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      I quit Twitter after the infantile incident with Elon Musk carrying a sink around his own office. From all that we’ve seen in recent years it’s pretty clear he’s lucky to have been born rich, because he definitely isn’t the visionary we thought he was.

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        Yup. Every once in a blue moon I wish I still had my Twitter. But not enough to make a new one.

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      I made my first ever Twitter account a month or two before Musk bought it, for purely NSFW reasons. I’d log in every couple weeks or whatever, handle my business, and move along. After he bought it, I said whatever I’m not doing anything useful data wise so I’ll continue my few times a month visits.

      First post-Musk visit, it’s fine. Business handled, close my incog window, move on.

      Second post-Musk visit, I log in, and it’s CP as far as the eye can see. I immediately deleted my account.

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        Holy hell, on a serious country the government would go scorched earth on Twitter’s servers and sue tf outta Musk

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    Wow…

    Is there some kind of tech CEO competition running or something?

    “Who can alienate their user base the fastest”

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      There’s a saying, " never attribute to malice what is easily explained by incompetence".

      But we’re quickly reaching the point where it’s no longer easily explained incompetence. Elon is either the most incompetent person in the known universe, which is saying a lot, or he’s doing this on purpose for some reason.

      I’m not into conspiracies, but it’s starting to make more sense if he’s actively trying to tank the stock.

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        I mean, 2024 isn’t that far away. It’s pretty clear who he’s pandering to in the name of “free speech” or “townsquare of the internet” or whatever shitty rationalization he uses to explains his nutty behavior.

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        There’s no stock to tank. You could argue that he’s trying to tank the company, but there are easier ways to do that.

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          You could argue that he’s trying to tank the company

          I’m kinda lost here. What’s his end goal with it?

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            Depriving the libs of a favored platform via making it conservative and unruly, and weakening its democratic potential against authoritarian states like Saudi Arabia, is the theory.

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            There’s no stock or similar security, so the SEC doesn’t care at all. Could be a plausible deniability thing, I just think it’s more likely that he really is that dumb, given the stories about Tesla/SpaceX having teams that basically existed just to control him.

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        Once upon a time, long ago, in the very beginning, I liked Twitter as a stream of instant information from all POV. Then Twitter became a haven for bots and a propaganda tool. Is it possible that Musk bought Twitter so that he could take it to the point of absurdity and destroy it?

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    Ayyyy Elon, so we’re going for full chaos??

    Lemme grab my popcorn before the change starts a nuclear reaction.

    Surely a sight to behold. Lol

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        Day 1 lol. Lemmy have been in development for more than 3 years. It’s just now that reddit got to suck even more lemmy and other alternatives got their opportunity.

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    Elon Musk is a gaping, farting anus. I pay as much attention to the sounds from a gaping, farting anus, as I do from him.

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      @Hypersapien This could make his decision a wonderful backfire

      Imagine posting something like:

      You can’t block this post, can you? You could if you’d joined [mastodon instance]. [then continue with a few words about mastodon and the instance in question and how to sign up - either as a thread or as a picture slideshow]

      Edit: same can be done with Calckey for example, but with no need to promote a special server, since Calckey doesn’t force you to sign to it’s main server through any of the apps iirc

      @dirtmayor

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        I think we need something like that for twitter and for Reddit. Having something quick and concise with some links where to go is bound to get more bound headed our way

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          @lohrun sadly I don’t think spez is that stupid to fuck every little thing up from a social network, all at once almost. Sure, I think you can buy some ad space on Reddit, but imo there’s nothing too evident for this to be easy peasy.

          Not to mention, Mastodon was already larger than Lemmy when the crisis point happened (the other two contenders, kbin - which is still in beta - and Lotide, are even smaller!). Maybe convincing the sub admins to try to be admins of communities and see how it goes? (Except that there are multiple communities here on the same topic, but on different instances - again, not sure how this is gonna work out)

          @dirtmayor @Hypersapien

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        I mean, maybe? 4channers do some pretty crazy shit when they’re raiding, at least from what I’ve seen. Remember when they raided Microsoft Tay’s Twitter and turned it into a white supremacist?

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      I’m gonna take a wild guess and say it won’t apply to him.

      Or if it does then he’ll just delete accounts he wants to block.

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      That’s probably why he’s doing it, so you and all the others who blocked him are forced to see his posts again.

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    Elongated Muskrat has discovered just how many accounts are blocking him. His ego can’t take that. His FrEeSpEeCh must be heard

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        Nothing makes me cringe harder than the childish nicknames everybody keeps coming up with. Elongated Muskrat isn’t funny or offensive.

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      I’m skeptical of this, maybe it’s because he’s worried his fascist followers are slowly falling into an echo chamber cause anyone with more than a few braincells blocks them

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    Another great ideea from greatest Genius of our age! Of God how could we live without him until now! /s

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      It’s insane how ludicrous his ideas in particular seem to be, especially with Twitter. This has to be trolling, surely? Or does he not want to allow people to block him?

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        If you have your personal “ban from plattform entirely” button, why would you need a block button? Jeez you guys it’s so obvious.

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        He’s already overridden people blocking him. You still see his posts.

        He’s just trying to make sure it stays useful as a weapon for fascists like himself is all.