Elon's Folly

I'm so down to calling him Kiko from here on out.

Holy shit, he actually does look like Villagran lmao

Reply to his every tweet with that.

Just you wait til Rocket Kiko knows about that and tells everything to his mom! As soon as he's done crying on the corner...

Elon seems like a kinda shitty guy

Hot take!

He censors way more than old twitter, and is way less transparent about it.

Old twitter complied with 51% of legal requests, Elon's twitter is at 71%. Old twitter complied with 53% of government take down requests, Elon's is at 76%.

Old twitter also used to post a high detailed transparency report every 6 months. This one from Elon's twitter is light on detail, and the first in 2+ years.

So he's a lying liar and even his own data proves it.

The real life inspiration for super genius Cave Johnson from Portal.

Definitely has managed to invest in some incredibly profitable stuff but he also says and does the absolutely stupidest shit imaginable. It's astounding

Back in late 2022 I was in an argument with my (adult) nephew about how the government isn't limiting free speech on Twitter. I was explaining how "the free market" is deciding whether Elon will sink or swim. He just could not understand how the government -wasn't- responsible.

....idfk

(Yes, there were some Governmental take down requests, but none of them seemed very sus to me)

Right Twix.

What's this got to do with Twix? I love a good Twix...

Fuck me, now I gotta go buy a Twix. And a Lion, do they still make those? God they were the best.

Now that's just kind of rude toward toddlers. He acts like what he is... a Ketamine addled, narcissistic billionaire, who got lucky in life and thinks he crafted his own destiny all by his own hands.

Wait, what?

No they aren't. They are changing how it works, in a way that is mostly immaterial to the user. That is not even close to completely removing.

Sounds like another fucking narcissist.

Fart of the Deal

Because Mastodon needs a reliable instance with a catchy domain name. Maybe even the slightest bit of advertising.

Someone reputable could make a real Twitter competitor for about $2m a year these days.

I'd say Mozilla, but they just took all their social media funding away and threw it at AI. Genius.

Mastodon has serious UX problems that even other federated networks don't have. I'm pretty well tech literate and love Lemmy, for instance, but I just couldn't ever get Mastodon to stick for me, like it just didn't have the right feel and wasn't fun to use. And if it's not working for me then it's never going to take off with a more general audience.

Bluesky is a lot better. It still has some issues that I feel keep it from fully replacing Twitter, especially Twitter before Elon screwed it up. But it does manage to keep me checking it, even though it's probably only once or twice a week max.

Cause all the Linux people, FOSS people, and communists are already here.

I think one of the biggest reasons is that the Fediverse is often a pain to get into and sometimes a pain to use.

Bluesky and Threads "just work."

Some people say it's marketing and in Threads' case I can believe it, but I haven't seen any example of large marketing campaign by Bluesky.

Sadly, Mastodon had its shot during the pandemic and blew it. The non-tech savvy didn't understand how federation worked and they marketed themselves very poorly.

The budget for Mastodon gGmbH is measured in the hundreds of thousands of dollars and Bluesky's is much more than that.

Because people, even leftists, want the bad company to be replaced by a good company.

In South Africa, we call him Melon Husk.

"Elmo" is better if you ask me. They're both annoying children that need to shut the fuck up and go away.

that makes him sound more normal

Nah, Leon is a decent name, also that protagonist from some Resident Evil games

Leon Dusk.

Elephant musth

The government can absolutely take away money he controls.

And keep leaving Twitter!

That is the most accurate description for him. Zero notes, pitch perfect.

I dunno, I follow some political, rap, and basketball YouTubers and they all use Twitter. I'd much rather them use Bluesky or Threads. I think Mastodon would probably be best but so far, anything's better than Twitter.

Because "it's where people are going" - plus those two are already well known among normies, unlike mastodon/misskey/fediverse. They want a centralized thing.

Funnily enough, during this brazilian exodus, my sister complained that Threads was too "clean", while bluesky had all the "people with questionable mental stability" and was thus more interesting.

We're part of the general public, and we've heard both halves.

they have some perks, privileges and exceptional powers no democratic country would give to them

wait until you learn about the supreme court in the USA

Your face is a meme.

Seriously, screenshat your face. Call it a meme. If others adopt it, it's a meme.

^{Not legal advice}

Don't make me tap the sign with the description of meme from The Selfish Gene.

meme /mēm/ noun

A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.

This is a meme

It's not, it's a twittex screen cap.

I tried searching for sources that back up the claim that the judge created a fake news committee under his control and couldn't find anything.

Not saying it's false, but do you have a source for that?

He tried, he can try whatever he wants, it's not him who decide