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Delete it. (lemmy.world)

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[-] mindbleach@lemmy.world 73 points 10 months ago

What the fuck did Elon buy, at this point?

He fired the employees.

He threw out the code.

He yanked plugs on the physical servers.

He forgot to pay for the virtual servers.

He started rent protest for the office space.

He deleted the brand the way Malcolm X deleted his surname.

If he'd just started a Twitter competitor, with blackjack and doxxing, the only difference would be that Twitter was a bit quieter.

If he'd bought Twitter, the hellsite, and then burned it to the ground as a weird flex, the only difference would be slightly more people using Mastodon.

And in both cases nobody would know he's a complete crybaby. We'd just harbor strong suspicions.

[-] MajinBlayze@lemm.ee 35 points 10 months ago

He bought the customer base

[-] mindbleach@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

Less of it every day.

[-] planish@sh.itjust.works 16 points 10 months ago

What a great example of why one should not be allowed to buy communities.

[-] snooggums@kbin.social 8 points 10 months ago

And is now doing everything he can to drive them away.

[-] gamey@feddit.rocks 5 points 10 months ago

Imahine buying Twitter for it's community! :D

[-] Kalothar@lemmy.ca 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Basically Elon wants to clone WeChat, Chinas all in one app. He could have started from scratch and had an uphill battle with Twitter as the largest competing company or do this instead.

His PR was already getting shitty before buying Twitter, so he pivoted with his rich boy money like always.

He purchased it , destroying it as a competitor for his X website. He gave X recognition immediately as a platform, and hoping that he retains the partial user base of Twitter as the initial backbone for the app he wanted to build in the first place.

Because that’s what fascists do, delete competition

[-] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

That's not facism, that's just regular ol' capitalism 👍

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

Pam Beesley: they're the same picture

astronaut: they're the same picture?

astronaut with a gun: always have been

[-] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

But he could have done that without being a complete idiot and not scare away users like myself. Not very smart, is he?

[-] salient_one@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 5 points 10 months ago

He still has the user base. But not for long, one might say.

[-] LordOfTheChia@lemmy.world 69 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Should also start calling tweets: X'cretions.

Twitter Feed: X'crement feed

Their public relations is pretty much a poop emoji already.

[-] mindbleach@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago

I know you know, but I have to point out: their public relations is literally a poop emoji. Which is possibly the most juvenile proof imaginable for the failure of Elmo's delusions of adequacy. He just has a lot of money.

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

For twitter feed just keep it simple: X’cretion pile

[-] solidsnake2085@lemmy.world 39 points 10 months ago

Why are people still on Twitter? I deleted my account years ago.

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

I just used it to read, but I deleted a few weeks ago, don't miss it.

[-] AdamHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 10 months ago

I've left two popular social apps, one more insidious than the other and admittedly, it was harder than I thought.

[-] PatFussy@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

Why do people enjoy things i dont enjoy?

[-] BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 14 points 10 months ago

It’s like driving a car:

If you’re slower than me, you’re a retard. If you’re faster than me, you’re a bastard.

[-] VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 4 points 10 months ago

Yup, George Carlin said it best

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[-] mindbleach@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Stop reducing things to 'you just don't like it.' God fucking dammit. Reasons matter!

[-] irmoz@reddthat.com 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yes, I also hate that argument. "You just don't like it!!" As if there aren't legitimate reasons to be against it, like it's some neutral fact of life, reducing any opinion of it to the same level as liking or disliking a song or film.

[-] mindbleach@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Reality is a team sport, to some people.

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[-] pedz@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

Honestly, there's a nice community of people advocating for a better city in my area, and I enjoy the "circlejerk" of agreeing with them and see their stuff. And want it or not, lots of officials and cities still have accounts there. It's easy to "Xcrete" about a shitty bike path to your local neighborhood mayor and include the right people to make it a bit more noticeable.

[-] Metaright@kbin.social 32 points 10 months ago

I'm just going to keep calling it Twitter, and I'm honestly unsure of why everyone else, media outlets included, aren't doing the same.

[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 12 points 10 months ago

It will die quicker if we call it X. Its just such an impractical name.

[-] mindbleach@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Twitter, Facebook, Blackwater.

Ain't playing these games.

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[-] gamey@feddit.rocks 6 points 10 months ago

I still like "Birdsite", been using that on Mastodon for years evdn tho I have no clue why everyone started doing so

[-] Polydot@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

because other platform names are banned on tiktok

[-] gamey@feddit.rocks 3 points 10 months ago

I never used Tiktok and I have my doubts many other Mastodon users do but I guess it could originate from something like that

[-] mindbleach@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

All the more reason to go anywhere else.

When a platform thinks it owns you, leave.

[-] Spudwart@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

It’s like how Anakin became Darth Vader.

Twitter fell to the Musk Side. Twitter may be inside, somewhere.

But the instant X started executing order 66, the line was crossed.

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[-] Computerchairgeneral@kbin.social 21 points 10 months ago

Xitter? Are people not just continuing to call it Twitter? Maybe if it ever becomes the everything app Musk wants it to be it will be distinct enough to justify a rebrand, but for right now it's just Twitter with the name filed off.

[-] ElBarto@lzrprt.sbs 11 points 10 months ago

Xitter is pronounced Shitter, like the Chinese president.

[-] Metans@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Shitty the pooh?

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I maintain ignoring the change annoys Musky the most, but say Xitter out loud.

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 21 points 10 months ago

I'm gonna pronounce Xitter 'shitter'.

[-] yokhai@lemmy.kya.moe 5 points 10 months ago

We've finally come full circle from the beginning of Twitter until now.

[-] over_clox@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

I prefer to call it Xhitter, since it's so extra xhitty now.

[-] craftyindividual@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

Changing twitter to a black background with an X is about the most reactive, 13 year old thing a 52 year old billionaire could do.

[-] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago

xXElongMuskerXx

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[-] PixeIOrange@feddit.de 4 points 10 months ago

Xhitler?

[-] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

Still is, but he used to be, too.

[-] UFODivebomb@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

If you apply a swirl transform to X (much like the new blue check mark) you get... Oh ..

Edit: nm. The swirl is from somewhere else. I clearly don't pay much attention hehe

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

This is Firefish, not Twitter.

[-] sulungskwa@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

"Twitter is horrible! For fascists!"

Some guy still using twitter

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

this is Firefish!!

[-] sulungskwa@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Ah right! whoops

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