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Should I step down as head of twitter
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Yes 420 4.43%
No 69 0.73%
Goku 9001 94.85%
Total: 9490 votes
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E the Shaggy
Mar 29, 2010

bobjr posted:

Who needs friends when you can have fans who laugh about your epic memes.

Why on Earth is Musk obsessed with Ian Miles Cheong of all people?

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Kale
May 14, 2010

CNN actually pretty pissed about Elons bullshit with the suspension and apparently reevaluating its relationship with twitter as a platform if they cant get a good enough answer about O'Sullivans ban

Buce
Dec 23, 2005

E the Shaggy posted:

Why on Earth is Musk obsessed with Ian Miles Cheong of all people?

because cheong has a captive audience of chud sycophants that elon wants to tap. into. tap into.

Offler
Mar 27, 2010
Brb, I'm going to head to NBC and make like I'm about to punch him, if he flinches I'm going to tell him to give me his lunch money or he'll be sorry.

Ran Mad Dog
Aug 15, 2006
Algeapea and noodles - I will take your udon!

Ran Mad Dog fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Dec 16, 2022

PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

VY till I die
Grimey Drawer
It's amazing no tech company built "Exactly Twitter but not on Twitter.com" as soon as Elon Musk bought it.

I'm no tech mogul billionaire, but it would have been such a slam dunk. You could have hired a bunch of people Twitter fired to build it!

Serious_Cyclone
Oct 25, 2017

I appreciate your patience, this is a tricky maneuver

Insurrectionist posted:

Am I missing something about this or is it as much of a usability hell as it seems?

There's an ongoing conversation about whether Mastodon wants to make it more user friendly. They have never been Twitter's replacement and there seems to be no interest in becoming Twitter's replacement and inheriting all of Twitter's problems. At the moment, the resistance in the UX seems to be used as a captcha to keep clout-chasing twitter fanatics away.

Nitrousoxide
May 30, 2011

do not buy a oneplus phone



Insurrectionist posted:

This whole dumbfuck event got me to sign up for Mastodon but the server splitting seems really unintuitive. Like I got pretty quickly how to visit someone elses page on a separate server while logged in, but A: a shitton of people are not gonna be able to figure out why when they go to 'mastodon.social/@buttfarts' having signed up on a different server, they are logged out and their settings aren't saved etc. And B: even as someone who figured it out, the extra steps between 'clicking a Mastodon link to a different server (which is gonna be like every single link)' and 'having the ideal user experience' just seems like too many hoops to bother going through. Am I missing something about this or is it as much of a usability hell as it seems?

I imagine there must be an extension or something that automatically redirects you to your appropriate server URL for whatever page you want to view right? The syntax is simple, and the main reason Mastodon can't do it is because when you register on server A and then open a server B link, server B has no way of knowing you're registered on any other server. Which is half the point of Mastodon but god drat is it annoying as gently caress to use.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mastodon-profile-redirect/limifnkopacddgpihodacjeckfkpbfoe
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mastodon-profile-redirect/

Or a bookmarklet if you prefer to not install an addon
https://github.com/bramus/mastodon-profile-redirect/tree/main/bookmarklet

PhazonLink
Jul 17, 2010

Buce posted:

because cheong has a captive audience of chud sycophants that elon wants to tap. into. tap into.

does he?

Antman is another weird small fry like that THEPersistence guy that only gets posted in mock watch threads like these.

The Last Call
Sep 9, 2011

Rehabilitating sinner

E the Shaggy posted:

Why on Earth is Musk obsessed with Ian Miles Cheong of all people?

Know Jabba's pet that only laughed?

Same deal.

waffle iron
Jan 16, 2004

PostNouveau posted:

It's amazing no tech company built "Exactly Twitter but not on Twitter.com" as soon as Elon Musk bought it.

I'm no tech mogul billionaire, but it would have been such a slam dunk. You could have hired a bunch of people Twitter fired to build it!

Any company who could accomplish that understands that:

1. Twitter's value comes from having a lot of celebrities and journalists who are unlikely to move en masse to a new platform
2. Moderation is too hard and expensive when the product isn't making money hand over fist (YouTube makes several orders of magnitude more than Twitter)
3. Moderating speech means more scrutiny from governments, regulators, and legislators worldwide

Zil
Jun 4, 2011

Satanically Summoned Citrus


https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603804175858429952

Insurrectionist
May 21, 2007

Serious_Cyclone posted:

There's an ongoing conversation about whether Mastodon wants to make it more user friendly. They have never been Twitter's replacement and there seems to be no interest in becoming Twitter's replacement and inheriting all of Twitter's problems. At the moment, the resistance in the UX seems to be used as a captcha to keep clout-chasing twitter fanatics away.

