Time for everyone to turn the page and move forward.
No sense in giving Reddit et al anymore brain cycles.
We’ll all end up back inside of an echo ho chamber before you know it :P
I think Reddit is in a fat trimming stage where they kick everyone off who they aren’t monetizing, then scale their systems to drive down costs. Then try to squeeze their user base even further. If they aren’t making money off of me, why would they want me using their systems? That’s their mentality.
That just seems so crazy as they ramp up to an IPO. Yes, let’s alienate users. reduce our overall active users, and throw hissy fits at our mods who are volunteers without whom, this site cannot operate. That should establish confidence in the marketplace. I just don’t understand the thinking here.
People will say ‘enshittification’, well okay, but even on paper, all their moves have been so bad lately, and they don’t seem to care. It’s weird. Seems to me for example a platform with 100 users and 40% monetization is inherently more valuable than a platform with 40 users and 100% monetization. That’s just my stupid opinion though.
I only use Twitter for sports news and updates that basically don’t exist anywhere else. It would be unfortunate if they destroy the platform with crap like this.
Thanks I didn’t know that, I have never used Mastodon. I also follow some athletes and less popular college sports on twitter. I doubt they are there but I’m signing up now to find out.
Why does he think these desperate attempts to drive people to twitter blue won’t just make them leave instead? Just go ahead and make it a subscription only site and see what happens.
Would you rather have 10 users paying nothing but taking up server space and bandwidth? Or would you prefer 1 paying user and 9 people leaving? In the short term, option B is a win-win.
And if that leads to Twitter becoming a dead husk of itself, oh well, that’s a problem for next quarter
Damn, Mr. Musk could have made more money betting on stocks mentioned in r/wallstreetbets, and they ALWAYS lose money. Dude seriously needs to have twitter do the opposite of what he thinks.
I have never seen a billionaire try to go from billions to zero so hard in my life. It is like he is showing the U.S. government why billionaires shouldn’t exist.
Is there a fund that lets me do long term shorts on rich people?
I made a lot of money from GME. I bought a bunch of shares early on for $10-$50 and sold the morning when Robinhood yanked the buy button. However, most WSB plays are money losers.
I think it’s important to remember that musk has never actually done anything to innovate the companies he’s been a part of. He didn’t create PayPal, he just bought his way in and made a series of dumb suggestions. He didn’t create Tesla, he bought Tesla right after they had fine tuned their models, and then he made a series of changes that likely resulted in a worse product.
Elon Musk is not a good businessman, he’s just rich and has a habit of purchasing profitable companies. Anyone could do this with his wealth. I’m not even really convinced that he’s offered many technical ideas or designs for any of his companies, as it seems that would be the first thing he would mention every single time someone brought up one of his companies.
But open AI wouldn’t even exist without him! After all, he contributed less than 10% of their raise and he suggested the name. You can’t have a company called Open AI if nobody names it Open AI.
I’m astounded that people use it for anything other than this. I have received some decently fast customer service via twitter. However one glance at the content and I got tf out.
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !technology@lemmy.world
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I checked my settings after I heard this yesterday and they were unchanged.
Time for everyone to turn the page and move forward. No sense in giving Reddit et al anymore brain cycles. We’ll all end up back inside of an echo ho chamber before you know it :P
Seems like Reddit and Twitter are having a race on who can burn their house down faster.
I think Reddit is in a fat trimming stage where they kick everyone off who they aren’t monetizing, then scale their systems to drive down costs. Then try to squeeze their user base even further. If they aren’t making money off of me, why would they want me using their systems? That’s their mentality.
Because you are the product. They want what you have.
That just seems so crazy as they ramp up to an IPO. Yes, let’s alienate users. reduce our overall active users, and throw hissy fits at our mods who are volunteers without whom, this site cannot operate. That should establish confidence in the marketplace. I just don’t understand the thinking here.
People will say ‘enshittification’, well okay, but even on paper, all their moves have been so bad lately, and they don’t seem to care. It’s weird. Seems to me for example a platform with 100 users and 40% monetization is inherently more valuable than a platform with 40 users and 100% monetization. That’s just my stupid opinion though.
It is because they have sheer numbers and that is what they are selling. Probably trying to get conversion ratios high to try and attract investors.
Elon: why is our revenue tanking?
