Elon Musk: He only experiences Dunning-Krugerrand

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Mumpy Puffinz: Aug 11, 2008; Nap Ghost

Bad Purchase posted:

wonder if mastodon is seeing much uptake from this

it's basically open source twitter with decentralized communities that can interact and follow each other, but with the option for each community to block other communities. i barely ever look at it, but have a few friends who migrated there over the years and have good things to say about it. the upsides are no ads and moderation by each community rather than one monolithic organization. downside is that it doesn't have that many users so if you're trying to sell something or build a brand you should probably stick to twitter (for now, maybe not for long)

Hm, The only Mastadon I know is the metal band from the early 2000's

# ? Oct 31, 2022 02:48

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Mumpy Puffinz: Aug 11, 2008; Nap Ghost

well, that early elephants

# ? Oct 31, 2022 02:49

xarph: Jun 18, 2001

Bad Purchase posted:

wonder if mastodon is seeing much uptake from this

it's basically open source twitter with decentralized communities that can interact and follow each other, but with the option for each community to block other communities. i barely ever look at it, but have a few friends who migrated there over the years and have good things to say about it. the upsides are no ads and moderation by each community rather than one monolithic organization. downside is that it doesn't have that many users so if you're trying to sell something or build a brand you should probably stick to twitter (for now, maybe not for long)

The issue with mastodon is it's intentionally designed to be hard to go viral on it. The Main Character Effect was both the blessing and curse of Twitter, because it organized mob behavior.

# ? Oct 31, 2022 02:52

Party Ape: Mar 5, 2007; Don't pay $10 bucks to change my avatar! Send me a $10 donation to Doctors with Borders and I'll stop posting for 24 hours!

John Wick of Dogs posted:

"For cause" abuse to deny severance pay and benefits is a workers rights issue. All those people suck but the concept of needing a real cause to fire someone should be defended.

It's easy to square the circle here though.

They should have all the rights of any other worker plus also they should be taxed into space for the insane amount of money they'll get.

# ? Oct 31, 2022 03:01

Zugzwang: Jan 2, 2005; You have a kind of sick desperation in your laugh.; Ramrod XTreme

Gonna lol if Free Speech Twitter kills Gab and Parler by luring away all the Nazis/chuds (ie their entire userbases), then Elon realizes he has to ban them all anyway because they ruin the site.

# ? Oct 31, 2022 03:13

endlessmonotony: Nov 4, 2009; by Fritz the Horse

Bad Purchase posted:

wonder if mastodon is seeing much uptake from this

it's basically open source twitter with decentralized communities that can interact and follow each other, but with the option for each community to block other communities. i barely ever look at it, but have a few friends who migrated there over the years and have good things to say about it. the upsides are no ads and moderation by each community rather than one monolithic organization. downside is that it doesn't have that many users so if you're trying to sell something or build a brand you should probably stick to twitter (for now, maybe not for long)

It's worth noting there's absolutely zero privacy on Mastodon, for any segment of the site.

# ? Oct 31, 2022 03:14

Mumpy Puffinz: Aug 11, 2008; Nap Ghost

Zugzwang posted:

Gonna lol if Free Speech Twitter kills Gab and Parler by luring away all the Nazis/chuds (ie their entire userbases), then Elon realizes he has to ban them all anyway because they ruin the site.

but Elon bought the site so the Nazis/Chuds have a place to talk

# ? Oct 31, 2022 03:16

WAR CRIME GIGOLO: Oct 3, 2012; The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

Zugzwang posted:

Gonna lol if Free Speech Twitter kills Gab and Parler by luring away all the Nazis/chuds (ie their entire userbases), then Elon realizes he has to ban them all anyway because they ruin the site.

Then, he can deflect by disbanding and reforming the cihcul every few months and blaming rogue leftists or some poo poo on the bans.

# ? Oct 31, 2022 03:16

Mumpy Puffinz: Aug 11, 2008; Nap Ghost

WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:

Then, he can deflect by disbanding and reforming the cihcul every few months and blaming rogue leftists or some poo poo on the bans.

again. that was literally the reason he bought it. To make a platform where racists and assholes can't be banned

# ? Oct 31, 2022 03:24

Mumpy Puffinz: Aug 11, 2008; Nap Ghost

a South African white man's version of free speech

# ? Oct 31, 2022 03:26

ben shapino: Nov 22, 2020; Can't post for 34 minutes!

