Submitted 1 year ago by HLMenckenFan@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
To be fair, this is how people tend to react to change, generally. I remember every time Facebook or YouTube did a site redesign in the early 2010s people were always up in arms. Jake and Amir even had an episode called Facebook Redesign that I’ll try to add a link to later today.
Same goes for the Reddit redesign. People have been up in arms about new Reddit ever since it's been introduced.
I'm pretty sure they'd be much less up in arms if the new version didn't suck as much as it does, though. Same probably holds true for the redesigns that were introduced for Youtube and Facebook.
Most people have knee-jerk reactions to site redesigns, and then begrudgingly accept it sometime after.
The reddit redesign is different, in that most power users, mods, and long-time redditors are still using old.reddit 5+ years later.
The Reddit redesign is so bad, they themselves recommend using their app!
What else can you expect, when those site redesigns are usually driven by the desire for increased ad revenue. Even idiots who don't know why, will know it somehow sucks more than it used to. Other times it's just a blatant removal of loved features. Funny skit aside, the simpler explanation is enshittification.
Yeah I left yahoo when they changed their design. Never went back. Though rebranding Twitter seems a waste of money. He paid 44 billionm, a lot of it for the brand.
He paid for a platform and a brand. Immediately guts the platform’s staff and begins removing features. Loses half its advertising revenue. Then throws out the brand. Probably cuts revenue in half again.
What would you do with $44 billion?
that’s because the changes are usually for the worse, not even joking. I use Facebook for a part of my job and their tools are so garbage.
I’ve also works on countless of Ecommerce sites and every time we needed to rebrand or redesign something we would do it in many small iterations as major changes would always get blow backs
Had X arrived the same time as Twitter. Twitter would have won. Who the *uck wants to send an X?
U ok hun? x
Actually, Zuckerberg could probably claim ownership of that too…
Musk says he’s unbothered by the criticism. “Frankly, I love the negative feedback on this platform,” he tweeted on July 22. “Vastly preferable to some sniffy censorship bureau!”
What
What censorship bureau is he talking about? A purely theoretical one (where is that coming from?) or one he’s actually had to deal with in the past?
And of course griping, powerless plebs are better than a “censorship bureau” that can presumably force you to do or not do things by penalty of law 🙄 tell me you’re rich and powerful without telling me you’re rich and powerful.
I would say “humiliation kink confirmed?” but this is just a guy enjoying being able to do things that other people don’t like, with no one to stop him.
It’s like New Coke, but even dumber.
That was fun
Frankly, I love the negative feedback on this platform,” he tweeted on July 22. “Vastly preferable to some sniffy censorship bureau!”
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Like he doesn't actively silence people on his platform lmao.
Funnily enough, I tried using the phrase “right-wing media” in a reply to a tweet today and it wouldn’t go through.
No error, nothing, just refused to submit. Tried a couple of times, no go.
Rephrased it and it magically went through.
Okay, so let’s go down the list. Musk has bought Twitter so he could:
Suspend the user that was tracking his plane “Own the libs”, I mean, he’s definitely a republicunt Run out all of the news outlets he deemed not trustworthy Unban the orange monkey Now rebrand Twitter as a letter because he couldn’t let go of an era that was far, far better off without his existence
Reject Twitter, join the Fediverse!
Literally the only thing keeping me on Twitter is that I want notifications from my sports team, as well as the local sports reporter who covers them. I used to be able to have their tweets come through an RSS reader, but since Elon’s nuking of API access that no longer works :(
On mastodon, someone created a bot that can mirror anyone’s tweets. Just take their Twitter handle and append “@bird.makeup”. There’s a little jank, but it made the switch a lot easier for me.
There’s another one that does specific sports-related accounts under sportsbots.xyz and works very well.
It looks kind of similar to Xorg's logo to me.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:X.Org_Logo.svg
I mean, his is embosssed, but if I were choosing a logo for my new brand "x.com", I don't think I'd choose sowething that looks a lot like x.org's logo.
It’s worse, unicode already has the “𝕏” character for the past 22 years:
Oh, that's also a thought. IIRC Intel tried trademarking the letter "i" at one point and the USPTO wouisn't allow it, so I dunno if a single-character trademark is considered distinctive enough. Xorg's has more stuff to it then just that.
