• Gazumi@lemmy.world
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    Here’s the best summary I could come up with Out of touch megalomaniac with money to burn, burns money after failing to understand the sector. Doubles down on bad decisions.

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      So, essentially try to force Xitter to the hard right, making it the social media equivalent of Faux News. Anyone with a little common sense will bail, leaving the echo chamber to ferment in its own toxic vapors. Now, if only a Smartmatic incident would occur.

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    The global elite started realizing that the common human can communicate and organize on these platforms. Destabilize the platforms, you dismantle the means for the common human to fight against the propaganda machine the elites have put into place. They needed a dumb, rich person to burn it to the ground in exchange for entry into their little club.

  • BobTheBoozer@lemmy.worldOP
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    “Instead of showing you posts from people you follow, the platform now defaults to a “For You” mode filled with grifters, recycled memes, idiots, AI hustlers, cat videos, car accidents and far-right influencers.”

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      What’s the most money ever spent on a presidential campaign?

      (About 14 billion total for 2020. So roughly 7b per side.)

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    So why keep this useless, failed platform in the news? Stop giving Musk publicity of any kind.

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      Nothing even happens there anymore, half my links used to be to twitter, or screenshot of twitter.

      It’s already dead, just a bu ch of addicts circling the drain. We don’t nerd to talk about it anymore aside from pouring one out when the servers finally turn off

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        Hopefully that will be Elon moving them once again with a team of undocumented workers to save a couple bucks.

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    Ok so as someone who has always loathed twitter, I am irritated by journalists bemoaning the platforms irrelevance while still using it to lazily farm quick takes for their stories.

    Don’t think twitter is relevant anymore? Stop using it. Governments and companies should stop using it too if they don’t see it as a legit social network anymore

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    I can’t believe it’s only been a single year. Definitely feels more like 2-3 years with all the shit that has happened and all the different news articles.