it’s probably not the best place to say this, but it’s a shame. Twitter had real use and this bastard used his reverse midas touch on it to the detriment of all of us who aren’t nazis. Well I hope his sheik boss lets him suck him off now as a reward
reverse midas touch
It’s called the Mierda’s touch.
Twitter did have real use and now it doesn’t. Who FUCKING cares???
What does X do that mastodon doesn’t? There is much mastodon can do that x can’t. Where is the problem, outside of having to use a different url than x.com? People are resilient as are their resistance movements.
They can survive a platform shift, there is no loss here.
Sure, it’s just a shame. Mastodon sucks ass too :)
Hopefully… So we won’t have this guy mentioned 10 times per day everywhere.
“The sad truth is that there are no great ‘social networks’ right now,” he said on X.
None that he owns, at least…
I might go as far as saying Twitter was great in terms of influence until someone bought it.
For me right now, Lemmy is pretty great… Lots of love for my fellow Beeple.
Lots of love back to you!
And this guy still has millions of fans, as if he was the god of technology. I can’t understand some people.
Simping for narcissists seems to be humanity’s strongest trait.
We do do it a lot. I’m not sure why, hornyness and tribalism are our other invariants, and those don’t enter into it directly.
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Going to space isn’t unique but there are only a few companies trying it.
If you ever get bored. Read the story of Bigelow Aerospace. That is an interesting story.
Cults of personality tie your identity to the target, such that at some point they could literally shoot someone in the streets and it’ll still be excused. To do otherwise would break your ego which most people aren’t willing or prepared to do.
I feel like normally I would share y’all’s view on this and be like “good” but now I can’t help think about how Twitter was a critical space for organizing a lot of resistance movements. Really starting to believe those pieces that were like “Musk bought Twitter to bury it”
We were all like “he’s not that smart” at the first few articles, but now I’m like, this dude has poisoned the well so utterly - and now he’s getting rid of blocking, apparently? - like, fuck. (And yes organizing on a corpo platform was never going to be truly reliable/safe, but still, esp for folks just getting exposed to activism, this “on ramp” space going to shit really sucks.)
I know we’ll always find/create new spaces for ourselves, but this is a blow to a lot of networks.
I absolutely believe he intentionally tanked it. Getting funded by the Saudis, though, means that he doesn’t have to be smart to do it. He’s just a puppet. Easy to manipulate, because though he doesn’t need money, he does need attention. Perhaps the easiest kind of manipulation.
I also believed he did it out of personal motivation, but what’s this about Saudis and being a puppet?
The Twitter buyout was partially funded by Saudi investors, and there hasn’t been much public discourse about whether they’re pissed it’s value has tanked or whether they wanted that to happen all along.
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Anything Twitter can do so can mastodon. Resistance movements can move forward without x with little issue. Twitter isn’t and never was special it was simply there at the right time. It’s not anymore and that’s okay because we are not helpless without some shit social media site.
Power to the people not corps.
I think this is a valuable point.
I saw the headline and thought “and nothing of value was lost”. But reading this was a privilege check. I’ve never needed Twitter or anything else to help resist because my way of life isn’t really being challenged.
I think it’s a lesson as you point out. Don’t trust corporations. And I would add don’t trust centralized platforms either. But decentralization is a two edged sword. You’re protected from a single entity’s agenda, but the dispersed nature of a decentralized platform will make it more difficult to come together for a cause.
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Can we fast forward to the moment when this actually happens, please?
I sure hope it fails. I hope he becomes poor and destitute. I hope his sycophants wake up from their self-delusion about him and he is effectively lost to time. He is a useless, waste of existence.
Reddit was pretty great. Anyways…
I think rebranding Twitter as x was pretty stupid. I wouldn’t have minded it if x was like a parent app and it was “Twitter by X” or something. But now they’re just alienating their users.
Shocker! 🤦♂️
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