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Post by Whizzo on Apr 6, 2023 20:29:08 GMT
Bring forth the lawsuits, this is an incredibly awful bit of news and this can't end well. Also, until I read this story, I didn't realise that Space Karen owned the Lotus Esprit from "The Spy Who Loved Me", a car I've always loved since seeing that film as the first Bond I'd ever watched in the cinema.
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Post by kal on Apr 7, 2023 7:58:51 GMT
Twitter is an absolute mess of an experience now. My feed is just filled with crap in all sorts of different languages about stuff I couldn’t care less about. And LOTS of right wing anger. He’s absolutely fucked it.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Apr 7, 2023 8:10:20 GMT
Doesn't seem to be stopping people using it though, judging by the embedded tweets on here.
Surely if a big tech company like Microsoft or Facebook wanted to launch a Twitter alternative now is the time. Sorry to say I can't see Mastodon catching on.
Actually, they'd probably have more success just rolling twitter functionality into an existing social media app with a large userbase, like they did with snapchat functionality.
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Post by Dougs on Apr 7, 2023 8:16:01 GMT
Bluesky launch isn't far away I don't think.
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Post by JuniorFE on Apr 7, 2023 8:22:53 GMT
Very fitting to (accidentally?) name a social network after a well-known (if fictional) drug...
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Post by Vortex on Apr 7, 2023 8:26:26 GMT
Cake?
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Post by kal on Apr 7, 2023 8:28:13 GMT
There’s been a slight rise in users since Musk took over but that’s normal. Predications are that it will start to plummet once meaningful alternatives appear. Facebook are launching one along with Bluesky (which is too complicated and won’t work imo).
It’s mad that Zuckerberg is looking like a good guy now in comparison to Musk.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Apr 7, 2023 8:41:55 GMT
It needs to be dead simple, have great importing tools as much as is possible, and have a large existing userbase. Even then it's going to struggle to overcome the inertia of everyone already being on twitter and following/having followers.
Then again, they really need to get all the journalists and news outlets on it, and Musk has already pissed those guys off a lot.
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Post by Whizzo on Apr 7, 2023 10:26:19 GMT
This is so incredibly petty from Musk so business as usual.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Apr 7, 2023 16:07:35 GMT
To be fair, the vast majority of substack accounts are run by racist, transphobic perverts so it could just be a safeguarding move
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Post by cubby on Apr 7, 2023 16:08:34 GMT
Isn't that true of Twitter users as well?
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Post by Onny on Apr 7, 2023 22:31:01 GMT
What if this is all a big sham? What if Musk realised that Twitter, above all other social media, has divided western society? How it has ruined nuanced conversation? Reduced arguments to petty soundbites?
Maybe he sat in his ivory tower and considered how he might take it down to better humanity. Make a competitor? No - those rarely work. Buy it and just shut it down? No - too many people will just move en masse to a replacement. So what if he instead bought it and pretended to be a shambolic, gaping arsehole - to ruin it? Destroy it from the inside? But slowly to avoid suspicion. Perhaps he’s knowingly sacrificing his own reputation for the good of humankind?
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Post by Lukus on Apr 7, 2023 22:45:55 GMT
Can't tell if serious
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Apr 7, 2023 22:47:21 GMT
It's certainly possible, because he is a genius and even his mistakes are all part of the master plan.
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Post by Onny on Apr 8, 2023 7:03:26 GMT
Listen, I might have had some drinks last night.
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Post by technoish on Apr 8, 2023 7:07:15 GMT
Listen, I might have had some drinks last night. Almost seemed like it was the kool-aid, but then you wouldn't have survived the night
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Post by cubby on Apr 8, 2023 8:00:07 GMT
What if this is all a big sham? What if Musk realised that Twitter, above all other social media, has divided western society? How it has ruined nuanced conversation? Reduced arguments to petty soundbites? Maybe he sat in his ivory tower and considered how he might take it down to better humanity. Make a competitor? No - those rarely work. Buy it and just shut it down? No - too many people will just move en masse to a replacement. So what if he instead bought it and pretended to be a shambolic, gaping arsehole - to ruin it? Destroy it from the inside? But slowly to avoid suspicion. Perhaps he’s knowingly sacrificing his own reputation for the good of humankind? Bro I've been saying this the whole time, HE KNOWS WHAT HE'S DOING. He's single-handedly fixing humanity.
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Post by 😎 on Apr 9, 2023 2:24:32 GMT
Matt Taibbi, of Twitter files came, is having a good time of it. After being ripped apart in some interviews, he’s now said he’s leaving Twitter and sticking to Substack, and now Elon has blocked being able to find his Twitter Files threads in search as retaliation and is accusing him of being a Substack employee/shill.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Apr 9, 2023 7:29:28 GMT
I think he has delisted all of his tweets, not just the stupid twitter files ones.
But, regardless, it’s an almost perfectly poetic humiliation
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2023 9:01:46 GMT
This exchange in particular shows the twitter files for the sham that they are, made even funnier by the fact that the interview was entirely Matt Taibbi's idea
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Apr 9, 2023 9:40:48 GMT
On the one hand, it is the perfect illustration of why communication tools have to be decentralised as it’s not great that a thin skinned ‘free speech absolutist’ can just delist a journalists entire account but on the other hand, it is very funny.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Apr 9, 2023 10:30:59 GMT
God, that interview was cringe.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Apr 9, 2023 10:34:32 GMT
I also see that Twitter has labelled NPR as...state affiliated media???
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Apr 9, 2023 10:52:11 GMT
It’s labelled the BBC as state funded, too. Its hard to believe that someone could make it even more of a toilet than it already was.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Apr 9, 2023 11:21:02 GMT
Is BBC state funded?
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Post by Dougs on Apr 9, 2023 11:26:53 GMT
Nope. "Publicly funded" perhaps, if you stretch the definition.
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Post by technoish on Apr 9, 2023 11:27:03 GMT
I believe Tesla has had more state funding than NPR
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Post by zephro on Apr 9, 2023 11:27:50 GMT
No it's funded by the license fee paid by the public. The only government money they get is off the foreign office for the World Service (which they haven't, yet, labelled as government funded).
NPR is flat out funded by public donations.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Apr 9, 2023 11:32:04 GMT
Nope. "Publicly funded" perhaps, if you stretch the definition. I still wonder why they use the term TV licence still because we all know it's a tax to keep the Beeb funded. It's not as if I need a test to be able to watch whatever middle aged white guy they got this time to go round the country and "explore it like never before".
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Post by Whizzo on Apr 9, 2023 11:34:00 GMT
Musk doesn't care about details, he's a no ideas man.
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