Why won’t people give me money for what used to he free? I don’t get it.
I mean, I would have. If at the beginning of the API mess they had said “Hey, baconreader is now going to be 10$ a month”, I wouldn’t have blinked.
I only use Twitter for sports news and updates that basically don’t exist anywhere else. It would be unfortunate if they destroy the platform with crap like this.
All the major sports news journalists have a Mastodon account that repeats what the post on Twitter as a backup.
Thanks I didn’t know that, I have never used Mastodon. I also follow some athletes and less popular college sports on twitter. I doubt they are there but I’m signing up now to find out.
Why does he think these desperate attempts to drive people to twitter blue won’t just make them leave instead? Just go ahead and make it a subscription only site and see what happens.
Because the short-term equation is easy:
Would you rather have 10 users paying nothing but taking up server space and bandwidth? Or would you prefer 1 paying user and 9 people leaving? In the short term, option B is a win-win.
And if that leads to Twitter becoming a dead husk of itself, oh well, that’s a problem for next quarter
Damn, Mr. Musk could have made more money betting on stocks mentioned in r/wallstreetbets, and they ALWAYS lose money. Dude seriously needs to have twitter do the opposite of what he thinks.
I have never seen a billionaire try to go from billions to zero so hard in my life. It is like he is showing the U.S. government why billionaires shouldn’t exist.
Is there a fund that lets me do long term shorts on rich people?
Hey now, I actually made some money on GameStop and AMC thanks to WSB.
I made a lot of money from GME. I bought a bunch of shares early on for $10-$50 and sold the morning when Robinhood yanked the buy button. However, most WSB plays are money losers.
I kind of like it.
Haha wow. What next?!
I’m actually surprised anyone is left on that shell of a platform.
What next? It’s time to get some more popcorn, because this story just keeps on getting better and better.
This is hilarious
Too bad many good devs and journalists are on twitter mostly, I’m gonna have to create an account just to follow a dev I like…
Unless you guys have a solution to
1)access content without an account
2)“follow” someone, or jist be alerted for new posts (perhaps with a monitoring tool , the kind which scans page for changes?)
Well, you can access their profiles with Nitter now.
Looking forward to when you can follow multiple people easily.
Especially since Fritter dropped Nitter support and the feed.
Elon does not want you to use Twitter. Please let that sink in.
https://img.etimg.com/thumb/width-420,height-315,imgsize-34040,resizemode-75,msid-95114769/magazines/panache/let-that-sink-in-elon-musk-struts-around-twitter-hq-with-washbasin-in-hand-ahead-of-44bn-buyout-deadline/elon-musk.jpg
It’s Cartmanland and you can’t come!
Such an amazing platform. ran by a genius.
The longer this shitshow goes on, the dumber Elon looks. Who could idolize him at this point?
if it annoys you to worship him they’ll do it twice as hard.
My parents, tryna force me to work for him cause “he’s such a great person! Could you do a better job than him!”.
Mostly my dad suggesting me to be “the next musk” which honestly horrifies me
And you don’t immediately respond asking for some startup cash?
“I could’ve not drunk-bought Twitter, thereby saving $44 billion.”
Just their way of saying they want ten in-vitro grandchildren who all hate you
Racist homophobic incels.
And he panders for that crowd hard, which only makes him look more pathetic.
I think it’s important to remember that musk has never actually done anything to innovate the companies he’s been a part of. He didn’t create PayPal, he just bought his way in and made a series of dumb suggestions. He didn’t create Tesla, he bought Tesla right after they had fine tuned their models, and then he made a series of changes that likely resulted in a worse product.
Elon Musk is not a good businessman, he’s just rich and has a habit of purchasing profitable companies. Anyone could do this with his wealth. I’m not even really convinced that he’s offered many technical ideas or designs for any of his companies, as it seems that would be the first thing he would mention every single time someone brought up one of his companies.
But open AI wouldn’t even exist without him! After all, he contributed less than 10% of their raise and he suggested the name. You can’t have a company called Open AI if nobody names it Open AI.
He’s a dumbass, and his worshipers deserve him.
I’ve always had twitter but never really used it at all apart from contacting companies when I couldn’t resolve things the normal way.
Think it’s time to delete it.
I’m astounded that people use it for anything other than this. I have received some decently fast customer service via twitter. However one glance at the content and I got tf out.