- beta_particle ( @beta_particle@lemm.ee ) 52•1 year ago
“Whoops, accidentally DDOS’d m’self there. Better unfuck that.”
Best $44 bil ever spent 🙄
- LoamImprovement ( @LoamImprovement@beehaw.org ) 26•1 year ago
I still can’t believe he thought it was a good idea to hold a poll asking users if he should be involved with the platform. Imagine spending $44 billion to be told to fuck off.
- Fauxreigner ( @Fauxreigner@beehaw.org ) 16•1 year ago
He has a lot of narcissistic traits. I’m sure he was expecting a deluge of “of course we love you, you’re a genius and real life Tony Stark, please make our bird app better!” That kind of genuine adoration is one of the few things he can’t just buy outright, and he used to get it, but that well has been drying up as other car companies catch up to Tesla on EVs and their own products stagnate or get worse. Meanwhile, SpaceX’s last big public event was a rocket blowing up, which they could try to spin, but it also destroyed their launch pad because they ignored lessons that NASA learned in the 60’s. I’m sure in his mind all the bad press as people have started to realize what a shithead he is was just haters who were jealous of him, so surely if he just gives his fans an opportunity to express their opinions he’ll get lots of positive responses, right?
- Velociraptor ( @Velociraptor@beehaw.org ) 17•1 year ago
I will forever think it’s pretty fucking funny that the only thing Musk had to do to retain his popularity was absolutely fucking nothing. Doing nothing is too hard for this silver spoon coward.
- Fauxreigner ( @Fauxreigner@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
See also: Trump and his expected net worth if he’d just parked his money in a blue chip portfolio.
- Thrashy ( @Thrashy@beehaw.org ) 7•1 year ago
SpaceX’s Starship launch was much-memed-upon but it honestly went as well or better than could be expected given the development approach the company takes. That said, it’s clear that the test cadence is being rushed at Elon’s behest (launching without a proper pad deluge system, for instance) and they’ve reached a size of rocket that having something go wrong in flight could cause serious damage, and isn’t just an opportunity to deploy funny acronyms and giggle.
That said, SpaceX is one of the few things he’s doing that isn’t a total clusterfuck, and that’s got a lot to do with the much more competent people he has running the company under his nominal leadership. Gwynne Shotwell has been very well-regarded and tends to do a good job of insulating the rest of the company from Elmo’s dumbest whims.
- Fauxreigner ( @Fauxreigner@beehaw.org ) 4•1 year ago
Oh, unquestionably. The parts of SpaceX that they insulate from him are going well, but there’s no excuse for not having a pad deluge system (or something else that you’ve tested to accomplish the same goal) and it’s gotten them a lot of bad press. The rocket exploding was at least arguably expected, but the fact that they weren’t able to stop the torrent of bad press is notable.
- loops ( @loops@beehaw.org ) 33•1 year ago
Too late, already have a Mastadon account.
- takeda ( @takeda@beehaw.org ) 11•1 year ago
I got one and I wasn’t even on Twitter. Also all those people that say Mastodon is hard must have some severe learning disability.
I suspect the real reason is that they are afraid of losing existing followers.
- Gaywallet (they/it) ( @Gaywallet@beehaw.org ) 30•1 year ago
all those people that say Mastodon is hard must have some severe learning disability.
This kind of take is one of many reasons why activitypub protocols are not more widely adopted. You practically need to work in tech to understand half of what’s going on. I don’t think it’s appropriate to say people must have a severe learning disability if they’re struggling with understanding or if they simply don’t want to spend the time to learn when they run into people sharing takes like this.
- people_are_cute ( @people_are_cute@lemmy.sdf.org ) 2•1 year ago
I’m not formally trained in tech, and neither are a lot of people here, but we all managed it just fine. The parent comment is true, the difficulty isn’t in joining but in finding people to follow and, conversely, in finding followers. There are no verified accounts and no convenient suggestions that Twitter et al provide, and so the “creators” on Twitter are bound to have a much harder time here.
