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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What the fuck did Elon buy, at this point?

He fired the employees.

He threw out the code.

He yanked plugs on the physical servers.

He forgot to pay for the virtual servers.

He started rent protest for the office space.

He deleted the brand the way Malcolm X deleted his surname.

If he'd just started a Twitter competitor, with blackjack and doxxing, the only difference would be that Twitter was a bit quieter.

If he'd bought Twitter, the hellsite, and then burned it to the ground as a weird flex, the only difference would be slightly more people using Mastodon.

And in both cases nobody would know he's a complete crybaby. We'd just harbor strong suspicions.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (4 children)

He bought the customer base

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Less of it every day.

[–] planish 16 points 1 year ago

What a great example of why one should not be allowed to buy communities.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

And is now doing everything he can to drive them away.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Imahine buying Twitter for it's community! :D

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Basically Elon wants to clone WeChat, Chinas all in one app. He could have started from scratch and had an uphill battle with Twitter as the largest competing company or do this instead.

His PR was already getting shitty before buying Twitter, so he pivoted with his rich boy money like always.

He purchased it , destroying it as a competitor for his X website. He gave X recognition immediately as a platform, and hoping that he retains the partial user base of Twitter as the initial backbone for the app he wanted to build in the first place.

Because that’s what fascists do, delete competition

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

That's not facism, that's just regular ol' capitalism 👍

[–] funkless_eck 2 points 1 year ago

Pam Beesley: they're the same picture

astronaut: they're the same picture?

astronaut with a gun: always have been

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

He still has the user base. But not for long, one might say.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Should also start calling tweets: X'cretions.

Twitter Feed: X'crement feed

Their public relations is pretty much a poop emoji already.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

I know you know, but I have to point out: their public relations is literally a poop emoji. Which is possibly the most juvenile proof imaginable for the failure of Elmo's delusions of adequacy. He just has a lot of money.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

For twitter feed just keep it simple: X’cretion pile

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why are people still on Twitter? I deleted my account years ago.

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

I just used it to read, but I deleted a few weeks ago, don't miss it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I've left two popular social apps, one more insidious than the other and admittedly, it was harder than I thought.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why do people enjoy things i dont enjoy?

[–] BudgetBandit 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s like driving a car:

If you’re slower than me, you’re a retard. If you’re faster than me, you’re a bastard.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/XWPCE2tTLZQ

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

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

Stop reducing things to 'you just don't like it.' God fucking dammit. Reasons matter!

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

Yes, I also hate that argument. "You just don't like it!!" As if there aren't legitimate reasons to be against it, like it's some neutral fact of life, reducing any opinion of it to the same level as liking or disliking a song or film.

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

Reality is a team sport, to some people.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Honestly, there's a nice community of people advocating for a better city in my area, and I enjoy the "circlejerk" of agreeing with them and see their stuff. And want it or not, lots of officials and cities still have accounts there. It's easy to "Xcrete" about a shitty bike path to your local neighborhood mayor and include the right people to make it a bit more noticeable.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I'm just going to keep calling it Twitter, and I'm honestly unsure of why everyone else, media outlets included, aren't doing the same.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

It will die quicker if we call it X. Its just such an impractical name.

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

Twitter, Facebook, Blackwater.

Ain't playing these games.

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

I still like "Birdsite", been using that on Mastodon for years evdn tho I have no clue why everyone started doing so

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

because other platform names are banned on tiktok

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I never used Tiktok and I have my doubts many other Mastodon users do but I guess it could originate from something like that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

All the more reason to go anywhere else.

When a platform thinks it owns you, leave.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s like how Anakin became Darth Vader.

Twitter fell to the Musk Side. Twitter may be inside, somewhere.

But the instant X started executing order 66, the line was crossed.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm gonna pronounce Xitter 'shitter'.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

We've finally come full circle from the beginning of Twitter until now.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Xitter? Are people not just continuing to call it Twitter? Maybe if it ever becomes the everything app Musk wants it to be it will be distinct enough to justify a rebrand, but for right now it's just Twitter with the name filed off.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Xitter is pronounced Shitter, like the Chinese president.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Shitty the pooh?

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

I maintain ignoring the change annoys Musky the most, but say Xitter out loud.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I prefer to call it Xhitter, since it's so extra xhitty now.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Oh. Damn. 😂🤣

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Still is, but he used to be, too.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Changing twitter to a black background with an X is about the most reactive, 13 year old thing a 52 year old billionaire could do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

xXElongMuskerXx

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

If you apply a swirl transform to X (much like the new blue check mark) you get... Oh ..

Edit: nm. The swirl is from somewhere else. I clearly don't pay much attention hehe

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is Firefish, not Twitter.

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

"Twitter is horrible! For fascists!"

  • Some guy still using twitter
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ah right! whoops

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