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xc2215x ,

The bring back Twitter chant is pretty hilarious.

Ddhuud , (edited )

Don’t stop him! He’s making the world a solid! He’s eliminating Twitter ffs.

Give him new ideas like join with a paid invitation only.

CeeBee ,

The issue is, as others pointed out, that Twitter was extremely powerful for groups in oppressive countries to coordinate their activities. So much so, that some governments had resorted to switching off the internet for the whole country to combat social media; particularly Twitter.

It’s entirely plausible that the supposed large sums of money that Elon received from Middle Eastern groups to help buy Twitter was for the expressed purpose to destabilize Twitter and destroy the brand. That way once Twitter is gone dissident groups can no longer organize and will be easy to oppress.

Corgana ,
@Corgana@startrek.website avatar

The rose colored glasses Twitter junkies suddenly got for Jack Dorsey is astounding

doublejay1999 ,
@doublejay1999@lemmy.world avatar

picture yourself in a pit of swaety gamers chanting ‘bring back twitter’ at a guy wouldnt piss on you if you were on fire.

Hazdaz ,

I wonder if Howard Hughes was met with boos when he went out in public, and is that why he ended up becoming a recuse?

Is Musk a germophobe yet?

misterundercoat ,

“Hop in the plane, Smithers.”

“But sir-”

“I said hop in.”

threadloose ,

Howard Hughes suffered from really profound OCD and chronic pain in a time before effective medications for either of those. Arguably, effective treatments still don’t exist. He became a recluse because he wasn’t well enough to appear in public. I understand why the comparison might spring to mind, but I’m pretty sure Elon Musk is just an entitled asshole and not disabled.

chemicalprophet ,

Fuck Twitter. Twitterites need to grow up and move on.

negativeyoda ,

Easy for most of us casual posters in the west to do. What sucks is that it was the platform for legit entities to transmit information from for years. Those accounts can’t just up and leave a readily as us response accounts

Jax ,

So what’s to stop them from posting to literally any other large social media platform?

You act like Twitter is the only platform for sharing information when Reddit literally exists.

Boi ,
@Boi@reddthat.com avatar

I’d tell them to move to tumblr but, tumblr is going downhill too.

HiddenLayer5 ,

Mastodon

Boi ,
@Boi@reddthat.com avatar

Mastodon is cool.

ImpossibleRubiksCube ,

The great thing about Lemmy and Mastodon is that they’re practically set in stone. They can neither get substantially better, nor worse.

NikkiDimes ,

I mean, that’s arguably false. Platform changes can always be made. Since it’s all community driven development, however, it’d be unlikely to reach any sort of enshittification, outside of an actually successful fediverse takeover like Meta attempted miserably with Threads

ImpossibleRubiksCube ,

A fair point. As of yet, I have good reason to have faith in the longevity of this online community, though.

Clbull ,

If Threads had hashtags and trending topics, everybody would abandon X in a heartbeat.

And I’m honestly quite baffled that Meta haven’t implemented them, since even Mastodon has support for this…

Saneless ,

Because Meta wasn’t finished and wasn’t expecting Twitter to shit itself so badly over a weekend. They were ready for the slow burn and Musk gunned it when he did his rate limit

LeftSaidFred ,

Yet another charlatan besmirching the Tesla name.

xuxebiko ,

Now his acts will be even more stupid and attention-seeking.

fluxion ,

Looking forward to several rounds of the videos getting banned on Twitter and Elon claiming he isn’t banning them the videos while also claiming the boo’ing was for something else

admin ,

Who cares. Moving on.

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
@stopthatgirl7@kbin.social avatar

Y’know, I’ve never understood claiming “who cares” when someone must care enough to comment. When I truly don’t care about something, I just scroll past it and ignore it. If you’re truly “moving on,” why not just, well, move on?

nutsack ,

because it’s annoying as fuck to see it all the time

Huschke ,

You could always set up filters to completely ignore Musk.

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
@stopthatgirl7@kbin.social avatar

Then curate your feed better? The only one responsible for what you see is you.

And scrolling by is a lot faster than opening a post to reply to it.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

That sounds like caring to me.

nutsack ,

this idiot getting media attention sucks ass how about that

admin ,

My comment was meant to imply that Elon Musk is talked about far more than he deserves. Especially when most of what he does is meant to troll or generally antagonize people. We have to stop letting disingenuous and downright dastardly people infect our daily conversations.

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
@stopthatgirl7@kbin.social avatar

I invite you to read Ronan Farrow’s recent piece on him and tell me he’s talked about more than he deserves. We need to be talking more about the shit he’s doing, because he’s got a lot more power than folks realize.

snooggums ,
@snooggums@kbin.social avatar

Because when something is constantly in your face that you think is overblown, asking who cares is a sign that you are sick of the thing that you are unable to avoid.

