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Enough Musk Spam

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

they shoulda left before that

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Wooo hoo echo chamber woo hoo

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

Is she even on Bluesky?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Elon got what he wanted from Xhitter so I doubt he cares. But of course it's good to leave a toxic environment behind.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

Because he's still a big manchild who needs to feel constantly loved.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Problem is... You still think that Musk and his "buddy" play by the rules. Ticktock will be sooner or later blocked because is a china "spynet", after that, who knows what kind of "terrorist movement" the government will find on Bluesky, or the Fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Sir, this is a post about a boycott. Also, tiktok is chinese spyware. All mainstream should be assumed to be spying on it's users and doing dark pattern shit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Sir dude, I'm here and I use bluesky and I love both of them, an that's exactly why i've posted my first comment. Considering the Epic ammount of bullshit i've seen piling up during the election is not really too much of a stretch thinking how Musk will use his "pal" to undermine other socials. For what is worth, i hope I'm wrong.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I had setup a bluesky account back when they opened it up however long ago, didn’t touch it much, then just randomly decided to start using it a little bit before the election because Lemmy felt like it was running dry. It definitely seems to be popping now, though I don’t understand much why people waited so long to leave X. X seems like it’s been a shithole for awhile, did people not see the writing on the wall this whole time, or did the right-wing BS reach a critical mass after the election?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I gave up on twitter when I couldn't stop being followed by no less than 3 thotbots a day.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

thotbot

lmao

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

It saw some big growth after Brazil banned twitter and network effects make platform changes take longer

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Swifties leaving X is the most unimportant thing I've read in a while, and I'm on Lemmy.

You underestimate the amount of Swifties.
Here’s an indication: https://metro.co.uk/2024/06/06/many-fans-taylor-swift-20986907/

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Numbers from the article if you don't want to wade through everything:

  • 105m monthly Spotify listeners
  • 283m Instagram followers
  • 32.8m TikTok followers
  • 95.2m Xitter followers
  • 58.2m adult (18+) swifties in the US
  • Napkin math estimate of a billion-ish worldwide fans
[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

Appreciated!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

There is quite literally no way for him to ever not be rich.

He could be dead.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

Hell, a decent chunk of people related to him would be ok with that outcome.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Musk cares what people say and think about him. And he cares if you use his products.
So that's where you hit him.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

Thank you? I guess

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

Keep up the faith, bro.