World's richest man buys twitter. Hilarity ensues.
Feels like we'll need a dedicated thread as we watch him burn 44 Billion dollars to the ground. Seriously, I thought the implosion would take longer, but it does seem like this could be a very short ride to insolvency.
Had a chuckle at this over the weekend. Apparently they fired a bunch of engineers that were critical to implementing the new changes Elon is asking for, now their scrambling to hire them back.
Going to be a garbage fire.
Twitter is a monster that the news media created and I swear it is nothing but bots. Elon always had the drive to build and create companies that were part of a better future so I always ignored his arrogance. Electric cars, reusable rockets, solar power, Hyperloop, etc. You can argue we need these things for a better future, but Twitter should be buried alive a never dug up again. His ego took the wheel.
I deleted the app shortly after he purchased it. It took Google all of 20 minutes to basically replicate who i followed on twitter in my news feed on their app.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/7/23446262/elon-musk-twitter-paywall-possible
TLDR version - total chaos in the takeover. schadenfreude details in the article for those like me who think twitter needs to join myspace in the history books.
I think the general issue is that a true 'free speech town square' is actually a valuable thing, but it does need some (trigger warning to conservatives) regulation and moderation.
This doesn't play well with the business model of a traditional for-profit social media ad model in my opinion. It needs to be thought of and run more like wikipedia (non-profit, open) to allow for thoughtful decisions based on what is best for the user base (not the customer base - advertisers).
Fortunately, someone is out there trying to do that. https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/08/what-is-mastodon/ Maybe we'll get to watch Elon's 44BN burn as users embrace this new open source version, I think that'll be a fun show.
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I think the general issue is that a true 'free speech town square' is actually a valuable thing, but it does need some (trigger warning to conservatives) regulation and moderation.
This doesn't play well with the business model of a traditional for-profit social media ad model in my opinion. It needs to be thought of and run more like wikipedia (non-profit, open) to allow for thoughtful decisions based on what is best for the user base (not the customer base - advertisers).
Fortunately, someone is out there trying to do that. https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/08/what-is-mastodon/ Maybe we'll get to watch Elon's 44BN burn as users embrace this new open source version, I think that'll be a fun show.
This is breathing new life into Mastodon. Hopefully, it takes off, but community moderating is how you get insane feedback loop bubbles like some subreddits.
I think if you want a true public square experience it needs to be a government-run service with actual policing just like an actual public square and every user should be verified. If it is government-run it could also be set up for citizens of voting age as well. It sounds almost dystopian compared to the free market tech industry we have grown used to but actual public squares don't make money and have a police presence. With the profit motive behind all apps that are not open source, they can't function as a public good. Mastodon has that going for it but open source has a lot of issues as well and it won't have a way to verify users.
Of course, the government would make it suck somehow and people will still flock to the place where they can talk shit and nobody knows who they are, but that is what Reddit is for.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CktyFAzNv-w/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Loving this (sorry for the IG link)
Gonna miss you Trevor 😭
I always thought the twittergrams and snapfaces were for the kids. Are we doing politics on the myspaces now?
No, that’s the tiktoks that you’re on.
I can't seem to give a shit about social media these days.
Posted by: Madman
I can't seem to give a shit about social media these days.
NBR is my social media.
For those of us who never installed, or deleted the app. MSM has us covered on the highlights.
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