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ghariksforge ,

Elon Musk is a bully

zerkrazus ,

As all billionaires are. Along with unempathetic sociopathic psychopaths.

Kantiberl ,
@Kantiberl@kbin.social avatar

That may be the most tautological sentence I've ever read.

naught ,

Automated teller ATM machine 👍

kautau ,

Personal Identification PIN Number 👍

AlternatePersonMan ,

I can’t fathom having the power to save our at least change millions of lives…but instead choose to leech more wealth from the people that need it most. And systematically make the world worse. It’s a sickness.

There are no good billionaires.

Reverendender ,

I would build SO much low income, homeless, and transition housing. I would also start my own line of bamboo products and packaging to replace plastic.

kklusz ,

The most important part of what you said is that you’d build “SO much” housing. If we’d just let the free market build all the housing it wants without letting NIMBYs get in the way, we’d have largely solved the housing crisis.

ThatWeirdGuy1001 ,
@ThatWeirdGuy1001@sh.itjust.works avatar

Except we already have more houses than there are homeless people. The problem is the empty houses have ridiculous price tags due to corporate landlords and landlords refusing the sell and only rent (also at ridiculous prices)

kklusz ,

Vacancy rates in the places where people actually want to live are really low. Besides, are people not allowed to have vacation homes?

Market price is a function of supply and demand. We’ve been under building housing for years.

Sanctus ,
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

Alright but life never promised anyone these luxuries. I don’t give a fuck if someone can’t have a vacation home because it means more people without one can have one. People act like freedom to do whatever the hell they want no matter how negatively it effects everyone else is their universal right. The Universe doesn’t give a fuck about your summer home, nature doesn’t give a fuck that you worked hard to get it. It will all be swallowed all the same if our main goal still is not perpetual survival. That may be authoritarian, but it is also the truth. We never left the game of survival we just plastered concrete and asphalt on top of it and pretended we were removed.

kklusz ,

The Universe doesn’t give a fuck about your summer home, nature doesn’t give a fuck that you worked hard to get it.

Nor does the universe care about your sense of fairness or lack of understanding of econ 101. Keep restricting supply while demand increases, and watch what happens. Oh wait, we’ve already seen what happens, and yet we refuse to acknowledge it.

So be it. A population deserves the problems it gets.

Sanctus ,
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

I never said supply wasn’t an issue. I said people are out here acting like they are owed luxury and that has never been true nor will it ever be. We all know zoning laws and supply restrictions for profit are what got us here. Do you think any of the lobbyists receiving money from these corps are gonna let it go? No.

Edit: and econ101 doesnt matter when the supply is kept artificially low through corporate welfare, consolidation, and lobbying.

Reverendender ,

Dude is either trolling or brainwashed. You’ll never get through to them.

vacuumflower ,

We all know zoning laws and supply restrictions for profit are what got us here.

Ah, OK. But then “there’s more empty houses than homeless people” argument doesn’t make sense.

and econ101 doesnt matter when the supply is kept artificially low through corporate welfare, consolidation, and lobbying.

WDYM it doesn’t? It works as expected.

vacuumflower ,

Ah, a population can’t deserve anything, an individual can. But yes, you are correct.

Keep restricting supply while demand increases, and watch what happens. Oh wait, we’ve already seen what happens, and yet we refuse to acknowledge it.

Sadly humans are apes and thus they are not really looking for science to tell them what they don’t know, they want it to confirm what they’d like to think.

vacuumflower ,

I mean, one can build it NITBY, just with functioning public transport to TBY, so that it could function. There’s plenty of available space on the planet.

vacuumflower ,

Then you’d go bankrupt and stop supporting your “so much” housing, unless you’d gift it to those people, not give as a temporary service.

Bamboo - a nice idea. Actually I’m not sure it’s that hard for you to do even now. I’m serious, if you know the pipeline, then try to evaluate how much a start would cost (for it to be barely profitable). You need, well, bamboo itself (grows like a virus, shouldn’t be a problem), and on the process of making stuff from bamboo I’m not sure (I think it involves making some kind of pulp and then pressure?..), but humans do this kind of thing. Should probably start with dishes and cups.

mtnwolf ,
@mtnwolf@lemmy.world avatar

Modern billionaires are the manifestation of the rampant consumerism of the masses. Want to do your part against the billionaires? Start with consuming less. Buy less. Move toward minimal.

refurbishedrefurbisher ,

Well yeah. If you weren’t sociopathic, you wouldn’t be holding onto all of your money, but would instead be trying to help people with it.

paintbucketholder ,

Being a billionaire means having the means to help millions of people, and deciding to instead keep all that money for yourself.

rm_dash_r_star ,
@rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee avatar

Being a billionaire means using it to acquire more money which provides more power which provides more control. Shit floats to the top.

vacuumflower ,

Not necessarily. It may be optimization between what you give now and what you keep for later to make more, with the total effect on others’ well-being being the criterion. I mean, theoretically.

