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[–] lemmus@lemmy.world 231 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 68 points 1 year ago (27 children)

Stop X permanently. The lawsuits are massing up, and the value of the business has nearly dropped such that the $13bn debt is bigger than it. They had little hope of paying even the interest before Musk started intentionally tanking their revenue. He knows that the business will never have to pay up, hell they're not even paying rent on their offices, and he'll get away with the crime Scott free because it's a limited liability company.

And make no mistake, that was the plan all along. Destroy a private business cum public forum that served the public good, and on the way out see what controversial actions they can get away with. That way any site that comes to fill the void can do the same. His old mate Peter Thiel will likely be pleased, along with a bunch of other unscrupulous people.

[–] thecrotch@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Destroy a private business cum public forum that served the public

It's amazing to me how much people have rewritten history since musk took over. Twitter was always shit. It's worse now, yeah. A lot worse. But it's like taking a shit on a smaller pile of shit. All this talk about how it was a real boon for humanity and so important it should be regulated as a utility is equal parts idiotic and hilarious.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

It's shit, but it had significant uses. Namely, getting breaking news from trusted journalists, and speaking directly to businesses for consumer support when other methods typically went unanswered.

That's not to mention the Arab Spring. Sure, significant change that people had hoped for didn't follow through, but it still spooked them enough that one of the incumbent leaders helped buy the website to undermine it.

Also, when you compare it to Facebook it certainly was better. Even reddit was better, then followed it down the drain.

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[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

served the public good

Yeah, nah. For a start, if one website could be singled out for bringing Trump into power, it wasn't any of those icky extremist places such as 4chan, 8chan, r/trump - it was Twitter where he posted his garbage for literal years with no interruption and thus gained a massive following. The site practically lived off his controversial diarrhea.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

You could say the same about reddit in a large part. 4chan was a free home, Twitter was a megaphone, but reddit really encouraged the infestation to gestate.

Also it wasn't r/trump, but r/the_Donald, as well as all the spin off astroturfed subs.

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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

yeah but money

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 107 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Why does anyone still use this pile of crap anyway since the kid took over?

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty sure users have mostly left.

Companies and public figures keep using it, because for most of them it's just some intern or bot that was posting.

It takes a while for social media to finally die because of that. They'll just stumble on like a zombie for like a decade.

The only way it'll happen faster, is if people loudly boycott anyone that's still using it. But with 99% of social media sucking ass, there's not really a place to do it from where companies and public figures will hear it.

[–] ripcord@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No, there are sadly a whole lot of users still on it.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's even a bunch of hardcore right wingers praising it in its new form.

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[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Don't insult children like that, kids would have made way better and funnier decisions lmao

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[–] DemBoSain@midwest.social 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm still there because I like to know what the crazies think about stuff. It's still entertaining in its own way. For example, did you know there are business experts on Twitter even smarter than Tim Cook? It's true...

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago

Scott Adams needs to hide away in his Dilbert shaped house, never to be heard from again.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

Tim Cook must be on vacation! I know this because The Sacred Man Himself could never do such horrible thing!

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[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 59 points 1 year ago (14 children)

The only part I hate is that real people have and will lose their jobs due to 1 person that treats this entire situation like a kids game.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The problem I see that it is "pause", not "quit".

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

"Wait until it dies down, then go back to selling Macbooks to the Nazis."

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[–] Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today 47 points 1 year ago (7 children)
[–] Neato@kbin.social 36 points 1 year ago

Waiting for the latest Nazi shit to blow over.

[–] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 year ago

So they can start advertising on it again in two weeks when people aren't paying as much attention again, duh. Just like when all those corporations stopped donating to insurrectionist Republicans, for about three seconds.

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[–] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 43 points 1 year ago

"Exclusive", at least the forth version of this story I've seen today.

[–] Fades@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Better late than never I guess

[–] s_s@lemmy.one 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They could remove the app from their app store if they cared.

This is practically nothing compared to doing that.

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[–] nao@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

the surprising part is that they were still advertising on it until now

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[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just a pause? Planning on hanging out with the #fascists a bit later maybe?

Between this & the Jon Stewart / China bullshit, I'm so glad I never gave Apple's e-trash a second thought.

[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

They're gonna head down to the Winchester, have a pint, wait for this all to blow over

[–] SpaceDustDrifter@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fascists buy iPhones too, I guess.

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[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 year ago

Musk being an utter waste of skin isn't an exclusive.

[–] guywithoutaname@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

When will any of these companies realize that they need to leave forever?

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[–] seumadruga 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The worst thing is reading news with X in the middle of the sentences, it looks like a math problem.

[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

To solve for X we must cancel it out.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What was the original tweet that he said he agreed with? I'd prefer to judge for myself.

[–] raptir@lemdro.id 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay.

Jewish communties have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.

I'm deeply disinterested in giving the tiniest shit now about western Jewish populations coming to the disturbing realization that those hordes of minorities that support flooding their country don't exactly like them too much.

You want truth said to your face, there it is.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I have no idea what he's on about. Jews have been pushing "dialectical hatred"? Does he even know what "dialectic" means?

[–] archomrade@midwest.social 11 points 1 year ago

I was about to defend the usage of the word dialectical here but then remembered nazis can get fucked

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[–] furzegulo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

apple and musk can both go fuck themselves

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