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

  • Haha@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m starting to believe Elon never cared about twitter. He only bought the userbase and is doing whatever with it. That’s sad. Twitter is just not what it once was.

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      1 year ago

      He very obviously did not want to buy Twitter; he tried for months to get out of it but because of stupid things he had publicly said, if he had failed to go through with it, he might have been up on criminal market manipulation charges. He was forced to purchase it by legal action from Twitter after he said the stupid things.

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      1 year ago

      I think that’s it. His vision is to try and make a WeChat competitor. As much as I hate it, I fear that if he can string along the investors for long enough he could actually maybe make it successful if he adds everything else to it.

      But the Fediverse is growing too which is better. Let Musk and Zuck have their dick measuring competition and let’s build something better over here!

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      1 year ago

      Nah man, the ultrawealthy are used to having some avenue of publishing that they own. Bezos has the Washington Post, Twitter was supposed to be his “newspaper” so to speak.

      Except he’s a clown and can’t keep from sticking his dick in everything so he just went ahead and fucked it.

    • FakeAssCanadiana@lemmynsfw.com
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      1 year ago

      Huh???

      Elon bought Twitter by accident, he’s stuck with it. Chances are he’s either playing with it until it implodes, or he’s turning it into something else entirely with the benefit of an existing user base.

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      1 year ago

      It’sstrange to me to see people waxing nostalgic about Twitter when it’s always been a cesspit.

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        1 year ago

        A consistent cesspit that wasn’t dying because of management’s stupid decisions and that was enshittified slower than other services

      • Haha@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I never used it. I just mean, the blatant transformation of the platform (going from twitter to X) and so on. I know it meant something to people.