If you make a dime and immediately give it away randomly, you are making a worse decision than keeping it by this criterion. If you immediately give it away not randomly, but to somebody you think needs it, still possibly worse because you could try and make much more and then, say, open a pharmaceutical company.

Say, with cattle you’d use some for meat and some to make more cattle to feed more people. You wouldn’t just slaughter the whole herd for meat. It’s worse.

Yendor ,

You can’t be sociopathic and psychopathic - they’re different points on the same (ASPD) spectrum. Please learn what words mean before throwing them around.

Prior_Industry ,

Elon is as a Elon does

redcalcium ,

According to Hwang, the company now formerly known as Twitter did offer “an alternative handle with the history of the @x account” so that his original account, complete with its posts and followers, could live on and continue to be used.

What short, catchy username did Musk’s company change Hwang’s handle to? @x12345678998765.

You can’t make this shit up. God damn!

keeb420 ,

that sounds like what an idiot would have for a password.

anteaters ,

So you are saying one could log into @x with that…

JJROKCZ ,

Quick someone check if it’s Elons password!

CmdrShepard ,

Nah his password would definitely include an “42069” in it.

elvith ,

Did you try xXx42069NoScopexXx?

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

It’s the same password I have on my luggage!

WarmSoda ,

Who the hell downvoted an Airplane! quote?

mtnwolf ,
@mtnwolf@lemmy.world avatar

Maybe someone who hasn’t see Airplane.

WarmSoda ,

I refuse to believe there are people like that. I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue.

xaxl ,

However, Hwang tells me, he was also offered a new handle of his choice – as long as it’s available. He just hasn’t picked one yet.

sam ,
@sam@lemmy.ca avatar

“as long as it’s available” is as good as nothing imho.

Rozz ,

We’ll a lot of people have left

limelight79 ,

He should ask for @twitter.

mtnwolf ,
@mtnwolf@lemmy.world avatar

Since his handle is being taken against his will, he should get to take someone else’s handle against their will. Then let it be a chain reaction.

DigDoug ,

Musk probably wanted to make it @x42069.

Valmond4 ,

All for the buzz I imagine.

Or for some hyper inflated fragile ego I guess.

Well that’s my guess.

fmstrat ,

Let’s be real now. That name is temporary until he chooses his new one. Read the whole article. It’s rediculous enough without making things seem even worse.

redcalcium ,

But look at that username. It definitely not randomly generated. Someone at Twitter pick that new name. They just give someone with the shortest username possible (1 character) the longest possible username (15 characters), and they do so by pressing the number row back and forth until they hit the username characters size limit. If it’s not a mockery then I don’t know what is.

inki ,

💩

jerkface ,
@jerkface@lemmy.ca avatar

It’s not mockery, it is the logical thing to do. They don’t want to allocate a username a person would actually want, so naturally they pick the longest possible username, with arbitrary and meaningless contents. Would you have been happier if it was @xloremipsumdolo? @xtemporaryusern? Like what was the right thing for the technician who had to pick the name to do, in your mind?

redcalcium ,

I thought long and hard about this, and you’re right. If it were me, no matter what the new username is, I’m still going to be mad. But I feel like I’ll be less mad (just a little bit less) if they select completely random username (indicating it’s chosen be an impartial random number generator instead of someone who in my mind is messing with me).

like47ninjas ,

That is absolutely hilarious. They should’ve offered him @twitter in exchange, it would only be fair…

NeoNachtwaechter ,

What short, catchy username did Musk’s company change Hwang’s handle to? @x12345678998765.

It could have been worse.

They could have named him “X Æ A-12” 😵‍💫

buddhabound ,

Kyle!

Syringe ,

Man…

I was pretty bummed when I heard that Twitter was going to die. There are some cool moments in history that happened on Twitter. It was a hell of a ride, but the writing was on the wall well before Elon bought it. It was time to go.

But not like this.

It deserved a good death. Not to have it’s corpse raped on full display over and over.

A lot of very talented people committed so much time and energy to this. When it launched, it was a novel idea and they really forged some roads in our understanding of how we communicate and receive information.

