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I hope he buys reddit next
I think he should seriously consider buying Meta so that we can watch it crash and burn just like Xitter. Facebook is the cancer of the internet and it deserves to go too.
So I mean, if this was in lieu of data collection and tracking, this is what more of the software world should actually do. Running platforms isn’t free, and making the user the product is a malicious and unsustainable solution.
That said, I certainly wouldn’t pay Twitter - I think I’d rather donate to a Mastodon instance, or pay for some other private alternative. Musk is awful for so many reasons, holds way too much power, and deserves no money of mine.
if this was in lieu of data collection and tracking
I guarantee this isn't in lieu of, it's in conjunction with.
Yup. You can see this kind of stuff happening with ads in things you buy.
There was a model of "ad supported" and "pay to own"
But some exec figured out you could do both and double dip.
There is no world in which things get more consumer friendly unless it's forced
That's actually a good point about how some services do require payment to provide safe service to their users. A very close to home example would be your local Lemmy instance. In order to run the servers and keep it ad (and tracking) free, each instance needs donations from their users. The same is true for Mastodon, as you mentioned.
The problem is, I would be shocked if Twitter actually provided a safer (or improved in any way) service. There are a other issues at play as well, but they all basically boil down to most users not wanting too give money to Twitter, and if they were ok with that, they would already have purchased Twitter Blue.
I would be shocked if Twitter actually provided a safer (or improved in any way) service. There are a other issues at play as well
One of those issues being the idiot child in charge. As long as Musk is running the place, there's no such thing as safety for the users.
I would love if there was a platform where they charged a very small amount monthly eg. I £1/€1/$1 in exchange for not using my data for anything. I love lemmy but I'm entirely at the mercy of the instance maintainers and there is no guarantee my data won't be used
I fucking dare him to follow through. Please do it. Don't wuss out Elon!
Should we all go make twitter accounts and say how great of an idea this is?
Yes! Absolutely!
Anyone who hasn't abandoned the platform by now deserves whatever they get.
Sounds like a great idea!
I mean, not for Xitter, but for the internet as a whole it would be amazing!
So, I am starting to really believe his goal is to just drive a stake into the heart of twitter.
Either that, or he is trying to prove a point regarding something.
I don't think there is any possible way, he is so dumb as to make all of these horrible decisions regarding twitter.... This has got to be destroying twitter by design, on purpose.
I mean, seriously.... he has done literally everything that you SHOULDN'T do. Fire the majority of the company. Destroy over a decade worth of very good branding. Alienate all investors. Alienate the user base. Piss off the remaining users more. Drive away advertisers....
FFS, the dude has a company that sends rockets into space, and previously, the world's premier electric car company... What in the hell is his odd obsession with choking the life out of twitter, that has been costing him money left and right due to absolutely horrible publicity.
Please remember that SpaceX and Tesla have entire teams dedicated to handling Elon and reversing his decisions. Twitter did not have the infrastructure required to handle the sheer level of stupid that is Elon Musk.
If he wanted Twitter to fail, he could have just unplugged all the servers and be done with it.
No need for him to change the policies so much everyone would leave, break his internet persona, and then declare Xitter bankrupt.
No, I believe he bought Twitter in order to manipulate the US presidential election by spreading propaganda from what he considers a "left-wing bubble". But because he has no idea how to run a social media, he is failing to keep it together and by now is throwing stuff against it to see what sticks.
He owes a lot of money to banks, etc, for the company.
Explicitly closing Twitter would make him liable for destroying other people's equity. Accidentally destroying twitter while pretending to drastically fix it, while pretending it's failing against his will and his taking measures to save it, is the only way to kill it without being on the hook for it.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." - Hanlon's razor
I know it is a popular sentiment that people should migrate to Mastodon, but I personally think people will migrate wherever the people they follow migrate to.
With this in mind, I suspect Bluesky will be the platform to usurp Twitter; but with Twitter chasing off all their users in the near future, it may go to whichever platform is readily open at the time.
I'm very curious to see if Bluesky or Spill open up when Twitter closes the door on its users. If not, Mastodon may have a shot at being the next large platform...
The biggest problem with Bluesky is it's owned by another musk.
He's not great, but that's an exaggeration
Until it isn't. The platform is still single-tracked through an unaccountable billionaire.
Why Bluesky when there is ecosystem of dozens community-baked and deployed apps?
Is bluesky up yet? I'd assume everyone will just go to bluesky anyway.
Yes, but it's invite-only. Either you join the wait-list and get lucky, or someone gives you an invite (members get an invite to hand out to friends every 10 days or so). Amusingly this has resulted in a large chunk of blüski being furry and LGBT, due to how tightly knit the communities are. I know a lot of the furry discord servers I've been in regularly have people openly offering invites, whereas most of the non-furry servers seem to be completely unaware of how active it is or that it even exists (my experience is that blüski feels way more active than Twitter due to it not giving preferential treatment to Elon shills; you're far more likely to have random people seeing your posts).
Spock: Twitter is dying.
Kirk: Let it die.
What about a fee for every X install like Unity?
$0.20 for every view of your tweet!
That would finish off Twitter instantly.
He's not THAT dumb. Right guys?
....right??
Please do it fast.
Musk is an absolute idiot. But I'd rather pay for a system than have it mine me for data. I'm guessing he wants to do both though. Because that's what he does with Tesla cars.
Yeah, it's both. Final answer.
Xitter, pronounced shitter
why does he look like that
He's had a fair bit of cosmetic surgery over the years. Things like hair plugs to jaw fillers
You mean like an idiot who paid billions of dollars for a company only to ruin it in less than a year?
I really hope this happens. It already was dying, but this would be the final nail in the coffin for the stubborn users who are still on there for some reason. Clearly Twitter Blue has been failing.
Gotta hand it to Musk, he's mastodon's greatest promoter.
So what is a tweet supposed to be called now? A Xext or something?
an X-cretion.
In all seriousness, it's just called a post now. Elon threw away the incredible brand recognition of "Tweet," the noun/verb that every tech company wants. It's like if Google stopped wanting people to use their name as a verb and just go with the generic "search" term.
I want to charge Musk every time he makes another asshole announcement about running one of his companies into the ground. Just fuck off, dude.