Elon’s big plan for Twitter:
- Fire the people who make it work
- Allow more hate speech and disinformation
- ???
- Profit?
this post was submitted on 31 May 2023
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it's actually incredible how much he's lost on Twitter; if it weren't for Tesla stock increases he'd be eating incredible amounts of shit right now. it's basically subsidizing his losses
Saw a photo the other day of a Tesla with a bumper sticker that said "I got it before I knew what an asshole he is".
Pretty much sums it up.
I feel bad for Tesla owners whose cars may be dropping in value.
And even then, the sorts of people who buy Tesla are generally not fond of the sorts of things he’s been saying over the last couple of years. I bought mine three years ago, and I like the car, but I’m done with the brand unless Musk leaves the company.
Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.
Seriously though, it's sad what's happened to Twitter over the years. I remember joining it back in '08 while I was at uni. It was a great, fun way to connect with people from all walks of life, to hear different viewpoints and learn new things.
But I guess we all got high on being able to have a voice, and began getting louder and louder. Then Twitter engineered it so that we'd see people outside our bubble and it just became a huge, never-ending flamewar of opinions and diatribes. It really fucked my mental health, tbh. Realising that you get most of your interactions from being snarky makes you double down on the snark, so you start looking for things to be shitty about, or you spend all the time thinking about the shittiest thing you can say to "the enemy".
Before you know it, you're as much of a shithead as the people you're yelling at, but with the added bonus of thinking you're being righteous.
Now I use Mastodon all the time. Sure, there's snark, but I try to avoid it, and actively work towards being a more positive voice on there.
I was really surprised by the general positivity on Mastodon and it was the first thing I noticed when I signed up. There's sometimes a little drama, but it's not the overarching theme by any means. I've had a lot of laughs there.
Mastodon feels much the same way Twitter did back when I first joined, which is nice.
It was never worth 44bn I think.
Definitely not. The twitter board didn't want to sell, the only reason they did is because Elon made them an offer so big they had no choice but to accept it. If it wasn't massively higher than market value then they wouldn't have sold.
Seems like Elon didn't make Twitter good again like promised
Still extremely overvalued.
It's not the current worth that's important. It's the political clout that's important to musk. 2024 is just around the corner...
Music to my ears. Mastodon has all the posts I need.
/r/stonks: "welp, time to buy!"
it was a nice try but i just don't see a market for a centralized mastodon clone
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