Given how he's been doing things recently, you can expect a paywall to be added by next week sometime
this post was submitted on 19 Sep 2023
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I switched to Bluesky a few weeks ago and it's so much better than Twitter. It's a smaller number of people but the vibe is generally positive (plus half the posts aren't ads).
Honestly it feels like Twitter did 10 years ago.
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I stay on twitter to read content from people that are hard to reach. This get my account flagged as spam and locked every other day. At this point, using the service is considered spam in itself, so it's no wonder he want to end it.
Good.
The sooner Twitter dies, the sooner we can see which alternative rises to fill the gap.
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Good. How soon?
Please?
Musk: Twitter is already pretty fucked since I took over but I want to finish the job...
"“the only way I can think of to combat vast armies of bots."
He's able to think, and he's all alone thinking and coding twitter all by himself
What a hero
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At some point you got to start believing that Musk is still pissed they forced him to but twitter, so now he's trying his best to destroy it.
You see, I always thought that he bought Twitter so that he could have a parallel equivalent to that thing where the president can send a message to every cell phone instantly. You'll notice that one of the first things he did was make himself block-proof. He still shows up in your feed, even if you blocked him. That was actually what caused me to leave Twitter, though his later decisions have validated that. He's even floated the idea of getting rid of blocks altogether. He's slowly making Twitter unpalatable to anyone who isn't part of his white supremacist genius entrepreneur cult.
How fucking grand would it be if this cunt bought fox “news”?
I would pay as much as I need to. I can't live without twitter!!!! ^/s
Coming next week on Proof That We Don't Live In A Meritocracy News:
Elon Musk says he might rename X to 🍆💦.com
And indeed anything else that keeps his odd shaped face in the news.
Elon Musk and Twitter destroying each other is the best long term storytelling I've seen in a long time.
Imagine paying money to post dumb thoughts on the Internet. Ha.
That is the point where I'd well and truly delete my account.
Elon Musk's buyout to me was an elaborate Twitter shitpost which went horribly wrong when their board forced him to actually go through with the deal. But if Musk thinks I'll pay money to use The App Formerly Known As Twitter, he's having a laugh. My profile have a grand total of 33 followers and almost all my posts only get interacted with by phishing scammers and spam bots pushing OnlyFans pages. I'd be better off just writing my thoughts into a Notepad file since nobody's going to read them anyways.
Not sure why X is like this. It's honestly been a problem with Twitter long before Elon Musk bought them out and it almost feels like I'm shadowbanned on the site for whatever reason. Twitter to me is a platform that only really felt useful if I wanted to follow a celebrity and it's for that reason that I never felt a need to subscribe to Blue.
Part of me wanted to stick around to the bitter end with a cup of soda and bowl of popcorn, because I thought it'd be entertaining to watch Elon Musk piss away sixty billion dollars, drive Twitter to the ground and then attempt to sue the ultra rich tech oligarchs who sold him the site. But this is just fucking depressing.
We are in a day and age where Threads will end up being the largest (non-Chinese) microblogging platform, despite being even more barebones than your typical Mastodon instance and lacking both hashtags and trending topics.
X is one of several reasons (the other being dating sites) why I well and truly subscribe to the dead internet theory.
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What a wonderful idea!
Oh no! Anyway...
Do it. All creators I like will finally jump ship, because there's 0 reason to post about your new video, merch launch, etc. to only paying members.
That's cool, I was done with it anyway.
Yes please!
good, let it die
dude got duped while overpaying an extra 20B$ for an app and now wants to redeem the losses on top of the users: makes all the sense