While I can understand this, I am also at a loss as to the original use case. It feels like a system designed around only really caring about interacting with one server (like 'literature' or 'botany' or 'new york' or whatever), which is already very silly, but also that server can just be full and then ???

ty for the extension link

Youth Decay
Aug 18, 2015


Elon NFT cards

TulliusCicero
Jul 29, 2017




You are going to ban yourself? From life?

Hieronymous Alloy
Jan 30, 2009


Why! Why!! Why must you refuse to accept that Dr. Hieronymous Alloy's Genetically Enhanced Cream Corn Is Superior to the Leading Brand on the Market!?!




Morbid Hound
Elon, please, "lowtax speedrun" was a joke

Steadiman
Jan 31, 2006

Hey...what kind of party is this? there's no booze and only one hooker!

silly sevens

waffle iron posted:

Any company who could accomplish that understands that:

1. Twitter's value comes from having a lot of celebrities and journalists who are unlikely to move en masse to a new platform
2. Moderation is too hard and expensive when the product isn't making money hand over fist (YouTube makes several orders of magnitude more than Twitter)
3. Moderating speech means more scrutiny from governments, regulators, and legislators worldwide
The only existing thing I could see getting close to this, outside of an entirely new thing, would be Instagram if they added text posting. Its userbase is a lot bigger than Twitter too, and all the celebrities are already there.

TulliusCicero
Jul 29, 2017



I know this guy is a loving idiot, but who is he dealing a "Killing Blow" to by banning a handful of journalists from Twitter?

This guy really think's hes Commodus lmao

Can't wait to see what meme he steals for his finishing move of posting Grimes Revenge porn

Cthulu Carl
Apr 16, 2006


FINALLY.


He told us he was hardcore.

Zulily Zoetrope
Jun 1, 2011

Muldoon
I know he thinks he's saying he's about to do something really cool, but the only sensible way to read that is that he intends to finally kill off twitter for good.

Fingers crossed he's accidentally right.

DeadFatDuckFat
Oct 29, 2012

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MORE TWITTER FILES

GreenBuckanneer
Sep 15, 2007


(he's going to ban everyone who voted yes claiming they were bots)

but instead he's going to do something stupid

Cthulu Carl
Apr 16, 2006

You know when he says it out loud, he pronounces it "Coupe de grayse" while smiling smugly.

DeadFatDuckFat
Oct 29, 2012

This avatar brought to you by the 'save our dead gay forums' foundation.


He's going to step down as ceo of twitter. Who is the new CEO you ask? Why, one Donald J Trump

Hobo Clown
Oct 16, 2012

Here it is, Baby.
Your killer track.





ilmucche
Mar 16, 2016

What did you say the strategy was?
Best thing about getting banned from twitter is it doesn't even cost :10bux: to rereg

3hands
Feb 23, 2018

he's going to tweet about doge

repiv
Aug 13, 2009


Nooner
Mar 26, 2011

AN A+ OPSTER (:

Random Stranger
Nov 27, 2009




Everyone be quiet. He's about to do something stupid.

Edit: drat it. Beaten to the obvious joke only with a picture.

Dabir
Nov 10, 2012

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

Elon, please, "lowtax speedrun" was a joke

I wasn't joking

TulliusCicero
Jul 29, 2017



Has anyone ever seen that "I'm a Magician. Observe" meme with the exploding Giraffe?

That but Elon

IShallRiseAgain
Sep 12, 2008

Well ain't that precious?

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

Elon, please, "lowtax speedrun" was a joke

Quick somebody use his real time location information to send him Goldbelly cookies!

MasterSitsu
Nov 23, 2013

found the biggest loser in the thread

https://twitter.com/keith_dorschner/status/1603737310499151873?s=20&t=cDzQ-Ma5u3O7ipE5KO_4WQ

TulliusCicero
Jul 29, 2017




He's not going to gently caress you dude

MyronMulch
Nov 12, 2006

learnincurve posted:

Only time having a private jet makes sense is if you have a private airport or are getting on a helicopter to the final destination. Getting off your private plane and getting in a car has always been dumb as poo poo, especially in LA.

Maybe he should use a helicopter to get around the LA area like Kobe Bryant did

Cacator
Aug 6, 2005

You're quite good at turning me on.

Just going through my list of humans on earth, picking which ones to support for 6 years.

Steadiman
Jan 31, 2006

Hey...what kind of party is this? there's no booze and only one hooker!

silly sevens
https://twitter.com/steinkobbe/status/1603803518942314496
I expect very soon talking about Tesla stock will be bannable because it doxxes Wall Street or something

IBroughttheFunk
Sep 28, 2012
For those who were wondering:

https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1603788344470556674

https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1603788347872137219


FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603797171572117505

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E the Shaggy
Mar 29, 2010
Bari Weiss about to be banned and I'm here for it.

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