It was clear at the end that it would never produce the kind of ROI on advertising to make investors happy, and that Nazis had clearly taken over the platform and used it to bastardize journalism further. It was time to go to pasture.

But not like this.

Hopefully its mutilated, humiliated and desiccated corpse will feed the growth of the federated web.

I hope you find peace, sweet prince.

TWeaK ,

Twitter was profitable before Musk took over.

The purchase itself saddled Twitter with $13 billion in debt. Musk paid $26bn, other investors (including the Saudi prince) together paid $5bn, and the remaining $13bn was a loan Twitter took out to buy itself on their behalf.

The new owners only paid tax on the $31bn they paid, not the $44bn that was paid to shareholders. (Here’s something I’m not sure about: Musk was one of the largest shareholders. Is the $44bn the total value of all shares - does that include Musk’s shares? Did he basically buy shares from himself?)

The interest on that $13bn was comparible to Twitter’s revenue, before Musk started fucking around. Twitter could not afford that debt.

The buyout itself was what killed Twitter. Everything since then has been nothing but a clown show to distract from the fact that was the original intention.

Iteria ,
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Thank you. I hate it when people say Twitter wasn’t profitable. It was profitable. It just wasn’t an infinite money printing machine like people (investors) wanted. Twitter didn’t need investor money or loans to pay all its bills unlike say Tumblr.

Twitter was the victim of the same financial BS as Toysrus.

jackfrost ,

I’ve had the impression for a while that Twitter upper management wanted monthly active users on the level of Facebook, Tiktok and other social media. To enrich themselves by way of ad revenue, rather than to create opportunities and experiences for the platform and its users. Then when it became apparent that such a potential opportunity had come and gone (if it was ever there in the first place), they did what was in their minds the next-best thing: They cashed out while they could still find a buyer. Elon’s idiotically freewheeling but nevertheless binding offer was basically their winning lottery ticket, so they held his feet to the fire instead of treating it like the thoughtless shitpost it was.

narnach ,

Wait, that sounds like a leveraged buyout. I overlooked that detail in the news. It changes everything.

I know that some investment firms use leveraged buyouts to drain every bit of money from a company before they chop it up, sell the good bits and let the rest go bankrupt due to the massive debts left in the carcass of the old company. It’s so scummy I wonder why it’s not illegal.

TWeaK ,

It is a leveraged buyout, yes.

Syringe ,

I’m not saying it wasn’t profitable. It’s a hell of an achievement that it was.

Just that they took on a lot of investment capital and it wasn’t the kind of return that investors were expecting.

Ultimately, the efficacy of social media advertising on the whole is in the decline. The number and types of companies that used to advertise and run their business on Facebook is so different today than it was five years ago, and business are seeing far less return for their budget.

Twitter was riding a knife’s edge (particularly during COVID) and would have to really scramble to stay in the red in the future.

stu ,
@stu@lemmy.pit.ninja avatar

would have to really scramble to stay in the red in the future

Did you mean stay in the black?

p03locke ,
@p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

the remaining $13bn was a loan Twitter took out to buy itself on their behalf.

That’s truly some Hollywood-accounting-style bullshit. I couldn’t even imagine the paradoxical mathematics it took to make that happen.

It would be like me paying you to buy a candy bar from me.

spiderman ,

there was a time when twitter was the place for internet sensation. if you want to see what’s going around the world, twitter was a great place to visit. movements like wouldn’t have happened if there was no twitter. sad to see that musk just plays with it like a toy and making it’s credibility to lose everyday and giving it a slow death.

grue ,

movements like wouldn’t have happened if there was no twitter.

That’s exactly why Musk is doing what he’s doing.

HawlSera ,

Indeed, put it out of its misery.

skellener ,
@skellener@kbin.social avatar

Shitty social media website does shitty thing and continues enshittification full throttle.

errer ,

As much as this sucks, this person has no rights to their name and never did. Stop using the platform and giving it attention!

li10 ,

Yeah, it’s not like they ever bought that name from Twitter so there’s no real argument that they actually own it, even if they’d ever bought the checkmark BS.

Money and a rename would have been a goodwill gesture, and expecting any goodwill from this version of twitter is insanity.

anteaters ,

Haha, me calling it dumb to think they’d be owed money is getting people super angry.

girlfreddy ,
@girlfreddy@lemmy.world avatar

Being downvoted is not indicative of voters’ anger. It’s simply showing they don’t agree with you.

