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[-] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Gee...who could have guessed?...

[-] kaitco@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I said this in another post, but I think it bears repeating:

Musk, whether he was paid to do this or not, is acting purposefully. This is all a grand scheme to fully dismantle what was once our global town square. Twitter was once a place where “the people” could hold politicians, corporations, and the generally wealthy accountable for their actions publicly. In the past year, the platform has become unsteady, blue checks are untrustworthy, and even the name has changed to something that causes one to pause.

I dislike the man as much as the next normal person, but all of this nonsense has been planned from the start. He’s not a complete idiot. These actions have been calculated steps to take away the voice of the people and eliminate a single source of truth as things get worse and worse.

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[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Dying is the entire point of it. If it dies, it becomes infinitely more difficult for the authorities to subpoena tweet histories of certain orange pieces of shit and his cronies.

It doesn't stop them from getting that history, of course.

But the legal rigamarole of trying to get tweet history from a company that technically doesn't exist anymore (It's X, not twitter), and later on no longer even functions (servers shut down), might just delay things long enough to make a difference in the upcoming shit-show.

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[-] Odd_so_Star_so_Odd@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How long does it take to roll some video akin to tiktok and snapchat into it? Weed out all the bots at the same time by demanding fotoID and root out all the dirtbags abusing the app at the same time. Texting and chatting is so last decade anyway just leave it as a remnant of its birdie roots.

If it fails Meta will likely have to be broken up, their monopoly on social media is outrageous these days.

[-] dynamojoe@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Weed out all the bots at the same time

They don't want to do that. That would destroy a significant chunk of their userbase and make X look weaker.

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[-] epigone@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

moving the goalpost. twitter was originally developed to be a "news service" not a "social network"

[-] jeanma@lemmy.ninja 2 points 1 year ago

if it dies, will he have to pay the debts ?

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