Elon Musk said Saturday "sad truth is that there are no great 'social networks' right now."
  • Engywuck@lemm.ee
    109·
    1 year ago

    Hopefully… So we won’t have this guy mentioned 10 times per day everywhere.

    • Micromot@lemmycook.de
      45·
      1 year ago

      There is a Browser extension called: “Block The Rich”, which blurs every headline and image about a major billionaire so you can avoid them.

      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
        28·
        1 year ago

        I feel like Musk is >3/4 of all annoying billionaire stuff at this point. When was the last time you even heard a quote from Bernard Arnault?

      • Engywuck@lemm.ee
        10·
        1 year ago

        Well it’s not because of his wealth, is more because Twitter/X news have become really boring.

  • coyotino [he/him]@beehaw.org
    73·
    1 year ago

    “The sad truth is that there are no great ‘social networks’ right now,” he said on X.

    None that he owns, at least…

  • Asor@beehaw.org
    53·
    1 year ago

    And this guy still has millions of fans, as if he was the god of technology. I can’t understand some people.

      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
        6·
        1 year ago

        We do do it a lot. I’m not sure why, hornyness and tribalism are our other invariants, and those don’t enter into it directly.

    • ConsciousCode@beehaw.org
      8·
      1 year ago

      Cults of personality tie your identity to the target, such that at some point they could literally shoot someone in the streets and it’ll still be excused. To do otherwise would break your ego which most people aren’t willing or prepared to do.

  • Moonrise2473@feddit.it
    17·
    1 year ago

    He ordered some h1-b slave to turn off the server with the database of all the url shortened until 2014. How much money this move can save? $500 per year? How many gigabytes a database with all the URLs shared in 3 years can be?

  • ulkesh@beehaw.org
    11·
    1 year ago

    I sure hope it fails. I hope he becomes poor and destitute. I hope his sycophants wake up from their self-delusion about him and he is effectively lost to time. He is a useless, waste of existence.

  • Pixel@lemmy.sdf.org
    8·
    1 year ago

    I think rebranding Twitter as x was pretty stupid. I wouldn’t have minded it if x was like a parent app and it was “Twitter by X” or something. But now they’re just alienating their users.

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    1 year ago

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    Meta launched its X rival called Threads on July 5 and quickly amassed more than 100 million signups, Time magazine reported, citing data from Sensor Tower.

    Musk’s efforts to purge the platform of bots and turn it into a “super-app” don’t yet appear to be working.

    Activist Monica Lewinsky urged him and CEO Linda Yaccarino to “rethink” the move.

    as an anti-bullying activist (and target of harassment) i can assure you it’s a critical tool to keep people safe online.- that woman

    as an anti-bullying activist (and target of harassment) i can assure you it’s a critical tool to keep people safe online.

    In May Fidelity wrote down the value of its stake in the company then still known as Twitter, giving it a value of about $15 billion – or just a third of what Musk paid, The Wall Street Journal Reported.X didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider, made outside normal working hours.

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