Does Musk actually care about Twitter any more?
It's served its purpose. It won the election for Trump. Musk will probably just focus on being Trump's puppy and let Twitter slowly die out.
this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2024
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Ok, can we puh-leese stop talking about corporate media siloses on the fediverse? I keep seeing Elon's stupid mug plastered all over the media, can Lemmy be the exception, pretty please?
We can stop talking about after we've destroyed it
It's quite ironic that for a lot of people "destroying twitter" means spending half a day there, finding rage-inducing tweets and sharing them on other social media sites just so they can enjoy the free traffic and engagement. It would be nice if we could, you know, ignore it and let it die.
The Switzerland approach isn't going to work. It's datacenters must be rendered inoperable and disconnected from the grid and its billionaires made to flee to their bunkers.
I Set up the content filter with „Elon“ and „musk“ which significantly reduced it. Now it’s just posts like these that remain. Can’t recommend enough!
But then how am I supposed to find out about the latest manly cologne?
Content filters! I've got them for Trump, Elon, "Slammed", "Dragged", "Blasted" and the question mark, because news headlines in the form of questions can almost always be answered with the word "no" and are not worth my time.
This is 100% the answer. My filter list is exhaustive and its curated a feed for me that doesn't actively destroy my mental health.
The only thing I wanna see is the ElonJet guy back in a large platform, so that everyone gets easy access to the muskrat's location. That gets him specially angry as we've seen many times
But if Elonjet is in Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/elonjet.net
I don't understand why they don't just put up an RSS feed on elonjet.net Why even use social media posts? They've got their own website.
Probably because nobody uses RSS. Or websites.
I identify with "old man yells at cloud" more and more every day...
I know, rite??
Social interactions.
I would say musk got out of it what he could. Even if it went bankrupt I think he still got his money worth as mad as this sounds.
He “lost” about 75% value of twitter, from $44bn to $10Bn Musk is worth ~$440Bn.
That’s like a normal person with $50k invested losing about $3500 on a stock. You’ll notice it. But it doesn’t change your day any.
(Dunno about the math, might be off)
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Good! Let's work to keep the momentum going and encourage everyone you know to boycott Twitter/X. If you still use Twitter/X make a post saying you can find me on Lemmy/Bluesky/Mastodon or whatever website/app you choose to replace it.
Don't let Elon Musk control you and your country, stop Twitter/X now!
Elon is teasing about offering an email service on X... why would anybody give him access to all of your private information?
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MySpace didn’t die overnight; didn’t it take like 8 years for Facebook to overtake it? Anecdotally in my group of friends, the big exodus from MySpace to Facebook took like 2 years from ‘08-‘10
It just occurred to me that the reason I don't remember those events, and have no basis to compare, because I had already left the platforms. Same for Digg.
I deleted my personal and business Twitter account the day Musk took over.
Ahaha YES!
So unfortunate that it had to be this way though, Twitter was the perfect name for such a social media app.
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