It’s interesting how everyone keeps saying it’s ruined while I personally don’t notice any difference. If I didn’t read posts about it on reddit/lemmy I wouldn’t know any changes have been made
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NeutralFlame@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Twitter had a great thing going on. It was not perfect but I never thought it would get absolutely ruined in such a short amount of time
Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Ds4zkMjT@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Pushing blue checks to the top of every comment thread has amplified the worst voices on the platform.
Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
If that really is so then that’s quite a stupid feature. I don’t personally read comment threads there so I haven’t noticed
klyde@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh it’s very true. No badges are at the very bottom every single time. Stupid comments with blue badges are always top.
supersonicsonarradar@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Can you describe how it’s been absolutely ruined?
Shikadi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
No way to verify accounts, weird paywalling, pay for views, losing tons of money, mostly just that
KiloPapa@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And like Reddit, they shut down the 3rd party apps that made it more pleasant to use, especially on mobile. I didn’t realize how shitty native Twitter is until I lost Tweetbot.
hydro033@kbin.social 1 year ago
It was always losing tons of money. Nothing changed there.
squiblet@kbin.social 1 year ago
The amount of money it's losing now is a LOT more. Advertising is down 70%, so someone definitely noticed a difference. Also they are now $13 billion in debt, owing a billion a year just on interest.
squiblet@kbin.social 1 year ago
Sorting Elon stans to the top of reply chains is a negative change. Hate speech is now only regulated for Liberals. Also, they ruined the entire concept of verification.
0000000nowhere@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Twitter was a cesspool, good riddance
sj_zero 1 year ago
Companies change hands. Governments change parties. People seem to forget that, and they want to hand absolute power over to their buddies in companies or in the government, with no regard for those facts.
Remember what happened here, and know that it can happen again at any time.
MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
It’s probably because all the pictures of Elon and this lain would post. I’m sure he’s destroying it out of ego
phoneymouse@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Just like a year ago it was considered an essential part of modern discourse and society. The media was heavily dependent on Twitter. If Elon had simply kept his stupid mouth shut, he wouldn’t have been forced to buy the company, let alone for such a high price. Once purchased, if he had been less of a maniac and just managed Twitter in a boring way that maintained the status quo, then it would still be better off today than it currently is. Everything Elon has done has made the company less valuable.
downpunxx@kbin.social 1 year ago
on purpose. by design. with intent.
FirmRip@lemmy.world 1 year ago
But what if he’s just a fucking idiot?
FaceDeer@kbin.social 1 year ago
It's possible that Musk is good at some things and not good at others, but his success at those things he's good at have caused him to think he's good at everything.
jtk@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Hanlon’s razor is reserved for people without a life long rap sheet of blatant malice.
4am@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You don’t think it takes a fucking idiot to be forced into spending 44 billion dollars, some of it other people’s money, to purposely destroy a social media platform because you (and the people who’s money you used) were upset how critical said platform was of you?
BangelaQuirkel@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Then it’s unintelligent design.
sol@thelemmy.club 1 year ago
They wouldn’t be the richest men in the world then.
squiblet@kbin.social 1 year ago
Ever since he bought it and started basically wrecking the place, I've suspected that his goal has been to reduce the usefulness of Twitter to non-conservatives. Obviously he has a incredibly massive stick up his ass regarding politics, and Twitter failing would mean basically nothing to him personally.
aruraios@kbin.social 1 year ago
It just works.
curryandbeans@lemmy.world 1 year ago
For what purpose?
Wayward@compuverse.uk 1 year ago
If Musk just shut his face and kept doing his thing, he would have been a historic figure. Not Edison or Tesla famous, but like an Alexander Bell tier name sure. Especially if his Mars plans panned out. But dude wanted to be Tony Stark and forgot that Stark was charming and likable (in the movies at least) and he… is not.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not really. Not by any stretch of the imagination. He’s more of a Carnegie type. except Carnegie managed to convince people he was actually a good person. (his philanthropy is responsible for a LOT of the libraries. But also, he came down hard when it came to union busting, and a lot of his dirty work was done by Henry Frick.)
In any case, the reality is, his prior ‘good’ reputation- including for all things you’re saying he’s going to be famous for doing- is more the result of having a good PR staff keep him looking … like that. he’s not a founder of Tesla. he’s not a brilliant engineer (or a brilliant anything else.) he’s just a rich guy tossing money around to make it grow.
Ryantific_theory@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I mean, he had a genuinely good reputation prior to the big money and PR back in 2012-ish. I followed him because I love space stuff, and he was this awkward nerd pushing for electric cars, solar power, and reusable rockets, which were so insane it was basically considered impossible. Most of his early twitter conversations were discussing rocket details with other space nerds, pulling videos of RUDs on request, and sharing some of the hidden numbers that we’d normally never have access to. He was genuinely involved in the early years at SpaceX.
Up until he called the guy who saved the cave children a pedo, he was basically held up as one of the individuals who would be responsible for changing the world for the better. An actual example of capitalism being used to push society forward. Then it was a steady downward spiral, but early Elon was basically just a nerd that liked rockets and green tech. Had he stuck in that lane, and not been greedy about squeezing every penny of profit out of Tesla workers, he’d probably still be considered the “real life Iron Man” instead of another classic example of how capitalists are consumed by greed.
