• @mindbleach
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    What the fuck did Elon buy, at this point?

    He fired the employees.

    He threw out the code.

    He yanked plugs on the physical servers.

    He forgot to pay for the virtual servers.

    He started rent protest for the office space.

    He deleted the brand the way Malcolm X deleted his surname.

    If he’d just started a Twitter competitor, with blackjack and doxxing, the only difference would be that Twitter was a bit quieter.

    If he’d bought Twitter, the hellsite, and then burned it to the ground as a weird flex, the only difference would be slightly more people using Mastodon.

    And in both cases nobody would know he’s a complete crybaby. We’d just harbor strong suspicions.

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      Basically Elon wants to clone WeChat, Chinas all in one app. He could have started from scratch and had an uphill battle with Twitter as the largest competing company or do this instead.

      His PR was already getting shitty before buying Twitter, so he pivoted with his rich boy money like always.

      He purchased it , destroying it as a competitor for his X website. He gave X recognition immediately as a platform, and hoping that he retains the partial user base of Twitter as the initial backbone for the app he wanted to build in the first place.

      Because that’s what fascists do, delete competition

      • @MisterFrog
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        21 year ago

        That’s not facism, that’s just regular ol’ capitalism 👍

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          Pam Beesley: they’re the same picture

          astronaut: they’re the same picture?

          astronaut with a gun: always have been

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        But he could have done that without being a complete idiot and not scare away users like myself. Not very smart, is he?

  • @LordOfTheChia
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    Should also start calling tweets: X’cretions.

    Twitter Feed: X’crement feed

    Their public relations is pretty much a poop emoji already.

    • @mindbleach
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      271 year ago

      I know you know, but I have to point out: their public relations is literally a poop emoji. Which is possibly the most juvenile proof imaginable for the failure of Elmo’s delusions of adequacy. He just has a lot of money.

    • @danc4498
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      For twitter feed just keep it simple: X’cretion pile

  • solidsnake2085
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    401 year ago

    Why are people still on Twitter? I deleted my account years ago.

    • @BonesOfTheMoonOP
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      91 year ago

      I just used it to read, but I deleted a few weeks ago, don’t miss it.

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        41 year ago

        I’ve left two popular social apps, one more insidious than the other and admittedly, it was harder than I thought.

    • @[email protected]
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      Honestly, there’s a nice community of people advocating for a better city in my area, and I enjoy the “circlejerk” of agreeing with them and see their stuff. And want it or not, lots of officials and cities still have accounts there. It’s easy to “Xcrete” about a shitty bike path to your local neighborhood mayor and include the right people to make it a bit more noticeable.

  • Metaright
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    I’m just going to keep calling it Twitter, and I’m honestly unsure of why everyone else, media outlets included, aren’t doing the same.

    • @mindbleach
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      121 year ago

      Twitter, Facebook, Blackwater.

      Ain’t playing these games.

    • Gamey
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      61 year ago

      I still like “Birdsite”, been using that on Mastodon for years evdn tho I have no clue why everyone started doing so

      • @Polydot
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        31 year ago

        because other platform names are banned on tiktok

        • Gamey
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          I never used Tiktok and I have my doubts many other Mastodon users do but I guess it could originate from something like that

        • @mindbleach
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          21 year ago

          All the more reason to go anywhere else.

          When a platform thinks it owns you, leave.

    • @Spudwart
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      51 year ago

      It’s like how Anakin became Darth Vader.

      Twitter fell to the Musk Side. Twitter may be inside, somewhere.

      But the instant X started executing order 66, the line was crossed.

      • @WhiskyTangoFoxtrot
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        11 year ago

        But remember: Even before Order 66 Anakin was slaughtering Sandpeople and creeping on Padme.

  • Computerchairgeneral
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    Xitter? Are people not just continuing to call it Twitter? Maybe if it ever becomes the everything app Musk wants it to be it will be distinct enough to justify a rebrand, but for right now it’s just Twitter with the name filed off.

  • @over_clox
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    91 year ago

    I prefer to call it Xhitter, since it’s so extra xhitty now.

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    If you apply a swirl transform to X (much like the new blue check mark) you get… Oh …

    Edit: nm. The swirl is from somewhere else. I clearly don’t pay much attention hehe

  • @sulungskwa
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    21 year ago

    “Twitter is horrible! For fascists!”

    • Some guy still using twitter
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    Why is it people think that “fash is when I don’t like” and why are they so smug about something so incredibly dumb?