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[-] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@kbin.social 75 points 7 months ago

Well, duhh!

All the devs are working on Wayland now.

[-] SketchySeaBeast@lemmy.ca 14 points 7 months ago
[-] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 6 points 7 months ago

I dunno, but they better watch out if they don't want Seegson eating their lunch.

[-] BoastfulDaedra@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 7 months ago

Damn, man. The food ain't that bad.

[-] Auzy@beehaw.org 49 points 7 months ago

Honestly, the only thing keeping X relevant, is news articles at this time.

[-] StantonVitales@beehaw.org 21 points 7 months ago

That and jokes about refusing to call it X

[-] Zozano@lemy.lol 3 points 7 months ago
[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 5 points 7 months ago

It marks the spot.

[-] tesseract@beehaw.org 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It feels like news agencies run these stories just to rub it in his face.

[-] crandlecan@mander.xyz 39 points 7 months ago

Brilliant business strategy, you just wait!! 😂

[-] agegamon@beehaw.org 34 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Literally only the best strategies here! I mean lets recap:

  • Threaten to buy company then double down and agree in writing as a bullying tactic: check
  • Roll a nat 1 on your intimidation check: check
  • Be forced to follow through when called out on being mentally an 8 yo by the feds: check
  • Fire critical employees, like basically all of them: check
  • Yoink verification away from public news orgs: check
  • Let anyone pay to be "legit," even if they're parodying you: check
  • Rename twitter to the stupidest thing imagined since head-on (apply directly to the forehead): check
  • Gut content moderation policies but also stop enforcing regardless: check
  • Post own hate content and racism to the platform: check
  • "Accidentally" run ads next to hate content: check
  • Be told your sign sucks and to take it down by city: check (lol)
  • Become a living embodiment of "big yikes" energy while telling aforementioned advertisers to "go fuck yourselves" on live TV: check
  • Hallucinate about making x into a libertarian wechat alternative: check
  • Tank the value of the company while blaming literally anyone else for your failures: mission in progress, #1 priority

10/10 solid buy, gonna grab some long calls rn. The koch boys and rupert murderjock must be holding back a tsunami of jealousy by now 🤣

[-] Thisfox@sopuli.xyz 4 points 7 months ago

You left out "throttle diaster information accounts when the disaster is happening" (Japan earthquake).

[-] agegamon@beehaw.org 3 points 7 months ago

Check!

Also, I forgot all the tomfuckery he pulled with starlink in Ukraine, cutting off access and the like.

It's truly a testament to how much shit this guy has done that we forget so much of it.

[-] crandlecan@mander.xyz 3 points 7 months ago

See! This guy gets it!! 😍

[-] some_guy 10 points 7 months ago

He’s a genius playing 8D chess. You just don’t understand. By this time next week, Twitter will be the only website in the world and Lonnie will laugh at you from mars. Just watch!

[-] renard_roux@beehaw.org 4 points 7 months ago

Insert Bond Villain Plot™ where he's secretly buying all the EMP-hardened server parks in the world, and it's getting ready to orbital-nuke everything except Shitter servers back to the stone age.

And of course he will brick every phone and computer everywhere, so nobody will be able to use Shitter, but God damnit, it will be the only site left!

[-] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 10 points 7 months ago

I'm pretty certain I know how Musk would respond to this. It's inappropriate for Beehaw.

[-] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 14 points 7 months ago

Something something woke mind virus something

[-] averyminya@beehaw.org 4 points 7 months ago

Or some bs like I didn't make my money by being nice.

[-] Hyggyldy@sffa.community 23 points 7 months ago

wHaT bUsInEsS hAvE yOu StArTeD

[-] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 10 points 7 months ago

*follows Musk on LinkedIn*

[-] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 23 points 7 months ago

Looool idiot, i cant believe anyone ever thought he was smart

[-] tesseract@beehaw.org 19 points 7 months ago

There are still people around who believe that he's the tech messiah sent to deliver them to Mars.

