Well well well, if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions.
I hate Elon Musk as much as anyone else with a working brain but let’s be honest, the world would be an infinitely better place if Twitter died lol
Maybe. But the fact is that it was used by people in uprisings. It is a powerful tool for the people. There is a reason why wealthy people from the middle east backed and funded musk taking it over. They wanted to take away a tool used by the people in revolution.
It probably contributed to a lot of stupidity and human suffering, but it also could have been used to great effect if us common folk could have learned to wield it appropriately. The rich and powerful were afraid of it, that alone should tell you that it’s death is a bad thing.
Exactly it was allowing us lower class a place to try hold large corporations liable.
I remember using it to call out large corporations when some franchise fucked up. 9 out 10 times the issue was addressed.
But a lot of people use it to organize.
Musk wants to destroy any tool that would aid people to rise up.
Musk wants to destroy any tool that would aid people to rise up.
What about Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon?
he’ll make exceptions for his own toys.
Nothing > Twitter > X
Let’s bring back Twitter then work on deleting Twitter.
Having X is the fastest way to deleting it. Let it die
But not the best way, since it gives unrestricted voices to horrible people.
I’d rather it has a slow capitalist enshittification, than a fast fascist one.
Let’s keep X unsolved
It’s big brain time
X is more likely to become nothing than Twitter was.
It was awful. This is worse.
Is it worse than tiktok?
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TikTok isn’t even that bad
I beg to differ
Beg, then.
I beg to differ
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the world would be an infinitely better place if Twitter died
I think that Twitter is good for footage of emergency-type situations.
All sorts of people who don’t know each other put images or video up, and the community is pretty good at associating it.
I think that Twitter is good for footage of emergency-type situations.
All that is happening is why Twitter was never the right place for this type of information.
Lazy journalism dictated by corporate bean counters and now we have whatever x is.
Imo the biggest problem is that it’s way too easy to use. Something as simple as an 8th grade math question or hiding the tweet button in a menu would make it so much better
I’m so, so sick of seeing his face every time I browse the internet
This addon helps a little bit but it’s not perfect yet, it still shows some pictures https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/block-the-rich/
Would be nice if there was a way to “spoiler tag” pictures for other reasons than nsfw
I can filter his name as a keyword on Sync for Lemmy.
Hes a famous billionaire. Get used to it or media will shove it up yo ass.
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Time to put my circa-2001 HTML skills to the test! Anyone got a lead on a good “Under construction” gif? Also who’s got the best guest book add-on these days?
Don’t forget the visit counter!
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Frames. Frames in frames in frames.
How do I make the mouse have trails? I want it to be rainbow trails!
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Definitely use the tags, I’m sure modern browsers still support them.
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Check out these if you miss old web
- Melonland forum
- Agora road
They should have rushed him.
Don’t let this clown go anywhere without letting him know how much everyone hates his ass.
If we can’t take his money, this is the next best thing
Let’s just hope he doesn’t have a humiliation/degradation kink.
We should take everything.
Bring back the classics. Not sure when/ why rotten tomatoes went out of style. Rotting onions could be a good remix/ update.
Tomatoes splat really well, especially rotten ones. Maybe eggs would be good, but tomatoes are cheaper. I think an open source easy to make at home slimy and smelly (preferably also something that stains) water balloon solution could do the job for a modern consumer base. Who wants to carry around smelly rotten tomatoes?
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.
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.
The rose colored glasses Twitter junkies suddenly got for Jack Dorsey is astounding
Oh no, now what is he going to ruin. This man has a “new idea to improve things” everytime a crowd boo’s him
Eh, he also ruins things based on reactions to things he sees on twitter too. And he’s on it all the time. Elon Musk ruining things is basically automated now.
Well, he can’t remove the blocking feature on Xitter anymore to make himself seem popular, he already did that.
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Believe it or not, that is the joke
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picture yourself in a pit of swaety gamers chanting ‘bring back twitter’ at a guy wouldnt piss on you if you were on fire.
Why chant bring back Twitter, I mean if it was rebranded back to Twitter, it’s still owned by Elon and it’s still shit.
The new name alone isn’t what made Twitter crap, but it is symbolic of the massive changes made to the site by the new management. I like to think of it this way: Twitter is dead. X is the reanimated corpse.
X is modern New Coke. At this point, I’m not even sure which of the worst CEOs I’d compare musk to. He’s like all of their worst traits rolled into one. I have no doubt there’s some weird financial accounting going on at Tesla, just that they haven’t been found out just yet. His involvement into the crypto sphere and with doge should have thrown up regulatory alarm bells already.
There’s only so much you can say in a chant. Not a lot of room for nuance…
A chant with more words becomes a song.
Now a song about how shitty x is, sang by hundreds, like what football fans do, that would be great to hear.
Yeah and the key part would be to get up his nose which “Bring back Twitter” + boos certainly achieves.
At this moment, I’m staying with my fediverse accounts.
Watching Twitter crash and burn under musk has been so much fun. It being a haven for all the worst dregs of humanity and an advertiser’s worst nightmare is just the cherry on top. Old Twitter before mush for brains musk was still salvageable. He’s somehow done everything to make it worse.
I think what we really want is to have it restored to pre-musk-ownership level of functionality. But that doesn’t make for a nice four syllable group chant. Also I doubt the douche is capable of ever admitting how wrong he was.
Definitely, that’s the best outcome, and also that’s the least possible one also.
Do you guys think there’s a part of him that realizes that people dislike him for a legitimate reason? I mean, he started out being the darling of the internet, when he was in the early stages with SpaceX and Tesla. His cult of personality was pretty large. Obviously he still has fanboys, but he has to realize that he ended up on the fringe, right? Right?
He knows, and he doesn’t care.
Once he became the richest person on the planet, he stopped giving a shit. Money buys anything he wants, so why should he.
Honestly, as much as I think he’s a db, and i dislike what hes become, I kinda find it makes him more relatable. I mean, who wouldn’t be consumed by extreme money and power? If anything, it distracts from the idea that you’re a giant cash bag and reminds people that you’re only human. Although from what I understand, he always been this way, and he just had a great PR team in the beginning.
With the tantrums he throws, I doubt he doesn’t care.
Pretty sure he employs a meme shitposter group that makes propaganda to make the internet like him.
Fuck Twitter. Twitterites need to grow up and move on.
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
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.
I’d tell them to move to tumblr but, tumblr is going downhill too.
Mastodon
Mastodon is cool.
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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
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Yet another charlatan besmirching the Tesla name.
Good job gamers.
Well now his ego is hurt and we get to see what else he ruins in a tantrum lol I wonder if he’ll try to buy out the IP and call it EX or something equally dumb lol
That’d be fun, especially considering that he’ll have to pay big bucks to Tencent, who wholly own Riot Games. All discussion would quickly devolve into a anti/pro China flamewar
Haven’t drugs been used as an explanation for his mammoth missteps with Twitter? Because the way this guy is piloting the ship, he’s going to crash it into Prince William Sound at any moment. They’ll be scrubbing stupid posts off the seabirds for months.
Well thank you for making me choke on my coffee. That seabirds comment really caught me off guard.
Drugs, a breakdown, midlife crisis, or just Elon showing us who Elon actually is. Find out on the next episode of downward spiral!
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