Pulling the victim card is revealing a shit-ton about you tho.

anteaters ,

So what do users not agree to in my post but do with in this?

Also, what a fucking Reddit thing to do.

girlfreddy ,
@girlfreddy@lemmy.world avatar

Crying reddit croc tears in no way helps your cause.

anteaters ,

I don’t have a “cause”. But I see that you have no answer.

Pika ,

I see why people use downvoting this way, especially since that was the norm on reddit which a good portion of the base fled from, I find the same issue I had with downvotes on reddit to apply here as well though. I try to advocate down votes to be not out of personal opinion, but a reflection that the content is either useless or harmful to the existing conversation. This allows posts that are actually useful and contribute to the discussion to exist even if they are unpopular to peoples opinion. Just because you don’t like the post, doesn’t mean the post isn’t true or useful, which is why I find that form of downvoting ideology to be harmful overall.

That being said, I would find the parent comment you replied to as constructive to the conversation…Up until they started egging people on with “is getting people super angry” I wouldn’t call this being downvoted for not agreeing, I would call it being downvoted for not being constructive to the post at hand(as there’s no need to actively try to get people to rage at you with a post like that)

Terevos ,
@Terevos@lemm.ee avatar

I don’t think anyone is saying they are owed money. But just taking the handle with nothing in return is really not nice.

They could at least give the guy like Twitter Blue for life or whatever the heck premium is called now.

grandkaiser ,

Is that not what the title says? Like, i’m new to Lemmy so maybe i’m confused? Didn’t OP write “He got no money from it :(” in the title?

scarabic ,

I hate to say it because Fuck Elon, but this is just one of those things you sign away when you agree to the terms of service.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

True, but it’s still worth criticizing because of him being so dickish about it. He even renamed the account @x12345678998765.

ours ,

And he could have gone down the “Mike Row Soft” route and offered the guy some free stuff as compensation. Terms allowing them to do something doesn’t mean they have to be dicks about it.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Exactly! Musk is being an asshole because he can and he likes it. Sure, he has every right to be an asshole just like Jason Aldean has the right to release a racist song. That doesn’t make them free from criticism.

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    FlyingSquid ,
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    Blocked.

    beta_particle ,

    Bro you’ve only got 2 comments are both of em are shit talkin’ one dude. Grow up.

    beta_particle ,

    Bro you’ve only got 2 comments are both of em are shit talkin’ one dude. Grow up.

    muelltonne ,

    It’s still really petty - Elon is one of the richest guys on earth. Take the username, but send him a Tesla. Invite him to a SpaceX launch.

    AnAngryAlpaca ,

    Well you don’t get rich by giving away 100k cars to everyone…

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    Evil_incarnate ,

    Exactly. You get rich by being a dick.

    ChamrsDeluxe , (edited )
    @ChamrsDeluxe@lemmy.world avatar

    Well I went ahead and did a mastadon. No clue what I am doing, but… Woohoo?

    I’m [email protected] there too I guess. Idk

    pjhenry1216 ,

    You'd want to include your instance as part of your handle. I know, it's not as intuitive as a centralized service, but it is a requirement, especially when sharing the name elsewhere. So, your Lemmy account is [email protected]. Folks on lemmy.world don't need that, but folks on another instance (like me) would. I can get it from clicking your username, but there's no way to figure it out for a different platform from here.

    TWeaK ,

    If you type it like this you’ll get an instance agnostic link (at least on instances v0.18 and above, not necessarily in apps): /u/[email protected].

    You can also select from a dropdown box on the website to send a mention, however this link goes to their instance rather than your own: @ChamrsDeluxe. The code for this is @[email protected], you can type this manually and replace any link text in between the square brackets, so generally [link text](https://userinstance/u/user).

    The old pre-0.17 instance agnostic links were [link text](/c/community@instance) or [link text](/u/user@instance), but the new versions will automatically generate without link code:

    • /c/community@instance
    • !community@instance
    • /u/user@instance (does not send a mention)

    Also, kbin doesn’t federate properly. You might not even see this comment over there…

    neutron ,

    If I’m reading this right there are two ways to indicate a user including its instance:

    Which one is the recommended one?

    TWeaK , (edited )

    The first one will generate a link automatically with no code (on lemmy v0.18 and above, not necessarily in apps - it doesn’t seem to work in Jerboa currently). This link is instance agnostic, meaning the viewer sees a link in their own instance, rather than the example.com instance. This means you can send them a DM, or open their comments and reply to them.

