I double dare u/spez to follow his idol. Do it.
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I’m on Twitter to follow some pro-labor activists, and the pro-labor activists are on Twitter because that’s where people who most need to see labor actions are. The Fediverse is good if your audience is tech-educated, or if your audience is specific friends and you all switched at once. Retail workers who just had a problem with wage theft and need some advice are probably posting to Twitter and they’re certainly not going to go through learning what the Fediverse is and how to sign up for it on top of stressing about the wage theft.
That’s completely understandable. But those situations can’t be why the majority of why people are still on Twitter right? I mean I might be wrong…but I feel most of the engagement there is for less pertinent stuff?
It's still a question of audience, even when it's not a serious subject. Someone who posts nifty history facts or informed opinions about fashion or who made the NY Times bestseller list this week probably prefers talking to a general audience. If Twitter drives off the general audience by letting Nazis and conspiracy theorists run rampant, then they'll leave, but if someone's little corner of Twitter isn't currently attracting bad faith actors it probably seems pretty normal over there (aside from the downtime, but nothing on the internet is immune to downtime).
how can they make so much bad decisions in such a short time????
They have Elon, he's self proclaimed genius after all.
Are we still entertaining the notion that the man isn't deliberately destroying Twitter? Because it definitely seems conscious and purposeful, and has for a while now IMO.
My theory is that Reddit and twitter are being deliberately killed because they are too good at letting the proletariat self-organize. They don’t want an Arab Spring of the west.
People talk a lot of insurrection but it’s very easy to sit on your ass and say “fuck the establishment” and feel like you’re doing something. When in fact, the platform is the very opiate that stops people from doing anything worthwhile
I'd agree with that if people weren't at each other's throats all the damn time on both platforms.
I'm not convinced that part of that wasn't bots trying to hamper productive discussion. They were rampant before, but the amount of bots had gotten ridiculous over the last year or so.
Let’s not underestimate the hubris of stupid rich people
If he is, then it will be almost as great a service to humanity as killing the internal combustion engine.
As I understand it, it's likely because he didn't pay his server bills to Google. and wasn't able to migrate enough stuff off in time. Maybe he thought that like the dudes he's renting buildings from, he could just not pay and they'd wait. The difference of course being that, Google can repurpose those servers within a few days. Those buildings might remain empty for months.
Per the article right under the one you linked, they ended up renewing the contract.
I heard that the new CEO paid the bills and made even larger deal with Google.
I’m actually surprised with how much people are willing to take before abandoning such services. While I’m loving the fediverse, I do understand that it has a but of a learning curve before someone can adopt it, but honestly, even if I didn’t know about mastodon, I would have just quit twitter without finding an alternative. How is this a pleasant experience for people??
The corporations cant stand that us poors have access to seeing how they are fuckin us over.They are literally killing the planet for greed
The corporations cant stand that us poors have access to seeing how they are fuckin us over.They are literally killing the planet for greed
Another bad decision from Elon.
Firing most of the people that maintain a service and overworking those that remain has drastic consequences for that service. Who knew?
Can't wait for spez to copy this decision too.
He's spez's inspiration, after all.
He sort of did already with the whole >100 API calls.
I swear, a bunch of rich people were bored, got in a room, and decided to see who could kill a social media site
A modern day Trading Places.
"Mortimer, I bet this little pig boy nerd can run a social media giant into the ground in 1 month."
"Well, I think that's only possible with a rich tech snob at the helm, and even then it would take him 6 months!"
"The usual bet?"
"$1"
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