I can’t get over the fact that this is the guy who was supposed to be some kind of tech genius.
It was a bunch of marketing hype all along, apparently. The more he’s revealed who he actually is, the less most people believe that he’s really good at much of anything besides hype and being pretentious. The past decade of fawning news articles about how he’s the smartest and most hard working person in the entire world is even more nauseating now, in retrospect.
I believe he’s only good at wasting money and destroying livelihoods. With 200 billion he should’ve fucked off somewhere as he’s clearly not useful for anything. Even Zuckerberg and Bezos have their value.
He was good at publicity and being a front man… but now his deranged political obsessions have ruined that. I can’t imagine why someone would have enough FU money for 1000 people, but be so obsessed with forcing his political will on everyone that he doesn’t just fuck off and enjoy being rich. Drunk on power, I guess.
Charging users to use a web service that costs money to run isn’t exactly rocket science, it’s how the web should work.
I will pay you money to do it, Elon.
Please DO
Just fucking do it.
Maybe then other media will finally stop reporting shit like
“Person Z said Y on X (formerly Twitter).”It’s annoying enough when they report what someone famous said on Twitter but the articles about what a bunch of random unknown people posted on Twitter (often phrased as if they represent a community) are even worse.
At a press conference today, Musk was quoted as saying:
Look at me. Look at me. Please, God, I need people to be paying attention to me and validating me all the time. Ever since I fucked it up with my hot goth gf I’ve been an absolute mess of transparent attempts to remain relevant. I tried to gain your approval by doing what I guessed would be cool guy shit like going on stage with Dave Chappelle and yelling at you small people about how rich I am. I did the meme thing with the fake money and the fun monkey pictures. I spent billions evading your blocks on Twitter. I give up. You don’t have to love me. No one will ever love me. But I need you to always be looking at me.
Musk then produced an acoustic guitar and began to play a cover of Matchbox 20’s “Push”. According to reports, the entrepreneur who used his slave-generated wealth to build a private space program was on the verge of tears and within shouting distance of the key as he sang the line “Don’t just stand there/say nice things to me/cuz I’ve been cheated and I’ve been wronged”.
That is the point where I’d well and truly delete my account.
Elon Musk’s buyout to me was an elaborate Twitter shitpost which went horribly wrong when their board forced him to actually go through with the deal. But if Musk thinks I’ll pay money to use The App Formerly Known As Twitter, he’s having a laugh. My profile have a grand total of 33 followers and almost all my posts only get interacted with by phishing scammers and spam bots pushing OnlyFans pages. I’d be better off just writing my thoughts into a Notepad file since nobody’s going to read them anyways.
Not sure why X is like this. It’s honestly been a problem with Twitter long before Elon Musk bought them out and it almost feels like I’m shadowbanned on the site for whatever reason. Twitter to me is a platform that only really felt useful if I wanted to follow a celebrity and it’s for that reason that I never felt a need to subscribe to Blue.
Part of me wanted to stick around to the bitter end with a cup of soda and bowl of popcorn, because I thought it’d be entertaining to watch Elon Musk piss away sixty billion dollars, drive Twitter to the ground and then attempt to sue the ultra rich tech oligarchs who sold him the site. But this is just fucking depressing.
X is one of several reasons (the other being dating sites) why I well and truly subscribe to the dead internet theory.
That’s how Twitter was for me 2009-2016. I posted about programming, sysadmin stuff… zero engagement… posted photos about my travels, art hobbies, hiking, random observations, current events… pretty much nobody ever said anything about them. I had a successful nice web app from 2008-2012 and we started a Twitter for announcements, got 8,000 followers, but I doubt it brought us any new business.
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I have met real people and had real sex from dating sites, they’re way more useful than X.
Yeah… no.
Online dating from a straight male perspective fucking sucks. I have tried using various apps for the past decade to find someone to little luck.
Ten years ago, back when you didn’t need to mutually match on every app to send a message, the cycle went: message lady, 99.99% get ignored, 0.009% get ghosted after first 3 messages, 0.0001% have an actual conversation.
Maybe that convo will lead to a date. Over half of my dates in my early twenties led to her making excuses to bail early and blocking me afterwards, and I don’t even understand why.
On an incredibly rare occasion have I found a relationship from online dating, but that’s fallen apart.
Nowadays, nearly all of the sites that I used to use had been bought out by Match, including OkCupid, POF, Tinder, Hinge, and a few other major ones. These apps have been enshittified to be little more than Tinder clones in both functionality and price. Other apps are owned by Bumble and are just as bad. On all of these apps, I seldom get any matches and those I do are either phishing scammers or throwaway accounts plugging an OnlyFans page. All except Okcupid which is a strange anomaly.
On Okcupid I have about 70 matches. I was given a month of Okcupid by Customer Support after having problems with a Turkish lady harassing me. Long story short, we switched to Telegram, I took twelve hours to reply to one of her messages and she went nuclear on me to the point of making multiple OKC accounts to send me abusive messages. I found out all these matches I had were African, Indonesian or Filipina ladies using the app to spoof their location and find a Western husband - and the means to a spousal visa to get into my country.
Falsifying your location to match with people halfway across the world is blatantly against Okcupid’s Terms of Service, by the way. But they don’t give a shit. Profiles which I reported weeks ago still haven’t been banned.
When most of the online dating apps are owned by Bernard Kim and he’s on a John Riccitello level of corporate greed, demanding £30 to £40 per month subscriptions just to see who has liked you, it’s why I think X may actually be less egregious.
good, let it die
What a wonderful idea!
This is a great idea. Do it!
At some point you got to start believing that Musk is still pissed they forced him to but twitter, so now he’s trying his best to destroy it.
You see, I always thought that he bought Twitter so that he could have a parallel equivalent to that thing where the president can send a message to every cell phone instantly. You’ll notice that one of the first things he did was make himself block-proof. He still shows up in your feed, even if you blocked him. That was actually what caused me to leave Twitter, though his later decisions have validated that. He’s even floated the idea of getting rid of blocks altogether. He’s slowly making Twitter unpalatable to anyone who isn’t part of his white supremacist genius entrepreneur cult.
Do you remember when I said I would kill Twitter last? I lied.
I would pay as much as I need to. I can’t live without twitter!!! ^/s
Stop feeding this guy.
Yeah he just says this shit to stay in the news cycle.
Yes, do it then everyone will move to mastodon and we can finally forget about twitter (x) existence
He said creating such a system is “the only way I can think of to combat vast armies of bots
Lol the fucking “bots” again.
The thing is that the bots aren’t going to lower by much when he does that, since the majority of bots on there are his own.
