You know, I had other things I wanted to yell about. I have about five essays in my drafts folder about like, deep systemic issues and big bad shadows on the horizon. And I have like three jobs, all of which are screaming for my attention. But I cannot

I recently listened to a “tech” podcast host drone on for 45 minutes about the “Elon vs Zuck” cage match and this piece perfectly captures the frothing, screaming stream-of-conciousness in my brain at the thought of seeing another discussion about Twitter vs Threads/Insta/Face/burning-sh*itpile. I felt some small amount of catharsis just from reading.

  • echoEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    I’m glad I’m apparently not online enough to have any idea what she’s pissed off about

    • Grimpen@lemmy.caEnglish
      17·
      1 year ago

      Twitter had an outage at the same time Threads: An Instagram App was launching. Threads now has something like 100 million accounts in a matter of days.

      So apparently lots of people and businesses are replacing Twitter with Threads. It’s just over here on Lemmy, most of us seem to be Reddit refugees. There is a lot of discussion about Threads federation via ActivityPub (if you are on the right communities at least), but otherwise I think we are all mostly just happy to leave all that corporate BS behind.

      • echoEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        yeah, I know about Threads, I just haven’t seen any of this zuck fanboying that she’s talking about

        • snowbell@beehaw.orgEnglish
          18·
          1 year ago

          I’ve seen a lot of people suggest that Zuck is a more ethical person, which I think is an absolutely ridiculous claim.

          • PostmodernPythia@beehaw.orgEnglish
            19·
            1 year ago

            Yep. The difference is emotional, not material. Zuck, like most billionaires, seems happy to sleep on his pile of Scrooge McDuck money and fuck people over. Muskrat does all that, but he asks something more of us than our money and our lives. He wants, maybe even needs, us to love and respect him while he does it. And that sets rage-fires in the brain-parts.

            • jherazob@beehaw.orgEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              He’s the Milhouse of billionaires, constitutionally, utterly unable to be anything remotely close to cool, yet obsessively craves to be perceived as such. And any and all of his attempts put him farther away to this goal.

    • HughJanus@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Not that complicated. Elon bought and promptly fucked Twitter. Zuck spun up a Twitter clone. People are praising him for it despite his decrepit history of being a shite person.