sma3inElon Musk wanting to remove dim theme from twitter
Yote.zipMaintaining existing CSS is hard. Luckily, usurping all of social media as an “everything app” will be trivial by comparison.
OldWoodFrameStep 1: Fire 80% of your programmers
Step 2: Promise new features including getting into banking and ecommerce and literally doing “everything”
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit(?)
Step 3 is using chatGTP to break… I mean to build your site
GonzoVeritasElon has clearly shown that I can trust him with my finances. I am excited to turn all my personal data and money over to his excellently designed software and highly ethical company. What could go wrong?
In step 3 is “lose 50% of your advertisers” and “completely destroy a well known brand that’s made its way into common nomenclature” among others
MinnesotaGoddamWe literally had a joke about destroying a brand the very way musk is at the top rated business school I got a degree from
Is it one of Canada’s top-rated business schools and did you get pretty good grades
Top rated in the US and internationally
Did you graduate with someone named Nathan? I don’t remember his last name but it definitely started with an F
It’s remarkably possible, but I have that disease where everyone’s name is Murphy.
I can’t imagine wanting to use Twitter for anything critical after Elon axed the security and compliance teams. Like finance. You’re basically asking for your identity to be stolen.
Elon wants to be the only dim one in the room
Well, that’s easy, he can just walk into literally any room.
He really dimmed any room he walked in.
HeavenAndHellMission accomplished…a long time ago
snooggumsI thought changes were going to be voted on.
Eager EagleElon voted, I bet
TheSaneWriterThat gimmick lasted all of a day or two until Elon decided democracy was cringe when Twitter voted to oust him.
JaysynSuch a moron.
quortezHe should get that addiction to chewing wires sorted out
He just needs to chew on bigger, thicker wires. The kinds with beefier plugs on the end of them.
He doesn’t like competition, especially at being fucking dim.
Imo so he can bring it back as part of the paid features, the dude is looking for ways to make money in literally everything
I mean, he kinda wants to make 40 billion dollars back… he ought to try to nickel and dime every single user
And he's so shit at it, especially on Twitter. Let's not forget about the dumb idiot going full fash and chasing a significant amount of advertisers away, I'm sure that helps his financial situation a lot.
You mean pay for a CSS re-skin? To enable light mode??
Yes, that seems to be the plan.
And I love that there will probably soon be browser extensions specifically to allow users to use custom css on Twitter (assuming they don’t already exist, which they probably do), so those who are still there and really want whatever themes he’s deleting still won’t have to pay him if that’s the plan. Which goes for anything that is handled on the client side, though some might be easier than others.
Though I gotta admit, I do like them setting dark mode as the default. Black text on white makes sense for paper and ink but for screens it’s just a lot of unnecessary light being blasted at you, wasting energy and making your eyes work harder.
MariaRomanovFuck twitter and fuck big tech
inge“A lot of people”
Translation: “no one, it was me”
No, not just Elon, I bet he has bots too
“many people are saying…”
MushuChupacabraSomething something, deck chairs on the Titanic.
Twittertanic?
Well, he did run the company into a revenue-destroying iceberg (in this case, iceberg = Elon Musk), and is now rearranging the deck chairs as the company sinks, so all Titanic references are apt.
Is there a way to block certain post mentioning certain names on Lemmy? I’m seeing this guys name more than I’d like to.
Prior_IndustryElon is as a Elon does
woelkchenAnyone actually cares at this point?
Nope. Quit the bird site when he went full asshat. Barely used the bird site before but it was helpful for breaking news in the olden days. Other than potential A11Y legal action if it fails for contrast issues, I don't think anyone should care about this stupid site now. The tech community has moved on.
I wish people were far more willing to just move on when the winds were changing, instead of sticking out for… god knows what reason
GlitzyArmrestYou clearly haven’t tasted the bottom of billionaire shoes.
Do you honestly think people are staying on twitter because they want to hang with Musk? Are you on Lemmy because you want to hang with tankies?
HotDogFingies?
Many, many people idolize Elon Musk. That is an incongruous comparison.
estyyeah, but the Twitter migration problem is “everyone i follow is here and not there so why would i leave?” It’s not like lemmy or Reddit where the individual disappears behind the content
I don’t get why I’m supposed to leave twitter all of a sudden. Because people on Lemmy don’t like it?
You're supposed to leave because you don't want to support a narcissistic fuckboy. You should actively try to avoid giving dragons more gold because all they do is burn villages to the ground.
So the answer is yes?
I'm sorry if that's what you gathered from my response.
Did you ever use Facebook or Reddit? Do you still? Why have you joined the fediverse?
I left facebook about 6 years ago and reddit over a month ago. Joined lemmy to substitute for reddit
Because it keeps breaking down; because people are getting randomly banned for no reason; because the chance it has a future is essentially nil, because there’s essentially no abuse controls any more so if someone spams you out of the blue multiple times with CSAM discussion and then calls you a necrophile when you block them (as happened to me this week) you have no recourse; because you can only send ten DMs a day or some stupid number now; because “X” is silly and ugly and you’re cross about the cute bird…
and because Elon is a narcissistic fuckboy, natch.
I can’t relate with your experience of what twitter is like. For me it’s the same it has always been. The niche corner of twitter I’m spending time on haven’t changed at all.
I feel like it is very obvious that twitter has no future. It has gotten a lot worse, and will keep on just getting even more so.
It had been obvious from as soon as Elon began firing nearly everyone at twitter, jeopardizing its future development and maintanance.
I’m guessing that no one here does. If you’re in Lemmy, you’re probably also using Mastodon instead of Twitter.
PoastRotatoWho doesn’t like going to see a circus?
I don’t really care but I find it interesting. Just how quickly he is destroying one of the worlds most recognizable companies.
Yeah, this is a car wreck I can watch without backing up traffic behind me. Except the police are arresting some of the first responders while other first responders are punching the people who were in the wreck and the tow truck just pulled right into a car in one of the open lanes, work crews are hastily pulling down billboards and Elon is out there whistling to himself and adjusting the brightness of the street lights.
_thisdotWhere the fuck does he get these ideas? Is this a popular opinion?
He’s on the spectrum.
The only spectrum he is on is the asshole spectrum.
IME new people in charge gotta “make some changes around here” to justify their position. But if you own it why?