As Twitter ditches its iconic branding in favor of owner Elon Musk’s favorite letter “X,” its open source competitor Mastodon is once again seeing usage numbers soar.

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    1 year ago

    Apparently this is all part of some grand master plan. Maybe Elon will pull it off???

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        Uh, the first one. It’s all downhill after that. It’s the only one he’s ever pulled off. Look at the goals for the master plan part 2 and you’ll see that they haven’t managed to do a single one, but Elon still went ahead a published a part 3. Why actually meet goals when you can just pretend you’ve met them by posting new ones, I guess.

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            1 year ago

            Okay? Taking over a company, growing it, and then selling for huge profit is still good business sense.

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          He’s a douchebag and takes too much credit for the engineering that has made them successfull, but SpaceX has delivered some next-level rockets and Tesla has been very successful creating a new market niche and selling a ton of cars

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      I can’t fathom that anybody could be this stupid. Does he have a reason to purposely destroy Twitter?

      The decisions he’s making aren’t just bad, they’re the worst possible ones that he could make. As in, he gathered a group of experts and these are the best ways to destroy Twitter that they could think up.

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        Some people are suggesting he ran up so much debt buying Twitter that he’s now running it into the ground in order to declare bankruptcy and not have to repay the debt. I don’t know how plausible this is.

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            I imagine it would be hard to prove, because he would never admit it was intentional, and he’d never have to tell anyone else that in order to execute the plan. It can look like a series of blunders either way.