I can’t believe people still use Twitter.
I think this every single time I see news about that website. Like what the fuck is possibly on there that justifies using that piece of shit platform? Insanity.
This sketch was about Facebook but it’s also relevant to Twitter
Actually more relevant now, considering the ending
“Go to the site where Nazi’s scream at you”. It’s talking about moving from facebook to twitter.
Like what the fuck is possibly on there that justifies using that piece of shit platform?
People. Lots of people. Including Doctor Cory Doctorow and Molly White.
Cory Doctorow is on mastodon, just like Molly White
We were talking about Xitter, not Mastodon…
and we are talking about reasons why people are still there - those two aren’t one, because you can read their posts somewhere else too. Except if you meant that people are still there because those two are still there.
You’re missing the point. Ask yourself why those people are still there.
Hey, mastodon isn’t that bad! When bluesky runs out of funny money and has to enshittify it’ll be the one left standing!
Non-fediverse social media is designed to be addictive because that’s how the people running it make money.
What do you mean non-fediverse? How does Federation affect addictiveness?
That’s easy. It’s more dull here, and there’s less lock-in.
No, really. Social media without the dopamine-pump-style algorithm behind it is far less stimulating. Meanwhile, the Federation model itself allows us to abandon nodes that are co-opted by bad actors. So there’s always somewhere else to go with all your favorite stuff when things go sour.
I dont really care that the average person still uses twitter… What’s INFURIATING is that gov’t agencies are still using that shit. Why are important pieces of information still being shared on twitter??
We can all go entire books at this point with the things we can’t believe…
This timeline is fucking insane, and twice as depressing as anything I thought I’d ever live through.
2 foreign parties have interest in keeping it up. MSB and putin.
Most of the content here is from twitter, so yeah…
We may not be using twitter but we are discussing content from twitter.
Its a bit depressing actually. There isnt other websites where things happen that would be more interesting to actually talk about…
What?
I keep getting arguments from peoplee about this, even on Bluesky.
Apparently it’s too much to expect people to inconvenience themselves and not follow their favorite musicians or whatever.
If the vast majority of people can’t be assed to take the absolutely easiest step possible to fight (or avoid supporting) fascists/Nazis, then we really are fucked.
Same thing with how people could very, very easily choose just NOT to buy another Nazicar. Yet 90% if Americans still bought one last month as a year earlier. It’s just about the smallest sacrifice I can think of - just buying a DIFFERENT car that you might not like quite as much.
And I think the fact that we are where we are right now also confirms the problem.
Perhaps it’s because I’m old, but I kinda hit a wall a few years back where I stopped giving a shit about what famous people had to say on the internet. So on that basis, the move from Twitter to Mastodon was easy for me. Less easy was leaving behind people who I liked, but life is change, and we leave people behind all the time.
People just don’t want to quit because the alternatives aren’t populated enough… Which is caused by people not leaving. Twitter is to many a necessity for their business, just like many softwares provided by scum companies.
bluesky is populated “enough”.
Not if you want to make a living of it. People that do commissions tell me this. It’s just what it is.
In response (or so it seems) to her tweeted resignation, someone managed to get Grok to sexually harass her
That’s kinda fucked up
Media acting all surprised when “anti-Woke” means Hitler. That’s exactly what it means.
No it doesn’t. Sometimes it means Stalin.
I’m immensely grateful to him for entrusting me with the responsibility of protecting free speech, turning the company around, and transforming X into the Everything App.
Translation: I’m so thankful that I’ve had the opportunity to devote 2 years of my life to a company that was able to build a product that could appropriately express its true love for Adolf Hitler.
Real translation: thanks for the paycheck. Remember me when you need another yes person to be your scapegoat.
Scapegoat? Is anyone actually blaming her for the Hitler shit? I have my beliefs about where those orders came from.
the Everything App
the sheer hubris…
You work for two years and extract enough money to last multiple lifetimes for you and your children. Then when you work up the courage to quit you put out this absolute tripe of a statement to show other billionaires you’re a good little capitalist soldier. “Give me more millions, I’m a soulless greedy fuck like you and nothing is ever enough.”
Shitting on your boss publicly when you’re a public figure sends a signal that you might shit on your future bosses.
Despite your claim that she never needs to work again, she might still want too, just for a non-nazi aligned company.
A lot of people in this thread are falling for the classic weasel headline reporting trick of using the word “after” to imply a connection, when there’s zero evidence in the article body to suggest it means anything other than two different events happened a day apart.
Exactly. A top executive leaving is rarely a snap decision, especially for companies that aren’t publicly traded. I think the more likely explanation is that she joined under the assumption that Musk would let her handle things, and now Musk is wanting to get more involved now that his stint in DOGE is over, and she’s not a fan of that. This was probably in the works for a month or two, and only announced today.
I also have no evidence for this, other than an understanding in how executive handoffs usually happen. Given her history at X, I highly doubt Grok would be what pushes her out.
I think she had a discussion with Musk about the AI and didn’t like his answer. Escape before she is caught in the shit storm that is coming. Dunno. I don’t make enough to speculate what a CEO would do.
She was happy to take the bag even after Musk’s nazi salutes but now runs away. I wish I could say ”better later than never’ but she was a CEO, not some random nobody working at the ”basement’. Fuck these people!
I hear it’s on the 2 year anniversary, meaning she probably waited for some stocks to vest or something like that. It also means her mind was made up before, but that she wanted to maximize her payout because it’s never enough for these people. I hate CEOs.
If you hang out at a Nazi bar, you’re a Nazi.
So all of the Americans are by your definition?
The Nazi looked up to the US. They loved how we slaughtered the Native Americans and based their Holocaust on our policies. Wealthy people from the US were integral to funding the Nazi party.
You do the math.
Some of them are held prisoners by Nazis… not everyone has the ability to flee unfortunately. There are levels of resistance but I can’t fault absolutely everyone there for being beaten down at this point.
Who’s trying to flee? It’s the fascists that have to go
It’s the fascists who SHOULD go, but that’s not often how it works in reality. And LOTS of people are trying to flee. Not everyone can or should fight. It’s going to be a long and hard, but necessary, road to fascists being held to account.
I just mean that trying to apply the Nazi bar meme to an entire country because people are not immediately surrendering and fleeing the fascists seems kind of counter productive.
I think the whole Nazi bar analogy is incredibly dumb. Sharing a space w/ someone doesn’t mean you agree w/ them.
Defineky not in the case of a CEO, she is the bartender.
Sounds loke she found the line for being a fall guy that she wasn’t willing to cross.
Not that anyone really believed Elon isn’t calling all the shots here.
she was only installed as a lightning rod for Musk for criticism nothing more.
I guess you could say she’s the…
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Who is liable for the output of Grok anyway? Would Germany like to ask about now
Thoughts and prayers for the next CEO to not get Grok-blocked.
Thankfully, Linda Yaccarino’s Golden Parachute worked perfectly fine.
Literally haven’t heard anything that this person did as CEO in the two years since she joined.
I would imagine she knew full well trying to be the CEO of X/Twitter with Musk so heavily involved was going to be a losing venture as far as her own goals from the jump. But she took the job for the huge pay day and being able to have “CEO” in her list of previous positions on her resume.
