The death of a blogging website used to be a slow, drawn out affair. Thankfully, the efficiency of private industry is now in control.
Goddamn what is the rush here. Didn't expect things to collapse this fast
Major social media networks are useful tools for propaganda and the empire probably won't let twitter fail
:melon-musk: is going to get a nice big yank government bailout into his pockets
eh, cohost & counter social & mastadon are pretty usable for propaganda too, in different ways, and bailing him out isn't gonna make people wanna keep using the website. that said we might see more legislation to try and kill off smaller sites
My analysis of fediverse is that it actually makes it MUCH harder for fringe opinions to penetrate spaces and MUCH easier for fringe information to be marginalised because of the way every single ideological bubble will just defederate with anything that isn't conforming to their ideological circlejerk. Not to defend centralised corporate media here but it's a massive concern I have about all of it.
Imagine reddit but every subreddit defederates with every other subreddit that they don't like and blocks participation from everyone and anyone from that space.
:yea: yeah... although, that said, the lack of economically centralised power is a plus, randoms running their silly little instances are gonna be less attatched to global capital than the Saudi sovereign wealth fund and/or Elon Musk. and also imo all big websites are basically fucked long term no matter how you cut it - moderation alienated from the places that they moderate will inevitably end up at odds with those places. might just be nostalgic cope on my part though, I miss there being more than 3 websites... (part of why I'm on here lol)
cohost & counter social & mastadon are pretty usable for propaganda too
I have never even heard of any of those, and I'm online as fuck. Twitter is basically a house-hold name (as cringe as that sounds)
The day he took over I think he started to do about a week's worth of damage in a day. I think he's reached about a few months worth of damage in a day. It's an arbitrary and it's 58 days from now but I wonder how much damage will he have amassed by New Year's Day.
I'm starting to actually wonder if next year - he'll get a federal bailout due to "attacks from the left" and the amount will be at least $10 billion.
If he was actually half as smart as his marketing department claims he is, he'd keep Twitter together enough to get as many fascists elected as possible in a few days.
GOP is likely to win a lot of races, but not quite as many as they would have if their "strong man" leaders were actually smart.
All Musk needed to do was go more slowly and use terms like "reorganize" and "restructure". With little to no analysis the media - idiots that they are - would simply repeat his corporate PR verbatim. And some of the reporters would be showering him with praise for his "bold", "aggressive", and "smart" moves.
And he could gut moderation etc quietly. Meanwhile on Twitter he could still have his fun having convos like this...
"Mr. Musk, sir - is it true that the head of all content control and moderation is a guy nicknamed 'Himmler'?"
"Can't confirm nor deny. :)"
when you're a fucked up sociopath, winning twitter arguments is better than not losing a $44B investment
Of course he's not even winning twitter arguments but I think that's more a factor of our titans of industry in this advanced stage of capitalism all being useless fuckwits
Imagine if this somehow kickstarts the revolution. It would be so funny but also really piss me off.
The best part about all of this is if it leads to the downfall of the tech giants and the Internet becomes what it was in the 2000's again. I'm allowed to dream.
Curious what will happen. I'd guess the existing players will just expand into whatever Twitter's niche was a bit as most people migrate onto other big-name sites. Would be cool if it causes a domino effect that people realize social media's just dog shit though and leave en masse.
Right now nothing has picked up steam as an alternative. The worst, most likely outcome IMO is that everyone stays on Twitter and it just becomes way more right wing.
the downfall of the tech giants
why would it lead to the downfall of anyone but Twitter? google, reddit, facebook, etc. won't be affected
I wonder who owns the GeoCities domain now? Be fun to turn that back into an easy way for folks to make their own websites.
I'mma be real with you, almost all of these people did absolutely fucking nothing every single day.
And the "human rights team" being gone is a good thing. Those fuckers are probably responsible for almost every leftist on the platform that's been hurt including the stupid ass Chinese government tags and enormous fuck off warnings on anything from Chinese sources.
Human rights team and Curation team are pointless sure. Accessibility team is an important job, implementing alt text, subtitles, automatic captions, high-contrast options etc. And a team trying to counter amplification by 'da algorithm' sounds fairly reasonable.
Elon Musk's midlife crisis destroying Twitter would be so good, fingers crossed
i think they added some people who were supposed to watch out for shit like pogroms being coordinated on the platform but idk
I'm figure that they just a psyops team that enable some shite to yank enemy, and censor the opposition that call american out
seeing what happens on Facebook (genocide organization etc) i guess something like that is just necessary for platforms this large
All of them are state dept shite, but in their absence it's just gonna be a firehose of the most virulent form of white supremacy until the website finally burns down (instead of the trickle of hegemonic white supremacy that it was before).
Have you noticed all of the human rights you have? They all come from this small team.
I'm taking this period before Twitter's death as a chance to see how many more times I can get banned for cyberbullying our big musky boy while not doing anything against TOS
I'm at 3 so far
so he fires all the teams who keep the site relatively "sane" to cut costs (i think Twitter has a pretty good employee stock option plan as well) and make a profit but it will also (likely) reduce revenue because of users and advertisers leaving. truly :centrist: moment.
over 80% of twitters revenue comes from advertisements
Musk about to find out why the last libertarian guy that owned the place hired the team to begin with, lmao.
Hopefully the vehicle doesn't catch fire and start melting. That would be a real drag. There's no way to exit unless you're at a stop. But the chance of fire and death is really, really small. I'm sure they'll be fine.
:sicko-pig: :yes-hahaha-yes-l: :sicko-wholesome: :yes-hahaha-yes-l: :sicko-fem: :yes-hahaha-yes-l: :sicko-zoomer: :yes-hahaha-yes-l:
He's been told he's the ideal human being for his entire life. He thinks that all his ideas are brilliant because he's the smartest human being alive.
I think he's terminally online enough that he thinks the website runs itself and can't imagine why a company like twitter would have a ton of employees. I mean as long as you have people keeping the servers fresh, who needs anything else? Since he's trying to make the company profitable and human resources are the most expensive resources every moderator has to go.
There's only one button rich business owners have to push, and its this one "fire everybody".
this is one of the funniest things that's ever happened and i'm having such trouble describing it out loud