Bad Purchase posted:

wonder if mastodon is seeing much uptake from this

it's basically open source twitter with decentralized communities that can interact and follow each other, but with the option for each community to block other communities. i barely ever look at it, but have a few friends who migrated there over the years and have good things to say about it. the upsides are no ads and moderation by each community rather than one monolithic organization. downside is that it doesn't have that many users so if you're trying to sell something or build a brand you should probably stick to twitter (for now, maybe not for long)

mastodon usage jumped 1000000000000000% in the last 2 days for a grand total of 206 users worldwide

# ? Oct 31, 2022 03:38

Time_pants: Jun 25, 2012; Now sauntering to the ring, please welcome the lackadaisical style of the man who is always doing something...

Yaldabaoth posted:

I think it's a good thing for rich executives to be fired without their golden parachutes, but Musk sucks, so...

It's perfectly alright to cheer for them all just tearing each other's eyes out both in and out of the courtroom.

# ? Oct 31, 2022 03:38

bird with big dick: Oct 21, 2015

For $50 a month you get a check mark that looks like a double donger

# ? Oct 31, 2022 03:39

worm girl: Feb 12, 2022; Can you hear it too?

Going to drop $20/mo on a blue checkmark so I can shill crypto while pretending to be a public figure.

# ? Oct 31, 2022 03:40

CommieGIR: Aug 22, 2006; The blue glow is a feature, not a bug; Pillbug

Literally ruining the one good feature they had to turn a profit.

And it's unlikely it'll work.

# ? Oct 31, 2022 03:47

Bad Purchase: Jun 17, 2019

endlessmonotony posted:

It's worth noting there's absolutely zero privacy on Mastodon, for any segment of the site.

what do you mean? post privacy or personal info like your email address and whatever else you put in your accounts profile? and in what way does it offer less privacy than twitter or other social media?

# ? Oct 31, 2022 03:50

SpartanIvy: May 18, 2007; Hair Elf

On the bright side, none of Trump's followers will be able to differentiate his actual tweets from the ten million fake accounts with verified marks.

# ? Oct 31, 2022 03:52

Speleothing: May 6, 2008; Spare batteries are pretty key.

big nipples big life posted:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586253675583852544

he's going to add an n word slider.

This might be the only (very loosely) good idea he's had for Twitter, and he was inspired by a random reply guy in the middle of the night on a Friday after he'd already bought the company.

And yes, it's the self-selected-slur-slider but at least it's a novel concept for content moderation.

I really hope Jeffrey has a plan to catch some of the exploring market share as re-regs and new regs.

# ? Oct 31, 2022 03:55

repiv: Aug 13, 2009

Bad Purchase posted:

wonder if mastodon is seeing much uptake from this

it's basically open source twitter with decentralized communities that can interact and follow each other, but with the option for each community to block other communities. i barely ever look at it, but have a few friends who migrated there over the years and have good things to say about it. the upsides are no ads and moderation by each community rather than one monolithic organization. downside is that it doesn't have that many users so if you're trying to sell something or build a brand you should probably stick to twitter (for now, maybe not for long)

all i ever hear about mastodon in practice is that it devolves into an inscrutable web of drama and infighting

half your follows disappear one day because the admin of your instance got in a slapfight with some other instance and there's nothing you can do about it besides start over on another instance

# ? Oct 31, 2022 04:02

TwoPair: Mar 28, 2010; Pandamn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta; Grimey Drawer

Speleothing posted:

I really hope Jeffrey has a plan to catch some of the exploring market share as re-regs and new regs.

Elon puts out press release: "Elon Musk breathes new life into dead gay forum, as was definitely the plan the whole time."

# ? Oct 31, 2022 04:06

Klyith: Aug 3, 2007; GBS Pledge Week

xarph posted:

The issue with mastodon is it's intentionally designed to be hard to go viral on it. The Main Character Effect was both the blessing and curse of Twitter, because it organized mob behavior.

Yeah, Mastodon was made by people that were like "I want something like what twitter used to be, when it was just a bunch of little communities and we microblogged about our lunches". IE, when the only people on it were early adopter nerds. Which is cool and it's good those people made Mastodon to do that thing. Chill little internet communities are good.

