I still prefer to refer to him as “Leon.”
that makes him sound more normal
He acts literally like a fucking toddler.
Perhaps even a toddler in a tantrum.
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.
Fair enough, fair enough. Toddlers are way more pleasant than him, even when they’ve shat their pants. I apologise to all toddlers.
Twitter is now removing the block function next. It ought to bleed users like crazy.
Wait, what?
X/Twitter will soon be making more changes to the block button, with CEO Elon Musk confirming that all public posts will be viewable going forward, even to those who have been blocked
Which is not even a big deal because blocked users could just create a separate account to view posts they’re blocked from anyway.
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.
It beggars belief, how one who grew up in the abject lap of luxury, surrounded by prolific and successful businesspeople that negotiate billion dollar deals for a living, how that child grew up to be one of the most illiterate fools on Earth when it comes to economics and business administration. It just further reinforces my belief that the $22B he took from MBS for the purchase of Twitter was part of a larger plot to destroy its reputation and make it unusable for any would be revolutionary group to use to organize. Like, assume for a second that he ran his mouth and then was forced to buy Twitter (as the popular narrative goes). Why would MBS be cool with giving Elon $22 BILLION for his fuckup?
Guy made a couple of lucky investments and convinced himself he’s a superior being.
Perhaps Elon ran his mouth, was forced to buy Twitter because signed papers and MBS saw an oppertunity to remove Twitter from the scene?
Why, oh, why, Bluesky and not Mastodon
Cause all the Linux people, FOSS people, and communists are already here.
The budget for Mastodon gGmbH is measured in the hundreds of thousands of dollars and Bluesky’s is much more than that.
Yet, Bluesky didn’t even support video posts until two weeks ago. Many other highly requested features are still missing. To what extent does the success of each platform come down to money? What did Bluesky do with a larger budget to get an edge?
Because outside of the Fediverse, literally no one has heard of Mastodon. No one has heard of the Fediverse either.
Mastodon has more users than Bluesky. (I fear it won’t stay like that for a long time anymore though as Bluesky has a bigger growth rate.)
All those people and its never managed to show me anything I felt was worthy of following.
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.
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.
How is Bluesky easier to use when it’s literally also federated? And you can just create an account on any Mastodon instance like mastodon.world or mastodon.social and start using it.
It may be easier because Bluesky already made the choice for you, you don’t need to pick an instance, the default is Bluesky Social and that’s it, if you want a different one you can search it or make one. It removes that tiny mental block of having to commit to a server you don’t know if you will like.
That’s inaccurate and reductive. ATproto and ActivityPub do not federate the same way, and how they work greatly affects how users interact with the entire ecosystem.
On Mastodon, pick the wrong instance and there’s content you’ll never see, migration isn’t complete, discovery is so bad they started a new initiative to try fixing it, instances have their own cultures, and so on.
Bluesky has issues, some I’d consider critical, but they’re not directly user-facing for the most part. Make an account, you get the same experience as everyone else.
edit: Sorry, I have this issue where I try to be concise, yet feel like I end up being rude. I get your confusion, but they’re quite different. Hopefully this helped; I can elaborate if you want.
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.world? mastodon.social?
Which don’t exactly have the name recognition of The New York Times.
Would you worry Google would have too much influence?
I would worry that Google will simply discontinue the product abruptly. Google is unreliable with product longevity.
It’s rather see NYTimes get into it. Even if they time allow outside signups on their instance.
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.
I agree, but there was also the problem of Mastodon has no marketing budget. Before Musk closed the sale on Twitter, they had 2 full time employees, IIRC.
But Bluesky is federated as well; why isn’t that a problem for Bluesky either.
Because people, even leftists, want the bad company to be replaced by a good company.
Why replace horrible company with bad company run by literally THE guy that let the prior company become horrible instead of replacing it with good non-profit network?
Are you talking about Dorsey? Because if so, he left Bluesky as he didn’t like their focus on moderation.
Not that it matters much, I sincerely doubt most users look up such details before joining anything. It’s all about the experience.
FOMO. More celebrities are on Bluesky than Mastodon and people don’t care enough about open protocols and so forth to forego that. If Taylor Swift was only on some Fediverse-enabled platform and nothing else, people would come here in droves. Taylor Swift does not post on Mastodon so people don’t want an account here. Replace Taylor Swift for anyone of any sort of popularity and ask the same questions.
