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[–] 98 points 2 years ago (1 child)
  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago

    Don't stop with Europe, Dilbert Stark! Get out of Africa, Asia, South America, Oceania, and eventually North America as well!

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    When can the media just admit destroying Twitter was his plan all along?

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

    The simplest explanation is an out-of-touch billionaire who got rich off other people's ideas and spent his life surrounded by yes-men had an idea that he could reverse the course of a declining social media corporation. He boasted about this, and apparently even convinced himself, enough to make a half-hearted (yet legally binding) offer. He then learned he would lose billions if he backed out of the deal.

    Those are the facts. The rest is a fine conspiracy theory, but there's just no clear, provable evidence. He hasn't personally benefited in an obvious way, either before the sale, or since. No one can prove the Saudis, Koch Brothers, Trump, or anyone else put him up to it.

    Though I'm totally willing to hear evidence I might have missed...

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    When he does. Journalism is about reporting, not making claims.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Twitter is too egalitarian for him and his financiers. And tweaking. ThE AgOrIThM for political gain was too much temptation for his financiers.

    Mastodon was just the spanner that could be the downfall of their Evil Plan. Zuck tried to detail Mastodon with Threads, but that is going nowhere too, especially in the EU.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago

    With it very quickly starting to become a cesspit, please do. Maybe then more Europeans would adopt Mastodon to get their Twitter fix.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago

    How to create a failed social media platform.

    First start with a popular social media platform.

    Then let Musk run it for a couple years.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    Oh so this is this week attention grabbing statement from Musk regarding Twitter?

    All he wants is attention. This is not happening, like most of stuff he has said during the last months. Paywall and whatnot.

    Move on and ignore the guy.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    How things used to work 15 years ago, in general:

    Government: "You must do the responsible thing!"
    Billionaire: "I'll just move my business to some other country."
    Government: "Noooo!"

    How things work for Elon Musk:

    Government: "You must do the responsible thing!"
    Elon: "Fine, I'll make it so that this service isn't available on your entire continent."
    Government: "..."
    Elon: "You were supposed to go 'Noooo!'"
    Govenment: "..."
    Elon: "Not having access to Twitter is a bad thing, isn't it?"
    Government: "..."
    Elon: "Guys?"
    Government: "...Just go, it's not like anyone cares about the damn thing."

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    "Screw you guys, I'm going home."

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Do it! Thank you in advance!

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    Just shut it down already…

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    The daily musk spam from enough musk spam

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    With it very quickly starting to become a cesspit, please do. Maybe then more Europeans would adopt Mastodon to get their Twitter fix.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Well, guess I'll just move somewhere else then

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  • [+] -6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Enoughmuskspam. - the best source for nonstop musk spam

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    AFAIK, the name is from back when Reddit still had a positive view of the guy. The subreddit was created as a counter to all the posts painting him in a good light. Nowadays I don't see the point of this community anymore though.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yes exactly. I don’t know if they realise what they have become .

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You're welcome to block the community and move on.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    ….Or stay and make my point. It’s a beautiful system.

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