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It's not just lemmy that's benefiting from Elon Musk.

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[-] o0joshua0o@lemmy.world 161 points 1 year ago

He has so thoroughly ruined Twitter that you can't help but wonder if that was his goal from the outset.

[-] appel@lemmy.ml 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To what end, though? The man blew 44b on a site that apparently was only worth 5-10b, and that was before he ran it into the ground. He also destroyed his reputation and the mystique as "genius entrepreneur" which the world can now clearly see he never was.

I can't think of a single net positive. I think it's an age old tale with people with too much money: he fell victim to an over inflated ego and too many yes men aiming to please. He started to believe he really was brilliant.

Sad thing is the man has so much money he still can't fail, personally. He'll have destroyed Twitter and even more people will lose their jobs. And autocrats around the world will be pleased. Musk will just shrug, tell himself it wasn't his fault, "it was the libs" or something, and move on.

Eta: the only winners here, as per usual, are the shareholders.

[-] Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To reduce the ability of the 99% to interact with each other on a basis that results in change of the 1% methodology.

The people running this nation and the rest of the world absolutely do not want us getting together and figuring out how to make change effectively. I'm pretty sure it's why they keep ruining all of the social networks, we can't unite if there's not a platform for us to do so on..

[-] MullMaster@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Take any of the top 3 social platforms, then have a look at their total number of users. If we were going to go unite, that shit probably would have happened by now. Instead we post memes about billionaires.

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