Elon Musk said Saturday "sad truth is that there are no great 'social networks' right now."
  • mayooooo@beehaw.org
    93·
    2 years ago

    it’s probably not the best place to say this, but it’s a shame. Twitter had real use and this bastard used his reverse midas touch on it to the detriment of all of us who aren’t nazis. Well I hope his sheik boss lets him suck him off now as a reward

    • Jomn@jlai.lu
      76·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • mayooooo@beehaw.org
        16·
        2 years ago

        Hey absolutely, it’s insane having oligarchs control our infrastructure. But even nationalisation is a better option than having these morons.

      • uberrice@feddit.de
        4·
        2 years ago

        See Heise for example, they have their own instance for their news posts. It’s great.

    • fades@beehaw.org
      6·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • Engywook@lemm.ee
    68·
    2 years ago

    Hopefully… So we won’t have this guy mentioned 10 times per day everywhere.

  • Adora 🏳️‍⚧️@beehaw.org
    50·
    2 years ago

    I feel like normally I would share y’all’s view on this and be like “good” but now I can’t help think about how Twitter was a critical space for organizing a lot of resistance movements. Really starting to believe those pieces that were like “Musk bought Twitter to bury it”

    We were all like “he’s not that smart” at the first few articles, but now I’m like, this dude has poisoned the well so utterly - and now he’s getting rid of blocking, apparently? - like, fuck. (And yes organizing on a corpo platform was never going to be truly reliable/safe, but still, esp for folks just getting exposed to activism, this “on ramp” space going to shit really sucks.)

    I know we’ll always find/create new spaces for ourselves, but this is a blow to a lot of networks.

    • Krackalot@discuss.tchncs.de
      22·
      2 years ago

      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.

    • fades@beehaw.org
      20·
      2 years ago

      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.

    • MiddledAgedGuy@beehaw.org
      1·
      2 years ago

      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.

      Edit: spelling

  • coyotino [he/him]@beehaw.org
    36·
    2 years ago

    “The sad truth is that there are no great ‘social networks’ right now,” he said on X.

    None that he owns, at least…

  • Asor@beehaw.org
    32·
    2 years ago

    And this guy still has millions of fans, as if he was the god of technology. I can’t understand some people.

      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
        8·
        2 years ago

        We do do it a lot. I’m not sure why, hornyness and tribalism are our other invariants, and those don’t enter into it directly.

    • ConsciousCode@beehaw.org
      9·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • Pixel@lemmy.sdf.org
    8·
    2 years ago

    I think rebranding Twitter as x was pretty stupid. I wouldn’t have minded it if x was like a parent app and it was “Twitter by X” or something. But now they’re just alienating their users.

  • ulkesh@beehaw.org
    6·
    2 years ago

    I sure hope it fails. I hope he becomes poor and destitute. I hope his sycophants wake up from their self-delusion about him and he is effectively lost to time. He is a useless, waste of existence.