I mean why would you wanna do that? just wwhy?

  • Yote.zip
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    1631 year ago

    Maintaining existing CSS is hard. Luckily, usurping all of social media as an “everything app” will be trivial by comparison.

    • @[email protected]
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      Step 1: Fire 80% of your programmers

      Step 2: Promise new features including getting into banking and ecommerce and literally doing “everything”

      Step 3: ???

      Step 4: Profit(?)

      Seems like step 3 might involve stopping doing even the basics of keeping your existing client base happy.

      • @kautau
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        371 year ago

        In step 3 is “lose 50% of your advertisers” and “completely destroy a well known brand that’s made its way into common nomenclature” among others

        • @HeyThisIsntTheYMCA
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          We literally had a joke about destroying a brand the very way musk is at the top rated business school I got a degree from. You kind of had to be there tho

          • @kautau
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            31 year ago

            Is it one of Canada’s top-rated business schools and did you get pretty good grades

              • @kautau
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                21 year ago

                Did you graduate with someone named Nathan? I don’t remember his last name but it definitely started with an F

                • @HeyThisIsntTheYMCA
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                  11 year ago

                  It’s remarkably possible, but I have that disease where everyone’s name is Murphy.

      • GonzoVeritas
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        301 year ago

        Elon has clearly shown that I can trust him with my finances. I am excited to turn all my personal data and money over to his excellently designed software and highly ethical company. What could go wrong?

      • @Cybermass
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        211 year ago

        Step 3 is using chatGTP to break… I mean to build your site

      • sharpiemarker
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        61 year ago

        I can’t imagine wanting to use Twitter for anything critical after Elon axed the security and compliance teams. Like finance. You’re basically asking for your identity to be stolen.

    • @onelikeandidie
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      21 year ago

      Don’t they use tailwindcss at twitter? Must be easier to remove dim mode

    • @ilickfrogs
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      141 year ago

      Better yet, Lemmy should get the much asked for ability to filter out keywords from our feeds. Musk, Twitter and reddit would be blocked immediately. I’m so sick of them.

      • @[email protected]
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        01 year ago

        Wasn’t there extensions to do this to reddit and other sites? If so then you can just make your own extension to do that. Problem solved.

  • @woelkchen
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    831 year ago

    Anyone actually cares at this point?

    • tekchic
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      Nope. Quit the bird site when he went full asshat. Barely used the bird site before but it was helpful for breaking news in the olden days. Other than potential A11Y legal action if it fails for contrast issues, I don’t think anyone should care about this stupid site now. The tech community has moved on.

    • @PoastRotato
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      251 year ago

      Who doesn’t like going to see a circus?

    • @Anders429
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      I’m guessing that no one here does. If you’re on Lemmy, you’re probably also using Mastodon instead of Twitter.

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      I wish people were far more willing to just move on when the winds were changing, instead of sticking out for… god knows what reason

      • esty
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        51 year ago

        yeah, but the Twitter migration problem is “everyone i follow is here and not there so why would i leave?” It’s not like lemmy or Reddit where the individual disappears behind the content

      • @GlitzyArmrest
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        51 year ago

        You clearly haven’t tasted the bottom of billionaire shoes.

        • @[email protected]
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          Do you honestly think people are staying on twitter because they want to hang with Musk? Are you on Lemmy because you want to hang with tankies?

          • HotDogFingies
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            ?

            Many, many people idolize Elon Musk. That is an incongruous comparison.

      • @[email protected]
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        I don’t get why I’m supposed to leave twitter all of a sudden. Because people on Lemmy don’t like it?

        • Vashti
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          71 year ago

          Because it keeps breaking down; because people are getting randomly banned for no reason; because the chance it has a future is essentially nil, because there’s essentially no abuse controls any more so if someone spams you out of the blue multiple times with CSAM discussion and then calls you a necrophile when you block them (as happened to me this week) you have no recourse; because you can only send ten DMs a day or some stupid number now; because “X” is silly and ugly and you’re cross about the cute bird…

          and because Elon is a narcissistic fuckboy, natch.

          • @[email protected]
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            01 year ago

            I can’t relate with your experience of what twitter is like. For me it’s the same it has always been. The niche corner of twitter I’m spending time on haven’t changed at all.

        • HotDogFingies
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          You’re supposed to leave because you don’t want to support a narcissistic fuckboy. You should actively try to avoid giving dragons more gold because all they do is burn villages to the ground.

            • HotDogFingies
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              I’m sorry if that’s what you gathered from my response.

              Did you ever use Facebook or Reddit? Do you still? Why have you joined the fediverse?

              • @[email protected]
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                01 year ago

                I left facebook about 6 years ago and reddit over a month ago. Joined lemmy to substitute for reddit

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          I feel like it is very obvious that twitter has no future. It has gotten a lot worse, and will keep on just getting even more so.

          It had been obvious from as soon as Elon began firing nearly everyone at twitter, jeopardizing its future development and maintanance.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      I don’t really care but I find it interesting. Just how quickly he is destroying one of the worlds most recognizable companies.

      • @Buddahriffic
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        11 year ago

        Yeah, this is a car wreck I can watch without backing up traffic behind me. Except the police are arresting some of the first responders while other first responders are punching the people who were in the wreck and the tow truck just pulled right into a car in one of the open lanes, work crews are hastily pulling down billboards and Elon is out there whistling to himself and adjusting the brightness of the street lights.

