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Fuck Musk. He should do us all a favour and go suck on the tail end of one of “his” rockets.
Can Lemmy do anything besides post about Elon, Threads, Zuckerberg, and Reddit? Is it just a bunch of bots spamming the place?
I came here to avoid all that shit, not talk about it.
Then post about shit you want to talk about. Or just scroll past the ones you don’t want to talk about. No one is forcing you to enter threads (ah fuck meta for making that statement ambiguous) and comment.
It’s all over Lemmy. A huge chunk of content here is about social media. Twitter, Reddit, Threads, Musk, Zuckerberg, the fediverse, Lemmy development, Kevin development.
Those are all decent topics to address, but that’s half my feed on here even after curation.
Be the change you want to see
In all honesty we need to make a seperate community for this subject.
I want my regular dose of Elon gossip!
Well, he Tweeted “Zuck is a cuck” last night. I wish I was joking.
You know, I’d like to say I’m surprised, but I really shouldn’t be.
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Gossip, not everything. 🤌
He called “cis” and “cisgender” a slur
C*s-Alpine Gaul
C*skei
c*s-2-butene
(Not sure if that’s actually a thing but you get the
Can i offer you some healty…
to be fair you can subscribe/unsubscribe from communities. I often do this. If /c/news is too political, i unsub from /c/news, i can then go and find some other news community that posts interesting things that aren’t as political
similarly, /c/[email protected] is not the only technology community out there, as is obvious, so we can go and find other things :) your feed is yours! own it! don’t wait for others to fix it cuz you’ll very often be dissatisfied.
It seems like the best way is view “all” not just local, and block shit you don’t want to see as you come across.
I’ve gotten rid of most of the meme subs, formula 1, subs for languages I dont speak, or just any topic I don’t care about.
If I see something I’m interested in, I subscribe. Eventually I’ll have enough to just view subscribed, but this way I get to see what s out there
It seems like the best way is view “all” not just local
if you’re not subbed to a lot of stuff yeah but i already got to the point you mention where i have a shitton of subs and i get good curated content in my feed.
having said that i do browse All often and did in this case to find this post.
How exactly do you look for news which aren’t political, when news are inherently political? That’s like eating sugarless sugar.
ah yes “Dogs found to carry a gene that lets them bark in ultrasonic waves that mice cannot hear” (fake news title), omg so political. That’s the kind of shit I want sometimes. I don’t know how you came up to the idea that all news is about what political parties and the ruling class are doing in their day to day lives :) I do love some news about how putin is screwing up something, but I also want news about new cool apps, new developments in technology or AI, new cool stuff found around the world, new opportunities and things in this cool world. Sometimes, just sometimes, I don’t wanna hear about what insults Trump is hurling at Biden and viceversa.
You are aware that “political” doesn’t mean “related to elections”, right? Choosing to eat a snack in the sidewalk is a political statement, as it is a public choice made in the polis (city)
OK then my showers are political and my water drinking and air breathing habits are political. I am, for obvious reasons, not using those measures when I talk about apolitical news.
This is !technology, and tech nowadays is overloaded by these people. You can check/create other communities for other topics.
Stop thinking about Lemmy as an open source Reddit. Dislike the content of this community? Subscribe to another community or instance. You’re not forced to be here.
Then kindly suggest you stop reading [email protected]. Like, duh.
And I kindly suggest you create a create a community called “billionaire drama and promotion” for all this low quality content so technology can actually be about tech.
No reason we can’t hope the technology community would be more varied, more about actual technological substance, and not just “top tech company drama”
Yes, there is very good reason not to hope that: past experience. The major big tent communities/subreddits all look the same.
The major big tent communities/subreddits all look the same.
What’s your favorite tent community? Looking for input on getting a Coleman, but I’m open for suggestions.
I got a 4 person Coleman Sun Dome for $29 “used” on Amazon. The box was never even opened.
Just when you thought he can’t be any more embarrassing…
It’s embarrassing for him to advertise his companies video platform?
Twitter video is notoriously shit. Uploading results in unintended trimming of the end and sharing such a video has “mixed success” being shared to other platforms. Also, does he guarantee the same pay out as youtube? his views are significantly worth less than a view on youtube for him. Think he basically counts what youtube counts as an “impression” as a view. That’s huge when most youtubers of Jimmy’s size get a CTR of like 10% … so thats people who click in to view after an impression. So if the followers were the same size and such Jimmy would 10x the ad revenue moving to twitter.
