Why is everything to do with this story completely unsurprising.
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2023
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Because we've all come to accept that Elon Musk doesn't know how to run a social media site?
He knows how to run a social media site into the ground...
Which is probably the whole point. Make it seem like the site is failing because of mismanagement, and not that its failure was intended right from the start with a leveraged buyout saddling the business with an untenable $13bn of debt.
No, he's just dumb!
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Musk is a proponent of near-absolute free speech
Anything goes, so long as it doesn't hurt his feelings personally
As long as you don't use the term cisgender :)
People are also not allowed to say the word "cisgender” over there
Woah dude, cool it with the c-bombs.
It's okay, I gave them a c-word pass.
Some of my friends are c-words, so I can use it
Freedom, by Musk... a cologne that's actually mace with directions to the local old folks home and instructions on how to use InShot.
Kinda far from absolute imo.
I would claim actual free speech absolutists don't exist.
You're probably since those that preach about free speech are politically driven, hence biased to protect their stance. Rest of us have realized speech isn't free of consequence and the last third just doesn't give a fuck.
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Didn’t he also give in to block a few accounts of political opponents in Turkey instead of risking being banned there completely, because he said it would be better to lose a few accounts instead of losing the whole country?
Or when an authoritarian government asks him to block literally anything
The best anyone can do right now is to migrate off of Twitter entirely. As long as Musk is in charge (or in charge through his puppet CEOs) the site will be a cesspool of toxicity and hate. I'm honestly not sure why reputable people are still using the site... guess the view and media exposure are better than doing the right thing and leaving?
Anyone who is still on Twitter has, in my opinion, fewer issues with being a corporate puppet and being associated with all the hatred there than they have with losing views.
I have (had?) plenty of friends on Twitter who loudly proudly boycotted the Harry Potter game due to JKR's comments about trans people.
But they’ve stayed on Twitter despite its horrible owner and how he runs things.
I’m willing to give a pass to creators who make a living off their online audience. If the audience went off Twitter, so would they.
Everyone else, though? I don’t ever care to hear about what they're boycotting again if they can’t pull themselves off Twitter.
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We (most of the people here), already did. Thats how mastadon was born!
"TikTok copycat"
You know, way way back in the pre-Elon days, they had another one. I think it was called Vine?
I still don't understand why they killed it. Must've been a real money sink.
high costs server side, poor quality of the videos, poor-ish internet connections, not enough powerful cell phones, etc. They were ahead of time. They achieved a decent success in the US but not much outside of it because of much of the reasons listed above.
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Yeah, and it closed because they weren't making money on it. Turns out all you needed was a few years for server costs to go down.
The fediverse is looking like the objective best alternative, more so day by day.
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What kinda goofy response was this from Musk? AYO!
Try not to link if you can, just screenshot or copy text. Don't need to drive any traffic to that pit of despair.
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I don't use Tiktok but I gather that this is a big problem over there as well, so it sounds like Twitter is working just as well as the site it's riffing off.
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All social media is filled with animal cruelty.
There's so many pictures and videos of cut up animal corpses with people going "yum" in the comments..
Folks, there is important, valid discussion to be had about meat eating both from ethical an environmental perspectives. I'm not sure that !Technology is the place to have that discussion, however.
More importantly, this thread was not the way to discuss these issues, particularly on Beehaw. The behavior in this thread was not nice, and is not the way that these types (or any type) of discussion should be conducted.
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Yes there's no difference between a picture of a steak and fries on a plate, and a kitten being tortured then burned alive. Absolutely the same thing.
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Many reported being alarmed by a stream of graphic videos they encountered while scrolling through the feed, including videos showing gun violence, police brutality, physical altercations and vaccine misinformation.
So it's working as intended?
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