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  • @[email protected]
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    808 months ago

    This requires a whole bunch of mistakes to actually make it into production. Twitter HQ must be an absolute dumpster fire.

    • @TwilightVulpine
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      158 months ago

      Who knew firing most people keeping it running would have negative consequences 🤔

    • @ilinamorato
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      88 months ago

      They’re just serving code directly from GitHub at this point.

      • @FooBarrington
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        68 months ago

        No way they have CD set up. The interns are raw-dogging that shit through FTP, like in the good old days

        • @ilinamorato
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          8 months ago

          They’re all interns now, right?

    • XNX
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      58 months ago

      This doesnt make sense though. The links go from being twitter.com to become x.com it doesnt turn every x into the word twitter which would make no sense for his xitty plan to force people to say x

      • Rentlar
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        78 months ago

        It doesn’t make sense to push for anyone smart but it’s the equivalent mistake as forgetting to check “Whole Word Only” on your Find and Replace function.

        • @[email protected]
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          28 months ago

          And surely they have a mechanism to test it in actual Twitter data, like “run this change and show me 50 random, unique samples.” That should be the very minimum for something like Twitter.

  • @[email protected]
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    528 months ago

    who else but a genius would buy a social media company, remove the things that made it functional and useful, reintegrate and allow to overpopulate elements that made it worse, and destroy a multi-billion dollar icon and name render useless a word that the thing you bought created and is universally understood because he thinks calling stuff X is cool?

    not only a genius but ta soooper genius.

    • @Passerby6497
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      368 months ago

      I just can’t imagine the galaxy level intellect that can take a brand whose name was the action and completely ruin the branding and change it to something generic.

    • @Fredselfish
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      -28 months ago

      You know he did on purpose right? He wanted to destroy it and make unfucuntional. Twitter was a great place for people to organize and allowed people to get access to breaking news faster.

      Also progressive politicians and activists could gain a following and get their ideas to millions.

      Also it was a great way to take grievances straight to corporations. If you had problem or terrible service and posted to Twitter most times they jump to fix the issue since your post could be seen by their followers etc.

      It had a lot great benefits and was a nice tool to fight against the 1%. He saw that and why he wanted it so bad.

      It’s also why he destroying it all done on purpose.

      • @wildcardology
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        138 months ago

        If he wanted to destroy it, why not just shut it down?

        • @Fredselfish
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          18 months ago

          Because he wants to also use it to push fascism into the mainstream. The fact that people still use the site and won’t stop posting articles about Elon just shows that people still care about the site.

          I say we focus on an alternative site and make it mainstream and fuck x or Twitter whatever the hell he wants to call it.

      • @pjwestin
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        8 months ago

        I think you’re giving him way too much credit. Ever since the PayPal days he had this idea for an, “everything app,” a digital-marketplace/wallet/messaging/social media/anything-else-you-could need-online-app called X. The concept and name are profoundly stupid, but he was so dedicated to his vision he got booted from PayPal because he wouldn’t give up on it. I think it’s much more like he legitimately believes he can make Twitter into this bloated super-app (and maybe make some changes for the right-wing trolls that support him along the way) rather than slowly killing the app he payed $44 billion to aquire.

  • @[email protected]
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    188 months ago

    I hardly use twitter now, but is it true that Posts on someone’s profile are now sorted by likes rather than chronological?

    Nightmare fuel

    • @RGB3x3
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      38 months ago

      Isn’t that generally how Lemmy and Reddit organize posts?

      • @Sylvartas
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        No, on users profiles they are organized chronologically by default, and you can sort them by votes, both on Reddit and on Lemmy

        • @RGB3x3
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          8 months ago

          Ah, I see. Above commenter said “someone’s profile.” I misread that.

  • Maxnmy's
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    188 months ago

    Is this from the same guy who wants to turn Formerly Known as Twitter into a banking and job search app?

  • lemmyreader
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    158 months ago

    That was an insane bug. But I’ve read via mr.Krebs on Mastodon that Twitter apparently fixed this grave error in the mean time.

  • PhillyCodeHound
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    98 months ago

    I expect none less from Elon and his band of misfits. what a train wreck