- mienshao@lemmy.worldEnglish8 months
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.
- TheFogan@programming.devEnglish8 months
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.
- Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish8 months
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.
- 8 months
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.
- Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish8 months
You’re missing the point. Ask yourself why those people are still there.
- tankfox@midwest.socialEnglish8 months
Hey, mastodon isn’t that bad! When bluesky runs out of funny money and has to enshittify it’ll be the one left standing!
- ter_maxima@jlai.luEnglish8 months
Non-fediverse social media is designed to be addictive because that’s how the people running it make money.
- lazyViking@lemmy.worldEnglish8 months
What do you mean non-fediverse? How does Federation affect addictiveness?
- 8 months
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.
- 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.worksEnglish8 months
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??
- Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish8 months
2 foreign parties have interest in keeping it up. MSB and putin.
8 monthsMost 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…
- 8 months
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.
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.
Not if you want to make a living of it. People that do commissions tell me this. It’s just what it is.
- NigelFrobisher@aussie.zoneEnglish8 months
Media acting all surprised when “anti-Woke” means Hitler. That’s exactly what it means.
- sqgl@sh.itjust.worksEnglish8 months
In response (or so it seems) to her tweeted resignation, someone managed to get Grok to sexually harass her
- 8 months
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.
- 13igTyme@lemmy.worldEnglish8 months
Real translation: thanks for the paycheck. Remember me when you need another yes person to be your scapegoat.
- kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish8 months
Scapegoat? Is anyone actually blaming her for the Hitler shit? I have my beliefs about where those orders came from.
- oyo@lemmy.zipEnglish8 months
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.”
- 8 months
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.
- skisnow@lemmy.caEnglish8 months
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.
- 8 months
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.
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!
- lemonaz@lemmy.worldEnglish8 months
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.
- KingOogaBooga@lemmy.worldEnglish8 months
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.
I guess you could say she’s the…
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- Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish8 months
she was only installed as a lightning rod for Musk for criticism nothing more.
- Doomsider@lemmy.worldEnglish8 months
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.
- Aaron@lemmy.nzEnglish8 months
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.
- Aaron@lemmy.nzEnglish8 months
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.
- FauxLiving@lemmy.worldEnglish8 months
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.
- 8 months
I think the whole Nazi bar analogy is incredibly dumb. Sharing a space w/ someone doesn’t mean you agree w/ them.
- JakenVeina@midwest.socialEnglish8 months
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.
Literally haven’t heard anything that this person did as CEO in the two years since she joined.
- 8 months
In possible defense of this woman…
So initially, she’s a woman brought on for a top leadership position to a problematic company. This is her chance to make some money and turn things around… And woman having top roles in business is a great thing. 100 years ago, that simply did not happen. Although there’s still a fight for gay rights, trans rights, and the right of marginalized people, and there’s still people being genocided and with no human rights, and people being tortured, that doesn’t mean the struggle for woman’s rights is over and that there’s not some value to women taking top positions at large corporations.
And she made some progress on making that company less unappealing to advertisers, and did some good things…
AND THEN came the Elon Musk Hitler salute. And she probably had invested a lot of time and energy into the role, was being paid well, and was frustrated. Is she, as a woman in business, required to walk away from her efforts just because Elon Musk is a PR disaster and prejudiced person?
And then THIS finally happened. Her whole thing was just to be a businesswoman, be professional, and help make things profitable for this business unit, and this new AI change (which she almost certainly had nothing to do with and completely sucker punched her out of nowhere) completely undermined her.
So she did the smart thing and walked away. It was too much, it was undercutting her effort, she’s moving on. Her last tweet was also very professional and corporate. She’s a businesswoman.
Should she have left sooner? Should she have taken a stand against transphobia and some of the awful things on Xitter earlier? Yes, but also she had a boss, she had worked hard to get to where she was, and perhaps she wanted to make more money before exiting.
Does anyone know if she personally has done anything that indicates bigotry or prejudice towards trans people or Jewish people or anyone being genocided or tortured? I think her situation is somewhat understandable.
Even if we want to work toward a more egalitarian world in which all people have rights and are respected, woman will still be in organizations, most likely (if global warming doesn’t kill us all), and so shouldn’t woman be able to succeed?
- eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish8 months
She knew exactly what she was going to be defending. She used all the code words and dog whistles from the start.
Her presence on a project will raise my eyebrows.
So I’m assuming she will head to Mozilla or Ubuntu.
She used all the code words and dog whistles from the start.
- Tiger666@lemmy.caEnglish8 months
Fuck her and her nazi supporting self. She can burn in he’ll for staying after the nazi salute.
- 8 months
you’re probably right. there’s probably no justification for staying given how heinous it is.
- lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish8 months
I don’t care what gender she is. Anyone who accepted that role after Elon took over was just going to be enabling him they should have let twitter fail entirely so everyone can move on to the next thing. Or preferably get off the internet and go outside.
- GingerGoodness@lemmy.worldEnglish8 months
Does anyone know if she personally has done anything that indicates bigotry or prejudice towards trans people or Jewish people or anyone being genocided or tortured?
Getting into bed with the world’s most famous bigot doesn’t exactly bode well with regard to her moral character.
She’s not a smol bean, she’s a grown adult who made her own choices. As a businesswoman she should’ve spotted the glass cliff from a mile away, instead she gave in to greed and willingly walked over the edge because she thought she was the exception. Painting her as a modern-day suffragette seems a bit tone deaf.
- VeryFrugal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish8 months
Yes, but also she had a boss, she had worked hard to get to where she was, and perhaps she wanted to make more money before exiting.
And that is somehow an excuse? Being a business women trying to succeed does not give her a pass for anything.
- TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish8 months
Honestly the above comment infuriated me.
They would not be defending this person if they were a man.
Having lower expectations of women isn’t progressive, it isn’t feminist. It’s infantising. It’s misogyny of lower expectations.
A woman who is happy to support Elon is every bit as bad as a man that is happy to support Elon. Supporting a nazi is supporting a nazi.
Thoughts and prayers for the next CEO to not get Grok-blocked.
Thankfully, Linda Yaccarino’s Golden Parachute worked perfectly fine.
- flop_leash_973@lemmy.worldEnglish8 months
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.