Despite this, when I do a Google search on “𝕏”, it pretends that I searched for “X”.
So although it may look different, it behaves all the same.
And Meta already trademarked an ‘X’…
Musk says he’s unbothered by the criticism. “Frankly, I love the negative feedback on this platform,” he tweeted on July 22. “Vastly preferable to some sniffy censorship bureau!”
Holy shit he’s unhinged. Not that that’s any news…
How did you like the criticism on your standup “comedy” performance, Elon? Or were that sock puppets by the deep state to hinder your free speech?
I’m sure he will be receptive to the input of his users
When I first heard about this I thoight it was from the onion.
Maybe a little late to the party…
I am curious how many people will call it X. New users maybe but OGs probably won’t
Obviously it is X Twitter now to the general populace.
The OGs should all leave it, but unfortunately they seem to have a boundless capacity for abuse and stupidity.
It’s his company. He can do what he wants. Please let that sink in.
Sorta, but people didn’t originally sign up for his company. People joined and set up channels of communication and outlets of information on a platform that got bought out and rapidly changed in unexpected ways.
I can buy the Oreo brand and only sell toothpaste-flavored Oreos and I think people would rightfully be pissed off. The first buyers would get a nasty surprise. Competitors would take off over time, but the nostalgia and attachment to the original product would still be there. “Remember Oreos before they fuxkin’ sucked?”
There are still apparently some rabid Hydrox fans around.
They signed up for a company that could be bought and sold. The users should perhaps have considered that before they made it their "home." They're just renters there.
We're speaking right now on the Fediverse, which is more resistant to such things - the particular instance we're using could theoretically be bought and sold but the network as a whole can't be because it's a protocol anyone can join.
There’s a not insignificant chance that it’ll be the secured creditors’ company soon 😂
Has anyone said otherwise? He can do what he wants, but people can't react to it?
Obvious and irrelevant statement
Please let that sink in
Lmao what an eye-wateringly stupid take.
And people can criticize it all they want
The selective reasoning here amazes me to no end. It’s always Twitter bad, Elon bad, but nobody seems to care about the giant government-circlejerk (or reacharound if you prefer that image) that was uncovered via the Twitter files after Elon Musk took over.
So it’s okay to censor and lie doing the government’s bidding, sometimes even preemptively, but it’s not okay to rebrand your company after all this massive pile of shit was uncovered?
Just LOL
The “massive pile of shit” was Taibbi and Musk releasing curated documents that farm reactionary grievance.
And guess what? It was a garbage platform even before that. Like many others, it has a long history of amplifying conservative disinformation for ad revenue (hey, just like the “Twitter files” bullshit).
And you fell for it. Congrats.
I’m gonna guess it’s a “Delicious Boot to Lick.”
People have replied to you with unequivocal facts. What’s your take now? How selective is your reasoning?
I don't know what Sivar is talking about, but I'm not seeing any "unequivocal facts" in the responses. Nothing is even backed up by references.
Oh no, they took down pictures of Hunter Biden’s penis!
What’s the quote for Jurassic Park…oh yeah.
“They were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”
Is Elon tanking Twitter so that he can use it as a tax writeoff…?
If so, he needs new accountants.
Lose $44bn to avoid $1bn in taxes?
/taps-head-meme
Users did not want the name change. Elon did because he thought it looked cool.
Isn't this the same thing he tried with paypal?
TAFKAT The App Formerly Known As Twitter
mycatiskai@lemmy.one 1 year ago
That fucker has been holding onto his original website “X .com” since before PayPal days.
He just finally figured out how he can get people to visit the site, he wants to prove to himself he wasn’t wrong to hold it so long.
What an absolute Xloser.
InternetTubes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Imagine throwing away a 44 billion dollar purchase for domain scalper amounts of “quite some money”.
Actually meant to reply to Guadin, but it’s not letting me…
Guadin@k.fe.derate.me 1 year ago
He wasn't wrong without this change. Single letter domains are rare and worth quite some money.
claymedia@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Name some popular single-letter domain sites.