Enough Musk Spam
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I really think it's kind of unimportant. Elon is the richest man in the world. There is quite literally no way for him to ever not be rich. He decided to target what turns out to be over half the country to use his social media platform, and it will now, even more than before, become a central communications tool for the hard right and incredibly politically important. That's valuable and, in this case, dangerous. You know how people use to talk about how important Twitter was for organizing and political dissent? The Arab Spring? Occupy? Well, it works both ways.
Swifties leaving X is the most unimportant thing I've read in a while, and I'm on Lemmy. SpaceX is still the most important space program in the world and NASA is now utterly reliant on them. Tesla, even after the mass exodus of liberal consumers, is still one of the top 5 auto companies in net profit. Elon is still the richest man on the planet and is about to get a high-powered position in the federal government.
But the swifties left, so. You know. Great.
You underestimate the amount of Swifties.
Here’s an indication: https://metro.co.uk/2024/06/06/many-fans-taylor-swift-20986907/
Numbers from the article if you don't want to wade through everything:
Appreciated!
He could be dead.
Hell, a decent chunk of people related to him would be ok with that outcome.
Musk cares what people say and think about him. And he cares if you use his products.
So that's where you hit him.
Good luck.
Thank you? I guess
Network effects matter a lot for social media. You need people on a platform for people to use it
Every erosion of a platform's users will matter. Platforms often die by a thoudand cuts. It doesn't have to be a single death blow
Keep up the faith, bro.