You know how people looked at the dumb decisions of #StocktonRush and said don't get in the #Titan ?
Don't get into an #ElonMusk #Tesla or #SpaceX
I'm pretty happy just using Lemmy and discord, I deleted Twitter and reddit because of recent events, it's definitely helped keeping my screen time down and discord typically leads to more fulfilling conversations imo
You might want to also replace Discord if you care about your data.
I'd love to, but there's no equivalent. My friend group and I need voice channels with ACL, streaming support, video chat support, and webhook/bot support.
Check out Revolt, it's basically a Discord clone without the bullshit. Matrix is getting close to being full replacement, but still lacks some features.
Unfortunately, Discord can't be replaced right now. All my gaming friends are using it and I don't see any FOSS software that can replace it right now.
If you care about keeping your data private then why are you on the fediverse? Everything here is public. Anyone can datamine if they want. And you can't even delete your data if you want (since there are backups on different instances). Even your DM's can be read by the admins of your or the recipients instance.
I just need a good worldnews and news sub on lemmy and I’ll be set. I enjoy following the Ukraine war through the worldnews sub.
The irony is that Twitter is the one that's causing the performance issues for itself https://sfba.social/@sysop408/110639474671754723
I never thought I'd get any enjoyment out of Twitter, but that is actually amazing.
Lmao
This is the best the version of “congratulations, you played yourself”.
It seems they're just trying to make it seem intentional when really, they're just struggling now that their Google Cloud contract has expired.
In 2018, Twitter signed a $1 billion contract with Google to host some of its services on the company’s Google Cloud servers. Platformer reports Twitter recently refused to pay the search giant ahead of the contract’s June 30th renewal date. Twitter is reportedly rushing to move as many services off of Google’s infrastructure before the contract expires, but the effort is “running behind schedule,” putting some tools, including Smyte, a platform the company acquired in 2018 to bolster its moderation capabilities, in danger of going offline. Engadget, June 11, 2023
Elon 'the genius' Musk
Taking bets : when will spez do the same thing ?
Already seen some screenshots from people trying to reddit in their mobile browser, despite being logged in. Their popup had the classic 'View in App', but the 'Continue in browser' was replaced with 'Take me outta here' or something to that effect, and would take them to the previous page in their browser.
I can appreciate this distinction on NSFW content without a logged in user, because of concerns with age verification. But it seems some users were part of a selected testing group to migrate users into the app almost completely.
Considering that Firefox browser can block ads on reddit (and that browser reddit still runs better than app reddit) there's definitely pressure for Reddit to drive users to their app with a stick. They certainly don't offer carrots.
"Pay for your news feed and comments we demand it! Stop blocking our ads it's not fair" ~ venture capital schmucks everywhere
I do not understand his logic. It could be due to coding issues but his vague statement plus all the antics since he took over is just very suspect. Feels like he is working on another money grab idea.
t could be due to coding issues
It's self inflicted. This is what happens when you turn API's off or make them unaffordable.
instead of using a low resource API entry, sites now switch to full on scraping which uses huge amounts of resources.
He's probably not really focused on Twitter but focused on using Twitter staff for getting X.com ready so they do a huge rebrand.
I could never understand what drew people to Twitter. I just want to stab myself in the eyes everytime I end up there.
Each time a platform reaches enough popularity to attract an average voter, people starts to blame the platform for being stupid. I'm waiting for the day we collectively realize it's not the platform we hate, it's the average person.
I feel like part of what caused it to explode is that some celebrities joined up early and it provided a tangible way for fans to interact directly with them. This was totally novel and completely unprecedented. Prior to Twitter you could watch Entertainment Tonight and read People magazine. Twitter let you directly contact celebrities.
I really couldn't care less about celebrities, which I have always thought is part of why Twitter has always felt kind of pointless to me.
But I fully recognize that for some people that's a huge draw and I do think it's a big part of what makes Twitter popular.
For a moment in time, Twitter livestreaming the Arab spring and other mass demonstrations was more effective than the CIA at toppling regimes
Maybe the super-rich want Twitter gone because they saw how it was used to organise protests during the Arab Spring. Musk is just the guy making it happen.
I said this when the sale first happened. Those billionaire Saudis didn't loan him the 8 bil needed to finance the sale, they gave it to him as payment for a job. And it's 100% the long tail of the Arab spring reaction
This might actually get more people to move to Mastodon as the influencer accounts will want as many eyeballs as possible instead of only people with a twitter account, and these companies are rich enough to setup their Mastodon instance where they get to control their content instead of Musk.
Unfortunately, I'm just seeing a wave of "here's my Bluesky account" tweets from the few holdouts I still followed on Twitter.
That's cool and all, Mr/Ms Internet Celebrity, but none of us peasants have access to that site.
People are going to want to try different things, as it's complete chaos right now since the foundations of Internet advertising is being shaken to its core because of all the centralized services are making one bad decision after another.
New forms of marketing will definitely emerge from this, we just don't know what yet, but setting up a Mastodon or Lemmy server should be trivial for these large media companies, and they won't have to deal with verification anymore.
Great to know Elon cares this much about my mental health.
I've been saying it for months. Teslas are inherantly unsafe and I won't ride in one.
The big name platforms literally forgot its the community that makes them. They think its their platform. It never has been.
this is genuinely mind boggling. So he plans on eventualy making twitter pay to play!?
i love how billionaires just get to ruin things now
Now. Yes. Now. Only now.
How long until it's exactly like truth social and the right wingers aren't having fun because all the liberals they depend on left?
When has the internet ever been willing to switch to paying for a service that used to be free?
First time I've ever agreed with Elon on anything. I don't want to be browsing Twitter either.
Once Musk took over Twitter, and he opened his day with firing half his staff, we kinda knew he was going to enshittify Twitter into irrelevance. Now we're watching as the world catches up and seeks alternative platforms for general announcements.
While I think it would be more than a few minutes, this would still limit people's time on Twitter. I can't imagine advertisers are super happy about that idea.
this is the dumbest thing i have ever seen in my fucking life, holy fucking god
we're reaching levels of capitalism that shouldn't even be possible!
#Sorry, I couldn't #read all of that. Too many #hashtags in the #way of the #tweet.
#Lemmy #FuckTwitter #PostedOnMyIphone #ihavenoideawhatimdoing
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