Elon Musk's a dishonerable sod to give Twitter a billion dollars

PostRe: Elon Musk's a mad man by **Moggy** » Tue Apr 26, 2022 10:07 pm

Captain Kinopio wrote:Do we even need a thread dedicated to everytime this banana split gooseberry fools out a turd.

When he's buying one of the biggest social media platforms and planning to enslave people on Mars?

Yeah, I think we do.

PostRe: Elon Musk's a mad man by **Tomous** » Tue Apr 26, 2022 10:08 pm

Yeah, he's one of the most influential people in the world right now.

Unfortunately.

PostRe: Elon Musk's a mad man by **Pedz** » Wed Apr 27, 2022 3:43 pm

Mastodon saw a rise in 30,000 new accounts on the day it was announced Musk was buying Twitter.

(no, not the strawberry floating band.)

PostRe: Elon Musk's a mad man by **Cumberdanes** » Wed Apr 27, 2022 3:45 pm

Pedz wrote:Mastodon saw a rise in 30,000 new accounts on the day it was announced Musk was buying Twitter.

(no, not the strawberry floating band.)

The Dinozord?

PostRe: Elon Musk's a mad man by **Pedz** » Wed Apr 27, 2022 3:47 pm

strawberry float sakes.

:lol:

PostRe: Elon Musk's a mad man by **Lotus** » Wed Apr 27, 2022 3:54 pm

£35bn for a cesspit like Twitter :dread:

Hopefully the thing dies on its arse once he takes it over - the world would be a better place without it.

PostRe: Elon Musk's a mad man by **Dual** » Wed Apr 27, 2022 3:55 pm

Lotus wrote:£35bn for a cesspit like Twitter

It's mad. Especially when you can just download it for free.

PostRe: Elon Musk's a mad man by **shy guy 64** » Wed Apr 27, 2022 7:32 pm

Lotus wrote:£35bn for a cesspit like Twitter

Hopefully the thing dies on its arse once he takes it over - the world would be a better place without it.

the people who make it a cesspit would just move elsewhere

PostRe: Elon Musk's a mad man by **massimo** » Thu Apr 28, 2022 1:10 pm

If Musk allows Trump back onto the platform then I’m off Twitter. I’ll start using Truth Social instead.

PostRe: Elon Musk's a mad man by **Jenuall** » Thu Apr 28, 2022 1:13 pm

Pedz wrote:Mastodon saw a rise in 30,000 new accounts on the day it was announced Musk was buying Twitter.

(no, not the strawberry floating band.)

Isn't Mastodon more of a Discord style setup where you subscribe to specific servers rather than a direct Twitter equivalent?

PostRe: Elon Musk's a mad man by **OrangeRKN** » Thu Apr 28, 2022 1:31 pm

Jenuall wrote:
Pedz wrote:Mastodon saw a rise in 30,000 new accounts on the day it was announced Musk was buying Twitter.

(no, not the strawberry floating band.)

Isn't Mastodon more of a Discord style setup where you subscribe to specific servers rather than a direct Twitter equivalent?

Pretty much the opposite. Discord is like a closed source centralised IRC. Mastodon is like an open source decentralised Twitter.

Discord doesn't really have "servers" as everything runs through Discord's own infrastructure.

Mastodon instances can be deployed and hosted by any individual. It's federated so different instances can all interoperate, but as a user you can choose which instances you want to access.

If you compare Twitter (or Discord) to Reddit, then Mastodon is like PHPBB or Discourse (or IRC) but with the added bonus of federation. It's basically how social networks and the web should be - decentralised and free.

PostRe: Elon Musk's a mad man by **Jenuall** » Thu Apr 28, 2022 1:34 pm

OrangeRKN wrote:
Jenuall wrote:
Pedz wrote:Mastodon saw a rise in 30,000 new accounts on the day it was announced Musk was buying Twitter.

(no, not the strawberry floating band.)

Isn't Mastodon more of a Discord style setup where you subscribe to specific servers rather than a direct Twitter equivalent?

Pretty much the opposite. Discord is like a closed source centralised IRC. Mastodon is like an open source decentralised Twitter.

Discord doesn't really have "servers" as everything runs through Discord's own infrastructure.

Mastodon instances can be deployed and hosted by any individual. It's federated so different instances can all interoperate, but as a user you can choose which instances you want to access.

If you compare Twitter (or Discord) to Reddit, then Mastodon is like PHPBB or Discourse (or IRC) but with the added bonus of federation. It's basically how social networks and the web should be - decentralised and free.

I meant more in terms of the user experience - on Twitter it's one big area where everyone is shouting into the same box and in theory anyone can see anything. Discord (and my assumption regarding Mastodon) is more "compartmentalised" where you subscribe to sub-areas of interest to discuss things.

PostRe: Elon Musk's a mad man by **Garth** » Fri Apr 29, 2022 12:13 pm

twitter.com/Techmeme/status/1519890772660654081

Awful ideas.

PostRe: Elon Musk's a mad man by **Moggy** » Fri Apr 29, 2022 12:19 pm

Garth wrote:

twitter.com/Techmeme/status/1519890772660654081

Awful ideas.

Nothing says free speech like charging for quoting a tweet. :lol:

PostRe: Elon Musk's a mad man by **massimo** » Fri Apr 29, 2022 12:47 pm

Only silver lining from all this nonsense is that he’s likely to lose a lot of money, fingers crossed.

PostRe: Elon Musk's a mad man by **Knoyleo** » Fri Apr 29, 2022 1:08 pm

Garth wrote:

twitter.com/Techmeme/status/1519890772660654081

Awful ideas.

PostRe: Elon Musk's a mad man by **Green Gecko** » Fri Apr 29, 2022 1:12 pm

From that article

Another reason some banks opted out is because they feared Musk's unpredictability could result in an exodus of talent from Twitter, harming its business, according to the sources.

Lol even bankers aren't strawberry floating clueless.

PostRe: Elon Musk's a mad man by **Tomous** » Fri Apr 29, 2022 8:44 pm

I'm 100% on board with Elon Musk monetising Twitter in as many shitty ways as possible.

PostRe: Elon Musk's a mad man by **Lex-Man** » Sat Apr 30, 2022 3:28 pm

Just being listening to:

https://openargs.com/oa591-musk-buys-twitter-part-2/

It does sound like buying Twitter is a really bad idea. There's a couple of ways this could go really badly for Musk. For example he will have to keep an equity to loan ratio to back up the money that could really start to hurt him if the Tesla stock value continues to fall.

PostRe: Elon Musk's a mad man by **Moggy** » Fri May 06, 2022 6:52 am

twitter.com/mayemusk/status/1522415189475299328

"Thanks mom!" :lol:

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