Твиттер анонсировал редактирование твитов для платных подписчиков. Кто не знает: это предельно базовая функция, которую десятилетия просило подавляющее большинство активных твиттерян. "Редактирование твитов" было чем-то вроде высказывания "Карфаген будет разрушен" из известного фразеологизма.
И вот его вроде как вводят. Только за деньги и только в первые полчаса после публикации.
Здесь я хочу вспомнить об альтернативах. Позавчера был спор в Телеграме об айфонах и о том, можно ли называть монополией что-то, формально имеющее альтернативы. Так вот: отсутствие редактирования твитов причиняло многим активным пользователям феерические неудобства. Как вы думаете, ушли ли они в какую-то альтернативную соцсеть? А, может, сделали свою и довели до того же уровня популярности?
На самом деле администрация твиттера могла всё это время делать с пользователями почти что угодно и причинять неудобства любого уровня. Таких случаев было немало: кропы картинок на десктопе, закрытие API для кастомных клиентов, бан Трампа и т.д. Пользователей могли ставить раком десятками способов, и они бы всё равно никуда не делись. Угадайте, почему.
P.S. В январе я вам писал, а позже ещё моя знакомая Лена Савинова независимо от меня пришла к тем же выводам, что в Твиттере очень много нытья и страданий. Думаю, вместо нытья об отсутствии редактирования твитов теперь будет нытьё о платности этого редактирования. Запомните этот твит.
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“Khamenei Will Die Soon”
The Khamenei regime will not be able to maintain control over Iranian society after the violent suppression of the latest wave of protests, one of the country’s leading film-makers has predicted.
“It is impossible for this government to sustain itself in this situation (...) Khamenei will die soon”, the director Jafar Panahi said.
“They know it too. They know that it will be impossible to rule over people. Perhaps their only goal right now is to bring the country to the verge of complete collapse and try to destroy it.”
Protests caused by an ailing economy have swept through Iran since late December and were met with deadly crackdowns by the security forces over the weekend, with reports of more than 2,500 people killed.
A internet blackout imposed last Friday, which blocked 95-99% of the country’s communication network, was a “sign that there would be a very big massacre on the way”, Panahi said.
“But we never predicted that the crackdown would have such dimensions and numbers.”
In December the director was handed a one-year prison sentence in absentia on charges of creating propaganda against the political system, but he has stated his intention to return to the country.
He has been jailed twice, for protesting against the detention of two fellow film-makers who had been critical of the authorities in 2022, and for supporting anti-government protests in 2010.
Panahi said while the collapse of the government led by the clerical leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was inevitable after the latest bloody suppressions, its timing was impossible to predict.
He warned western governments about engaging with the clerical regime as rational actors.
“In other dictatorships around the world, you will see that there will be at least a few people who will act based on rationality and who will not let it get to this point,” he said, speaking via his interpreter Sheida Dayani.
“But unfortunately in this system there is no rationality. All they can think of is crackdown and how they can stay in power even just one more day. The last thing they’re thinking about is the people.”
Asked whether Pahlavi could be trusted to oversee a post-regime transition, he said this would be for the people of Iran to conclude.
“Whether we agree with Pahlavi or not, we know that the overwhelming majority of the population of Iran want the current regime to go.”
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