But that's not what 99.9% of people on twitter today are there for. Is that it's not about little communities. It's about going viral, it's about @ing a Kardashian or Elon Musk and maybe they reply, and it's about getting really really mad at strangers.

# ? Oct 31, 2022 04:07

Time_pants: Jun 25, 2012; Now sauntering to the ring, please welcome the lackadaisical style of the man who is always doing something...

Waffle House posted:

I think I will just keep posting for free, and as they slowly move towards freemium, will stop posting

I'm going to make the longshot prediction that this is actually going to make Twitter a lot of money (just not enough to offset the massive amount of debt it has been saddled with by Elon Musk's stupid-as-gently caress stunt purchase).

# ? Oct 31, 2022 04:35

therobit: Aug 19, 2008; I've been tryin' to speak with you for a long time

I�m actually kinda hoping he just drives it into the ground and Twitter shuts down and all the investors lose their shirts TBH. Twitter sucks.

# ? Oct 31, 2022 04:37

Time_pants: Jun 25, 2012; Now sauntering to the ring, please welcome the lackadaisical style of the man who is always doing something...

Mumpy Puffinz posted:

Hm, The only Mastadon I know is the metal band from the early 2000's

# ? Oct 31, 2022 04:40

Dapper_Swindler: Feb 14, 2012; Im glad my instant dislike in you has been validated again and again.

big nipples big life posted:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586253675583852544

he's going to add an n word slider.

he really is one of those dumb asses who tries to make a rube goldberg up and subscription plan everything he does.

# ? Oct 31, 2022 04:44

Bad Purchase: Jun 17, 2019

you can buy the full self-posting account upgrade for a one time fee of $6000, but it's going to go up each year, so lock in now

# ? Oct 31, 2022 04:57

Bad Purchase: Jun 17, 2019

the full self-owning feature is only available to the ceo

# ? Oct 31, 2022 04:58

bloodysabbath: May 1, 2004; OH NO!

Elon and his family are basically human Resident Evil antagonists with ludicrous backstories and character designs.

# ? Oct 31, 2022 05:40

Old Kentucky Shark: May 25, 2012; If you think you're gonna get sympathy from the shark, well then, you won't.

Time_pants posted:

I'm going to make the longshot prediction that this is actually going to make Twitter a lot of money (just not enough to offset the massive amount of debt it has been saddled with by Elon Musk's stupid-as-gently caress stunt purchase).

There are ~420,000 blue-checked twitter accounts. If every single one of them paid $5 a month, that's 25 million dollars a year.

At that rate, it would only take Elon 1,700 years to make back all the money he spent on Twitter.

You can kind of see why Twitter never tried to monetize its verified accounts: the employee man-hours spent on the non-automated verification request process itself probably eats up any possible direct monetary gains.

# ? Oct 31, 2022 05:44

Wifi Toilet: Oct 1, 2004; Toilet Rascal

Old Kentucky Shark posted:

There are ~420,000 blue-checked twitter accounts. If every single one of them paid $5 a month, that's 25 million dollars a year.

At that rate, it would only take Elon 1,700 years to make back all the money he spent on Twitter.

You can kind of see why Twitter never tried to monetize its verified accounts: the employee man-hours spent on the non-automated verification request process itself probably eats up any possible direct monetary gains.

Good news! No more man-hours spent verifying anything, just pay us money and get a blue check!

# ? Oct 31, 2022 05:47

bobjr: Oct 16, 2012; Roose is loose.
🐓🐓🐓✊🪧

https://twitter.com/freemaneric/status/1586937880114450432?s=46&t=gYN15SZVsaEKEWIZQ84t5A

# ? Oct 31, 2022 05:55

Crow Buddy: Oct 30, 2019; Guillotines?!? We don't need no stinking guillotines!

Old Kentucky Shark posted:

There are ~420,000 blue-checked twitter accounts. If every single one of them paid $5 a month, that's 25 million dollars a year.

At that rate, it would only take Elon 1,700 years to make back all the money he spent on Twitter.

You can kind of see why Twitter never tried to monetize its verified accounts: the employee man-hours spent on the non-automated verification request process itself probably eats up any possible direct monetary gains.

