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Lee Jul 1, 2023

Roxi Horror 💀🌸

A lot of people have been like "Haha, he's such a goofy billionaire that makes bad decisions" and "He doesn't know what he's doing" but I can't help but feel like limiting our access to one of the most important communication tools on the planet as fascism rises- is intentional. It has to be.

Mike - Human Scientist Jul 1, 2023

@roxiqt
Fortunately #twitter is getting less important every day #mastodonmigration

Roxi Horror 💀🌸Jul 1, 2023

@mikeamato For sure. Still very frustrating and sad to see.

ferricoxide Jul 1, 2023

@roxiqt @mikeamato
You need to learn to enjoy schadenfreude.

nostalgicgamerz Jul 1, 2023

@mikeamato @roxiqt Hell yes. Fuck twitter it can burn. We have the Fediverse now

Lisieshy's blog Jul 1, 2023

@roxiqt Since the day he bought Twitter I always felt like limiting its access was one of his endgame.

How much info about Ukraine war is now inaccessible? The riots in France? and so much other stuff I don't know/hear about too

Roxi Horror 💀🌸Jul 1, 2023

@[email protected] Yuuuuuup

nadin brzezinski Jul 2, 2023

@roxiqt @lisieshy some of us follow this issues in other places.

Jackrabbit Jul 2, 2023

@lisieshy @roxiqt I went back to YouTube 🤷‍♂️. A lot more sifting is required, but the information is there…and here👍🏻

Ta2ismanerror504 Jul 1, 2023

@roxiqt hello from twitter currently clinging onto the board in the middle of the ocean I suppose this might be our new Ireland

Roxi Horror 💀🌸Jul 1, 2023

@Batman1974 <3333

Jondare Jul 1, 2023

@roxiqt All of the theories about him and the Saudis buying it just to kill it suddenly seem a lot more likely. Like, this latest decision is just hilariously stupid.

zendaimyo Jul 1, 2023

@roxiqt it’s only intentional in the sense that they missed a page me t to ske tbh t somewhere. it will be back after the us holiday weekend

L'égrégore André ꕭꕬ Jul 1, 2023

@roxiqt I'm leaning a lot towards malicious incompetence: he wants to aid the fascist takeover and believes he's sly about it, but at every turn chooses the absolutely dumbest way to do it.

Roxi Horror 💀🌸Jul 1, 2023

@Mabande yeaaaah, I could see that

L'égrégore André ꕭꕬ Jul 1, 2023

@roxiqt Sad part about my theory is the endgame isn't affected, only his image (for some).

Roxi Horror 💀🌸Jul 1, 2023

@Mabande yup :<

Darwin Woodka Jul 1, 2023

@roxiqt eh, new tools will happen, they always do. Enshittification just seems to be a helluva drug right now.

Bryy Miller Jul 1, 2023

@roxiqt unfortunately, his fascism goes hand-in-hand with the mental breakdown he's having, as well as his transphobia hitting a reality wall. So it's really a combination of all these factors.

Frank Bennett 🇯🇵Jul 1, 2023

@roxiqt As he's a billionaire, every decision of his almost inevitably makes sense, insofar it will impact large swathes of the population, we're a social species, and "sense" is a social construct. It's hard work for someone in his position to come across as an incompetent booby-hatch. Show some respect.

Matthias Rex 🦣Jul 1, 2023

@roxiqt This is what happened to Livejournal - when it became a tool for dissent against the Putin regime, it was bought by oligarchs and intentionally 💩-ified.

Craig Mcgee Jul 1, 2023

@roxiqt thats such a good point, and i never even thought of it like that, i think because he's so awful and nasty etc i've invalidated twitter in my own mind, so now don't consider it important, but that doesn't mean that it isnt an important tool to others, despite the nasty loony who's running it.

Nkpz Jul 1, 2023

@roxiqt it's annoying, but this is what it's going to take for popular personalities to realize the warnings weren't unfounded, and they need to move. In a way I'm glad Elon is helping everyone understand why it's important to have platforms that billionaires don't control

Brian Jul 1, 2023

@roxiqt @lisamelton The deal was funded in no small part by Bonesaw Arabia. Of course this is intentional. He’s getting a pass on all this asinine foolishness because it plays into collective plans.

Black Chic with the Red Truck Jul 1, 2023

@roxiqt
I have ALWAYS thought this from the very beginning. This was the end goal.

