough to not be detectable, but perhaps I'm still detectable or perhaps my fingerprint through the VPN just looks suspicious. Now I'm using something called "Gologin" that gives me a browser with a less unique footprint plus a residential IP in the USA. I have to pay for it. But at least I can use X still.

text0404 6mo ago
Ngl, this sounds like addiction. You don't have to use the site, man.
The_President 6mo ago
You'll be banned again - using a "residential IP" to appear domestic is a primary method used for accessing compromised accounts. We dissuade use of "privacy VPN" services for all users, as some of those services use the host as an exit node for unknown VPN traffic.
- verzali 6mo ago
  Do you work for them?

nticompass 6mo ago

Sorry, but Twitter is only for bots now. Real humans need not log on. /s That being said, I assume that it flagged the amount/frequency of likes or whatever other activity and thought it was suspicious. Probably used Grok to do that and it obviously isn't good at that.

josefritzishere 6mo ago

X has been dead to me for years now. It's all Nazi propaganda, rage bait and CSAM. I honestly think it should be banned. Under Musk it became as bad as the ugly side of 4chan.