• @Shiki@lemmy.world
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    -102 years ago

    Remember when the libs were praising musk with everything he did?

    What changed was the media telling them not too anymore

  • King
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    -32 years ago

    Redditors not posting about musk for 5 hours challenge (impossible)

      • King
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        12 years ago

        Yeah reddit v2 apparently the musk obsessed fanboys migrated here if elon speaks I must be informed about it

        • Flying Squid
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          22 years ago

          Or, you know, he’s the richest man in the world running a social media site extremely popular with governments and the media and ignoring that kind of thing might be a bad idea.

          Should we stop our “obsession” with other political topics? And this is a political topic due to the aforementioned governmental involvement, Twitter’s effect on world politics, and Elon’s own attempts to control U.S. politics.

          • King
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            12 years ago

            Is this sub called US politics? My bad

            • Flying Squid
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              12 years ago

              Firstly, again, this is not Reddit. We don’t have subs here, we have communities.

              Second, who are you to gatekeep? I don’t see an M next to your username.

                • Flying Squid
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                  12 years ago

                  Implying technology is apolitical? I sincerely beg to differ.

              • King
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                02 years ago

                Properly categorizing content = gatekeeping lmao, even if that was how the word works then by your logic not letting me call it sub is also gatekeeping. I understand you hearx a new word today but google it before using it, musk fanboys are something else

                • Flying Squid
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                  12 years ago

                  I didn’t stop you from calling it a sub, you just keep calling this place Reddit and using Reddit terms and you’re just plainly wrong no matter how rude you are to me.

  • @OceanSoap@lemmy.ml
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    92 years ago

    I think he probably would have made it work. The death knoll was certainly changing the name to X.

  • epigone
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    62 years ago

    moving the goalpost. twitter was originally developed to be a “news service” not a “social network”

    • be_excellent_to_each_other
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      32 years ago

      “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”

      I wonder this a bit as folks flock to Bluesky. I mean, Threads is just right out there, but Facebook always has been so that demographic was going to be there anyhow. The people flocking to Bluesky because they don’t like Musk had better hope Jack Dorsey doesn’t turn out to be nuts now, right?

      I feel like this whole debacle should have pumped up the various bits of the Fediverse more than it has.

      • squiblet
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        52 years ago

        Dorsey really trusts Musk’s “mission to extend the light of consciousness”, which I think says enough.

  • @suction@lemmy.world
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    112 years ago

    All of Musk’s shit will fail, it’s just a question of ‘when’ not of ‘if’. That includes Tesla.

  • Alex
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    How long does it take to roll some video akin to tiktok and snapchat into it? Weed out all the bots at the same time by demanding fotoID and root out all the dirtbags abusing the app at the same time. Texting and chatting is so last decade anyway just leave it as a remnant of its birdie roots.

    If it fails Meta will likely have to be broken up, their monopoly on social media is outrageous these days.

  • Hemingways_Shotgun
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    32 years ago

    Dying is the entire point of it. If it dies, it becomes infinitely more difficult for the authorities to subpoena tweet histories of certain orange pieces of shit and his cronies.

    It doesn’t stop them from getting that history, of course.

    But the legal rigamarole of trying to get tweet history from a company that technically doesn’t exist anymore (It’s X, not twitter), and later on no longer even functions (servers shut down), might just delay things long enough to make a difference in the upcoming shit-show.

  • ᗪᗩᗰᑎ
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    632 years ago

    X? Can we collectively decide to forever call it “X, formerly known as Twitter” just to piss him off?