Dwmiller18 Jul 1, 2023

@roxiqt could be. He is definitely a fascist but I'm putting my money on stupid in this case. All his decisions seem impulsive and not thought through. The dude was trying to get in a cage fight like a week ago for no reason.

zuccini is on Jul 1, 2023

@roxiqt I’m afraid you are right. Seeing him being openly transphobic, pretending that war of Russia and Ukraine isn’t a clear as a day issue, and generally behaving like a 12 years old bully — while knowing history? Soul crushing.

Benjamin Jul 1, 2023

@roxiqt Twitter has been grossly overrated as a tool for information. I still remember being shocked when CNN and the like start showing trending tweets during newscasts.

I think it was more like a crutch. A way barely operational news outlets to limp along.

Malatesta Jul 1, 2023

@roxiqt Well, perfect moment for Meta to launch a Twitter alternative. The issue being this competition between Musk and Zuckerberg to win the Orwell title

@roxiqt OFC it is.

#ApartheidEmeraldBoy & #SpaceKaren just wants to burn to the ground as a flex against trans people since his ex is not whappily together with a trans woman.

OldAndCranky Jul 1, 2023

@roxiqt which is one of the many reasons this place is so important. No one person can destroy it.

Liv Jul 1, 2023

@roxiqt I mean, he did allow some of the worst fascists online back onto the platform and hate speech rose by 500 percent when he took over. So I definitely wouldn't put this past him.

Kiss.My.Grits 🇺🇲 + 🧀 + ⚽Jul 1, 2023

@roxiqt I was talking about this same thing today. Elon did prevent the Turkish opponents of Erdogan from being able to post opposition messages ahead of their recent presidential election. He received most of his funding for the purchase of Twitter from the Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund. And I'm pretty sure he would help Modi silence Muslims in India if he hasn't already. Oh yeah, and he has a quid pro quo going with the governor of my state.

ItsPete Jul 1, 2023

@roxiqt you're not wrong but you have to assume that the mall ninja is too dumb to realize that's why his investors joined in. It's a real bargain, he paid for over half of it and runs it into the ground.

nadin brzezinski Jul 2, 2023

@roxiqt @JugglingWithEggs I think the site is done. He can’t just limit you and not the 4chan friendly accounts.

Paul D Jul 2, 2023

@roxiqt it probably is. Been saying that since I saw this:

Musk's ex asked him to buy and then delete Twitter. Point blank.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/elon-musk-twitter-deal-elon-musk-vs-twitter-case-musk-news-elon-musk-ex-wife-talulah-riley-elon-musk-s-texts-can-you-buy-twitter-then-delete-it-his-ex-wife-had-asked-101664857946353.html

Elon Musk's texts: 'Can you buy Twitter, then delete it', his ex-wife had asked

Elon Musk Twitter Deal: Elon Musk and Twitter are due for a trial in court In mid-October. | World News

Hindustan Times

Reselsnark Jul 2, 2023

@roxiqt I think it can be, and is likely both.

He is definitely and deliberately trying to limit messaging against his interests in the platform.

The ways he is trying to do that is by making stupid, bone headed decisions that keeps breaking that platform.

Billionaires will always protect their own interests over everyone else’s.

Billionaires are not super-geniuses playing n-dimensional chess. They are often dumb fucks that lucked or bullied themselves into a fortune.

hapbt Jul 2, 2023

@roxiqt let’s privatize everything like our power grid too
That’s working great in Texas

MANIkyn Jul 2, 2023

Bad at Names Jul 2, 2023

Especially when he goes out of his way to suck up to weird fascists because they’re the ones who tell him he’s cool.

He’s a deeply sad and pathetic trust fund brat who never got over not being cool, and is still trying really hard to seem cool to the teenagers who laughed at him 40 years ago.

I’m kinda into the conspiracy theory that Thiel is using him to kill Twitter.

Jackrabbit Jul 2, 2023

Xochitl Jul 2, 2023

@roxiqt
Agreed!

Voline Jul 2, 2023

@roxiqt @fringemagnet I think Hanlon’s Razor applies:

“Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.”

Not a Spring Onion Jul 2, 2023

@roxiqt
From my point of view that makes little sense.

If my intention was to spread more fascism, birdsite is a great place to do that.

I would therefore continue to turn birdsite into a pressure cooker for hate and extremism.

That's what "the algorithm" is good for: You can automatically silence annoying opinions, push more extreme views, weld together groups with similar opinions.

It is not a communication tool. If someone else decides who is heard and who is not, that is not communication. It's "reuse of provided text bites for propaganda".

Karen Jul 3, 2023

@roxiqt @kris felt this in my bones a few weeks ago - this Reddit and twitter destruction is on purpose