Elon Musk's X pushes Trump tags on all U.S. users
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The platform prevents users from blocking or muting the tags, which inorganically appear atop the trending page

X, the social media platform owned by Trump megadonor Elon Musk, is promoting Trump campaign-curated content to all U.S. users, regardless of whether they have opted out of Trump-related content.

On the platform formerly known as Twitter, banner ads for the Trump campaign donning the #Trump2024 tag appear for all U.S. users, even those who’ve blocked words, topics, and hashtags related to the candidate or his campaign or muted the advertiser.

Additionally, the #MAGA tag displays an edited image of the former president from his attempted assassination and the #Trump2024 hashtag displays an American flag.

It is unclear whether the Trump campaign paid for the images on the #Trump2024 and #MAGA tags, though an advertisement for the tag on the site’s trending page reads “Promoted by Team Trump.” As Mashable noted, it is the first time the platform has enabled the image feature to promote a specific political candidate.

Clicking the Trump2024 tag also prompts American flag graphics to flood the screen.

Frank Ring
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I want to transfer my tweets to my Mastodon before deleting my Twitter account.

I don’t understand why a tool like still doesn’t exist.

Les Orchard (at SDF)
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IMO, that tool probably doesn’t exists mainly because it’d be a thankless pain in the ass.

In general, unless you’re self-hosting Mastodon, you probably mean “my Mastodon account on someone’s server”. And that “someone’s server” probably has some moderation rules which differ significantly from Twitter. So, re-posting a bunch of tweets (i.e. “transferring”) to someone’s server can get hairy. Maybe some or all of your past stuff isn’t copacetic with the new server - but who wants to re-litigate a sudden influx of old posts?

So, IMO, whoever writes (or uses) a tool to copy over a bunch of Twitter posts to any arbitrary Mastodon server is probably going to get yelled at a lot.

Frank Ring
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You can already export your Twitter/X data.

You can already transer data between mastodon accounts.

Why not import data to Mastodon from Twitter/X using the same past dates?

Pixelfed already does it with Instagram as well.

Les Orchard (at SDF)
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You can transfer following / follows between Mastodon accounts. You cannot currently transfer posts

Just write a blog, if your brain defecations are interesting enough, people will find them. Sheesh.

Wow, you must really value your thoughts.

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Wow, you must really not value your thoughts.

Guess why he’s got a better life than you

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