Elon Musk pros and cons – the good the bad the catastrophic – there is cencorship on x.com + open source social media alternatives to twitter – WHAT HAPPENED TO OGG VORBIS AUDIO SUPPORT FOR mp4 FILES IN FIREFOX???

12.Jan.2025

pros:

took big risks to push mankind forward in terms of (CO2 neutral) electric mobility
- yes the team at Tesla made outstanding efficient eCars AND batteries (although struggling with GEN3 DRY CELL while CATL seems to overtake everyone in the battery space) not a lot of car companies make their own batteries FROM SCRATCH
the only one who managed to inspire talented people to build the BIGGEST RESUSABLE SPACE SHIP EVER
https://dwaves.de/2017/05/02/the-unix-philosophy-of-k-i-s-s-simple-and-beautiful-software-that-just-works/

megalomania seldom ends well
- whoever thinks he is a genius, most certainly is not
ketamine because of depressions (?) can cause HALLUZINATIONS which might at least partly lead to IRRATIONAL decisions
did u know that OTHER MEGALOMANIC LEADERS MADE SO IRRATIONAL DECISIONS THAT HIS ENEMIES ACTUALLY WANTED THEM TO STAY IN POWER X-D
- this spells DOOM for the US
since Musk took over twitter and renamed it x (probably the worst decision in his career) the content quality has gone down the SINK
speaking of going down the drain: “free speech” contrary to Musk’s story telling is not given:
- tor usage is now possible AGAIN
  - but x.com wants the user’s phone number
  - PLUS enter a mail send login code for EVERY login #wtf
- tweet (please rename it AGAIN! X-D) too much stuff they don’t like users will lose the right to comment FOREVER
- = cencorship is VERY real on x.com
Videos with ogg audio are STILL not supported
and SCAMMERS are still at large?
- WARNING THIS VIDEO IS A SCAM THAT POPPED UP 5x TIMES IN ONE DAY (THIS USER STOPPED USING X) ALSO: WHAT HAPPENED TO OGG VORBIS AUDIO SUPPORT FOR mp4 FILES IN FIREFOX???
- while on it: this is a mp4 264x with mp3 audio: (works in Firefox 135.0.1 (64-bit))
- this is the same video with ogg vorbis audio (this used to work on Firefox… but not anymore? (no audio) wtf why?)

solutions would be:

Mastodon
- https://joinmastodon.org/servers
  - a very good one: https://infosec.exchange/explore
- [+] Open source
  - [ ] written largely in Ruby… not the fastest but well? (if admins throw enough hardware at it?)
- [+] decentralized (server nodes sync between each other?)
- [+] following #topics and #hashtags in posts are possible
  - e.g. https://infosec.exchange/tags/cyber
- [+] more or less intuitive design
- [-] following users on other servers is too complicated X-D
- not all mastodon servers are friends of tor 🙁
- [+] their news blog ACTUALLY has an rss feed NOICE! (if the user likes news, highly recommend, unfortunately too much news is depressing in a failing (financial) system)
- support em Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/infosecexchange
Lemmy
https://bsky.app/
- read “BlueSky” (imho THIS IS TOO MUCH APPREVIATION X-D even for a GERMAN! that appreviate EVERYTHING until no one knows what it means X-D)
Diaspora
- catastrophically slow hence the user limits for pods #wtf
https://pixelfed.org/
- [+] open source instagram clone
- [-] registration process not privacy friendly
- [ ] in 2025-02 seems to be a bit of a mess
- [ ] written in PHP
  - not the fastest lang but still faster than python ;-p

PS: STILL got to write that the sell of github.com to M$ was the greatest betrayal of open source in the history of mankind

on the one site it’s good, just upload whatever helpful ebooks 😀
on the other side M$ can now monitor A LOT what’s going on in the open source world and when they don’t like what they see…

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