Elon Musk said Saturday "sad truth is that there are no great 'social networks' right now."
  • Engywook@lemm.ee
    28·
    2 years ago

    Hopefully… So we won’t have this guy mentioned 10 times per day everywhere.

    • Micromot@lemmycook.de
      8·
      2 years ago

      There is a Browser extension called: “Block The Rich”, which blurs every headline and image about a major billionaire so you can avoid them.

      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
        4·
        2 years ago

        I feel like Musk is >3/4 of all annoying billionaire stuff at this point. When was the last time you even heard a quote from Bernard Arnault?

      • Engywook@lemm.ee
        3·
        2 years ago

        Well it’s not because of his wealth, is more because Twitter/X news have become really boring.

  • coyotino [he/him]@beehaw.org
    26·
    2 years ago

    “The sad truth is that there are no great ‘social networks’ right now,” he said on X.

    None that he owns, at least…

    • Rentlar@beehaw.org
      1·
      2 years ago

      I might go as far as saying Twitter was great in terms of influence until someone bought it.

      For me right now, Lemmy is pretty great… Lots of love for my fellow Beeple.

  • Asor@beehaw.org
    12·
    2 years ago

    And this guy still has millions of fans, as if he was the god of technology. I can’t understand some people.

    • Neuromancer@lemm.ee
      4·
      2 years ago

      This is part of his hype. He says this often all the time about every company that he runs. It keeps him the news.

      Any company could fail. There is nothing unique about any of his companies. The difference is he says it every week and people write articles about it. Stop giving him the limelight.

      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
        2·
        2 years ago

        We do do it a lot. I’m not sure why, hornyness and tribalism are our other invariants, and those don’t enter into it directly.

    • ConsciousCode@beehaw.org
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      2 years ago

      Cults of personality tie your identity to the target, such that at some point they could literally shoot someone in the streets and it’ll still be excused. To do otherwise would break your ego which most people aren’t willing or prepared to do.

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    2 years ago

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    Meta launched its X rival called Threads on July 5 and quickly amassed more than 100 million signups, Time magazine reported, citing data from Sensor Tower.

    Musk’s efforts to purge the platform of bots and turn it into a “super-app” don’t yet appear to be working.

    Activist Monica Lewinsky urged him and CEO Linda Yaccarino to “rethink” the move.

    as an anti-bullying activist (and target of harassment) i can assure you it’s a critical tool to keep people safe online.- that woman

    as an anti-bullying activist (and target of harassment) i can assure you it’s a critical tool to keep people safe online.

    In May Fidelity wrote down the value of its stake in the company then still known as Twitter, giving it a value of about $15 billion – or just a third of what Musk paid, The Wall Street Journal Reported.X didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider, made outside normal working hours.

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  • mayooooo@beehaw.org
    5·
    2 years ago

    it’s probably not the best place to say this, but it’s a shame. Twitter had real use and this bastard used his reverse midas touch on it to the detriment of all of us who aren’t nazis. Well I hope his sheik boss lets him suck him off now as a reward

    • Jomn@jlai.lu
      7·
      2 years ago

      Well, my main issue with Twitter is that it is used for official communications, and sometimes is the only medium that is used. To me, official communications should go through platforms that aren’t owned by a private company. This is where Mastodon/Firefish would be great alternatives, since governments or institutions could set up their own servers, while still being part of a wider network.

      • mayooooo@beehaw.org
        2·
        2 years ago

        Hey absolutely, it’s insane having oligarchs control our infrastructure. But even nationalisation is a better option than having these morons.

  • ulkesh@beehaw.org
    1·
    2 years ago

    I sure hope it fails. I hope he becomes poor and destitute. I hope his sycophants wake up from their self-delusion about him and he is effectively lost to time. He is a useless, waste of existence.

  • Moonrise2473@feddit.it
    1·
    2 years ago

    He ordered some h1-b slave to turn off the server with the database of all the url shortened until 2014. How much money this move can save? $500 per year? How many gigabytes a database with all the URLs shared in 3 years can be?