[-] Titan@beehaw.org 7 points 7 months ago

I wouldn't go anywhere this guy tells me to go, nevermind to fucking Mars

[-] tesseract@beehaw.org 4 points 7 months ago

Of course you wouldn't. I'm talking about the mob that would. A mob with no more than a few neurons collectively is a danger to everyone else.

[-] Nollij@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 months ago

But would you let him put a chip inside your head, potentially controlling your thoughts and access to information?

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[-] HalJor@beehaw.org 19 points 7 months ago

I'd love to see the investment banks start to call their loans that financed this purchase in the first place.

[-] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 19 points 7 months ago

They already wrote them off. If i had lost a 100th of that i'd never have credit ever again

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[-] vhstape 18 points 7 months ago

shocked pikachu face

[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 7 months ago

I'm honestly a bit surprised

Surprised that it's only 71% that is

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 7 months ago

I used to keep a couple of bookmarks of people I liked to follow to view on Nitter; now I don't even care about that mostly because the most of them left Twitter.

[-] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Maybe, but I don't think Musk is running twitter for money. He's probably doing what every billionaire is doing. Buying media to shape public opinion. Turning twitter right leaning to build public support for conservative policies that will benefit his other business is probably the play.

Why worry losing 20bn when he could gain 50bn for SpaceX(SeX. Just seen that...) and Tesla? Sounds like a good return on investment.

[-] survivalmachine@beehaw.org 5 points 7 months ago

SpaceX(SeX. Just seen that...)

And Tesla's first few car models were S, 3, X, Y (Ford owned the trademark on model E, so Musk had to go with 3).

[-] CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago

I did not know that. He really is a manchild.

[-] Thisfox@sopuli.xyz 11 points 7 months ago

When the Japanese Earthquake information twitter account was throttled a few days ago, after the earthquake, there seemed to be this general realisation that they were not going to be able to use it for disaster communication any more....

[-] RadioRat@beehaw.org 10 points 7 months ago

Not sure things would look much different if Twitter was intentionally destroyed.

[-] DuffmanOfTheCosmos@beehaw.org 6 points 7 months ago

That's because it probably was

[-] amju_wolf@pawb.social 9 points 7 months ago

As easy as it is to hate what he did to Twitter I wonder how much of that original value was just "VC hype" and now people see it for the failure it has always been like all social media in a way. Turns out it's pretty hard making money out of non paying users.

[-] A1kmm@lemmy.amxl.com 18 points 7 months ago

I think alienating all the advertisers probably didn't help much either.

[-] ExLisper@linux.community 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The original value was based on ad revenue which is down now. It has nothing to do with VC hype or non paying users.

[-] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 8 points 7 months ago

I bet he'll rename it to "SEX" sooner or later

[-] delmain@beehaw.org 5 points 7 months ago

He already did that with the Tesla models

S3XY

[-] sqgl@beehaw.org 1 points 7 months ago

Are Tesla models the Musk equivalent of Heffner's Playboy bunnies? /s

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[-] ulkesh@beehaw.org 6 points 7 months ago
[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 6 points 7 months ago

🤖 I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles:

Click here to see the summaryThe number of monthly users of X dropped by 15% in the first year since Musk’s takeover amid concerns over a rise in hate speech on the platform.

And in September, the European Union issued a warning to Musk after it found that X had the highest ratio of disinformation posts of all large social media platforms.

That disclosure would cover the fallout from a number of major companies pulling advertising on X after Musk endorsed an antisemitic conspiracy theory, the New York Times reported.

Since the takeover Musk has reinstated a number of people previously banned from the platform, including former president Donald Trump and the rightwing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

Trump is facing more than 90 criminal charges stemming from subversion of the 2020 election that he lost to Joe Biden, retention of government secrets after his presidency and hush-money payments to porn actor Stormy Daniels.

Meanwhile, Jones recently proposed to pay $55m over 10 years to the Sandy Hook families who sued him for spreading lies that the 2012 schoolhouse killings in Newtown, Connecticut, were part of a hoax meant to force the US to accept gun control.


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[-] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 months ago
[-] Kanda@reddthat.com 2 points 7 months ago

Why are we still talking about this dead platform?

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