Elon Musk admits X 'may fail, as so many have predicted'
Elon Musk said Saturday "sad truth is that there are no great 'social networks' right now."
Hopefully... So we won't have this guy mentioned 10 times per day everywhere.
"The sad truth is that there are no great 'social networks' right now," he said on X.
None that he owns, at least...
I might go as far as saying Twitter was great in terms of influence until someone bought it.
For me right now, Lemmy is pretty great... Lots of love for my fellow Beeple.
And this guy still has millions of fans, as if he was the god of technology. I can't understand some people.
This is part of his hype. He says this often all the time about every company that he runs. It keeps him the news.
Any company could fail. There is nothing unique about any of his companies. The difference is he says it every week and people write articles about it. Stop giving him the limelight.
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.
it's probably not the best place to say this, but it's a shame. Twitter had real use and this bastard used his reverse midas touch on it to the detriment of all of us who aren't nazis. Well I hope his sheik boss lets him suck him off now as a reward
Well, my main issue with Twitter is that it is used for official communications, and sometimes is the only medium that is used. To me, official communications should go through platforms that aren't owned by a private company. This is where Mastodon/Firefish would be great alternatives, since governments or institutions could set up their own servers, while still being part of a wider network.
reverse midas touch
It's called the Mierda's touch.
Twitter did have real use and now it doesnât. Who FUCKING cares?????
What does X do that mastodon doesnât? There is much mastodon can do that x canât. Where is the problem, outside of having to use a different url than x.com? People are resilient as are their resistance movements.
They can survive a platform shift, there is no loss here.
@fades @MayonnaiseArch I do think that Mastodon is GREAT :D but there's no harm in wanting multiple platforms for the range of people that there are. Competition drives inovation, and Mastodon has a few things it lacks that others already offer. Not saying everything needs adapted, I like what's on offer, but there will always be room for growth, and competing and sharing in other platforms growth could be beneficial. Twitter used to do great, and still could but as of now isn't.
Sure, it's just a shame. Mastodon sucks ass too :)
Oh no!
Anway...
I feel like normally I would share y'all's view on this and be like "good" but now I can't help think about how Twitter was a critical space for organizing a lot of resistance movements. Really starting to believe those pieces that were like "Musk bought Twitter to bury it"
We were all like "he's not that smart" at the first few articles, but now I'm like, this dude has poisoned the well so utterly - and now he's getting rid of blocking, apparently? - like, fuck. (And yes organizing on a corpo platform was never going to be truly reliable/safe, but still, esp for folks just getting exposed to activism, this "on ramp" space going to shit really sucks.)
I know we'll always find/create new spaces for ourselves, but this is a blow to a lot of networks.
Anything Twitter can do so can mastodon. Resistance movements can move forward without x with little issue. Twitter isnât and never was special it was simply there at the right time. Itâs not anymore and thatâs okay because we are not helpless without some shit social media site.
Power to the people not corps.
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đ€ I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles: ::: spoiler Click here to see the summary 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 itâs 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 â 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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Can we fast forward to the moment when this actually happens, please?
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?
Reddit was pretty great. Anyways...
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.
