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The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center (www.techdirt.com)
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Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center. In that article, a number of ex-Twitter employees wer…

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (27 children)

elonMusk is not the problem, people who continue to use twitter are!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (9 children)

But it’s a problem people keep using Twitter because of what musk has done. Without his antics, using Twitter wouldn’t really be a bad thing, would it?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, arguably the microblogging format does have some intrinsic disadvantages.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, but that wasn't the question, now was it?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I would argue that the format incentivizes short quips and discussions lacking nuance in favor of brevity, and yes, therefore it's "bad" (to use their term) to use Twitter even if musk wasn't turning it into Truth Social.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would argue that a brief, broadly encompassing feed has its advantages when it's not being driven into lunacy. Discussions on Twitter are always terrible, but as a source for news headlines and media announcements it works pretty well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sure, but you can get that with something more long-form, too; it's not exclusive to Twitter/microblogging .

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Conversely, if someone wants a summarized feed, having to browse past walls of text is an inconvenience.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, that's a good point but I still think there are better services than Twitter/microblogging for that. Like our old friend RSS

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I like RSS in theory, I used it a lot, but these days websites don't maintain them as well as they used to.

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