That wreaks of bullshit. Now if you’re being charitable you’d say oh well he probably meant this or that… but thats the problem. Now we have to interpret something that was said with assertive authority. So this is “embarrassing” cause its Elon basically begging for more content on his platform that he can barely serve to his users (limited posts) to try justify a Blue purchase to potentially slow the bleeding. And thats transparently so, but he phrased it like it’d be in Jimmy’s interest which most people are just seeing through.
Just so you are aware, it’s “reeks” of bullshit, not “wreaks”.
Ah, good catch. Thank you.
It is when you’re publicly begging on said platform. The correct thing to do would have been to reach out over DM or even better, reach out to the production team that runs Mr Beast’s channel and begin conversations.
You know, like any other serious company might do.
The only reason he did this publicly is for the attention.
He replaced his pr team with a poop emoji. He can’t do it properly even if he wanted to.
The only reason he did this publicly is for the attention.
Yes. That’s the whole point of twitter haha
That’s the point of Twitter for users…“haha”.
The people running Twitter should act like professionals. If I was Mr Beast, I sure as hell would not even reply to such a tweet.
The people running Twitter should act like professionals.
Once we have presidential candidates that can act professional, I’ll hold some twitter guy to that standard.
Oh I see.
I guess I’ll wait with baited breath for when you’re ready to hold people to that standard. I suppose until then you won’t understand why this is just embarrassing for Musk.
I suppose until then you won’t understand why this is just embarrassing for Musk.
I think Musk is fine if some lemmy migrants from reddit think that he’s embarrassing for tweeting at big streamers about twitters video platform.
Big 14 year old begging game dev to port gta to switch energy
Please I’ll buy 2 copies so my sister and I can play together
Is that how much he’s earning per video?
Those are the video view counts I believe
View counts in first X hours perhaps? Train Vs Giant Pit has 31M views, and Yacht has 152M
With what money, Elon? You can’t afford to pay Google or office rent but you’re going to pay Mr. Beast?
He’s perfectly capable of paying both. He doesn’t want to, and because he’s rich, he doesn’t have to. There is a reason billionaires end up with so much money, and fairly compensating other parties isn’t it.
In fact, unfairly compensating other parties literally is it.
They don’t have to rip other people off, they just choose to. I had a girlfriend whose family was quite wealthy… she loved shopping at the dollar store, and her mother acted overwhelmed with glee when she found a dozen past-date eggs for .65 at the grocery store. Is that how they became wealthy? Fuck no, they inherited a hotel.
Mr Beast will always have money if he does it though, even if he loses all his other money he’ll still have an unpaid debt from Pissbaby Musk.
pisskidney
IKR???
Even if Mr beast posted his videos on Twitter I doubt it would make a difference. Why would people come to Twitter just to watch his vids?
They wouldn’t go there for the videos. The videos would be watched by the people already on twitter and scrolling through trending, then presumably some would follow and watch them in their regular feed. I rarely use twitter but I like the idea of hearing how the payment he’s promising pans out given all of twitter’s unpaid bills lately.
Yeah did you notice “should be”
Not “we match” or even “we beat” lol
“Should be” is the phrase of the lazy
The lazy and the intentionally evasive.
“Should be” is the phrase of the lazy
If I’ve learned anything from writing documents for the government, it’s that any sentence that contains “should be” is better off changed to “shall be”, or removed entirely.
How can MrBeast post a 10-minute video on Twitter? Should he make a thread for a video? 😆 😆
He can post a 10 second video containing a QR code to his YouTube full length video
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I don’t get why Twitter didn’t try to make a Youtube-like video platform before? I wonder if it’s because venture capital has caused brain rot in the executive teams at these tech companies? It seems obvious to launch something like that, and they 100% have (had) the talent and infrastructure to build and support it. Even if it isn’t massively successful on day one, it could be successful in the future with a strong marketing effort.
If I didn’t know that these companies were run by incompetent idiots, my first suspicion would be some kind of collusion. Trying to do it now that Twitter is a sinking ship is laughable.
They didn’t have anywhere close to the infrastructure to compete with YouTube
Based off earnings from before Twitter was purchased, they were making less money than Snapchat - and Snapchat is having to close down gfycat due to the cost of serving gifs - much less having the main focus be long form videos
That doesn’t really matter, unless you expect the video feature to be unprofitable. With ~300m or whatever active users, it would not be hard to raise money if they need it to launch a major product like that.
There’s 0 chance it would be profitable. They probably could have built it with a lot of external funding, but it would probably never have become profitable
Google is still trying to figure out how to make YouTube profitable
I completely disagree. If anything, Google having difficulties with profitability is an opportunity for a competitor to beat them (although I don’t think youtube is unprofitable).