- takeda ( @takeda@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
Two weeks ago I had no presence on Fediverse, and frankly I still don’t know how it works internally, but I can still use it.
It is as hard to grasp as email. Instead of everyone being on gmail.com people just are on different servers but they can still talk to each other.
I do admit that Lemmy is confusing and requires a lot of polish in area of UX, (I think kbin (incidentally created by a Polish) provides a better experience, especially for new users, although it still isn’t prefect, but it is getting there), but Mastodon is very simple to use.
What, the login-requirement to read tweets pushed you over the edge? Really? I have a mastodon account since the month Musk bought Twitter :-)
- loops ( @loops@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
Lol, tbf I never had a twitter account because of privacy concerns; mostly because of their reliance on google. That’s not a concern with me on mastodon.
- Rentlar ( @Rentlar@beehaw.org ) 31•1 year ago
Strange, it still shows a signup screen for me…
It’s kind of funny when you look at this “What’s happening” artwork from the lens of Twitter having an existential crisis.
- Butterbee (She/Her) ( @Butterbee@beehaw.org ) 17•1 year ago
lmaooooooooo.
- CrimsonOnoscopy ( @CrimsonOnoscopy@beehaw.org ) English17•1 year ago
I think that this would be better suited for a tech news community, but, I’m not going to remove it at this point.
It did seem like they were speedrunning towards getting people to ignore twitter links.
- Pete Hahnloser ( @Powderhorn@beehaw.org ) English25•1 year ago
As far as I’m concerned, they still have. As a non-Twitter user, not only have I already decided the platform wasn’t for me, now it’s a question mark whether Musk will wake up tomorrow and turn off access again. The simplest solution is to double down on continuing to ignore Twitter.
- kelvinjps ( @kelvinjps@beehaw.org ) English5•1 year ago
yeah, but people always link to it, and governments and orgs, will not stop to put the announces there
- takeda ( @takeda@beehaw.org ) English12•1 year ago
The crazy thing is that governments would be much better served if they would run government Mastodon instances for government employees and enforce their own policies on them, than using a private company with its own agenda.
- Kempeth ( @Kempeth@feddit.de ) English1•1 year ago
I’m not super uptodate as I don’t have a twitter account but didn’t they kinda ban bot accounts a while back? Or something like that, which would make it harder for government entities to send out automated notifications.
I doubt twitter will survive the next US election cycle. Between impersonation accounts, rampant right wing wackos and Musks need to meddle twitter will become a shitstorm of unbelievable proportions.
- Banzai51 ( @Banzai51@midwest.social ) 10•1 year ago
Must have moved enough infrastructure off Google.
- fireshaper ( @fireshaper@social.belowland.com ) 10•1 year ago
Seems like a “it’s easier to just turn that feature back on than try to fix what it broke” kind of thing.
If it ain’t broken… Musk will see to it :-)
Can we get a spoiler thingy like Reddit has? >!like this!<?
- Lost_Wanderer ( @Lost_Wanderer@beehaw.org ) 6•1 year ago
Meta knocking on that door… They had to do it
- Plume (She/Her) ( @Plume@beehaw.org ) 4•1 year ago
Hey, a good thing, how about that?
- Elw ( @Elw@lemmy.sdf.org ) 3•1 year ago
Well, there go my hopes of building a Discord bot to auto-fix links to vxtwitter
- namesaregreat ( @namesaregreat@beehaw.org ) 3•1 year ago
With the way Elon flips and flops, you should still do it. Who knows if he will change his mind and implement this again.
- chipt4 ( @chipt4@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
Honestly this is just as likely to be a bug as it is intentional
- ScotinDub ( @ScotinDub@lemm.ee ) 2•1 year ago
Does that mean nitter is working again?
Just checked. Not working for me.
- ScotinDub ( @ScotinDub@lemm.ee ) 2•1 year ago
Hmm. Hopefully soon! The only way I’ve ever consumed twitter content.
- editediting ( @editediting@beehaw.org ) 2•1 year ago
Proof that competition is good.