    The second one isn’t enough on its own, it needs to be in the form [link text](https://example.com/u/user). However, if you start typing @[email protected] on the website, a pop up box will allow you to select the user and generate the link code for you - it will give you @[email protected]. This version is not agnostic, it takes you to the user’s instance, however it does send a mention to the user’s inbox.

    Hopefully in a future update they will combine these two, so that an agnostic link will also send a mention, and so the mention link will auto-generate and be agnostic. Right now, one is for linking to a profile you want to interact with, the other is for calling that person into the thread with a mention.

    Edit: Just for a little more fun variation, it looks like Jerboa handles the @user@instance link as if it were instance agnostic. On the website it opens the user’s instance.

    pjhenry1216 ,

    Yes, but this doesn't have anything to do with mastodon which was my point. You need to include the instance in your mastodon handle. Which I see you've gone back and edited now, but that was my whole point. I didn't need a lesson on something I literally just demonstrated I know about.

    pjhenry1216 ,

    That's all well and good, but I was telling them to include the instance for their mastodon handle, which they've gone back and edited to include it now.

    TWeaK ,

    Yeah I know. But we’re on lemmy here, so it’s good to know.

    Mastodon might not do that sort of thing, and kbin is different again. Tbh I’m surprised you even got my last comment (although it seems like you got it late) as most of the time kbin and lemmy don’t federate properly through threads. For example, I was unable to reply to you on my phone in Jerboa, and on the website it doesn’t work unless I specifically select English as the language.

    Reverendender ,

    Followed!

    TWeaK ,

    You’re not done yet - you need to sign up on all the instances!! Then you’ll really not know what you’re doing!

    FourPacketsOfPeanuts ,

    What short, catchy username did Musk’s company change Hwang’s handle to? @x12345678998765.

    That’s some really !funnyandsad material…

    ziggurat ,

    Sounds like someone trying to type a random number on the keyboard, looking at it, and thinking, what ever

    FourPacketsOfPeanuts ,

    It’s not even random, it’s counting 1 to 9 and then down again to 5. Seems like even less effort lol. It’s either patronising in a show off kind of way or just dumb. Either way… just wow.

    mtnwolf ,
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    To be fair, no user “owns” their account. Everything about your Twitter account, from the user name to the data you tweet belongs to Twitter. I hesitate to call it a dick move. It’s more of an Elon move.

    AnAngryAlpaca ,

    The user got Elon’d

    Widowmaker_Best_Girl ,

    Get Musked kiddo 😎

    bigkix ,

    Right. Although I don’t support it, but if the logic is that they can supress stories and say you don’t have a free speech on a private platform, then they can take away your handle because technically it’s theirs.

    AnalogyAddict ,

    I really hope phrases like “he got Musked” and “they Musked up” become a thing.

    KidsTryThisAtHome ,
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    Someone wrote those terms and conditions though. So, still a dick move.

    HeavenAndHell ,
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    Musk is an overpaid idiot, but anyone has to expect not to have any real rights on any website.

    FatherOfHoodoo ,

    Imagine how amazing the PR would have been if the title had been: “User gets spectator seating for a SpaceX launch in return for lost handle”

    Noodle07 ,

    Instead he got a “fuck you” 🤷

    MyOpinion ,

    More X-crement. Stop wasting your time on this shit site.

    LakesLem ,

    Another example of Musk being a cunt, what a surprise

    Fazoo ,
    @Fazoo@lemmy.ml avatar

    Why is this news? It is their platform. You have your handle at their discretion. Getting paid for it? Hahahaha. Riiiight. This isn’t some domain that is actually owned. You own literally nothing on social media platforms. Whoever theorized he’d be paid is moronic and a perfect example of a twit.

    Maya_Weiss ,

    Its their platform and their reputation. If some users don’t like what “Musk” do, then they have right to make and read news about it, regardless of de jure rights, EULA and whatnot.

    PS: And yes, the owner’s account was renamed in a rather nonchalant “fuck you” way. I would never learn about this, without these news.

    Fazoo ,
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    I’m not insinuating it wouldn’t be bad press for them. It’s simply the reality of being on someone else’s platform. You exist on their service at their pleasure. They can shut everything down tomorrow and you are owed nothing, but that does not free them of criticism.

    HelloHotel ,
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    Except copyright and pattents if applicable, you cant claim a capital letter, but you can your branding (style and context behind the letter). example

    Touching_Grass ,

    Doesn’t it come across as unethical and wrong like an abuse of power to you?

