Note that being Estonian OÜ (LLC) brings convenience of both having fully electronic communication towards any state affairs and also super easy to get (no even registration needed) yearly financial reports. Actually more-less the only touchpoint with state is the yearly report, no taxes until you have salaries, apply for VAT, deal with licensed area or really cash out the profits. Also you can be foreign, "e-resident" to use such OÜ.
The official company reporting source is https://ariregister.rik.ee/eng/company/16225385/Organic-Maps... .
Yearly PDF reports are in Estonian language, but your favorite AI should help. The numbers are in actual EUR (not housands), so they seem to have 33KEUR profits, IMHO no huge piles of money to worry too much for.
But for me, I'm enjoying my communities as much as ever. Data point that my friends in Japan are oblivious to all the stuff people in the USA/Europe are getting worked up about. I don't really think about it, I just carry on using the service for my interests and needs.
You're saying you're OK with hanging out in a virtual Nazi bar just because the Nazis can't speak Japanese and you don't personally see the swastikas.
Let's see if we can reign in your ignorance a bit. This man owns the service 100% and when you use it, you're putting money directly in his pocket (or helping to fill in the debt hole).
I don't really care the same way I don't care about the existance of certain websites or subreddits that I disagree with.
I rather deal with moderation by myself by choosing who to follow, than rely on Twitter moderators and their moral compass to decide what's OK and what's not.
What if those Nazis didn't only speak your language, but were almost perfectly transparent? A bit like that scene from Spirited Away, except we seem to be in control of the consequences?
The fact that there is almost no point of contact for average Japanese person in life to anything not Japanese, still in this day and age, seems too often overlooked. Here, everything from baby formula to grad school textbooks on nuclear physics are available from local producers or at least in thoroughly rewritten versions. Average scores for TOEIC Reading/Listening test[1] for University students in English language major is ~600/990. 450/990 for CS students btw(!!) and both without doubt heavy uses of sophisticated test-taking techniques.
And it's the same even for Twitter: Everyone you follow speaks solely in your language, and has zero contacts with anyone who don't. Anyone who aren't speaking your language always seem total Martian and the languages don't even translate. Maybe you would come across couple quote-tweets per day from influencer types explaining peculiar foreign contents. You'd know that the domain name of the service is registered to an address in San Francisco, CA, USA, which is supposedly an area on a land, and that'll be the whole global experience you would passively receive on Twitter as a Japanese user.
1: which is apparently almost like a sanity check for a 5th grader, like the hardest challenge is finding the correct store hours on a flyer printed on the test book by multiple choices, literally, but the questions are also written in the same language as the flyer, so...
> You're saying you're OK with hanging out in a virtual Nazi bar just because the Nazis can't speak Japanese and you don't personally see the swastikas.
Ah yes, the token Nazi argument. Twitter is now the official Nazi hangout?
You're being manipulated. None of your sources provide any evidence of there being more "hate" speech on Twitter now than before. None of your sources provide any evidence there's more "hate" speech on Twitter than Facebook, Mastodon, Reddit, your favorite video game, etc. None of your sources even provide specific examples of what this "hate" speech actually was.
It's a big "trust us" thing. You're being manipulated.
I think that means "without updates to Twitter" (instead of "updates to X"). Because, if you keep the old Twitter app with the bird logo, you can't update the app while keeping "Twitter" (the brand and aesthetic).
But seriously, who gives a. This kind of thing just strikes me as fake outrage. Use X, it’s fine, or not. And maybe the weird Elon-hating tribe they want to be with isn’t on X or Twitter anymore anyway. There’s always the insular world of Mastodon if that helps.
The world changes, and we move on. I don’t always like it either but we have to deal.
In the new release: new user interface, deep git integration (add/commit/pull/push), folders encryption, adds web pages creation, new icons and many more under the hood ;)