        • @[email protected]
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          Yes! I was also so fascinated by the whole titan sub thing for similar reasons. One thing came out and you think - it can’t get more stupid, but then it did! That happened so many times. I’ve never been more baffled by a news story.

          I had to start a list of all the stupid stuff that happened leading up to it - I couldn’t keep track. Normally I’m really not invested in stuff like that but it was the most insane story ever.

  • @Veedem
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    721 year ago

    I wish it would all just die and fade into obscurity, at this point. Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads all exist. There’s literally no need for xbirdsite anymore.

    • @RealThunderhop
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      Threads needs to go too. In fact all sites that want to steal/sell all your data and control the whole world do.

    • @[email protected]
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      There’s literally no need for xbirdsite anymore.

      1. Almost no one I follow on twitter is on those other sites
      2. Almost none of the people that follow me are on those other sites
        • Vashti
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          41 year ago

          Yeah, but you can’t make them move, can you. People are like birds flocking, they want their communities, and until people start to move organically they won’t go. You can talk to them all you like about how it’s better and how it’s not scary, but nobody’s going to go anywhere that doesn’t have the content they want.

          • HotDogFingies
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            I came here early in the reddit migration. The content I wanted was there, but I understood that new content would be created here with time.That proved to be completely true. The amount of content has absolutely exploded in a short time and it’s still growing.

            It was worth the risk to use something that both reflects my value system and does not support those that actively behave in ways I find deplorable. I’d rather not engage in social media at all than support any of those monsters. I never used x/twitter. I left Facebook years and years ago, but was never a huge fan anyway. But, make no mistake, I really loved reddit. I adored it. It was my favorite place on the internet for a third of my life. But spez ruined it by mistreating people. It hurt to leave, but I had no other option.

            I think the lack of content is an excuse. I think, if you haven’t left by now, you just don’t really care - especially if you are aware of alternatives. You probably don’t want to have to care either.

            • @ArcticCircleSystem
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              And their friends will go if all their friends go, and so on. ~Strawberry

      • stebo
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        It’s so annoying. The people I follow keep complaining about musk. Their followers keep telling them to move to Mastodon. But they don’t. What are they scared of? They’ll lose followers? Because I’m pretty sure if they switch and put a link on their twitter, a lot will follow.

        At least there’s a bird.makeup instance that reposts tweets to mastodon so you can follow them there, but you can’t interact with them.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        For my use case (browsing art and comics, mainly japanese), Mastodon’s actually proving to be a worthy substitute. Some of the people I follow have already moved to it and Misskey

        Most haven’t yet, but the tight-knit feel it has now isn’t too bad.

        I post on both, but mainly browse Mastodon and encourage others to do the same.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          In my case it’s not so much the people I follow but the people that follow me. I post my photography there and have over 1600 followers when as on instagram I only got 33. I don’t really benefit anything from my following but it’s nice to post my pictures online when people actually see them too.

        • @ozymandias117
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          Want to share a couple of the Japanese art ones? I’d like to have something like that in my feed

  • umbraroze
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    Elon: “I’m going to delete this thing.”

    Everyone else: “NO! Why would you do that kind of thing?”

    Elon: “O-o-okay! B-b-but I’m going to delete something today! That other thing, then!”

    (Elon continues to read the hypothetical The Best Of Dilbert’s Pointy-Haired Boss book and gets so many ideas, folks)

      • TheSaneWriter
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        That gimmick lasted all of a day or two until Elon decided democracy was cringe when Twitter voted to oust him.

  • Tygr
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    491 year ago

    I’ve learned more about Twitter/Ten coming to Lemmy then I ever have anywhere else. I’m amazing so many people care about it.

  • @bunnyknuckles
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    431 year ago

    Twitter’s going save money by hosting their website on Geocities. The new plan only comes with 250mb of storage and that dancing baby gif is like 3mb easy. Gotta clean up somewhere.

  • CypherPsycho
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    371 year ago

    My guy elron is the one that’s dim…

  • @realbaconator
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    Imo so he can bring it back as part of the paid features, the dude is looking for ways to make money in literally everything

    • Unaware7013
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      And he’s so shit at it, especially on Twitter. Let’s not forget about the dumb idiot going full fash and chasing a significant amount of advertisers away, I’m sure that helps his financial situation a lot.

    • @new_guy
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      71 year ago

      You mean pay for a CSS re-skin? To enable light mode??

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      I mean, he kinda wants to make 40 billion dollars back… he ought to try to nickel and dime every single user

    • @Buddahriffic
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      And I love that there will probably soon be browser extensions specifically to allow users to use custom css on Twitter (assuming they don’t already exist, which they probably do), so those who are still there and really want whatever themes he’s deleting still won’t have to pay him if that’s the plan. Which goes for anything that is handled on the client side, though some might be easier than others.

      Though I gotta admit, I do like them setting dark mode as the default. Black text on white makes sense for paper and ink but for screens it’s just a lot of unnecessary light being blasted at you, wasting energy and making your eyes work harder.

  • inge
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    171 year ago

    “A lot of people”

    Translation: “no one, it was me”

    • Hextic
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      111 year ago

      “many people are saying…”

    • @dhork
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      11 year ago

      No, not just Elon, I bet he has bots too

  • @rtxn
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    131 year ago

    He doesn’t like competition, especially at being fucking dim.