As Twitter ditches its iconic branding in favor of owner Elon Musk's favorite letter "X," its open source competitor Mastodon is once again seeing usage numbers soar.
It’s not just lemmy that’s benefiting from Elon Musk.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It’sstrange to me to see people waxing nostalgic about Twitter when it’s always been a cesspit.
A consistent cesspit that wasn’t dying because of management’s stupid decisions and that was enshittified slower than other services
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.
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.
that’s fair
Honestly twitter was already pretty awful. He just somehow made it awfuler