Can something like this under Twitter management (current or previous) succeed? Probably not. But could a team of smart people with access to 300 million users build a video streaming platform that’s profitable? Hell yes, and the only major concern would be anti-competitive bs from Google, but the FTC has been paying more attention to that kind of stuff recently.
But could a team of smart people with access to 300 million users build a video streaming platform that’s profitable?
How big of a team are we talking about?
A small team, no.
First there’s compliance with copyright laws to consider, All the false accusations that go along with it. You gonna need some lawyers and support people to handle these issues.
Moderation is significantly more challenging too. It’s significantly harder to detect things like copy right violations, child porn, etc, when it’s in video forma than in text form.
Then you need staff to manage the clients. And by clients I mean the advertisers. So there’s going to have weird demands like “no swearing in the first 15 seconds of the video” or whatever. And so you have to manage the rollout of weird features like that. Which ideally would include tools so the content creators can remain in compliance with the weird demands of the advertisers.
Then there’s the bandwidth considerations. It takes way more resources to serve up video to 300 million users than it is to serve up text.
Sure many times Youtube sucks at these things right but these are things that need to be done and doing them right is going to require a larger staff than YouTube has.
If they start with a subscription only model, yeah, they could make one that’s profitable.
Will 300 million people agree to paying a monthly subscription…. Questionable
If he just brought over a few really big creators, he wouldn’t need all of YouTube’s infrastructure.
OTOH, even just a tiny fraction of YouTube’s infrastructure is massive compared to what Twitter does with video. It’s like someone suggest that a newspaper start using his home printer instead of their printing presses.
Blue subs can upload videos up to 2hrs in length
And have it buffer at 144p for half that duration
can i haz some eyeballs uwu
- the wealthiest man on the planet
I didn’t realize anyone earned anything on Twitter ever. Is this just video views? Is this new?
Also, fuck Musk, etc.
I think it’s new, he decided to add it to attract Tucker Carlson. I don’t know who would watch a whole 20 minute video on their phone though.
Will i watch videos on my phone rather than my computer? no
will i watch videos on my phone rather than staring into the distance and feeling the state of the world slowly and agonizingly send me into a spiral of depression and anxiety?
Yeah.
Then you proceed to watch memes on discord and ClimateTown
Mmm… ClimateTown
Who doesn’t?
I dont own a cellphone so me I guess.
I just don’t see the reason to do it.
If I have time to watch a 20min video it’s because I’m at home doing nothing and home is where my TV and computers are. If the only thing I have is my phone that means I’m out doing something, so I don’t have time to watch a 20min video.
Either that or you’re commuting in a country with good signal coverage, for instance. I live in a hilly region in Europe, so streaming while commuting is difficult because of tunnels, but it can be done.
Good thing your personal experiences are the only possible way to live. For a second there we were dangerously close to self awareness!
Good thing I said “”“I”“” don’t see the reason to do it, as in this is my use case for me personally . For a second there I were dangerously far from saying “No one should ever”
Many people watch Netflix on their phones, somehow
I’m one of them and my main reason is because Netflix mobile is free
Oh wait really? What?
So is piracy 👉⚫️👄👁👉
I sometimes watch long YouTube videos on my phone while in my living room, where my huge screen also is. Don’t ask me why, but I like it.
My child will watch a 20-minute video on any device capable of displaying it.
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I would if i was on a train. I don’t know if I would do it with Twitter’s video player though…
I have a friend who watches entire movies on his phone. It appalls me, but a lot of people do it.
This comes to mind https://youtu.be/wKiIroiCvZ0
Meh, I’ve got a 4k phone with Dolby atmos. I’m fine watching a movie on it. As a technophile and audiophile, it’s hitting everything it needs to hit for me. I do prefer to watch in my VR headset overall, but VR headsets are still only up to the equivalent of 1080p at a comfortable field of view. Still pretty good, but the main upside for VR is perfect 3D, I’m one of the weirdos that likes 3D.
But, I do get that at the time of this recording, he had a 4-6 inch diagonal phone with a single tinny speaker and 576p screen in mind, and that would indeed not be a great way to watch a movie. Though if people like it, no real reason to be snobby to them about it, they just don’t care about the same thing he does/we do.
Almost everyone
On the twitter player? lord have mercy.
No, I meant on YouTube. Most people watch long videos on their mobile devices just fine.
I don’t know who would watch a whole 20 minute video on their phone though.
In some countries, a phone as a daily computer for everything is much more popular than actual computers.
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I would. Not on Twitter though because their video player sucks
My wife will binge watch TV shows on her phone. Ones with epic views like The Expanse. I don’t get it but she’s fine with it.
Elon’s living in your head for free and its hilarious.
Lmao elon is so thirsty, it’s hilarious
he’s already begging