It is hard to ignore when it is everywhere all the time.

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
@stopthatgirl7@kbin.social avatar

…I think you missed a word there, because I’m not quite following your first sentence.

snooggums ,
@snooggums@kbin.social avatar

All the words are there, but maybe rephrasing it would help you.

People often say "who cares" about stuff they are sick of hearing about that they think is overblown and they cannot avoid it. It is shorthand for "Why do so many people care about this pointless topic and won't shut up about it."

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
@stopthatgirl7@kbin.social avatar

“Sick” wasn’t there when I read it, and it made it less than understandable.

And sadly, Elon Musk has more power than a lot of people are aware of and a lot more folks really do need to care about what he does.

snooggums ,
@snooggums@kbin.social avatar

"Sick" was always there.

lingh0e ,

Thank you for letting us all know how little you care.

admin ,

Anytime.

Chozo ,

Am I the only one who finds it in bad taste to use an "admin"-named account outside of their own instance?

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
@stopthatgirl7@kbin.social avatar

It certainly gave me a moment of pause, and I had to look up who they were.

admin ,

I’m not sure how to remove it.

snooggums ,
@snooggums@kbin.social avatar

"Who cares? Move on." seems to be the theme here.

tal ,
@tal@kbin.social avatar

Bring back Twitter

I've never had an account on the service before or after the rebrand, and for the three or so people who I occasionally glance at the accounts of, I normally use nitter.net.

However...was there actually any significant functional difference associated with "X" rebrand?

The most-significant technical shift that I was aware of was many years back, when they increased the tweet character limit.

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
@stopthatgirl7@kbin.social avatar

Nope, the rebrand was just for Elon’s ego.

pjhenry1216 ,

No, it's just a very poorly thought out rebrand. Articles keep saying "X, formerly Twitter" because without it, articles actually sound pretty bad and look silly. It's a bad name for an Internet service. It's generic. It doesn't do well in web searches. It doesn't sound good when talking out loud. It's all around a poor idea according to any marketing theory. People are used to saying tweets. It already essentially had total mind share. It was the standard for microblogging. It reached "Kleenex" or "band-aid" status in being the default reference for the concept.

And he just ditched it because he likes the letter X.

xtr0n ,

And what URL do we use to view X? Oh, is it still twitter.com? Musk is a fucking clown.

Dark_Arc ,
@Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg avatar

Well, it’s x.com…? But yes he’s a clown.

xtr0n ,

For me, just redirects to Twitter.com

Dark_Arc ,
@Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg avatar

Oh, I guess it does, I swear it was working as just x.com for a while, I guess I was mistaken.

Serinus ,

There isn’t supposed to be, but with the number of engineers and devs he fired a long with his whimsical attitude towards changing things, well, things have broken.

Embeds seem to be hit or miss. The two factor auth API went down for awhile. I’m not a big Twitter person. I’m sure there’s more to list.

SheeEttin ,

For a few days they required you to have an account to view tweets, but they changed back pretty quick.

I’ve also noticed that previews have stopped working when someone posts a Twitter link in Discord, but I don’t know if that’s intentional.

SociallyAwkwardLinux ,

Anyone else read Valorant as Voldemort?

SpaceCowboy ,
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca avatar

The tournament that shall not be named.

Dirk ,
@Dirk@lemmy.ml avatar

I bet he’ll wipe his tears with the thousands of dollars he made there.

GunnarRunnar ,

At least he puts them to use. I bet he's sad all the time.

Dirk ,
@Dirk@lemmy.ml avatar

Yeah, crying in a pile of money. What a weenie.

ArugulaZ ,

He sure hasn't been making money with Twitter, if that's what you're suggesting.

Dirk ,
@Dirk@lemmy.ml avatar

Twitter is just a toy for him.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

How else do you propose hurting him, and he deserves to be hurt, other than bruising his massive ego? He’s never going to be anything but massively wealthy whether we like it or not.

Dirk ,
@Dirk@lemmy.ml avatar

I don’t think he really cares about random gamer nerds booing him.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

I would think most people would not be in favor of a giant crowd booing their presence when they were there to enjoy themselves. Maybe that’s one of the ways Elon is special.

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
@stopthatgirl7@kbin.social avatar

Thing is, Elon styles himself a gamer, so this one might sting a bit.

Then he’ll go roll around in his money and do some ketamine, so hey.

BruceTwarzen ,

He styles himself with whatever is popular

ImpossibleRubiksCube ,

He spent $44B. Thousands of dollars might be accurate, but let’s think about that for a moment…

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