Wow…
Is there some kind of tech CEO competition running or something?
“Who can alienate their user base the fastest”
There’s a saying, " never attribute to malice what is easily explained by incompetence".
But we’re quickly reaching the point where it’s no longer easily explained incompetence. Elon is either the most incompetent person in the known universe, which is saying a lot, or he’s doing this on purpose for some reason.
I’m not into conspiracies, but it’s starting to make more sense if he’s actively trying to tank the stock.
There’s no stock to tank. You could argue that he’s trying to tank the company, but there are easier ways to do that.
You could argue that he’s trying to tank the company
I’m kinda lost here. What’s his end goal with it?
Depriving the libs of a favored platform via making it conservative and unruly, and weakening its democratic potential against authoritarian states like Saudi Arabia, is the theory.
Yes there are, but he’s already with the SEC breathing on his neck for other scams so I guess he wants plausible deniability.
There’s no stock or similar security, so the SEC doesn’t care at all. Could be a plausible deniability thing, I just think it’s more likely that he really is that dumb, given the stories about Tesla/SpaceX having teams that basically existed just to control him.
I mean, 2024 isn’t that far away. It’s pretty clear who he’s pandering to in the name of “free speech” or “townsquare of the internet” or whatever shitty rationalization he uses to explains his nutty behavior.
He just wants everyone to be exposed to his right-wing buddies toxic posts.
Yup, he gets a hard-on by exposing people to the “fash n friends” crap.
Once upon a time, long ago, in the very beginning, I liked Twitter as a stream of instant information from all POV. Then Twitter became a haven for bots and a propaganda tool. Is it possible that Musk bought Twitter so that he could take it to the point of absurdity and destroy it?
For real! He’s trying to tank Twitter.
Elon Musk is a gaping, farting anus. I pay as much attention to the sounds from a gaping, farting anus, as I do from him.
Kind of rude. Farts can be funny, and they don’t deserve to be disparaged like this.
Very true. I take back the bit about the farting anus.
I am very glad I left Twitter at the beginning of Musk’s rein. This is just dangerous.
I quit Twitter after the infantile incident with Elon Musk carrying a sink around his own office. From all that we’ve seen in recent years it’s pretty clear he’s lucky to have been born rich, because he definitely isn’t the visionary we thought he was.
Yup. Every once in a blue moon I wish I still had my Twitter. But not enough to make a new one.
I missed this incident, I quit years before…
I made my first ever Twitter account a month or two before Musk bought it, for purely NSFW reasons. I’d log in every couple weeks or whatever, handle my business, and move along. After he bought it, I said whatever I’m not doing anything useful data wise so I’ll continue my few times a month visits.
First post-Musk visit, it’s fine. Business handled, close my incog window, move on.
Second post-Musk visit, I log in, and it’s CP as far as the eye can see. I immediately deleted my account.
Holy hell, on a serious country the government would go scorched earth on Twitter’s servers and sue tf outta Musk
Ayyyy Elon, so we’re going for full chaos??
Lemme grab my popcorn before the change starts a nuclear reaction.
Surely a sight to behold. Lol
Elon trying not to make the worst decisions possible challenge (Impossible)
I have blocked only one person on Twitter: him.
That’s probably why he’s doing it, so you and all the others who blocked him are forced to see his posts again.
Wonder if the mute feature is next on the chopping block…?
:')
4channers are gonna abuse the hell out of this for some fun. Can guarantee it.
Perhaps enough to force Twitter to take action and fix it? 4chan could be a force for good…
I mean, maybe? 4channers do some pretty crazy shit when they’re raiding, at least from what I’ve seen. Remember when they raided Microsoft Tay’s Twitter and turned it into a white supremacist?
Correction: Twitter is removing the block feature so that tweets can reach the full audience…
how is this a good idea? Even lemmy has a “block” feature on like day 1
Day 1 lol. Lemmy have been in development for more than 3 years. It’s just now that reddit got to suck even more lemmy and other alternatives got their opportunity.
This can’t be serious…
Another great ideea from greatest Genius of our age! Of God how could we live without him until now! /s
It’s insane how ludicrous his ideas in particular seem to be, especially with Twitter. This has to be trolling, surely? Or does he not want to allow people to block him?
He’s mask off now and he wants his very own version of free speech in your face. That means him and his nazi friends will abuse you to no end and if you reply he’ll ban you like the thin skinned bitch he is.
He’s already overridden people blocking him. You still see his posts.
He’s just trying to make sure it stays useful as a weapon for fascists like himself is all.
If you have your personal “ban from plattform entirely” button, why would you need a block button? Jeez you guys it’s so obvious.
Elongated Muskrat has discovered just how many accounts are blocking him. His ego can’t take that. His FrEeSpEeCh must be heard
My account isn’t blocking him.
At least, not since I deleted it. And stopped visiting Twitter.
Oh no please, not the nicknames. Can we leave them?
Nothing makes me cringe harder than the childish nicknames everybody keeps coming up with. Elongated Muskrat isn’t funny or offensive.
Calling his sycophants Muskrats is appropriate though.
I’m skeptical of this, maybe it’s because he’s worried his fascist followers are slowly falling into an echo chamber cause anyone with more than a few braincells blocks them
Wow. He really is a tool.
Bro it’s like he WANTS us to only see t shirt ads
Whats going on with social media CEOs making dumb decisions these days…
Conservative money thinks that they can keep there opposition off balance by smashing social networks . Musk did not launch desatitis campaign out of nowhere.
This is exactly it. Social media’s greatest power is the ability for common folk to organise and rally quickly and easily. That cannot be allowed, so these moves are designed to divide and insulate.
Omg this rings so true
Or become the new platform for tucker
Money. Tech was hot and trendy, so VCs were willing to continue pouring cash into a bottomless pit of unprofitable tech platforms, and now they’re not so everyone has to figure out how to make money off of the community. In a surprise to absolutely no one that’s been paying attention, companies filled with people that have never had to be profitable before are really bad at turning their company profitable and instead only manage to light large sections of it on fire. 🤷
At the top levels, they are rich and well-connected enough that they don’t have to worry about failing like regular people.
They can burn millions, billions of dollars and still get out with a fat paycheck, a pat on the back, and another CEO/exec job lined up by one of their many wealthy friends. Either that, or they are “forced” into retirement where they live large for their remaining lives.
I wish somebody would force me into a wealthy retirement…
it’s not about money. it’s about power
Elon went early and often. He’s a trend setter.
