Elon Musk admits X 'may fail, as so many have predicted'

There is a Browser extension called: "Block The Rich", which blurs every headline and image about a major billionaire so you can avoid them.

Well, my main issue with Twitter is that it is used for official communications, and sometimes is the only medium that is used. To me, official communications should go through platforms that aren't owned by a private company. This is where Mastodon/Firefish would be great alternatives, since governments or institutions could set up their own servers, while still being part of a wider network.

reverse midas touch

It's called the Mierda's touch.

Twitter did have real use and now it doesn’t. Who FUCKING cares?????

What does X do that mastodon doesn’t? There is much mastodon can do that x can’t. Where is the problem, outside of having to use a different url than x.com? People are resilient as are their resistance movements.

They can survive a platform shift, there is no loss here.

I might go as far as saying Twitter was great in terms of influence until someone bought it.

For me right now, Lemmy is pretty great... Lots of love for my fellow Beeple.

Simping for narcissists seems to be humanity's strongest trait.

This is part of his hype. He says this often all the time about every company that he runs. It keeps him the news.

Any company could fail. There is nothing unique about any of his companies. The difference is he says it every week and people write articles about it. Stop giving him the limelight.

Cults of personality tie your identity to the target, such that at some point they could literally shoot someone in the streets and it'll still be excused. To do otherwise would break your ego which most people aren't willing or prepared to do.

Anything Twitter can do so can mastodon. Resistance movements can move forward without x with little issue. Twitter isn’t and never was special it was simply there at the right time. It’s not anymore and that’s okay because we are not helpless without some shit social media site.

Power to the people not corps.

I absolutely believe he intentionally tanked it. Getting funded by the Saudis, though, means that he doesn't have to be smart to do it. He's just a puppet. Easy to manipulate, because though he doesn't need money, he does need attention. Perhaps the easiest kind of manipulation.

I think this is a valuable point.

I saw the headline and thought "and nothing of value was lost". But reading this was a privilege check. I've never needed Twitter or anything else to help resist because my way of life isn't really being challenged.

I think it's a lesson as you point out. Don't trust corporations. And I would add don't trust centralized platforms either. But decentralization is a two edged sword. You're protected from a single entity's agenda, but the dispersed nature of a decentralized platform will make it more difficult to come together for a cause.

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I read that as "not enough musk spam" and thought you were taking crazy pills 😅

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