I am waiting for the day when governments will have had enough of him (unless he bought those governments because that fucker is fucking rich) - and "Elon Musk" becomes "Felon Musk".
this post was submitted on 24 Oct 2023
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Don't you dare fucking touch Wikipedia
“I will give them a billion dollars if they change their name to Dickipedia.”
is such promise legally binding in US? it would be fun to take billion dollars from him and i am pretty sure we could all survive wiki being renamed for a day...
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can a wiki editor plz change his main profile pic to that balding paypal one he loves so much? k thnx bai.
As fun as that would be, we actually have standards, unlike Elon.
Nonprofit organizations that moderate a website should stay nonprofit, because at least they're not prone to making crappy business decisions that'll end up hurting them in the long term.
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Is there anything that stops Elon Musk from buying Lemmy or Mastadon? Even if everyone were to migrate over to the Fediverse, what stops these websites from being bought as well?
I don’t really know the legalitys, but there’s a few things in elons way:
- Whoever has control over Lemmy would have to be willing to sell it, pretty sure Elon couldn’t take over lemmy like he did twitter
- It’s open source, how/can does one even turn something like lemmy closed-source?
- If it was made closed source by Elon, what of the forks that already exist? Can anything be does to threaten their ongoing existence?
I don’t know the answers to 2&3, but I’m pretty sure 1 holds true; Elon can’t buy something if the owner refuses to sell.
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That seems exactly like something Elon would try to do, just like the idiot that tried to takeover freenode. I'd love it if the creators of Lemmy and Mastodon were able to swindle some money from him.
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