    Fazoo ,
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    No, because if you don’t like it you are free to leave. The Reddit migration to Lemmy is a perfect example of that. Reddit doesn’t want third party apps and can do as they please. Object, protest, whatever, but as long as you keep logging in they don’t care and will keep moving forward.

    Saying someone is abusing the power they hold as the service host, when participation is 100% voluntary, with nothing to personally gain, is rather moronic. They have no real power, only the perception of it.

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    Fazoo ,
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    And yet, it means jack all since you have 0 control over it. You can cry foul all you want, but the only thing that matters is whether or not you leave. Their power, and ability to abuse it, stems solely from that. Having a discussion of ethics when Musk is involved… Just go yell at a wall.

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    Fazoo ,
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    You can complain, but that doesn’t make it news worthy. People feel entitled to demand things of a free service. Now if you paid for it, you’d be on to something.

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    Fazoo ,
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    When talking about paying for a handle they give out, that’s where this discussion goes. No legal obligation to pay for what they already own and can repurpose. A public discussion means nothing if you’re going to just steer clear if the fact some idiots thought he’d be paid for a twit handle.

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    WarmSoda ,

    If you think Twitter is anywhere near close to being as important as civil rights you need to put the phone down and be with your family for a while.

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    WarmSoda ,

    Lol right. Because we all know ‘whites only’ businesses appear everywhere all the time.

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    WarmSoda ,

    What exactly was your analogy supposed to say?
    Do you even understand what whites only businesses represented?

    FlyingSquid ,
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    WarmSoda ,

    Again? What? What is “again”? What personal attacks?

    I’m asking you what you meant when you brought up and compared Twitter to segregation. Because you seem to have some different meaning of whites only businesses.

    Fazoo ,
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    Then why mention whites only business as if that has any place in a discussion about social media websites? Lol

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    Fazoo ,
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    You’re supposed to say that line while looking in the mirror.

    FlyingSquid ,
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    If you’re going to make weak personal attacks, I can just block you and be done with it.

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    jmanes ,
    @jmanes@lemmy.world avatar

    This is a blazingly hot take but you are entirely correct, and people need to hear it. People will scream “FUCK SPEZ” while logging in to 400 different reddit tabs daily and continuing to feed a corrupt (and soon to be) corporate entity.

    I’d be more upset if this was something actually important like a government website or something people’s lives depend on, but yeah, it’s not. It’s just entertainment. Folks need to move on.

    Saneless ,

    Sure it’s wrong, but the real point is no one is surprised Musk did something to make someone feel like shit. It’s his goal

    The better move is to let the platform slip away into irrelevancy.

    TrickDacy ,

    It’s news because as the owners of information channels can do as they please, it’s shitty when they don’t even pretend to be neutral. Which is why they usually do. Not a hard thing to follow and no, thinking that a payment would be issued isn’t a sign of a “twit,” it’s just one way they could have not seemed like dicks who do as they please.

    deaf_fish ,

    If you are thinking of building a brand on twitter (or X) or have an existing brand, it is important to know that twitter (or X) are willing just take your name away from you if they feel like it without recourse.

    Of course it is always technically possible to take a user name. But most sites make it clear that they wont risk damaging brands by protecting against fake clones and allowing companies to keep their user names. That is why it is news.

    Fazoo ,
    @Fazoo@lemmy.ml avatar

    Sounds like a you problem if you’re relying on a social media service to help you build a brand. If you pay, you have legal recourse. If you’re there for free advertising, sucks to base your brand on hopes and dreams.

    deaf_fish ,

    Yes, it is your problem. That is why it should be news. So you can figure out if it is worth the risk of putting your brand on twitter.

    variants ,

    I mean you agree to that when you sign up on their service so you should know better than to build your entire identity on something you dont own. Just like you wouldnt have Lemmy be your one point of a brand on someone elses instance because you dont know if it will shut down tomorrow

    deaf_fish ,

    Yes, I agree. I don’t see how that makes the information any less important. If Lemmy or Twitter was going to shutdown tomorrow I would want to hear about it.

    Isthisreddit ,

    It’s showing a rather funny lack of tact, soft skills and PR skills. Google can take your Gmail account too, but it’s rather unheard of (say Google launches a product name “GreatDay” - it’s absolutely unheard of for Google to just grab the “GreatDay” handle from Gmail - in fact such a movie would sent terror chills up many marketing departments around the world honestly).

    I’m not going to blame you for not understanding just how ridiculous this is, but this sends all the wrong messages - i.e. could I pay Elon to grab someone else’s Twitter handle because I can make a better business claim for it? That sure is what this seems to imply

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