Dude spent $44Bil just so he could behave like an insecure reddit mod…
And all of the Reddit moderators looked in awe and decided to behave just like him.
Only problem is that they aren’t getting the kind of money he does for it.
Not the mods, literally the admins. Steve idolizes Musk.
Jokes on you all the old mods were banned and replaced by admin approved bootlickers
Only the good ones left or so I hear. Reddit is blacklisted in my router NFTables.
It’s not about money, it’s about having a teeny tiny bit of authority over others in your otherwise meaningless existence.
They need all the money to afford them bulk hot pockets and get them MTG deals.
sadder to realize that no amount of money will stop people from acting like children for no material benefit, be it he or they
You’re totally right. You’re an amazing lemming, roadkill.
…or Lemmy mod.
You’re a shit father, Elon.
There, he can’t delete that.
You think he wouldn’t buy lemmy.world?
He might, but that’s the whole point of federation - there’s hundreds of other instances (including the one you’re using) that he can’t buy all at once. If one instance gets taken over, Lemmy as a whole is still strong.
Even if he buys the organization developing Lemmy, I have faith the community will fork it and everyone will stop using Musk’s version.
I think the best option would actually be to see how many times we can pull the scam on him, before he realizes what’s happening. Oops, oh no Elon, people are using a different instance! Look at how many users they have (they are different users we swear)! Looks like you’re gonna have to buy that one now! and so on.
Yes, make him play Whac-A-Mole! I love it!
Yeh, if he bought twitter for 44B, and there are 400 instances then that is still 110M per instance if he were to do that again.
Even 10% of that amount is more than an instance is worth.
Sales can be made pretty quickly when they are massively overvalued.Some instances’ admins are not so easily bought! I hope, at least.
Meh, I say sell the insurance. It is relatively easy to spin up a new one. Let Elmo waste money.
I think it would be easier to find where the owner of lemmy.world lives and threaten their family
Wait till he buy Lemmy
Then I hop to another instance or create one of my own (running 19 or later so I can block his) and problem solved, lol.
Federation means Musk can buy a single instance, or even a hundred instances, but cannot prevent anyone else from simply opening another somewhere else and making their own portal to the same content he wants to collect behind a paywall (if he even could).
A “burner” account? Never heard it called that before. “Sock puppet” or just “puppet” makes much more sense.
It’s pretty common for people to refer to these types of accounts as burners on Twitter. I recall the GM of the 76ers getting in trouble about 5-10 years ago for having sock puppet accounts on Twitter and all the reporting referred to them as burners.
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Burner feels like such an old school term. I’ve more often heard “alt”, “Smurf”, or “finsta”. The last being a portmanteau of fake Instagram account
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I always remember “toons” referring to your character, rather than your account. Kind of like the “cartoon character” you’re playing is how I understood it.
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Last I played years ago I think you could have 10? And that was per server, there were tons of servers to choose from, so if you wanted more, you could.
Yes, up to 10 per server, and you could have characters on multiple servers.
I remember seeing the term even while playing pre-WoW MMO’s
Isn’t a smurf supposed to be an account from an experienced user/player that’s meant to make them look new or lower ranked?
Smurfing is when a high-level player trolls the lower ranks below their skill level.
Lots of players have smurf accounts for games where high- and low-ranked players don’t get paired together, so they can play on the same team as their lower-ranked friends.
‘Burner’ is to ‘Sock Puppet’ as #Hashtag is to ‘Pound Sign’.
Guess they don’t think their readership is smart enough to know what a “sock puppet” or “puppet” account is.
Sockpuppet is what I like to call them
How. Fucking. Pathetic. Do you have to be. To have an entire army of sycophants. And that’s still not enough for your ego.
It honestly makes me genuinely sad. He definitely has complexes and holes in his soul to conduct this behavior. Doesn’t excuse him from being a complete asshole though.
Why are you sad about this piece of shit? He’d never pay you the same mind.
I revel in the insecurities and smallness of these exploitative, parasitic wastes of air.
You can always feel empathy. The more you try the better person you’ll become.
Don’t be like sad rich guy, be better.
Billionaire’s aren’t people and do not deserve our empathy. I am better. I don’t exploit thousands to hundreds of thousands of people’s lives for my own personal, shortsighted gain.
It’s not about them.
No, just… eat them.
It’s not like there’s any positive change waiting to happen from that thing. You can’t be tolerant of the intolerant. We joke a lot about Twixxer and how insecure Muxx is, but the truth remains - he is a real and direct threat to a lot of people.
Let’s not forget the beast behind the human behind the image.
Being a halfway decent dad has to be easier than all this. Plenty of guys manage it
Whether or not anyone found him out, think about the fact that he himself knows that he created a fake account so he could tell himself he’s a great father. Imagine knowing that about yourself. I shudder to think of the absolute disgust he must feel when he looks at himself in the mirror. At least there’s comfort and joy to be found for the rest of us in thinking about that. What a fucking loser. I dream of the day I don’t have to hear about this pathetic waste of space on a daily basis.
