dvdnet62Elon Musk's X revenue has officially plummeted, new documents show
Schwim DandySchadenfreude intensifies.
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AeriThe biggest loss here is that I follow a lot of artists on Twitter and when it goes kaput I won’t have easy access to follow them.
Any chance they move to the fediverse?
Probably near zero chance. Fediverse is dead empty compared to the alternatives, so not ideal if they want to reach out to their fans.
You know, that’s a bit chicken-egg, right? Like, platforms don’t magically get users, those users need a reason to want to be there.
In my personal (and therefore, limited) experience, engagement is much harder to get in the fediverse. I hope it improves, but it’s not easy to find people you don’t know in order to follow them, and vice versa.
andrew_bidlawAnd Lemmy doesn’t have a button to follow individual users or have a multireddit, for them or for some communities. On Reddit I had my porn subs collected into one tab (+Friends tab) and this didn’t show anywhere else, but there it’s only solvable by creating another account on lemmynsfw for that while banning all porn on your main acc. Following one creator without their own /c/ is a problem.
IIRC Wordpress had plugins to autorepost into other places. Maybe if Lemmy had one, it could’ve been perceived as less isolated by OC authors. For now you need to put effort to post a thing there too, for the sake of a small 1 mil userbase.
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Tesseract have them
☂️-i think the reddit/lemmy format is more suited to following communities not people
I Cast FistMy bet is most will go either with bluesky or threads, because “everyone is (moving) there”
HatchetHaroQuite a few of the artists I follow on Xitter have already prepared backup Bluesky accounts.
My artist friends were actually the ones to introduce me to bluesky! Some of those circles jumped ship pretty early.
I bet they are all on bsky
The issue is that even if half of them go there, the rest are scattered to the wind, and you’re not guaranteed to find them again.
Most people are on multiple platforms. Find them now, while you still can. Save whatever contact info you can for them. You don’t know when you’ll need it, nor why.
That’s why he needed such a high compensation package from tesla lol.
DiplomjodlerI’d rather store my food in Jeffrey Dahmer’s fridge than my money with Elon Musk’s company.
When did we get away from saying “X - formerly known as Twitter” ? I liked seeing that gentle nudge in every headline.
EX-twitter.
I still prefer ‘Xitter’
I liked Roman Numeral Ten.
BroBot9000No we’re past that point. I’d much rather call it X and have the people left on that awful network swallow the jagged X pill instead of kidding themselves into thinking they are still on Twitter.
They are Xers now.
How long do you do that for? He changed it to X who cares how dumb it is that is now the name.
Forever to make him mad
The CuuuuubeNever do what a billionaire wants just because they want that. Always make it upsetting for them
It’s better to call it X and not continue to soil the Twitter name.
Twitter was always shit.
Like all social media.
Yes, but at least it wasn’t X.
I try to refer to it as Xitter. Posts are xeets.
I call them xcrements
pjwestinI still get emails from my dormant account, and according to my Gmail, the sender is, “X (formerly Twitter),” so I don’t think we’re done with that yet.
delirious_owlWhen the domain name changed
Strange, it still refers to itself as formally Twitter.
It’s still twitter, the place for twits, like Elon.
ssmA time for celebration
good riddance, black banana institute. you won’t be missed.
People complain about twitter but I know of no other social media that’s as informative and uncensored on current topics like the American genocide in Gaza or their war in the Ukraine.
On the one hand that’s good and on the other it makes misinformation extremely easy. Misinformation spreads like wildfire on Twitter and the corrections don’t. The corrections get buried in “nuh uh, YOU lie” bot spam unless it gets the community notes treatment.
I prefer that than someone making my decisions for me and censoring.
Misinformation is already all over the mainstream news so…
False equivalence between Twitter news and mainstream news. Mainstream news has to verify their sources and have a reputation to protect. They retract stories that turn out to be false. As you saw with Dominion, mainstream news has money to protect from slander lawsuits too. It’s not perfect and there is certainly bias, but on Twitter there are no guardrails for misinformation besides community notes.
Mainstream news has to verify their sources and have a reputation to protect.
Well this is just a wildly wrong claim. The mainstream news could tell you that the Sasquatch is real and is behind Russiagate and people would believe it and not give a shit when both are found to be false. Where is Peng Shaui, the Uighur genocide, the invasion of Ukraine was “unprovoked”, Israel has a right to defend itself, Hamas raped women, Hamas beheaded babies… These are all things that have been proven wrong and the vast majority of people still believe them. The MSM is just propaganda. It doesn’t even have community notes. There’s no slander laws between states.
I didn’t even realise until the other day you need an account to use it now at all it seems.
So no surprise. In the past, I recall you could browse without a login… so of course nobody is going to put ads on it
I genuinely hope this platform burns to the ground.
I already lost all faith in it a long time ago, but kept my account to occasionally respond to a friend, or just look at feeds i don’t follow.
When he publicly reinstated fascists though, that was the last drop in the ocean of issues
The moment Musk fired engineers, I removed my account. Then I watched Twitter integration fail for a few applications Ive worked on, and removed that login/access.
From there, I watched multiple services fail. Ive watched spam bots take over. I watched drama after drama
YⓄ乙 Never going to happen. His other companies are highly successful and private so he can always borrow money to from other companies to keep twitter afloat
Poplar?If that’s what he’s doing, he still wont sink money into Twitter forever.
You are underestimating musks infantile need to show the world he’s not a failure.
Tesla is not private. He borrowed a huge amount against his Tesla shares to buy twitter. That’s one of the reasons he wanted that giant bonus. He needs the money to keep paying off the loans.
And it got approved so 🤷♂️
Honestly I’m surprised it lasted this long since Musky bought it.
That just shows the strength of the Twitter brand.
and the people’s inertia
katy ✨i hope plunging means up, and 75 means 200
that’s a shame… anyone up for boggle?
According to the article, the revenue is down 40%…But the costs are also way down? So this title is totally misleading, and a bunch of Lemmies are out here celebrating because they didn’t put 2 and 2 together.
Well yeah, but means the platform is not growing