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[–] [email protected] 115 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is so frustrating!!!

Temporarily???

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

You had me in the first half, not gonna lie.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I find the nazis fascinating for their ability to co-opt symbols like the swastika. Could you imagine that happening today? Taking, for instance, the peace sign, punisher symbol, or Gadsden flag and turning them into quiet hate symbols?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wait, what did they do to the peace sign? Also, what about the hand signal?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

They tried to get it for a minute after the okay hand sign. Succeeded for a bit before it was relinquished

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Any symbol they would have chosen would have ended up as the Nazi symbol. Just like the name Hitler or that specific mustache style.

But the swastika specifically ending as the symbol you can mostly thank to Heinrich Schliemann and Émile-Louis Burnouf finding swastika adorned pottery at a Troy excavation in the 1870's, and declaring them to be the ancient symbols of the Aryans. https://humanjourney.us/language/external-symbols/swastika-the-hidden-power-of-a-symbol/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

As a quick aside, the term Aryan was also co-opted by the Nazis. It originally referred to the Indo-Europeans as whole, and well the Swastika was present in European art until the early modern period namely as a form of repeating pattern for say rugs.

[–] masterofn001 5 points 2 weeks ago

The cross/crucifix is quickly becoming a hate symbol. (If it wasn't already)

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The whole site has been in disrepair for the past 3 years, and with all the breaches and issues lately, this downtime included, you can see the result clearly.

If it makes you guys feel even better, just know that such failure to maintain software for so long, mostly complex and widely used like Xitter, means that it won't get fixed easily at all. The knots are everywhere and will require even more time to untangle. Musk destroys everything he touches and I am at least happy about "this" one.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago

Oh no! Anyway…

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago

No one cares

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago

Why are there still tens of thousands of people still on Shitter???

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

I would be devastated but I don't and never have used xitter.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

impressive. but i bet they can't go down for a whole forever

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

Lucky bastards.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

The only thing I don’t like about this is the word “temporarily”. Oh well.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Who even uses this scumbags platform

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

"But I only use twitter for 'art'", or "I just follow a few small communities" are the usual excuses these days.

I hear the same excuses as I did for Reddit, only I'd consider Twitter usage considerably less defensible :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Scumbag owned platform for scumbags.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

xAI bought X right? So maybe they can run it on all of those servers xAI is illegally powering with unapproved generators.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Tens of thousands of users? Or tens of thousands of bots?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

And nothing of value to humanity was lost.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

“Dozens I tell you! Dozens!”

[–] melsaskca 6 points 2 weeks ago

He did the DOGE on his twitter minions.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Geez, who would have thunk that a complex system needs to be maintained constantly.. apparently not Elmo.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

That would explain the uptick in idiocy on Threads.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 5 days ago)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I'd shed a tear if I gave a chit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

lol vegeta posted this xD

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Why are there still 10s of any users on that hellwash of a platform?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I think that's what ill call it now

"The website formally known as Twitter"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

it would be amusing to bring back the fail whale

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Sweaty, stank-ass armpit if the internet. In a trench, doused in gasoline and set ablaze is the only outcome I will accept.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

This is news?