I am surprised it is so few, between narcissist's, journalists and corporate social media departments.

# ? Oct 31, 2022 05:56

Speleothing: May 6, 2008; Spare batteries are pretty key.

Hmmmmmmm, $10 for a forums account on a dead forum, or $20 to get 10,000 suckers to fall for my scam?

# ? Oct 31, 2022 05:58

Code Jockey: Jan 24, 2006; 69420 basic bytes free

bobjr posted:

https://twitter.com/freemaneric/status/1586937880114450432?s=46&t=gYN15SZVsaEKEWIZQ84t5A

burn baby burn

# ? Oct 31, 2022 06:02

Waffle House: Oct 27, 2004; You follow the path
fitting into an infinite pattern.

Yours to manipulate, to destroy and rebuild.

Now, in the quantum moment
before the closure
when all become one.

One moment left.
One point of space and time.

I know who you are.

You are Destiny.

big nipples big life posted:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586253675583852544

he's going to add an n word slider.

tbh all that's really left for "free speech" is the n word and rambling godwin diatribes. There's no wheel to reinvent; it's been that way for decades. It only results in terminal peepee the frog infections.

# ? Oct 31, 2022 06:10

DeeplyConcerned: Apr 29, 2008; I can fit 3 whole bud light cans now, ask me how!

Bad Purchase posted:

the full self-owning feature is only available to the ceo

hee hee hee!

# ? Oct 31, 2022 06:37

DeeplyConcerned: Apr 29, 2008; I can fit 3 whole bud light cans now, ask me how!

elin: tell me about my own penis, mister musk

# ? Oct 31, 2022 06:56

BrutalistMcDonalds: Oct 4, 2012; Lipstick Apathy

Klyith posted:

Yeah, Mastodon was made by people that were like "I want something like what twitter used to be, when it was just a bunch of little communities and we microblogged about our lunches". IE, when the only people on it were early adopter nerds. Which is cool and it's good those people made Mastodon to do that thing. Chill little internet communities are good.

But that's not what 99.9% of people on twitter today are there for. Is that it's not about little communities. It's about going viral, it's about @ing a Kardashian or Elon Musk and maybe they reply, and it's about getting really really mad at strangers.

Honestly sounds like the forums a bit. I've been looking at it and it seems appealing. I don't follow technology that much but it feels like people are moving to more "federated" forms of social media anyways. I mean that in a loose sense and not in a strictly technical one. The downside is they don't scale easily because the architecture is confusing to most people, but they've been incubating for awhile and it makes me wonder. I also suspect that Twitter's death rattle is gonna start shaking when "creative" type people and "early adopters" will leave it for other sites. Or the kind of people who work in Silicon Valley and don't like Musk, not the people who treat Musk like Steve Jobs, that is mainly just hipsters, and with Musk it's terminally online crypto-bros and ancaps who believe "yeah he might run slave-driving companies but this is a necessity to filter for the right type of passionate people."

But then on the other hand, the decentralized and "free" internet has always been a dream that didn't pan out as the internet became consolidated by big corporations, and the crypto bros are only now realizing that crypto is in the stage of being consolidated. So I dunno. What do you think?

# ? Oct 31, 2022 07:01

Shaman Tank Spec: Dec 26, 2003; *blep*

DaveWoo posted:

https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1586825955871318016

Hey what's up gamers, it's ya boy WeedMusk420 here! Today I'm gonna be doing the 49 billion to 0 billion any percent speedrun, let's go!

# ? Oct 31, 2022 09:37

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# ? May 30, 2024 08:13

DrPossum: May 15, 2004; i am not a surgeon

Klyith posted:

Yeah, Mastodon was made by people that were like "I want something like what twitter used to be, when it was just a bunch of little communities and we microblogged about our lunches". IE, when the only people on it were early adopter nerds. Which is cool and it's good those people made Mastodon to do that thing. Chill little internet communities are good.

But that's not what 99.9% of people on twitter today are there for. Is that it's not about little communities. It's about going viral, it's about @ing a Kardashian or Elon Musk and maybe they reply, and it's about getting really really mad at strangers.

This is probably the best description I've read regarding this arrangement. Thank you.

# ? Oct 31, 2022 13:48

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