• cryshlee@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    It’s even more hideous than I was expecting. How is that even possible

  • Moonrise2473@feddit.it
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    1 year ago

    The value of his purchase of all that billions was essentially:

    1. The userbase

    2. The branding

    3. The software and the people that built it

    Now that got rid of all three… Wasn’t it 100x cheaper to just buy parler? Or just hire a single developer on Fiverr and start a defederated mastodon server

    • floofloof@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Either he’s a raving idiot or someone was paying him to destroy Twitter. Or both.

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        1 year ago

        I doubt anyone could pay the man enough to blow 40 billion to tank a website. The moment you break something, the users will find a replacement and go there. This purchase was 100% ego. It changed no minds about Elon. His fanboys will still call this genius, and those who already knew he was a manchild are not suddenly thinking this was a mature, well-thought-out plan.

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          1 year ago

          We seem to forget this whole “Imma buy Twitter” was, in part, because Twitter refused to disable the account of the kid that was tracking his jet

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    1 year ago

    Everything he’s done with Twitter is great. It was time someone brought it down a couple dozen notches. Here’s hoping someone will do the same to Meta next.

    • bigkix@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I’m on Twitter for a long time now and nothing really changed. No one left. People that lean left are bitching about the platform but continue to tweet. Previously, the same was done by right leaning people.

      • Jaysyn@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        I disabled my account the day Muskrat was forced to buy Twitter due to his own stupidity.