You know how people looked at the dumb decisions of #StocktonRush and said don’t get in the #Titan ?
Don’t get into an #ElonMusk #Tesla or #SpaceX
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Great to know Elon cares this much about my mental health.
I can’t think of any reason one would want to stay on the birdsite any longer. What’s the use if you can’t have full access to people’s posts?
Terrible decision from Elon.
Once Musk took over Twitter, and he opened his day with firing half his staff, we kinda knew he was going to enshittify Twitter into irrelevance. Now we’re watching as the world catches up and seeks alternative platforms for general announcements.
this is genuinely mind boggling. So he plans on eventualy making twitter pay to play!?
Yes, sort of. Elmo saddled the company with $12.5 billion in debt while alienating the advertisers which was where the majority of Twitter’s revenue came from. Revenue has to come from somewhere. BuuuUUUUUuut, Elmo is in over his head, doesn’t really understand Twitter’s business model, and is making decisions by the seat of his pants. The answer to every question may as well be yes, no, maybe.
When has the internet ever been willing to switch to paying for a service that used to be free?
i love how billionaires just get to ruin things now
Now. Yes. Now. Only now.
How long until it’s exactly like truth social and the right wingers aren’t having fun because all the liberals they depend on left?
It seems they’re just trying to make it seem intentional when really, they’re just struggling now that their Google Cloud contract has expired.
In 2018, Twitter signed a $1 billion contract with Google to host some of its services on the company’s Google Cloud servers. Platformer reports Twitter recently refused to pay the search giant ahead of the contract’s June 30th renewal date. Twitter is reportedly rushing to move as many services off of Google’s infrastructure before the contract expires, but the effort is “running behind schedule,” putting some tools, including Smyte, a platform the company acquired in 2018 to bolster its moderation capabilities, in danger of going offline. Engadget, June 11, 2023
- fire most your staff
- boost shit content, hide real content
- force users whove blocked you to see your content anyways
- refuse to pay your contractors / services
Elon ‘the genius’ Musk
Maybe the super-rich want Twitter gone because they saw how it was used to organise protests during the Arab Spring. Musk is just the guy making it happen.
I don’t think it’s anything so specific, but the rich and powerful most definitely want to keep social media under their control so as to keep populations under control.
Though that’s not about always preventing protests. They likely want destabilization to happen, just only in the countries they want it to happen in.
I mean if the goal was to prevent ALL protest, twitter would be boosting only happy thoughts and photos of kittens and puppies right now. But instead it’s pushing some fascist shit. Not exactly stuff that promotes stability.
I said this when the sale first happened. Those billionaire Saudis didn’t loan him the 8 bil needed to finance the sale, they gave it to him as payment for a job. And it’s 100% the long tail of the Arab spring reaction
Or maybe some branch of Operation Mindfuck is converting rich silicon valley cryptobro jackasses into useful idiots to trigger an open source social media revolution.
Guess Mastodon is gonna get hit by a wave of newcomers…
Taking bets : when will spez do the same thing ?
Already seen some screenshots from people trying to reddit in their mobile browser, despite being logged in. Their popup had the classic ‘View in App’, but the ‘Continue in browser’ was replaced with ‘Take me outta here’ or something to that effect, and would take them to the previous page in their browser.
I can appreciate this distinction on NSFW content without a logged in user, because of concerns with age verification. But it seems some users were part of a selected testing group to migrate users into the app almost completely.
Considering that Firefox browser can block ads on reddit (and that browser reddit still runs better than app reddit) there’s definitely pressure for Reddit to drive users to their app with a stick. They certainly don’t offer carrots.
Reddit has already gone full Twitter.
go twitter go broke?
At this rate, end of the month
At this rate limit, end of the month.
I do not understand his logic. It could be due to coding issues but his vague statement plus all the antics since he took over is just very suspect. Feels like he is working on another money grab idea.
t could be due to coding issues
It’s self inflicted. This is what happens when you turn API’s off or make them unaffordable.
instead of using a low resource API entry, sites now switch to full on scraping which uses huge amounts of resources.
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I suspect his “logic” is that most users only read & do not interact or post (IIRC the general rule for socials is 90/9/1), so in addition to whatever technical reason, he thinks this is a genius way to get more subscribers.
Fucking genius move, so glad he’s fired everyone who would disagree.
It’s about making it more difficult to get access to download all of Twitter for use in training AI. chatGPT was trained using Twitter and Reddit. And large language models like chatGPT are HUGE money makers and have insane potential. The AI industry is exploding right now, so Twitter, Reddit, and others are adjusting how you can access their content so they can charge big companies money for the right to use their data.
Correct me if I’m wrong but I’m pretty sure reddit allowed openAI to train on their network and Musk was a big donor of OpenAI. So wouldnt these API changes be to monopolize the market since OpenAI has access to both these sites and is the leader in the field.
He’s probably not really focused on Twitter but focused on using Twitter staff for getting X.com ready so they do a huge rebrand.
That does make sense, which haven’t they been running on a skeleton crew for months now? Also, what is up with the weird obsession with “X”?
Maybe he can’t upgrade to Wayland.
(sorry about the unsolicited Linux joke)
(I use Arch btw)
He’s a man child that’s why.
Twitter went from like 7000 employees down to 1000. So skeleton crew for sure. There’s also speculation that they didn’t migrate all the data off Google cloud services so they lost a bunch of data as the contract ended June 30th.
As for the X thing no idea his obsession I’d probably guess he thinks he’s like the modern day iron man or professor Xavier for the gifted with x men.
I’ll give credit where credit is due he’s really good at being able to raise capital but in terms of actual business execution he falls flat to me.
Based on how much Mastodon is struggling right now, I’m guessing they’re getting another boost today, too…
I don’t know much about Mastodon — how is it struggling?
#Sorry, I couldn’t #read all of that. Too many #hashtags in the #way of the #tweet.
#Lemmy #FuckTwitter #PostedOnMyIphone #ihavenoideawhatimdoing
#OK #Sorry #You #Can’t #Read
Maybe Elon is playing 4D Chess and trying to stop people from turning into Terminally Online Twitter Radicals.
Why the downvotes tho? I thought it was a funny joke.
Crawlers and scrapper bots consume a fuckload of traffic, that much is true. But I think it’s a bit too late, there’s already enough “twitter warehouse of posts in X language” to feed most AI needs, at least for coming up with short answers.
Also, I can’t believe Elon did something that could be generally seen as a good thing overall (forcing people to spend less time on twitter)
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