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Elon Musk Closes Deal - Owns Twitter

Jay Mysteri0 said:
Yes, it will happen again.

Which will give someone else another opportunity to make a platform, which when successful someone else will try to buy. It's the sad nature of our society, it's capitalism.

It also means making the most of something while we can, and not take it for granted. It's the acceptance some people are finally realizing with digital media of any kind. They are buying anything to own, they are paying to rent it until the big company decides otherwise. Which is the appeal of physical media, but if you notice, physical media itself is becoming harder & harder to get. Likewise if things become too decentralized, "oligarchs" will come for that since that control it. Whether it will use gov't, financial pressure, or whatever. It's the inevitable cycle / chase. Someone / something will make that decentralization harder to use over a more convenient platform.
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With Twitter crashing and burning, competition has actually opened up. Before Elon bought Xitter, Bluesky was a proof of concept, threads didn’t exist, and mastodon had users in the thousands, not the millions.

Threads tried to capitalize on the X fail by automatically giving IG users an account… but most people don’t even know they have it, nor do they care. Bsky is something you need to sign up for, so people going there actually want to go there. And mastodon is just slowly chugging along, growing slowly, but maybe never big enough to be more than a niche player. But too big to disappear, so it will stick around.
 
P___X said:
Or perhaps we can be a little more proactive about it, otherwise we'll be destined to deal with this see-saw swing of social media bullshit (see 2016=>2020=>2024 social media regulation).
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In cases like this, with a platform of any sort, won't that require capital of some kind? Which will get us right back into the situation we've already been in.

SouprMatt said:
With Twitter crashing and burning, competition has actually opened up. Before Elon bought Xitter, Bluesky was a proof of concept, threads didn’t exist, and mastodon had users in the thousands, not the millions.

Threads tried to capitalize on the X fail by automatically giving IG users an account… but most people don’t even know they have it, nor do they care. Bsky is something you need to sign up for, so people going there actually want to go there. And mastodon is just slowly chugging along, growing slowly, but maybe never big enough to be more than a niche player. But too big to disappear, so it will stick around.
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Xit's purpose as far as emo is concerned has been fulfilled. Now he'll let it grind along until he can craft a reason why the American taxpayer needs to maintain it, or he'll let it go down slowly in flames while blaming anyone else.

One of the biggest things Bluesky has accomplished isn't so much with xit, but instead with Threads. In Meta's desperate bid to avoid addressing anything political & having to moderate ( sound familiar old PRSI members? ) they made Threads into the platform they wanted. NOT the platform users wanted. Sure giving IG users an instant Thread account boosted numbers, but the complaints about how the platform worked were many. Now since the rise of Bluesky, Threads has rushed thru a bunch of "improvements" that make it more like the platform users wanted.


Xit isn't feeling the heat from Bluesky, Threads is. Threads is suddenly rushing out "improvements" in just a weeks time. I wonder why? 🤣
 
Jay Mysteri0 said:
In cases like this, with a platform of any sort, won't that require capital of some kind? Which will get us right back into the situation we've already been in.
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Not necessarily. Think Linux. Mastodon is the Linux of social media. Do I use linux? Well, not directly, but my car does, my WIFI router does. Knowing that if MS or Apple goes out of line, I can switch to another OS is a great thing.
 
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Jay Mysteri0 said:
In cases like this, with a platform of any sort, won't that require capital of some kind? Which will get us right back into the situation we've already been in.



Xit's purpose as far as emo is concerned has been fulfilled. Now he'll let it grind along until he can craft a reason why the American taxpayer needs to maintain it, or he'll let it go down slowly in flames while blaming anyone else.

One of the biggest things Bluesky has accomplished isn't so much with xit, but instead with Threads. In Meta's desperate bid to avoid addressing anything political & having to moderate ( sound familiar old PRSI members? ) they made Threads into the platform they wanted. NOT the platform users wanted. Sure giving IG users an instant Thread account boosted numbers, but the complaints about how the platform worked were many. Now since the rise of Bluesky, Threads has rushed thru a bunch of "improvements" that make it more like the platform users wanted.


Xit isn't feeling the heat from Bluesky, Threads is. Threads is suddenly rushing out "improvements" in just a weeks time. I wonder why? 🤣
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To me, Threads is Meta’s Songs of Innocence - a U2 album nobody asked for, but was added to their iTunes library anyway. Improvements won’t matter much, because it was dumped on so many people who have no desire for it.

On the apolitical nonsense from Threads, they partially integrated with the Fediverse. So I follow a couple people there. I already have been seeing complaints that posts with political content aren’t being seen by others on the platform. I’m also seeing a much reduced posting frequency as people are presumably fleeing the platform.

How long until Bluesky starts sanitizing the discussion, MR-style? Which, as we all know, results in anything outside the white conservative male mainstream POV being labeled as “political” and hidden or removed.
 
