I mean why would you wanna do that? just wwhy?

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    11 months ago

    Maintaining existing CSS is hard. Luckily, usurping all of social media as an “everything app” will be trivial by comparison.

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      Step 1: Fire 80% of your programmers

      Step 2: Promise new features including getting into banking and ecommerce and literally doing “everything”

      Step 3: ???

      Step 4: Profit(?)

      Seems like step 3 might involve stopping doing even the basics of keeping your existing client base happy.

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        Elon has clearly shown that I can trust him with my finances. I am excited to turn all my personal data and money over to his excellently designed software and highly ethical company. What could go wrong?

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        I can’t imagine wanting to use Twitter for anything critical after Elon axed the security and compliance teams. Like finance. You’re basically asking for your identity to be stolen.

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        In step 3 is “lose 50% of your advertisers” and “completely destroy a well known brand that’s made its way into common nomenclature” among others

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          We literally had a joke about destroying a brand the very way musk is at the top rated business school I got a degree from. You kind of had to be there tho

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    I wish it would all just die and fade into obscurity, at this point. Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads all exist. There’s literally no need for xbirdsite anymore.

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      Threads needs to go too. In fact all sites that want to steal/sell all your data and control the whole world do.

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      There’s literally no need for xbirdsite anymore.

      1. Almost no one I follow on twitter is on those other sites
      2. Almost none of the people that follow me are on those other sites
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          Yeah, but you can’t make them move, can you. People are like birds flocking, they want their communities, and until people start to move organically they won’t go. You can talk to them all you like about how it’s better and how it’s not scary, but nobody’s going to go anywhere that doesn’t have the content they want.

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            I came here early in the reddit migration. The content I wanted was there, but I understood that new content would be created here with time.That proved to be completely true. The amount of content has absolutely exploded in a short time and it’s still growing.

            It was worth the risk to use something that both reflects my value system and does not support those that actively behave in ways I find deplorable. I’d rather not engage in social media at all than support any of those monsters. I never used x/twitter. I left Facebook years and years ago, but was never a huge fan anyway. But, make no mistake, I really loved reddit. I adored it. It was my favorite place on the internet for a third of my life. But spez ruined it by mistreating people. It hurt to leave, but I had no other option.

            I think the lack of content is an excuse. I think, if you haven’t left by now, you just don’t really care - especially if you are aware of alternatives. You probably don’t want to have to care either.

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      I wish people were far more willing to just move on when the winds were changing, instead of sticking out for… god knows what reason

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        I don’t get why I’m supposed to leave twitter all of a sudden. Because people on Lemmy don’t like it?

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          You’re supposed to leave because you don’t want to support a narcissistic fuckboy. You should actively try to avoid giving dragons more gold because all they do is burn villages to the ground.

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          Because it keeps breaking down; because people are getting randomly banned for no reason; because the chance it has a future is essentially nil, because there’s essentially no abuse controls any more so if someone spams you out of the blue multiple times with CSAM discussion and then calls you a necrophile when you block them (as happened to me this week) you have no recourse; because you can only send ten DMs a day or some stupid number now; because “X” is silly and ugly and you’re cross about the cute bird…

          and because Elon is a narcissistic fuckboy, natch.

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            I can’t relate with your experience of what twitter is like. For me it’s the same it has always been. The niche corner of twitter I’m spending time on haven’t changed at all.

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          Do you honestly think people are staying on twitter because they want to hang with Musk? Are you on Lemmy because you want to hang with tankies?

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    Doesn’t affect us OP. Does it ?

    Musk owns twitter so he can do whatever he wants to do with it. Its like when I mod my Toyota corolla , Toyota doesn’t post pics and ask “why”.

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      If you made a stupid enough looking mod to your Toyota, I guarantee someone would post a picture of it on Lemmy

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        Doesn’t mean shit as I own the Toyota corolla and i’ll do whatever I want with it. That how it works. If people have an issue, just dont use twitter. Using privately held social media and keep complaining 🤦‍♂️

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    There’s no benefit to that… I don’t get it ._.

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      11 months ago

      I’m pretty sure at this point he’s fully just doing a social experiment

      seeing how feral people get the more he changes their addiction app