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Umbra ,

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

Acamon ,

Lol

iwan2c ,

ain’t no way

echo64 ,

His master plan sure does seem massively reactionary for a master plan

FIST_FILLET ,
@FIST_FILLET@kbin.social avatar

name a single grand master plan that elon has ever pulled off

gerbler ,

Financial suicide?

zomtecos ,
@zomtecos@feddit.de avatar

Still waiting for Teslas driving from west to east coast completely autonomously. And Elon flying to mars.

BeigeAgenda ,
@BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca avatar

One way ticket to Mars, make it happen!

Umbra ,

Weren't all his companies successful in the end?

julianh ,

The companies he took over after they were were founded?

Umbra ,

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

PizzasDontWearCapes ,

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

Catch42 ,
@Catch42@kbin.social avatar

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.

AlternatePersonMan ,

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.

floofloof ,

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.

gndagreborn ,
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I wonder if that would be taken to court if true.

floofloof ,

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.

Hiccup ,

Totally could be pulling a Sears/Kmart and an Eddie lampert.

Andjhostet ,

He was paid to tank Twitter.

theneverfox ,

Exactly!

More are more I’ve been thinking - he watches anime, he thinks current social media is incredibly dangerous, and (while he was always a dick in private) he only really showed the current Musk after meeting Trump.

We know musk watches anime - it’s like the zero requiem. First, he becomes a folk hero, a billionaire putting his weight behind important tech for humanity. Then he meets Trump - maybe he realized how dark our prognosis as a species is.

He starts driving away his left-leaning futurist and techy core with bigotry and being a dick. He backs out of a plan to buy Twitter, violates his parole, and makes a big show about trying to get out of it… But what did he actually do besides complain it’s full of bots, then give up?

He walks in with a kitchen sink, drives away anyone who can afford to leave or might resist a stupid order, and settles in.

For months, about every two weeks he’s been doing something to wean users off Twitter, while making a big show of some increasingly obviously dumb ideas. Like seriously, his business is ads - it makes so little sense that he limit users to such low limits - even subscribers could eat through that easily

He lies through his teeth and says it’s working, he’s almost breaking even, that users and advertisers come crawling back… Exactly what u/spez and every other social media guy desperately want to believe - the only thing standing between them and profit is telling their users to suck it

Now he finally admits they’re in terrible shape, making his last fanboys look like idiots, and making himself look not only erratic and out of touch, but like a bad businessman.

To totally parallel the requiem, he needs to topple all the billionaires before staging his death - leaving the world in shape to rebuild, and very wary of the dangers of wealth inequality.

Or at least make us actually unite and change the laws and economic system.

Or maybe he’s just having a midlife crisis, hates Twitter, and is just burning money for the hell of it. And the attention.

reverendz ,

Anyone recommend a good iPhone app for Mastodon?

atyaz ,

I’ve been using ivory, it’s nice

qooqie ,

I second this, super stable, fresh design, lots of features. I didn’t even need to try a different app it fit everything I wanted

gyrodaddy ,

Ivory is my favorite as long as you don’t mind supporting the developers. But a close second place for me is Ice Cubes.

loaf ,
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I second Ice Cubes. I would recommend Mammoth as well, but feed loading can be super slow.

The official app loads super fast, but way too many limitations IMHO.

orgrinrt ,

Third recommendation for Ice Cubes here! It’s simply great

Drewsteau ,

I switched to ice cubes from mammoth because of the lack of a trending tab

Audel ,

Ivory is the iOS app I use and absolutely enjoy.

FIST_FILLET ,
@FIST_FILLET@kbin.social avatar

Ice Cubes is great for me, beautiful UI and cute sound effects

azura ,

I personally like Mona.

echoplex21 ,

Gonna go against the grain here and just recommend the default Mastadon app. It’s simple and gets the job done with no Bells and whistles. Not sure there’s much missing

alxhghs ,

Yeah I’m also on the default and not sure what other apps have going for them that make them better

YurkshireLad ,

Another vote for Ice Cubes.

spacedancer ,

I use Tusker and it’s been great so far. More features than the official app, and it’s pretty stable too.

Roundcat ,
@Roundcat@kbin.social avatar

Yay, another week of higher than normal activity, until the fomo kicks back in and they leave yet again cause "everyone is on X/this is sooo complicated/I just wanna see the fallout/whatever excuse justifies their addiction"

sam ,
@sam@lemmy.ca avatar

Every time that happens the fedi retains a good chunk of users. There’s significant and stable growth throughout.

Conowelle ,

Ya that’s what happened with me, I deleted my account once Musk took over and started a Mastodon account and now I’m on Lemmy too and haven’t looked back at either platforms

Mozami ,
@Mozami@kbin.social avatar

Bad choice after bad choice.

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