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P___X said:
Not necessarily. Think Linux. Mastodon is the Linux of social media. Do I use linux? Well, not directly, but my car does, my WIFI router does. Knowing that if MS or Apple goes out of line, I can switch to another OS is a great thing.
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That's just it. I don't think of Linux. While we don't use it directly, we also don't use it with anything up front. That can be an issue.

When it comes down to mass acceptance of a social platform, ease of use is important. Which isn't a hallmark of a decentralized system.

The path to a platform easy enough to attract people ( especially away from another platform ) for now requires large ( and nowadays promising to investors you can exploit your members to train some kind of AI as a bonus ) financial boost. Mastodon showed that any friction can reduce acceptance. While Threads offering what a company wants over it's membership isn't a winning hand ( who knew? ) either. Bluesky for now is the balancing point, as far as an alternative to xit, because of it's simplicity I believe.

I should mention that I also frequent Cara, but it's a niche platform that can barely handle it's membership & gets a little financial help from people on the platform.
 
SouprMatt said:
To me, Threads is Meta’s Songs of Innocence - a U2 album nobody asked for, but was added to their iTunes library anyway. Improvements won’t matter much, because it was dumped on so many people who have no desire for it.

On the apolitical nonsense from Threads, they partially integrated with the Fediverse. So I follow a couple people there. I already have been seeing complaints that posts with political content aren’t being seen by others on the platform. I’m also seeing a much reduced posting frequency as people are presumably fleeing the platform.

How long until Bluesky starts sanitizing the discussion, MR-style? Which, as we all know, results in anything outside the white conservative male mainstream POV being labeled as “political” and hidden or removed.
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this, through and through. i didn't know facebook has been limiting political content until I dove into the settings last week. I'm not interested in istagram, because I'm just too old for posting or even looking at people posturing on ultrafiltered photos. Or looking at food photos or looking at other people's vacation photos that give this false impression of everyone else is having more fun than you do. People displaying how happy they are is also one of the traps of social media. I'm probably the happiest I've ever been in my life at least from the perspective of not needing or being interested in anybody's approval. The more one posts, the more they crave approval, the less likely for them to be truly happy and thus the more phony the whole thing feels. Which takes us to: I'm here for the conversations. To read the takes of people I respect, to learn about new ideas that go beyond pixels, etc.

And your take on MR is spot on.
 
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Emo responds to criticism with the level of maturity you would expect

www.the-independent.com

Elon Musk posts racist images of Elizabeth Warren

Assistant director of the Native Nations Law & Policy Center says AI images of Native Americans often end up being a mix of racist stereotypes
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Elon Musk posted racist images of Elizabeth Warren after the Massachusetts senator called for President-elect Donald Trump to hold the billionaire to the ethics standards set for government officials.

Musk took to X Tuesday to post images that seemingly had been generated by artificial intelligence to make Warren appear in Native American attire. DNA results from 2018 showed that Warren likely has a Native American ancestor but that the overwhelming majority of her heritage is European.

One of the images showed Warren wearing a beaded headdress with bird feathers and a buckskin shirt with a leather fringe. Several other posts showed Warren in Native American attire while eating cake and smiling at the viewer.

Musk didn’t write anything to accompany the images apart from “Guess who this is?” and a crying laughing emoji.

The images shared by Musk are seemingly a reference to Trump’s nickname for the senator, “Pocahontas.”

The assistant director of the Native Nations Law & Policy Center at the University of California, Los Angeles, Lauren van Schilfgaarde, told HuffPost that the images shared by Musk are weighed down by problems, saying that AI images of Native Americans often end up being a mix of racist stereotypes.

“That’s deeply problematic,” she told the outlet. “Instead of recognizing Native peoples as distinct nations, they’re represented as one generic entity.”

But she noted that Musk responded to allegations of conflicts of interest and concerns about his presence in Trump’s orbit with “quintessential racism.”
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Musk sent a special Christmas gift to Cybertruck suckers owners:

Installed 2024.45.25.5 and the truck went unresponsive.

So just be aware of this when you press to update.

They are sending a truck to bring to my local service center.
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“I will go to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend.”

I’m sorry, I couldn’t find the appropriate meme response to this—but fans of “Ocean’s Twelve” will recall the scene where Matt Damon wants to know more about the plan and Brad Pitt mysteriously tells him, “I can’t tell you…and I can’t tell you why,” and then walks away leaving Damon in the dark, puzzled and upset.

Matt Damon can only reply, with mock spookiness, “Ooooooo!”
 
MarkusL said:
MAGA loves the fact that Elon hates foreigners. But they forgot that from Elon's perspective, Americans are foreigners.
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At his level of maturity, i don’t think he understands the concept of things applying to him at all. At this point I’m getting fascinated to see how the his obvious dependence on others to sustain him on the most basic level and being omnipotent at the same time will pan out for him.

He could even start House Harkonnen with his dozen-plus spawns.
 
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