@stux wonder if one day we’ll be able to have a drone do this. After seeing that move trailer (“Fall” i think), you couldn’t pay me enough to do this

@mostlyharmlessz @paulg yea it really feels like he fucked himself over and got locked into a deal he didn’t actually want

@mostlyharmlessz @paulg so you’re saying him buying Twitter is just an attempt to maintain his viral marketing machine for tesla? i don’t doubt it but it seems really short-sided for a man like Elon

@adamduda @paulg this feels like the right answer. i’m hoping it’s not and his reasoning is that he just really likes Twitter, but i doubt it. It’s funny when these billionaires make power moves like this because it shows deep down, we’re all just children lol

@paulg Don’t really understand why he ventured into social media in the first place. It’s not an engineering problem, it’s a social one. The former Elon has proven to be pretty good at, while the latter…well everything I’ve heard suggests Elon has about a 0 EQ lol

@atomicpoet thank you for sharing that. I also just watched a couple demos from Peertube that made things more clear. I’m still a little confused on why celebrity would want their own node. Is it to ensure they’ll always have a platform to reach their fans? Theoretically though their node could get defederalised, but i guess that would more prevent growth of their fan base

@atomicpoet i could see joining an organizations node, but don’t quite understand the benefits of each celebrity having one. Still new to the fediverse, so maybe i’m not understanding something. The way you’re describing the future of the fediverse makes it sound like a bunch of subreddits, but where the main person of interest is also the owner of the hardware that runs it

@edbott i feel like graham, and many others, made the mistake of thinking social media companies are tech companies when their hardest problems are social