I don’t think he has feelings about anything you mentioned (those are valid points though).
It’s just image maintenance to him.
I don’t know, there are thousands of replies to all his posts, who’d even see it below all the more popular responses? Strikes me more like he’s writing himself words of affirmation.
Instead of pretending to be someone else to compliment him about his parenting, he could try just being a dad. I doubt this fucker raised any of his kids for a single second, I doubt he’s changed a single diaper, or attended a single recital or game.
At that level of money and wealth and living, you dont feel bad at all, cause everything is okay. He felt great just saying it and 1000 of people read it . Anybody who does no agreww with him is just small fraction of people who did not say anything, so its a win for him. You see this in most of the rich people, if there is strike going outside and of one of the operation manager just close the door of factory and contains it outside , its a win for them , unless something is not touching their money directly and helping them blind side problem its a SOLID win in their books .its like they can’t/don’t think that far. It’s side effect of ingot mine , so you can go away mentality, they become highly myopic
Oh Elon. You’re gonna need a whole lot more Ketamine to convince yourself you’re a good father.
All that money and power and no added happiness or joy. So unloved he has to fake it. I always knew absurd wealth doesn’t actually improve a person, but thanks for constantly proving it over and over again anyway Elon. Glad to know you’ll die unhappy.
This is some “John Barron” energy. Imagine having fucktons of money and still being a whiny crybaby like these fellows.
Have you seen his mom (Maye Musk)? I don’t think she ever loved Elon, or anyone. Maybe Dalmatians.
Very well put. He and many others create a lot of misery chasing what they think will make them happy rather than what actually will. Figuring out the difference is a personal process that you have to want, though.
I always figured he was some kind of workaholic that can never have enough. That is sometimes good for your bank balance but it is often not good for YOU.
I wouldn’t exactly call him a workaholic. He spends quite a few hours a day browsing Twitter.
I did wonder if I’d get a reply like this since it has the word “work” in it, lol.
I’m sure he tweets from the office a lot.
Money won’t make you happy for sure.
X has two rules. Don’t talk shit about Elon, and don’t talk shit about the dictators he wants to get cozy to.
Sad man.
Indeed, the level of obsession some people have with Elon Musk is kind of ridiculous.
It’s called a sockpuppet account you noobs. 🙄
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How exactly was it proven? Not defending Elon, I’m genuinely curious. The article mentions an audio recording sounding similar to Elon and some weird praises on Twitter. How does that connect the Dittmann account to Elon though?
Nice try, Elon.
We are all Elon on this blessed day.
It’s elons all the way down.
Agreed. I strongly dislike Elon and think he is a thin skinned trust fund baby who is destroying Tesla and already destroyed Twitter. I wouldn’t be surprised in the least to find out he is using sock accounts to praise himself… but in this article all I see are people making accusations without solid evidence. Yes, it appears he banned the guy accusing him but we already know that Elon will ban his critics whether or not those critics’ accusations are real. There is nothing here showing that the account is anything but one of his braindead fanboys.
It’s one thing to take these accusations and try to find solid evidence. It’s another to treat the accusations as solid evidence itself. Let’s be better than the conspiracy theorists.
I mean he has a history of doing this… Also, it’s not an audio recording. He joined a live audio chat and everyone on the chat (Alex Jones and some other weirdo) thought it was Elon.
This is some late 90s web forum admin tyrant drama. Wait until he finds out he can use phpmyadmin to edit other peoples posts.
Encyclopedia Dramatica could do two full editions on this guy alone
I’ll admit I laughed at “entreprettention whore”.
Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time
He probably merits a 200 page Kiwi Farms thread, if they also didn’t suck him off for being “one of us.”
I used to know this guy on a forum who had a serious mental disorder, would get banned for attention removed, and would come back months later either as a woman or someone else and get attention until we realized its the same fucking dude. He did actually have a forum of his own, and I am convinced at least three of the most active accounts were him, talking to himself. I don’t know what disorder he had, but he needed help.
You know, I always thought money would make me happy. But he seems so much more insecure and miserable than I ever was.
I’ve unfortunately worked for multiple multi-millionaires. The richer they were, the more insanely insecure in ways that would blow your mind. The richest would often leave his bank account open on his computer for his staff to see, among so many other examples.
At least Ballmer seemed like he enjoyed being stinking rich.
I’ve literally gained more respect for other rich assholes like Steve Ballmer and Gabe Newell because they don’t run their fucking mouths the way Elon does. AND THEY ARE STILL RICH ASSHOLES!
DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS
This is so sad, Alexa play Despacito
what a pathetic fucking cunt