So, don’t get me wrong, I am deeply disappointed in what he’s decided to do with himself, but he was a legitimately popular figure and led SpaceX to face off against the military-industrial space industry and break a monopoly that’s been in place for half a century. The myth was exaggerated, but his initial popularity was earned before being wasted.
azuth@lemmy.world 1 year ago
His Mars plan cannot pan out, no more than using rockets in place of airplanes for international travel.
The man is a compulsive attention seeker. He owns some companies that legitimately are good at what they do, arguably pioneers in their field. It’s not enough for him. SpaceX being the leading rocket launcher is not enough for him. Doing something already possible, even if done many times better or cheaper is not flashy enough for him. He needs to go to Mars.
The problem with that is that he is probably going to at least destroy the companies having them chasing his pie in the sky ideas as well as possibly having people die (depending on how far along he manages to take some of his plans).
zeppo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I thought what he said about his new AI company was hilarious. His new AI company seeks to ‘understand the true nature of the universe’. Just jaw droppingly pretentious, it so on-brand for him, as techno-Jesus.
Ryantific_theory@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There’s nothing wrong with SpaceX’s Mars launch plan, and while the rocket travel plan is niche (read: ultra rich), it’s viable assuming Starship winds up hitting the same reliability levels as airplanes. Course, worst thing that happens is a couple hundred millionaires and billionaires die, so… I see no downsides lol.
Obviously, I’m not gonna defend Elon himself, but sending a Super Heavy to Mars isn’t some grand project like it would be for NASA. For one, other than the engines it only takes a couple of months to build a new booster and Starship, and for two it would take a minimum of 6 months for the Starship to reach Mars after launch (from the optimal window), essentially tying up a single Starship. It also tests low gravity propulsive landing, which is being designed for one of the Artemis landers, as well as the fuel conversion process using solar power to convert CO2 into methane rocket fuel. Which would greatly simplify future NASA projects for Mars.
I doubt there would be a NASA mission on an untested launch platform, but the lack of payload is also what makes it so cheap. They might toss some projects as a just in case, but it’s otherwise an interplanetary proof of concept. I might hate Elon, but SpaceX is currently the best rocket company around, with the Super Heavy likely to make the Space Launch System obsolete the moment it’s certified for government launches.
SuddenDownpour@lemmy.world 1 year ago
But is he, really? I haven’t watched much Marvel but I distinctly remember Tony Stark as a jerk, and that’s even dismissing his bullshit ideology of
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Sarcastik@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s kinda the point of his character ark. It takes till the end for him to really show us who he is deep down. Also, RDJ nailed the balance of ego and redeeming qualities.
But Elon is not the hero of any story. He’s the evil child playing with a magnifying glass on an anthill and he views everyone but him as an ant.
Fuck Elon and I can’t wait till the Saudis come to collect on that $44B they loaned him.
LexiconDexicon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Out of all the insane made up things in comic books, a “billionaire with a heart of gold” is the least believable
sol@thelemmy.club 1 year ago
He’s one of the richest men in the world, you are not even a billionare. Can you really point out that his business is off?
The guy is doing exactly what they want to do, if they are letting the platform fall off like that is because that’s what their goal is. They build monopolies.
Rubezahl@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Do you even billionaire, bro?
PatFussy@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I dont understand this sentiment. When Jack Dorsey sold twitter he wanted it delisted so someone could make it more publicly owned. He thought Elon could do that and so it was sold. Its essentially the opposite of what Reddit is trying to do.
If Elon comes in amd says “this company needs to change or else it wont survive” i would believe that. People are essentially mad that the company doesnt have investor funding.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sorry, you believe what Elon Musk says about anything at this point?
PatFussy@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Dorsey sold Twitter for a reason. It wasmt money. You tell me why he thought Elon was the best option
anlumo@feddit.de 1 year ago
No, once purchased, the problems were already insurmountable. The company was bought on company debt, meaning that it was in deep shit on day 1 of him owning it. It wasn’t profitable before that move, and adding a ton of debt didn’t improve the situation.
All moves Musk did are essentially cost-cutting measures (except for the ones where he’s trying to establish it as a social network for Nazis).
zeppo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Firing 75% of the staff works as cost cutting but is very short-sighted. Acting like an attention-starved “fellow kids!!” edgelord and ruining the Verified program wasn’t cost cutting. And then, his edgelordness led to losing 60-70% of ad revenue, which surely nullified any legitimate cost cutting attempts.
anlumo@feddit.de 1 year ago
There was a method behind these things, which are the exception I mentioned. He removed the moderation staff, because he wanted to encourage Nazi content on the platform, and moderators are bad for that. The paid verified program meant that only fans of him and Nazis would pay money and thus be verified, so he could legitimately amplify their voice on the platform.
The problem he ran into is that advertisers don’t like their ads next to Nazi propaganda, so now revenue is down.