I do wonder who the most famous person in the world is that exclusively posts on a Fediverse-platform. It could very well be Eugen Rochko, who probably has about a 0.05% name recognition throughout the world.
deleted by creator
But remember kids, he’s some sort of business and tech genius!
The real life inspiration for super genius Cave Johnson from Portal.
Yeah, but Cave Johnson was a compelling and interesting individual.
A bit unfair since real life idiots don’t have good writing teams.
Sometimes they have good PR teams though. Musk used to have a PR team back when he was rich enough to afford one but not rich enough to not need one.
This is a hint at why he wanted involvement in PayPal and wants X to be a financial service. You can’t take away money from a system he controls.
The government can absolutely take away money he controls.
- Brazil asked Elon to ban 7 fascist accounts spreading disinformation
- Elon refused pretending it was a free speech issue even though he complied multiple times with similar requests from right wing govts
Gotta say, this is new information to me. I’ve briefly looked at the stories and the banning of twitter, but I never realized this was entirely because Elon wouldn’t ban accounts as he does for right wing government.
Elon seems like a kinda shitty guy.
Elon seems like a kinda shitty guy
Hot take!
I mean it genuinely is because of the “kinda” and “seems”
“Elon is a shitty guy” is one of the coldest takes out there at this point
Fuck you rocket Kiko hahah
I’m so down to calling him Kiko from here on out.
Thanks to Brazil for making this possible!
It’s in my head, it’s done.
Reply to his every tweet with that.
Holy shit, he actually does look like Villagran lmao
Indeed lol
As long as the general public only hears the first half of the story, it’s good marketing
We’re part of the general public, and we’ve heard both halves.
Especially since the second half already contains the consequences of bad marketing.
He wants Twix to be Truth Social, but also profitable, and doesn’t understand why he can’t have it both ways.
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.
Right Twix.
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)
I had a similar discussion with some people at a barber shop back when Pre-Elon Twitter banned Trump. They were complaining about free speech and I asked if they knew what it actually meant (in the US). When I explained that we are ONLY guaranteed free speech from the gov’t, and that Twitter was a private business and could ban whoever they want, the same way this barber shop could tell someone not to ever come back everyone got real quiet like “oh shit I have to rethink my whole world view”. I actually got thanked at another time by one employee for telling them how it actually works.
That’s dope. It’s rare to get through to people like that.
Why BlueSky or even Threads tho?
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.
Sounds like another Fan of The Art of the Deal
Fart of the Deal
Sounds like another fucking narcissist.
That’s what they said :P
Stay on blue sky guys.
And keep leaving Twitter!
There’s no way I’m leaving Twitter… because I never joined.
Good job!
Yes we all saw it. Do people really need to get an ELI5?
I’m just curious tbh if there were people that didn’t realize all of this?
What an asinine and worthless comment.
You’re asking if there are others on Lemmy without your perception and understanding of the world?
I think this might be a “sit down” talk…
I’ve been waiting all day to finally learn something from people that get their news from pictures of Twitter posts!
Here’s a response assuming you’re question was in good faith. I follow lots of news stories from multiple sources and I count lemmy as one of those sources. This was my first time hearing this. This is part of my process to stay informed. If OP had not posted this, I may not have known. Hope this helps!
Some may have only caught the story insofar as “Twatter refuses to pay fine, is banned in Brazil” is concerned, with the other details left unfilled. The short summary here emphasizes just how much of an unforced error this all was.
You could have included that they’re using Cloudflare now to work around the ban.
If that works then they aren’t doing the ban properly.
But that only relates to people only reading headlines. From what I read, almost every article at least explained some of the previous steps within this list.
Not everyone feels the need to read such articles. I’m glad for this summary. Provided it’s true, but it’s entirely believable.
I picked up about 20% of it because I don’t give a shit about Twitter
Or Elon…
Correct
First time I’ve heard about any of this.
I actually appreciated the summary! I only heard the broad strokes about Brazil banning Xitter.
I did not know anything about this. The only social media I use is Lemmy (and Facebook Messenger reluctantly) and I avoid the news. I also filter out the word Musk cause I don’t give a crap about that piss baby. But this ELI5 was great, always nice to see rich fucks get fucked.
