Elon Musk has been obsessed with destroying a much beloved brand by renaming it X for decades.
An excerpt from “The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power” by Max Chafkin
@vivainio @repeattofade jack dorsey does 3 things: machine learning maximalism, bitcoin maximalism, and fascist sympathy. all of the devs on bluesky are from ex-cryptocurrency projects, the "distributed user id" spec they use was made by a cryptocurrency company and is never implemented directly because it's useless for anything else as it stands, and the structure of the entire atproto setup reeks of bitcoin brain.
when we pointed these things out in ex-twitter spaces, we got a TERF woman quoting jewish art at us to equivocate about dorsey's fascism, and a dude who told us, essentially, "i'm an expert in the cryptocurrency field and can tell you that the provenance of the DID spec's authors doesn't mean anything, least of all what you're saying it means".
Me: Oh yeah Nim exist, why don't I use Nim again?
Nim Lead Developer:
Many people have switched from Twitter to Mastodon, but not everyone who followed me before on Twitter knows that I'm active here also. Will you help me increase my reach on Mastodon? Share this post, boost it or comment and let me know why you're following me. Maybe with some smart hashtags. Thank you! 👍 😊
Captain Lewis Nixon of Easy Company the morning after V-E Day - 1945
Lest anyone doubt that Twitter was idiotic enough to release code that would cause a race condition and result in its own users executing a DDOS attack on it, here's the network console readout from Firefox showing all the network requests blasting away.
Of course I immediately closed out my connection because I'm a good person.
...but wait! It's the weekend and Evil Sheldon is in control so I kept the party going for a while since Twitter insisted on it.
#TwitterDown #Twitter #MastodonMigration #DDOS #TwitterFail #SelfDDOS