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[–] [email protected] 248 points 1 month ago

Ah, so he's going to stop posting there? Right?

[–] [email protected] 206 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Now that the election is over and we won, let's remove our bots. - musk

[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Oh, c'mon, who's going to tell him he is the best dad? He needs them.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago

I mean, he will on an alt.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago

Ah, but there are still elections in other parts of the world, like Germany, where he is also very active

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, bots are still needed for hating illegal immigrants.

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[–] [email protected] 125 points 1 month ago (3 children)

No no, guys, you're misunderstanding. He MEANS there's too much negativity from people saying things like "X sucks since musk bought twitter....."

He's going to change those people's tweets to say "X is great!"

And by that I mean he's going to have a team to edit tweets that he doesn't like!

If that's not free speech, then Musk doesn't know what is!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

This is exactly what he means.

Next up the sanctioned daily hate.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

This has nothing to do with Twitters image. He could have enforced that decision sooner if it was. This is about Trump. The negativity was helpful during Bidens presidency. Now that Trump is about to take over everything has to look like the world is happy again. It's political manipulation.

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[–] [email protected] 104 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He’s shutting down his account?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No he's gonna ban anyone who disagrees with him.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

That ain't going to turn down the negativity though

[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago

A cisgender guy.

(This comment has been removed for violating X's policy on the use of derogatory slurs)

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Free speech abolitionist, more like.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 month ago

my puppet is in power — everyone be nice now.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Instead of “bad” you have to say “ungood” from now on.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Double plus ungood!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Maybe if you tell me the bad news in a good way, it won't sound so bad."

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

X/Twitter is a misinformation platform. If you know a major influencer that uses, consider informing and directing them to the ActivityPub alternatives, even advertising on their platforms if you can.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sadly we lost that fight to the other centralised platform in Bluesky

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Anything that’s not Twitter is good

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago

Closing the shop will achieve that goal perfectly.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I thought the whole point of being right wing was being negative?

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

He's such a fucking baby

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

Right, he should remove the last few humans and replace them with bots.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

Now that the election is over, he’s hiding the lightning rod.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

Incumbent wants everyone to talk about how great things are.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

More circus and bread. Classic move

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Project mayhem needs to take his balls

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Don't want any Debbie-downers on Shitter once his bestie is in the big chair.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I mean in principle this is just a matter of moderation being different from censorship.

But really, an "algorithm tweak"? I am still wondering when or why who decided that we needed to have "algorithms" that someone could "tweak" on the Internet at all. The first kind of "social media" I ever used was web forums where the entire "algorithm" was thread bumping, and even if you insist that we need to have the structure of a microblog: Mastodon does fine without an "algorithm" beyond reverse-chronological sorting.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

My bet is on a scenario where Elon is going to ban people for using 'cisgender' term rather than downranking them.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

I'm curious whether Truth Social will acquire Xitter, or vice versa.

And when.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Should just use his AI to turn all the negative comments into positive ones.

Problem solved 🙃

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Um, Elon Musk is a... brilliant man with lots of well thought-out, practical, ideas. He is insuring the financial security of this company for years to come. Oh yes, and his personal hygiene is above reproach.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Elon Musk is a disgusting piece of shit.

Positivity Bot: Elon musk is a silly poop particle 😁

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Reading the title I thought he'll retire.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Yes, that town square needs to be happy. That's a happy democracy!

Mate, the bunting looks awfully like swastikas...

But happy, less negative swastikas, right?

Sure.

What an unserious human Musk is.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Now that his pick has won the election there’ll be no need for negativity now!

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